MSI has introduced ER600 and PR200 laptops built on Intel’s Mobile 965GM Express Chipset and MSI GX700 notebook based on Intel’s Mobile 965PM Express Chipset, both made for use with Intel’s 64-bit Core 2 Duo processors. The Intel’s Mobile 965 chipsets are not announced by chip manufacturer yet.
MSI ER600, showed at company’s 2007 CES Online Exhibit, features the 15.4-inch widescreen 1280×800 display, one of the Core 2 Duo CPUs, Intel 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN, Gigabit Ethernet, built-in DVD burner and a 4-in-1 card reader.
MSI PR200 “ultra-light” features the 12.1-inch widescreen (1280×800) display, the Core 2 Duo processor, Intel wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g, built-in Bluetooth, built-in DVD Super Multi, a 4-in-1 card reader and an 1.3 megapixel web camera.
MSI GX700 desktop replacement features the 17-inch widescreen (1440×900), the Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor, nVidia NB8P graphics, 802.11 a/b/g wireless, built in Bluetooth and an optional Modem Dual LAN, as same as 4-in-1 card reader and an ExpressCard slot.
According to the reports about upcoming 965 chipsets for laptops, code-named Crestline, the notebooks with 965GM are supposed to incorporate an integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3000.
The Intel’s Mobile 965 chipset family is claimed to be the part of the forthcoming Intel Santa Rosa platform for laptops, which is expected to be released in Q2 2007. This next generation Intel Centrino platform is designed for use with Intel Core 2 Duo (Merom) processors, and features up to 800MHz frontside bus. It is announced that it will incorporate 802.11n Wireless, the NAND Flash hard drive cache, GMA X3000 integrated card on select chipsets and 3G WAN card.
