PORT MSI X420-020ES SU7300/4/5500/14″/HD5430-1G/W500/14″/HD5430-1G/W7HP
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Experience energy-efficient performance with the Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor. Become a master of multi-tasking with the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously without slowing down. You’ll enjoy outstanding performance when encoding your HD videos or running other intensive multimedia applications.
Exclusive GPU Boost technology
The X420 incorporates exclusive GPU Boost technology, to easily achieve the perfect balance of performance and battery life for your needs.
When you need to run graphics-intensive applications, just press the “3D” hot key, the system intelligently detects this and switches on the discrete GPU’s 3D mode, fully unleashing the X420’s graphics might.
When handling routine tasks on pressing “battery” hot key, the system shifts to the power-saving mode using the system’s integrated graphics to extend battery life.
Flexible GPU Boost technology can allow you to transparently gain the benefits of both GPUs in the X420, whatever you’re actually doing.
Super-long battery life
X420 incorporates MSI’s exclusive ECO Engine power management system, allowing you to select your usage scenario and obtain the best balance of performance and battery life.
* Actual battery life will vary depending on usage patterns and configuration settings.
The ultimate in sleek aesthetics
A revelatory experience
The contoured design of the X420’s housing draws inspiration from feathers, evoking their smooth lines to create a warm and elegant feel, and doing away with the hard, impersonal style common to notebooks.
Most distinctively, the X420 weighs just 1.88 kgs, battery included. Its weight is low enough, in fact, to make it the world’s lightest 14” notebook.
Creating New Fashions
Pearl Textured Cappuccino Brown Design Lines
The Exclusive Cappuccino Brown tones shade different layers from the inside to outside. With stylish patterning — like a cup of cappuccino topped with fresh cream—that provides multiple visual sensations. Uniting the smooth and bright pearl texture harmonizes the X420's stylish elegance and distinctive charm and defines a new style for notebook computers. This type of unparalleled style and beauty is a natural first choice for a consumer of refined taste.
Multi-touch Touchpad
The newly designed Multi-touch touchpad allows you to easily scroll, drag and resize or rotate pictures with your fingers in the standard typing position.
MSI chiclet keyboard
The stylish chiclet keyboard design reduces typing errors and increases comfort, In addition, the chiclet keyboard is designed to dampen key-press sounds. Whether typing or gaming, the chiclet keyboard means you no longer have to fret about disturbing those around you with keyboard clicks and clatter.
A visual feast worth anticipating
High-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD5430 3D discrete graphics card (with DDR3 1GB VRAM)
The X420 incorporates the high-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD5430 3D graphics card with DDR3 1GB VRAM, enabling images with greater depth, as well as more finely rendered and richer detail. The result is ultra-realistic visuals that will truly amaze.
The latest in power-saving LED backlight technology
The X420 draws on power-saving LED backlight technology for its display, not only providing fuller color and more brightness, but enhancing overall picture quality—while extending battery life.
SRS Premium Sound™-certified audio performance
The 360° surround-sound acoustics of the X420’s headphone audio give music a like-it’s-live presence and sense of space, so you can enjoy perfect listening wherever you happen to be. Together with the 14” widescreen display, the superb sound makes the X420 your own private theater. The SRS Premium Sound™-certified audio performance ensures you enjoy an utterly captivating aural experience.
Enjoy your personal digital entertainment world
Optional Blu-ray drive
HDMI digital multimedia interface
By taking advantage of HDMI, the X420 ensures that intricately rendered game scenes are displayed with breathtaking clarity.
Advanced new eSATA port
The X420’s eSATA port brings greater performance, and provides double the bandwidth for high-speed data reading and writing.
Liven up your communications with video
The X420’s built-in high-resolution video camera and beautifully integrated all-in-one design make for a video-enhanced notebook with a sense of style that’s both high-tech and elegant.
MSI's Exclusive Software Makes Your Computer Even Smarter!
MSI EasyViewer – Full 3D photo browser
MSI Easy Viewer is a 3D photo browser. Users can easily operate the MSI Easy Viewer with the mouse, and enjoy browsing and editing photos. You can browse the photos in “Preview mode” first, and then use “Slide mode” to edit photos.
MSI Preview mode
Variations in picture browsing can be based on different goals or user preferences, including magnification and shrinking, full-screen, and auto-play.
Slide mode
In Slide mode, pictures can be edited, including: magnification, shrinking, and 90-degree rotation. Also, using HDII Image enhancement, Intelligent white balance and Image sharpness adjustment functions allows for richer picture quality, with more three-dimensional and layered contours.
Easy Face Manager
Through the embedded webcam of the X420, the Easy Face Manager function can scan the face of the user and record eyes, cheekbones, jaw line, and nose. The user can adjust the level for personal security identification. (One user ID can store up to ten facial images)
Furthermore, the power setting of the Easy Face Manager can adjust the standby time. The X420 can save power by switching off when it hasn’t been operated during the setting time.