MSI WS60 2OJ review

MSI WS60 2OJ review
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MSI is best known for its motherboards, although it has also built up a significant range of consumer-oriented laptops over the last decade, particularly for the gaming market. But the company produces laptops for professional users as well. The WS60 is aimed at 3D content creation, and whilst not the first workstation MSI has produced, it's the first that isn't based on one of the company's gaming systems. It's a somewhat unusual design as mobile workstations go, too.
Generally, a portable workstation is at the top-end of the desktop replacement genre. However, although the WS60 is a 15in laptop, it only weighs 1.9kg. Best of all, it's just 19.9mm thick, which is bordering on Ultrabook territory. In other words, this is one of the most portable mobile workstations around.
The chassis is a relatively sober black, and the "workstation" logo on the lid was perhaps an unnecessary indication of the WS60's intended use. The 15.6in screen has a full HD resolution, which is about the sweet spot for this size. Some vendors are now offering much higher resolutions with battery like Dell Vostro 1720 Battery, Dell Vostro 1710 Battery, Dell 312-0740 Battery, Dell 312-0894 Battery, Dell 451-10612 Battery, Dell T117C Battery, Dell T118C Battery, Dell P721C Battery, Dell P726C Battery, Dell CMP3D Battery, Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 Battery, such as Dell's Precision M3800 – but this can cause problems with software not designed for this pixel density. So the WS60's screen is about right for now. Its matt finish and good levels of brightness and detail mean it's very pleasant to use, and viewing angles are wide, with no distraction from unwanted reflections.
MSI has taken full advantage of the width of the 15in chassis, providing a separate numeric keypad alongside the chiclet-style keyboard. The stylised text on the keys is perhaps overly telling of MSI's usual gamer focus, but the keyboard action is responsive, giving a pleasant typing experience. The large trackpad has its buttons integrated, with no indication of where the clicking area is, but in practice this isn't a problem. It's placed sensibly to the left beneath the spacebar, and is accurate and responsive.
The WS60 is based around an Intel Core i7-4710HQ, which is a quad-core CPU from the fourth Haswell generation. This runs at a nominal 2.5GHz, but as usual Intel Turbo Boost is on hand to enhance the frequency in the right circumstances, with a single core able to hit 3.5GHz. By raising the power from 47W to 55W, the clock speed of the whole processor can rise to 3.3GHz.
So there's plenty of potency here, and Hyper-Threading also means the four physical cores are presented as eight virtual ones, for a boost to parallel processing tasks such as rendering. The Core i7 has been partnered by a healthy 16GB of 1,600MHz DDR3L SDRAM, which is the maximum the system supports, but will be a decent amount for the intended purpose for a few years to come.
However, the component that fully lifts the WS60 into workstation territory is the Nvidia Quadro graphics. The Quadro K2100 is from the latest generation of Kepler-based Nvidia GPUs, and sports 576 CUDA cores alongside 2GB of GDDR5 memory. This is a mid-range member of the current Quadro line-up, but significantly ahead of the high-end desktop Quadro 5000 of just a few years ago, for example. There is also integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600, which automatically takes over when there is little 3D acceleration required, thanks to Nvidia's Optimus technology.