We've got some of those in at my shop.
I feel that MSI cut too many corners for a lightweight chassis material... or the engineers weren't thinking at all.
It is absolutely the most flimsy piece of hardware next to a "roll-up" keyboard.
I'm positive I will see them all making a return trip with cracked LCD at the very least.

Ok Sir collinvaughn,

Nobody says the display port is superior technologically speaking, it lacks support for tvs and such, and if there isn't a Display port to HDMI adaptor, for me, right now it's like buying a beta player.

Anyway the Air's price is over the macbook pro and is a half of that machine.

The MacBook Air comes with a DisplayPort output, which as far as I can tell, just out the gate, is superior to any computer sporting the HDMI spec. Please get your facts straight Sir Author.

The Air is a better machine period, but it does go ahead to justify this fact by its pricing over the X340, which is a cheaper alternative where the build, power and final price portray this. Both PCs then are good for getting their purposes at their respective cost points. But again, DisplayPort is a much bigger deal than the HDMI ones, even though HDMI has market penetration thus far, as well as an ever-moving, ever-improving spec. At the current HDMI 1.3, the spec is pretty much close to DisplayPort territory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi#Relationship_with_DisplayPort

That price is not the equivalent in dollars at all. Rip-off Britain again?

I can't imagine any graphics card making much of a difference for 2-D acceleration or even today's lightly-3-D windowing environments. Which makes me wonder how this laptop was tested and found lacking in the graphics department. Did you play graphics-intensive 3-D video games?

Personally since I'm an AMD man I would say that having the AMD Neo with a 34XX 256MB vidcard on ATI 780 chipset would make this thing kickass on the performance bar. It wouldn't fix the battery though.

On the intel side of things I would have put this on the ION chipset with a 9400M gfx again slightly less powered cpu but much better graphics. With this combo you could probably get an extra hours out of it from battery life.