Very good unit for the price, but only with XP

For the price you get a lot of functionality - from everything although no high-performance, but quite sufficient for home users. I myself have bought the VR600 for this purpose and was pleasantly surprised.
The integrated Intel graphics is not enough even for occasional games of the caliber of Guild Wars or City of Heroes, but for new shooters.
Positive on the device is especially bright and konstrastreiche display (though it is reflected), the keyboard with the additional numerical pad and the easy expandability (memory and CPU are interchangeable, upgrade to 2G no problem).
The one negative I have the loud DVD burner and the somewhat awkwardly placed mouse sensor surface, but that can be disabled via a keystroke.

One shortcoming is the included Windows Vista and preinstalled software, which includes only crippled demo versions. Vista is a pure resource eater and runs slow and unstable on the laptop. It is included only a recovery version, but at least as a DVD, not only as a partition on the disk.

I personally recommend, the hard disk (for backup) to empty and to install Windows XP (Home or Professional). For the device, there are all the drivers as XP version on the MSI website.
With XP, the device runs smoothly, stable and oddly enough, the battery also keeps the same 30 minutes longer than usual. Under XP the device is very fast and felt 50% faster than Vista.