MSI GS60 Ghost Pro Gaming Laptop Launched in India, Starts Rs. 1,16,235

MSI has launched its premium gaming laptop in India, the GS60 Ghost Pro, exclusively via Flipkart, a popular e-commerce website, officially starting Rs. 1,29,900 (though Flipkart lists the price of the base model as Rs. 1,16,235). It features a black magnesium-alloy chassis, and MSI is marketing it as its 'thinnest gaming notebook'.

The GS60 Ghost Pro series features high-end specifications and is currently up for pre-order from the e-commerce website. The GS60 Ghost Pro series comes in three different configurations - GS60 2PE Ghost Pro, GS60 2PC Ghost, and GS60 2PL Ghost.

The biggest difference between the three GS60 Ghost Pro configurations are the dedicated graphic cards. The GS60 2PE Ghost Pro features an Nvidia Geforce GTX870M / GDDR5 3GB GPU, the GS60 2PC Ghost features an Nvidia Geforce GTX860M / GDDR5 2GB GPU, and the GS60 2PL Ghost features an Nvidia Geforce GTX850M / DDR3 2GB GPU.

The GS60 Ghost Pro series runs Windows 8.1, and sports a 15.6-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) anti-glare wide viewing angle display. A fourth-generation 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-4710HQ processor (8 threads, 3.5GHz Turbo frequency, 6MB cache), powers the GS60 Ghost Pro gaming laptop. It features 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3L RAM on the top-end GS60 2PE Ghost Pro variant, and 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L RAM in the other two. The laptop comes with a 1TB 7200RPM HDD, with the top-end variant also featuring a 128GB SSD.

It also features a full-HD webcam, a full-colour backlit SteelSeries keyboard, 4x2W Dynaudio speakers with 7.1 channel support, SPDIF output, and Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2.
On the connectivity front, the GS60 Ghost Pro series includes 3xUSB 3.0 ports, 1xHDMI port, 2-in-1 card reader, microphone port, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (Killer E2200), and Bluetooth 4.0 options. The gaming laptop packs a 6-cell Li-Po battery that is rated to deliver up to 3 hours of battery backup. The GS60 Ghost Pro series measures 390x266.7x19.9mm, and weighs 1.9kgs.

Lenovo also announced its gaming laptop, the Y70 Touch, at its pre-IFA 2014 event. The laptop also comes in three variants based on the RAM and graphic processor combination. The Lenovo Y70 Touch runs Windows 8.1 64-bit OS and sports a 17.3-inch full-HD LED anti-glare multi-touch display.