The MSI Gaming Booth Tour with dGPUs in AIOs and Notebooks plus Motherboards
by Ian Cutress on June 29, 2015 3:00 PM ESTI’m always a fan of a workstation, although the reality of mobile workstations is not one I run into that often. Users wanting to process work on the go tend to log in to a system over the internet, or upload ideas for processing at a later date. The benefit here lies in the ability for people to work on the move (when internet is patchy) or for businesses to perform mobile presentations of CAD/Quadro accelerated work. As a result of the requirements, and the budgets of these users, mobile workstations tend to be larger than ultrabooks but smaller than desktop replacements, as a full workstation/dock might await them back in the office.
Nevertheless, MSI still pursues this space. This is achieved mostly through retrofitting their consumer designs with enterprise level hardware, and dialing back the styling to remain office-neutral. This means a generic black color scheme, potentially using aluminium/magnesium to save weight (rather than plastic to save cost), a full keyboard and high resolution calibrated displays. This is where devices such as the WS60 fit in:
Along with the 4K display and thin design profile, the 15.6-inch WS60 here had dual SSDs in RAID, a semi-customizable keyboard for shortcuts, Thunderbolt 2.0 and ISV certification. Under the hood was a mobile based Haswell i7 with optional vPro and a Quadro K2100M.
Users wanting more are pointed to the WT72, the workstation equivalent of the GT72. Storage moves up to four drives in RAID 0 and Quadro cards up to K4100M. This model above only has a 1080p display, and its design ultimately necessitates a desk environment for efficient working rather than say a lap or a tray table in an aircraft. On this size of a device, USB 3.1 and an ODD pretty much come as standard.
Interceptor Mouse and Mousepad
One common theme with gaming oriented PC hardware manufacturers is that they have all invested time and resources into peripherals. All of MSI’s major competition mice, keyboards, backpacks and other trinkets, although for the most part it is hard to tell if these are OEM or pre-purchased designs with agreements to use specific wording and logos. Previously MSI has released a couple of mice and a mouse mat, so at Computex we get updates to both.
The aluminium based mousepad that we saw at CES was quite large, measuring almost two feet in width. Based on feedback from the community, a smaller one will be made to allow for use on standard sized desks and for transporting to events.
The Interceptor mouse also gets a small update, with the focus on the show being a stereotypical smörgåsbord of statistics:
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royalcrown - Monday, June 29, 2015 - link
All you people whining about the Fury X review, and MSI...shut the hell up and go read TOMSHARDWARE because they have a review !I'm sure Ryan has to get all his other stuff caught up as well as the review. Pretty sure they don't keep him on staff for the couple times a year there is real GPU news.
watzupken - Monday, June 29, 2015 - link
Have a heart folks. People get sick and will need time to recover. If you need to see how Fury X performs, there are tonnes of reviews out there that pretty much conclude the performance. Fury X no doubt is a big thing, but I see no point rushing a half baked review and get a lot of complains about it anyway. To be honest, I feel I am more interested in the way Anandtech performs a deep dive into in their product features and not just quick on jumping into benchmarking performance like some sites do.bznotins - Monday, June 29, 2015 - link
No uITX Z190 option from MSI? That sucks. I have an NCASE M1 order coming with the intent to build a Skylake-based server. Was hoping that MSI would have an ITX Z190 option with Skylake release, but it looks unlikely given the lack of a preview mobo here.SirCanealot - Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - link
People really need to stop complaining about the missing article. Ryan has already explained himself perfectly:'The reality is that we're a very thin operation. This allows us to be nimble, but also allows us to publish those articles that we're genuinely interested in rather than having to succumb to clickbait to make ends meet. It's not perfect (no system is), but it's better than the alternative.'
So if you people want those types of site, go to those sites. I'm sad I can't read the review as well, but I can wait because Anand still produces awesome articles and Ryan has said he is sick. Maybe he just has a cold and is lazy; maybe he's dying of a severe flu and can't get near the computer for more than 5 minutes at a time: I don't care as it's not my business. We should just respect that I'm sure Ryan is doing the best we can and stop saying such ridiculous stuff as I've read in this comment thread.
Get well soon, dude! :)
FMinus - Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - link
Do people really want those glowing things inside their computer? I mean, when I buy the components I look that it's kind of aesthetically pleasing to my eye, but when I look at most of these "gaming" boards I'm really close enough to barf.erple2 - Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - link
"yellow and black construction suit modification."Come on! Seriously??? Kids these days!
That's the badass power loader driven into freaking awesomeness by Ripley.
awktane - Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - link
The reason I like this site is because they often dive into details that no other site does. I would be very interested in what anandtech plans on showing us in their Fury X review that everyone else hasn't yet.dmacfour - Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - link
Are there no employees at MSI with an art/design background?The "Godlike" is the ugliest motherboard I've ever seen. That booth dragon looks like a middle school art class project.
eugenbaudeer - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
submit a new generation laptopseugenbaudeer - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
awesome