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.
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