Appearance to look solid. From the side also does not look too thick. Weigth without adapter 1.824 kg. Plus the adapter and cable, your total will involve 2,216 kg.Known, MSI VR22 this blend of netbook and notebook. So screen 12.1 ", width more than netbook, but less than the width notebook in general.
Casing color black smooth, but if we open screen keyboard will appear to the panel that frames the color silver. Less padunya this color seemed a bit odd - although there are other brands that also use them. But the black frame on the LCD screen is the screen look more prominent.
Button On / Off, and ECOWith slightly different habits, the key on / off is placed in the middle of the top, just below the Wide screen LCD is a 12 ". The placement of the button on / off this easy access. In the light condition, the button on / off the blue light.
Parallel with the on / off, precisely at the left side, there are three buttons and three LED. The left button labeled P1, the P2 side, and the button which is located in the wireless connection icon sport (Wi-Fi). Button P1 is the most important, because it is a button that makes our lives more comfortable. ECO button offers five power saving modes: Gaming, Movie, Presentation, Office, and Turbo Battery. Turbo Battery choose if you want to get the endurance batere long.
While P2 is the key used to activate / turn off the function of physical webcam installed in the middle panel on the screen, complete with a hole in the microphone. If the application Camera Record Renderer already installed, we can record activity in front of the webcam as the video clips in AVI format at 640x480 resolution.
Limit the options available for recording Webcam for 10 seconds. In addition, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness, gamma, white balance, gain can be adjusted. Results rekamannya good, clear, with a color that is quite accurate. However, if the zoom-in until selebar screen, the display appears less solid. Besides voice captured via internal microphone on the Webcam less strong recorded.
Less loud speaker
Speaker is on the left and right of the key, broad throughout the keyboard. Voters are issued vary, depending on the source. Occasionally we hear MP3 music less strong, despite already set on the highest volume, 100%, through Windows Media Player. But the voice Katon toss Negeri Di Awan songs sounded loud and good enough. Another case with an old DVD. Dibintangi the film by Richard Gere and J. Lo, shall we Dance?, Even still be sayup-sayup when played on the maximum volume.
Keyboard and LCD Width
Because the physical width, the keyboard on this notebook is also quite wide in size, full-sized. Distance antartombol width so that the keyboard is used for comfortable typing, despite we have to press quite hard here, and listen to the sound of not-TIK for each key is pressed. Fortunately touchpad is a broad favor: mulus enough. Unfortunately the second button under the touchpad is also quite strong pressure.
Screen 12.1 "is quite bright and clear in the resolution of 1280x800. Vertikalnya good perspective, but seen from the side of the screen will look a bit dim and the reflection of visible effects.
Left, Right, Front, Rear
From the completeness, VR220 is complete. On the right side each have one hole for security lock, VGA port, RJ45 port, and USB ports. On the right side of the front there is a DVD Multi Drive, which can be used to read and write to CD-R/CD-RW DVD chip.
The left side of the display from the back of the series: DC-in jack, ventilation grating, an antenna port for TV tuner (digital), USB port, RJ11 jack, USB port, and 3-in-1 card reader. This card reader can accept three types of card: Secure Digital (SD), MMC (multimedia card), and MS (Memory Stick).
When we try, a SD card that not all of us selipkan into the slot; remaining slightly outside the slot. Card reader system using this pedal, so to issue press cards we live in to the card, and cards will be driven to the outside.
At the top of the card reader looks a rubber cover which unfortunately can not be opened. However, the future size, it is possible for the ExpressCard slot. In fact there is a rubber cover that also can not be opened, ie, the diapit by RJ11 port and a USB port. It seems that this is the HDMI port.
Direction in front of the right hand side, seen two jack. Near the location of the touchpad is a microphone jack and right beside it is a jack for headphones. At the end of the right to attend the four-LED, each of the Sleep status, Batere, Wireless and Access Harddisk (green).
The back of the notebook is clean of trinkets.
Performance
Notebook 12 "this dimotori by Intel Pentium T3200 2Ghz with 2GB memory. Test results 3DMark 2006 is 604, not spectacular. PCMark Vantage score was 2569 records, a little below average ultraportabel generally. However, to support the day-to-day activities include mumpuni notebook. Can be multitasking - type with MS Word, surfing via Wi-Fi with MS Internet Explorer while listening to music from a DVD - without causing hangs. Used also play the game okay.
O ya, MSI VR220 mengemaskan Western Digital 160GB hard drive (can be upgraded up to 320GB). Tracks the performance of hard disk: we thoroughly menyalinkan 13.9 GB of data (4001 files in 417 folders) from a USB flash disk Kingston DataTraveler 150 32GB hard drive to the MSI VR220 tempo in 11 minutes 23 seconds. This means that the transfer rate 20.84 MB / s.
Meanwhile Baterenya a thin nan that willowy strength mentioned 2800mAh, 14.4 V. No wonder if the resistance batere quite minimal, only 47 minutes, when tested with Battery Eater 05.
If the future score ujinya (see table), MSI VR220 is referred to as the match value notebook. Facilities and their performance on the netbook, but it can not be compared on the class notebook. Smaller size of the notebook (except the Dell Inspiron Mini 12), but greater than the netbook.