MSI PR210-Pink Laptop

The MSI PR210-Pink is a 12.1-inch ultraportable laptop with an attractive metallic cover. It's built on the AMD Turion64 dual core processor. With a WorldBench 6 score of 55, it's hardly a speed demon, but will be enough to tackle most everyday tasks without much struggle. One of the good thing for the MSI PR210 machine, is the long battery life. In the drain tests done by CNet on this machine, it impressively lasted for three full hours. We would expect the battery life to last even longer during the normal use. The trade-off for the decent battery life however, is the relatively longer time it takes to be fully charged, which some people might find it irritating.

In terms of portability, With the weight of 4.6 pounds and 12.1-inch screen, the MSI PR210 laptop falls in between the ultraportable and the thin-and-light class. It's smaller than an ordinary thin-and-light laptop, and bulkier than most ultraportable laptops. One of the factor that contribute to its weight, is the metal and plastic case, which also makes it feel remarkably sturdy.

As an ultraportable class of laptop, it's quite unexpected to have a HDMI port and a TV antenna connector, and MSI PR210 has them both. Other than that, the machine offers a fairly typical connections and ports of an ultraportable laptop.

In terms of display, the MSI PR210 features a sharp 1,280x800 native resolution, giving a crisp and colorful display. Our complaint is however the graphic controller with the games frame rate of 5 frames per second, which is less than thrilling.

Here's the main spec of MSI PR210-Pink:
~ Operating System : Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
~ Screen : 12.1-inch, WXGA, ACV(Amazing Crystal Vision) Display
~ Screen Resolution : 1280 x 800
~ Processor : 1.60GHz AMD Turion®64 X2, TL50
~ Chipset : ATI RS690T+SB600
~ Graphics : ATI Radeon® Xpress 1270
~ Memory : 2GB
~ Hard Drive : 120GB
~ Price : $839.32

In summary, the MSI PR210-Pink is looking good, with various choice of case colors (blue and green besides pink). The good thing about this laptop is the long battery life, HDMI port and TV Tuner, and the reasonable price. On the other hand, the MSI PR210's gaming and WorldBench scores isn't that good. But bottom line, this colorful laptop still offers a decent feature set for typical business executive and laptop users valuing entertainment capabilities.