Good news for AMD and MSI fans, the MSI CR650-016US now available at Amazon.com for $455.99, while Newegg offers the MSI CR650 laptop for $469. It comes with a 15.6-inch display with resolution of 1366 x 768 pixel, 3GB DDR3 of RAM, up to 320GB hard disk space and 1.6GHz AMD E-350 Dual-Core processor. You will get 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, HD webcam, a 4-in-1 card reader, DVD writer and also a 6-cell battery that should be good for 6 hours. [Product Page]

MSI GX680 Sandy Bridge-Based gaming laptop is boasted by an Intel Core i7 2630QM quad core 2nd generation mobile platform, up to 16GB DDR3 memory, up to 1.5TB hard drive ( two 750GB hard drives), and NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M GPU with Direct X 11 support. It packs an 15.6-inch LED-backlit display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 or 1920 x 1080 pixels. Along with Blu-ray / DVD Super Multi, two USB 3.0 ports, three USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, eSATA, a 5-in-1 card reader, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, Gigabit LAN, a 9-cell Li-Ion battery and a choice of Windows 7 Ultimate/Professional/Home Premium. There is no word on pricing or release date yet.

- MSI GX680 Sandy Bridge Laptop Picture

MSI is planning to release two Sandy Bridge-powered laptops, the MSI CX640 and MSI CR640. All models feature 15.6-inch HD LED backlight display with 1366 x 768 resolution, up to 8GB of RAM, a 320/500/640GB hard drive and Intel’s 2nd generation Core i3/i5/i7 processor. The MSI CX640 has brings Intel integrated graphics. The MSI CR640 notebook is boasts a GeForce GT 520M 1GB discrete graphics. Features that they share are DVD writer, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, stereo speakers backed by SRS PC Sound, a HDMI output, USB 3.0 port and a 6-cell or 8-cell battery.