MSI CR620 - Intel Core i3

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

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Good:

2
Average:

2
Bad:

2

Pros:

Display Offers A Bit More Brightness Which Helps In Outdoor Use, Full Keyboard With Numeric Keypad, Street Price Is Lower Than Many Similarly Equipped PCs
Lightweight for a 15-incher, easy to use chiclet keyboard, good quality screen, decent webcam quality, two-year warranty

Cons:

Flush Tackpad Design With Rocker Bar Buttons, Glossy Casing Shows Fingerprints Easily
Majority of ports at the back, left-right mouse buttons hard to click, jarring of speakers at maximum volume, 32-bit OS despite having 4GB RAM

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Last revision on December 1, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Display Offers A Bit More Brightness Which Helps In Outdoor Use, Full Keyboard With Numeric Keypad, Street Price Is Lower Than Many Similarly Equipped PCs
Lightweight for a 15-incher, easy to use chiclet keyboard, good quality screen, decent webcam quality, two-year warranty

Reviewers Didn't Like

Flush Tackpad Design With Rocker Bar Buttons, Glossy Casing Shows Fingerprints Easily
Majority of ports at the back, left-right mouse buttons hard to click, jarring of speakers at maximum volume, 32-bit OS despite having 4GB RAM

Expert reviews and ratings

Apr 4 2011 - MSI's CR620-691US is a fairly typical 15-inch budget laptop that has pretty much all the basic features that one can expect to find. It does have a few things that help it stand out a bit including a full sized keyboard with numeric...

By About.com on April 10, 2011

MSI (or Micro-Star International) is a Taiwanese company that's best known for manufacturing components, but it also builds a range of laptops. The CR620-643UK is from its Classic range and provides both great performance and value for money.As with...

By TechRadar on March 28, 2011

The 15.6-inch MSI CR620-i3525FD is reasonably priced (from €470), but it has as many downsides as upsides. The first upside is the good performance of the Core i3-350M (2.26 GHz), which is apparently not hindered by only having 2 GB of RAM. Noise...

By NotebookCheck on October 17, 2010

MSI manages to prove with its CR620 that budget isn't necessarily a bad thing when it comes to...

By CNET Australia on April 13, 2010

The pricing for the MSI CR620 starts from Rs. 38,000. That's fair pricing -- at par with a competitive Dell Studio 15. It comes with a two-year warranty, which is pretty good since most manufacturers give only one. The MSI CR620 is a pretty decent...

By TechTree on March 10, 2010

MSI’s CR620 is a large, 17in desktop replacement notebook that’s perfect for most office tasks and browsing the Web. Thanks to its Core i3 CPU, it’s also powerful enough to undertake video editing and encoding functions. It has a...

By Good Gear Guide on February 26, 2010