Designer Laptop - The Crystal M677
Wondering what present to buy your high maintenance girlfriend for Christmas? Embedded with 120 pieces of beautiful Austrian Swarovski crystal, the M677 from Micro-Star International is guaranteed to elicit a sigh of admiration from your brunch eating beloved.
Talk aboutdesigner laptops. Taiwan-based component manufacturer Micro-StarInternational Company, or MSI, has released a collection oflaptops that could top your great-grandmother's crystalchandelier for shininess, while providing enough power to trumpyour desktop for usefulness. The first installment in MSI'scollection is the Crystal M677.
It gets itsname, and its bling, from 120 pieces of real-deal AustrianSwarovski crystal that are inlaid over an equally shiny, UV lightsolid, black paint coating. You may feel like you're in a hall ofmirrors when you look at this luxury exterior.
But open up the M677, and the dizziness and disorientation willsubside, and you will get quickly grounded in practicalities. Thefashion laptop's widescreen 15.4-inch display comes with amirror-like finish so precisely engineered you would thinkSwarovksi had a hand here, as well. The keyboard area is spaciousenough to fit a separate numeric keypad, in case you're crunchingnumbers for work or for your retirement.
And thankfully, all of this show comes with some substance. TheCrystal M677 is a 64-bit-capable computer, with the AMD Turion 64 X2 processor. The RAM is upgradeable to as much as 2GB of memory.The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics processor could please mostamateur gamers. And the hard drive runs at 5400 RPM, which meansbooting up and accessing your photos, songs, and saved data won'tleave you staring at yourself in the crystals while you wait.
Thrown in for good measure is a high resolution 1.3 MegapixelWebcam, plus, the Crystal M677 designer laptop is setup to handle the new Bill Gates OS, Vista, when it's released.More information at Msi.com.tw
