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I appreciated all that but what really stole the show for us were the gaming notebooks. If MSI had to lay claim to anything at COMPUTEX, it would definitively have to be the notebooks which come in all shapes and sizes, catering to just about every pocket and need there is. You need a budget gaming notebook, MSI has you covered or if you need a very high performance desktop replacement machine, the GT72 is there for you. For those of you in need even more than that MSI had a workstation notebook there as well featuring an NVIDIA Quadro graphics card. OCZ This year OCZ was away from the Showroom floor but at the Suite presented us with just three products. We saw the Vertex 460, the Vector 180 and the REVODRIVE 350, each catering to different segments within the market. All of them had one thing in common though, and that is the SSDs were completely built in house. From the controller to the NAND, save perhaps for the DRAM, they were all built around the new TOSHIBA NAND and superior controllers that OCZ always had. It’s a leaner lineup but a more potent one which is only going to further put pressure on other vendors, because what OCZ has done. is manage to offer class leading performance at prices that will be very hard to compete with. Only time will tell how things shape up, but right now, OCZ is looking very good. Issue 30 | 2014 The OverClocker 23