Looks like at the moment is the Core i7 mobile promotion day. MSI has all set two notebooks in its GT series that will be supported by Intel's Core i7 mobile quad-core microprocessor. The GT740 as well as GT640 are mutually a part of MSI's Gaming series plus also to the Core i7 CPU, mutually will be outfitted with Nvidia's GeForce GTS 250M graphics with 1GB of DDR3 memory.

Both of these notebooks are supported on Intel's PM55 chipset which is coupled with Intel's Core i7-720QM quad-core microprocessor running at 1,6GHz as well as featuring 6MB of cache. The rest of the specifications for these two SKUs contains, Nvidia's GTS 250M with 1GB of DDR3 memory, 4GB of DDR2 667/800 memory, Gigabit LAN, 802.11bgn Wi-Fi, 500GB 5.400RPM hard drive, eSATA port, Dsub along with HDMI outputs as well as will be dispatched along with a 6-cell 4800mAh battery.

The distinction amid the GT740 as well as GT640 is in the size, weight as well as certainly the size of the display. The bigger, GT740 has a 17-inch 1680x1050 glare screen as well as weigh up about 3.5kg with a 6-cell battery. The smaller GT640 has smaller 15.4-inch display with the similar resolution as well as weigh up about 2.8kg with the similar battery.

The GT740 has a not compulsory price mark of €1.499 for the declared SKU, while the smaller GT640 should sell around €1.399. There may be unusual SKUs with similar amount of memory, perhaps a different graphics card and most likely even a different CPU, but we will observe formerly all the models strike retail as well as e-tail shops.