When computer maker MSI set up a booth at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, it was trying to grab your attention primarily with its NetOn all-in-one desktops and its new MSI Wind U120 and U115 netbooks, all of which we already wrote about. But some more conventional offerings were in the booth as well: the G-series and E-series laptops, which include the models (brace yourself) GT725, GT727, GT627, GX420, EX625, and EX623. No, we're not going to rattle off all the arcane specs for all of those models, but we did get our hands on them, and we took some pictures, so read on for our impressions!

The laptops look their parts: the gaming machines (pictured at the top) are red and black, with the W, A, S, and D keys (used for movement in many computer games) painted differently just to drive the point home. The GT727 and GT725 were both very similar, 17-inch laptops with high-end graphics, but the 727 featured faster memory. It's MSI's first with DDR3 RAM. They were pretty much what you'd expect from gaming laptops. The GX420 was a little more interesting. It was smaller, but the size didn't betray the power of the hardware. The 420 had a GeForce 9600M graphics card with 256 MB of video memory and a 16:9 screen, so it could do some pixel-lifting.

The other two pictures are of the E-series entertainment and media laptops. These were designed for music and video, and had a different aesthetic to match. The hardware was a little less beefy, but it was plenty for watching high definition movies (they also had 16:9 aspect ratio screens, matching many films) and even some light gaming or video editing. The most notable feature: HDMI outputs for connecting to HDTVs. Unfortunately, they didn't have Blu-ray drives, but aren't you mostly downloading videos at this point, anyway?