Price as Reviewed: $599.00MSI X370 Ultraportable Delivers Style
Who doesn't like a amount cut? Back we aftermost visited the MSI X series, the 13-inch X350 offered affluence of appearance and continued array activity but anemic chip cartoon for a aerial amount of $999. Now MSI has switched to AMD's Fusion processor and arrangement the amount to $599, able beefier cartoon and alike best endurance. Sounds like a abduct on paper, but is this ultraportable apparatus absolutely a bargain?
Slim and stylish, the MSI X370 absolutely stands out. The top lid is a bright atramentous artificial with a bore arrangement that does a appropriate job of ambuscade blemish marks, while the basic is fabricated from a distinct breadth of athletic midnight atramentous plastic. We abnormally like the ridge-textured approach rest. Also fabricated of plastic, this breadth flexes beneath burden but looks acceptable back commutual with the chrome-painted trim surrounding the touchpad.
At a abbreviate 13 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches and a distinct hand-friendly 3.4 pounds (with the four-cell battery), the MSI X370 is the exact aforementioned admeasurement as its earlier sibling, the MSI X350. An eight-cell array adds a little beneath than bisected a batter for a final weight of 3.8 pounds, additional about a division of an inch in comatose height. Unless you're activity to a affair or you're abreast an outlet, you'll absolutely appetite the beyond array (more on array activity below). Of course, annihilation compares to the 0.68-inch array and 2.9-pound weight of the 13-inch MacBook Air, but that anthology costs $700 more.
