Notebook MSI X460DX: 14 inches, 2 pounds, all inclusive

In the compact notebook weighing up to two kilograms of something so many are missing. To some the size of the display. Some performance. And some - the optical drive. The MSI tried to create a laptop that it all happened, but he was still thin, lightweight and long-playing

Some body parts MSI X460DX - cover and the panel in front of the case - made of metal. But this is a subtle and inexpensive metal, magnesium alloy, and is not not "machined aluminum" in the same Dell XPS 13. The basis of the same construction is plastic - it is made out of it is actually building.

The notebook can not be called great, but still it is not the smallest. At this size, and the desire of designers to minimize the weight of the plastic case is not sufficiently stringent.

Cover MSI X460DX leans very much for the design loop angle. According to the MSI, the opening angle is 170 degrees. Protractor, we have not verified this value, but it feels like the truth.

In a lot of glossy laptop parts. The frame around the display, the display itself, the panels on the sides of the keyboard and the gaps between the keys - all gloss. Accordingly, the case turned out quite easily soiled.

The cover, though the metal, but also likes to get dirty - on the black surface of the processing of a rough grinding are distinct fingerprints.

The keyboard layout is quite unfortunate. Short Enter, a tiny right-Shift, which is easier to forget than to learn how to get into it - and all for what fit in the keyboard unit column of buttons Home - End. And all would do if we were talking about a 12-inch laptop, with the objective lack of space. But on either side of the keyboard is 2.5 cm on each side of emptiness. What prevented the use of a bigger unit? ..

But the mechanical properties were unexpectedly good: the buttons more elastic than usual in Taiwan's notebook, pressed with a slight effort enjoyable and least enjoyable sound. As for the hardness of the substrate keyboard, feelings vary greatly depending on the particular point. In the center of the keyboard is very "concrete", not walk, even at very strong shocks. But at the edges of perceptible shakes and shocks of medium strength.

Over the past six months, we've grown accustomed to the huge touch panel. In this regard, MSI X460DX - greetings from the past. Size of sensitive area up 80h43 mm. By area, the panel is about 1.6 times smaller than, for example, Samsung 530U4B - this is also a 14-inch laptop.

The surface of the panel is covered with embossed pattern in the form of concentric circles. At the touch of relief is almost not felt, since the width and depth of the "grooves" are small. But when moving a finger across the surface relief pattern is formed by a low voice, "whistling" - about the same as when stroking records.