MSI ships GX60 gaming laptop to the US, gives us high-end AMD gaming for $1,300

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/11/msi-gx60-2.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/12/msi-ships-gx60-gaming-laptop-to-the-us/)MSI (http://www.engadget.com/tag/MSI/) made a reasonable case for AMD-based gaming when it unveiled the GX60 laptop (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/25/msi-makes-gx60-all-amd-gaming-laptop-official/) back in September... just not for Americans looking to buy one right away. There's a better argument now that the 15.6-inch portable is shipping to the US this week. The $1,300 asking price isn't quite impulse level, but it's a relative steal for a system whose quad-core, 2.3GHz A10-4600M processor and Radeon (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Radeon/) HD 7970M should handle modern games without much fuss. The 8GB of RAM, 750GB hard drive, Blu-ray drive, SteelSeries (http://www.engadget.com/tag/SteelSeries/) keyboard and Killer (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Killer/) networking don't hurt, either. As long as the GX60's 7.7-pound weight isn't too imposing, it might be the ticket to wielding a brag-worthy PC at the next LAN party without having to follow the Intel-owning pack.

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