MSI has announced the 15.6″ CX620 and CR620 Classic Series laptops, both based on Intel’s Core i Series processors for 2010.

Besides the Intel “Arrandale” CPUs, the MSI CX620 and CR620 include up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, and up to 500GB of hard drive space. The CX620 features the ATI Radeon HD5470 1GB dedicated video card, whereas the CR620 has the Intel GMA HD integrated graphics. Both 15.6-inchers have a 1366×768 LED backlit display. There’s no info on optical drive choices.

MSI’s new laptops also sport a chiclet-style keyboard, a built-in 1.3MP web camera, stereo speakers, an HDMI port, 802.11n WiFi, Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth, three USB ports, and a 4-in-1 media card reader.

The notebooks weigh less than 5.5 pounds with the standard 6-cell battery and run Windows 7 OS.

We have no info on pricing and availability.

Sager has launched the NP8690, a 15.6-inch gaming laptop that features the Intel Core i7 Mobile processor.

Advertised as “the world’s most powerful 15.6″ gaming notebook”, the Intel “Callpela”-based system includes the Intel Core i7-720QM, i7-820QM, or i7-920XM CPU, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 1GB video card, up to 8GB of DDR3 1,333MHz memory, up to 500GB of hard drive space, and a DVD burner or Blu-ray combo drive.

Display options include 1920×1080- and 1600×900-pixel screens, both with LED backlight.

The 7,4-pound laptop also sports stereo speakers and microphone, a 2MP webcam, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, a Gigabit LAN port, a 56k modem, HDMI and DVI outputs, four USB ports, an eSATA port, Firewire, an ExpressCard slot, a 7-in-1 media card reader, and a fingerprint reader.

The Sager NP8690 runs Windows XP or Windows Vista OS.

Acer has announced the Aspire AS5738PG notebook with a multi-touch 15.6-inch display, Intel’s CPU, and Windows 7 OS.

According to Acer, customers can touch anywhere on the AS5738PG’s screen using one or two fingertips to play movies, zoom in and out on websites, edit photos and video, handwrite notes, resize windows, launch entertainment applications and more.

The first touch-screen Aspire model available will be the AS5738PG-6306, featuring the Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz processor, the ATI Radeon HD 4570 512MB dedicated graphics, 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 320GB SATA hard drive, and a DVD burner. The display has a resoltion of 1366×768 pixels and uses LED backlight.

The laptop also sports stereo speakers, a built-in web camera, 802.11n WiFi, an HDMI output, and four USB ports.

Acer’s notebook weighs 6.16 pounds with its 6-cell battery.

The AS5738PG-6306 was available starting October 22. It was priced at around $800.