Peer along the frame's edges and you'll notice it mirrors the original GT70 exactly: three USB 3.0 ports, an SD card reader and four audio jacks for line-in, line-out, a microphone and headphones on the left and a pair of lesser USB 2.0 ports and an optical drive on the right.
Visually, little else has changed since the previous generation. This says, "I am a hardcore gaming machine." Subtle it's not, but it isn't incredibly loud either it finds a nice middle ground where all that flair is just noticeable enough to make clear this is a special edition machine. "I am a hardcore gaming machine," it declares. This separates the revision from its plainly designed predecessor, and obviously demands a little more attention. An aggressive red streak bleeds through the machine's brushed-aluminum palm rest and lid, decorated with a stylized dragon tattoo. The Dragon's 8.6-pound, 16.85 x 11.34 x 2.17-inch frame is a dead ringer for its predecessor, differentiating itself with only a handful of tweaks and a new color scheme. It's hard to avoid comparisons to MSI's original GT70 while handling the Dragon Edition - after all, the two machines are built on the same chassis. Let's dive in and see if MSI's encore deserves a standing ovation.%Gallery-189467% NVIDIA's latest mobile GPU is here too, not to mention notable OS upgrades, port tweaks and a mystical new motif.
It's actually the second GT70 to adopt the Dragon moniker, but the first to pack Intel's fourth-generation Core processors. Meet the GT70 Dragon Edition: a Haswell-toting, 17-inch gaming laptop with all the trappings of its predecessor. It was a darn good machine, so it's no surprise that MSI is hoping for a repeat performance. Like all machines of its type, it was huge, oversized and ridiculously heavy - but it trumped many of the category's biggest faults by being superbly crafted, surprisingly long-lasting and by boasting the bleeding edge of tech: an Ivy Bridge CPU. One of the strongest gaming laptops of 2012 had to be the MSI GT70. Intel: Haswell will boost battery life by 50 percent.First Haswell gaming laptop revealed: MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2 with GTX780M graphics.
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