MSI CR620-031US 15.6-Inch Laptop

by MSI

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 14.7 x 0.7 inches ; 5.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0036OR9D8
• Item model number: CR620-031US
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,696 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

CR620-031US I5-430M 2.26G 3GB 500GB 15.6-WXGA W7HP 3Year Warranty- Laptop

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Specs, but Loses on Durability, March 4, 2011

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Adam Reynolds - See all my reviews

This review is from: MSI CR620-031US 15.6-Inch Laptop (Personal Computers)

OK, so I own an MSI CR600. Now, that is the model year previous to the CR620, but it remains essentially the same computer. I've used it pretty faithfully for about a year, it serving every role from office machine to use on the go, mainly during train commutes. It's been quite hard for me to find something to criticize about this computer (if I had to criticize something, it'd be the slightly wobbly design on the screen/lid hinges) - a most worthy purchase.

Or, I thought that, until December of 2010. Then, during routine use while I was opening the screen, the plastic around the hinges failed with an audible "crack." Now, a caveat, this computer has taken, I believe, one short in its lifetime, and the screen has been lightly hit a couple of times, but neither of these were very hard impacts at all, and I've had computers take much worse. Since that, I cannot adjust the screen at all; it needs to be immobilized to use normally (of course, the people at Frys forcing the screen shut didn't help at all). Of course, since its primary use was as a desktop machine, and I could easily get ahold of a netbook, this wasn't too much of a problem for me. But then, something worse happened. I got a notification that the hard drive was in failure. To confirm this, I downloaded a utility to read the S.M.A.R.T. data, and, sure enough, my 1-year old laptop's drive is in bad health (Reallocated Sector Count = 51). I was pretty disappointed when I found this out; I still have a Dell Inspiron that I bought in 2005, and it can still run perfectly, with no disk errors.

So, overall, despite pretty major problems with my particular unit (that may or may not have been faults in mine), the MSI CR600/620 is a pretty good midsize laptop, one able to fulfill both office and mobile roles. Note, however, that this does not work perfectly in all the situations that a netbook does, and I didn't do much more moving around with it besides train rides and coffee shops.