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MSI GT 725

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Pros
Strong scores in games
Blu-ray drive and good sound
Cons
Slightly dull screen
Overly-cramped keyboard

Performance: Very Good: 81
Features: Good: 77
Design: Fair: 69

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	398
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	368
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	423
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:49:11 AM
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, High, 1024 by 768	74.4
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, High, 1680 by 1050	68.87
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, High, 800 by 600	73.73
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Normal, 1024 by 768	74.83
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Normal, 1680 by 1050	73.63
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Normal, 800 by 600	74.53
Firefox 2	341
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	355
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	244
Multitasking	379
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	361
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	226
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 1024 by 768	67.24
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 1680 by 1050	68.12
Unreal Tournament 3, Highest, 800 by 600	67.71
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 1024 by 768	101.51
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 1680 by 1050	102.74
Unreal Tournament 3, Medium, 800 by 600	103.48
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	231
WorldBench 6 Score	98
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Good

What You Should Know about the GT 725

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.