MSI Debuts C-Series Low Budget Notebooks

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Although they’re not even close to Walmart’s $289 price for Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM, check out MSI’s new C-Series (CX and CR) low budget notebooks that the company has just announced. We’re talking about the 16-inch WXGA CX600, CR600-013 and CR600-017, and the 17.3-inch WXGA++ CX700 and CR700. They all have 4GB of RAM, 320GB of storage space and run on Intel Pentium Dual Core processors — T4300 @ 2.1GHz for the CR600-017, while the rest work on T4200 @ 2.0GHz.

The new MSI C-series laptops come with a built-in DVD burner except for the CR600-017 that comes with a Blu-ray drive, add WiFi b/g/n connectivity together with gigabit ethernet, three USB 2.0 ports and a 1.3-megapixel camera. They also feature a 6-cell battery and a 4-in-1 card reader, with the CX models featuring ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD4330 graphics card, while the CR models have NVIDIA’s GeForce 8300M G and an HDMI port to go along.

Weighing in at 5.47lbs for the 16-inch versionl and 6.61lbs for the 17.3-inch, all models in the C-Series lineup come bundled with Vista Home Premium and go North of $549.99.