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MSI FX600 - Making Multimedia Sense

By Aloysius Low - 16 Mar 2011

Battery Life and Performance Index

Battery Life and Performance Index

The MSI FX600 packs a 6-cell 11.1V, 4400mAh battery.


Battery Life and Power Consumption

Running our usual DVD movie looping test, it lasted just 2 hours and 26 minutes - almost 2.5 hours. While that's a pretty decent battery up-time, it's still lost to the comparable Dell and Acer notebooks that we previously tested. Fortunately, it bettered the Toshiba comparison. So on average, it's decent but not great.

As for the power consumption, the MSI notebook does pretty decently here, and builds upon decent long battery life with a low power consumption figure of just 21.61W. Not too bad we suppose, but let's see how it holds up in our Portability Index ratio coming next.

 

Portability Index

Making a middle entry behind the Acer Aspire Timeline X 5820T and the Dell XPS 15, the MSI FX600 comes up with a ratio of 0.271. Now if you're wondering what the number means, well, simply put, the higher the value, the more portable a notebook supposedly is within its category of comparison. The score is derived from the battery life of the notebook divided by the product of the notebook's weight and volume. Sounds complicated? Fret not, just focus on the big numbers which indicate a more portable solution with regards to overall battery life, physical size and weight.

With a ratio of 0.271 though, the notebook shows that while it's not quite as portable as the Acer notebook, it easily equals or beats many of the other notebooks of the same category. Not too shabby, we think, but there's room for improvement given the notebook's specs.

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8.0
  • Design 7.5
  • Features 8.5
  • Performance 7.5
  • Value 7.5
  • Mobility 8
The Good
Decent sound system
Full HD screen
Very affordable
The Bad
Raw performance and trackpad could be better
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