 4 GB DDR3-SDRAM 500 GB AMD Radeon HD 5850 Windows 7 Home Premium Black, Red (GX740-408ES)")
- - Black, Red
- - Intel® Core™ i5 i5-460M 2.53 GHz
- - 43.2 cm (17") 1680 x 1050 pixels 16:10
- - 4 GB DDR3-SDRAM 1066 MHz 2 x 2 GB
- - 500 GB
- - AMD Radeon HD 5850 Intel® HD Graphics
- - Windows 7 Home Premium
GX740-408ES - 17" TFT LCD, Intel Core i5-430M, Radeon HD 5870 1GB, 2.26GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB SATA HDD, GLAN, WLAN 802.11 b/g/n, 2.0MP, 3.2kg, black
MSI's exclusive ECO Engine power management system
The GX740 takes advantage of the ECO Engine power management system, allowing users to select from five different usage scenarios—text processing, gaming, movie viewing, presentations, and Turbo Battery modes—and instantly obtain optimized settings for screen brightness and sleep, automatic system sleep activation, and processor performance.
Exclusive Cinema Pro Technology
Cinema Pro Technology offers consumers the finest movie viewing experience. With a simple touch of the exclusive Cinema Pro button; you may immediately switch to Movie Mode. The quality on screen will be more detailed, the richness in sound and the bass as well as SRS Premium Sound™ will be activated, providing the finest sensory of the theaters. Furthermore, the embedded high performance subwoofer design can create shocking effects.
Sleek brushed-metal design
Housing combines aluminum alloy construction and brushed metal texturing
The GX740 weighs just 3.2 kilograms (including battery), making it easier to carry than other 17” gaming notebooks in the market.
Contoured touch-style hotkeys
The GX740 uses all-new touch-sensitive hotkeys, with a housing sheathed in a glossy black finish, and no extraneous ornaments to clutter its sleek looks.
Highlighted W, A, S, D keys made for gaming
Gamers can find the direction keys as quickly as possible when the action gets hot and heavy, giving them an edge when fractions of a second matter.
Futuristic surround-sound high-fidelity speakers
The GX740 uses a special metal burnishing treatment to bring out the futuristic feel of the 3D surround-sound speakers and create visual impact.
Enjoy sight and sound like you’re there as it happens
High-end ATi Radeon HD5870 3D graphics card (with GDDR5 1GB VRAM)
By drawing on its ATi Radeon HD5870 3D graphics card (with GDDR5 1GB VRAM), the GX740 gets unrivalled visual quality and intense performance. ATi Radeon HD5870 3Dgraphics card is the first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, and these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.
Theater-class 5 high- quality speakers
The GX740 incorporates five SRS Premium Sound™ -certified high-fidelity speakers, ensuring that you can enjoy the most immersive, like-it’s-live aural experience when gaming, viewing movies or TV, or listening to music.
Digital/analog 7.1-channel S/PDIF output
The SRS Premium Sound™-certified audio performance, and built-in digital/analog 7.1-channel S/PDIF output ensure you get an utterly captivating aural experience.
Rich multimedia entertainment
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
The GX740‘s HDMI output not only delivers super-fast 5GB per second data rates, but it also reduces cable clutter, while ensuring the best possible video quality. By taking advantage of HDMI, the GX740 can render game scenes with spectacular clarity and realism, making it a great choice for the next generation of both PC and online games.
Newest E-SATA port
With E-SATA you can quickly and easily back up treasured photos, video, and other content to an external storage device.
Built-in 2.0 M webcam
With a 2.0M webcam built right into the GX740, you can enjoy video-enriched communications without worrying about cables and having to connect a separate device.
Independent numerical keypad
The GX740 features a numerical keypad that provides a desktop-quality typing experience. For users often needing to key in numbers, the GX740’s keyboard is a huge boon.
Convenient wireless networking
With its 802.11b/g/n(draft) wireless LAN, the GX740 provides a versatile way to connect to, browse, and retrieve data on both your own devices and the online universe.
MSI Megabook GX740-408ES, Intel® Core™ i5, 2.53 GHz, 43.2 cm (17"), 1680 x 1050 pixels, 4 GB, 500 GB
MSI Megabook GX740-408ES. Processor family: Intel® Core™ i5, Processor: i5-460M, Processor frequency: 2.53 GHz. Display diagonal: 43.2 cm (17"), Display resolution: 1680 x 1050 pixels. Internal memory: 4 GB, Internal memory type: DDR3-SDRAM. Total storage capacity: 500 GB. On-board graphics card model: Intel® HD Graphics, Discrete graphics card model: AMD Radeon HD 5850. Operating system installed: Windows 7 Home Premium. Product colour: Black, Red. Weight: 3.2 kg
Affordable, excellent graphics performance, cool design, good keyboard... 
Odd screen resolution... 
This is a great performer and is a great deal cheaper than many other gaming laptops in the shops making it well worth a lookKey specs3.5mm jack, eSATA, Ethernet, FireWire, HDMI, SD, SDHC, USB, VGA, Wi-Fi, Windows 7... 