MSI's GT680 gaming laptop reviewed: potent at 720p, some battery life too

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MSI is calling this GT680R the world's fastest gaming laptop. Spoiler
alert -- it's not -- but if you drop $1,650 to nab one starting this
week, you'll certainly be getting some bang for those bucks. Trusted
Reviews and Hot Hardware recently got their hands on the first Sandy
Bridge-equipped portable monster of a gaming rig, and found the
experience quite satisfying on the whole. Though Hot Hardware
discovered that the 2.0GHz Core i7-2630QM chip and NVIDIA GeForce GTX
460M graphics weren't quite capable of playable framerates in the most
demanding DX11 titles at native 1080p, lowering the resolution to 720
lines usually did the trick, and when it came to raw CPU benchmarks
that Core i7 held its own against even last-gen desktop processors
with little trouble to speak of. What's more, equipped with a nine-
cell battery Trusted Reviews managed to eke out three hours of life in
a basic productivity test, practically unheard of for a laptop of this
class, though we suppose you're not likely to be carrying around this
7.7 pound beast for the sake of portable spreadsheets, eh? Hit up our
source links for more details.