MSI - 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 - 512GB Solid State Drive - Matte Black With Gold Diamond Cut

Pros: Sturdy, Solid, Stable. Very fast, very quiet. Cons: Upgrading SSD and RAM I am a truck driver away from home 300 days a year so my only real option for PC gaming is a laptop. My last laptop was 5 years old and finally died. As I was only home 2 days and needed a replacement I had to buy local, best buy was there for me. As these are comparisons to a 5 year old laptop I have to say I am blown away. The case is metal and feels quite sturdy while being half as thick as my last laptop which was all plastic. The KB is beautiful and can have colors assigned to individual buttons and you can make separate profiles for any games you have to light up certain buttons. Large, silky smooth trackpad which I rarely use unless I'm just watching movies. I was also impressed with the speakers as they are much louder and crisper than my old laptop. Gaming performance is what I would expect for a laptop in this price range, which is to say I was blown away. The 144hz screen is crisp and vibrant and so far every game I have thrown at it has run like butter. This laptop is also suprisingly quiet when you have the fans set on auto, with cooler boost on the 6,000rpm fans sound like my laptop is going to float around the room. I was able to get a max overclock on the gpu of +200 on the core and +350 on the memory. and though I was not able to stress test it I was able to run 3dmark a few times with no errors pulling out a 6213 over the performance overclock score of 5789. Now, as with anything, there is always a downside. With this laptop for me it was storage. While SSDs are blazing fast a 500GB hard drive is just too small for me. With AAA titles taking up over 40GB and having my entire movie collection on my hard drive 500GB is woefully inadequate. Luckily there is a second SSD slot and you can get 2TB SSDs for around $200. BUT, I learned installing memory and SSD upgrades in this laptop are quite involved. If you are not comfortable in the guts of a laptop I strongly suggest having a qualified tech do your upgrades. On my old laptop you just removed a back panel and viola, there were your memory slots and hard drives. Not so with the MSI GS65. First you remove over a dozen screws to take off the back cover. Then 3 more screws to remove the battery, another screw to remove the network card. Then you need to disconnect about a half dozen ribbon cables and 3 more screws. Then you must pull the motherboard and only then will you be able to access the SSD and memory slots to install any upgrades. Doing this the first time on a new $2,000 laptop is a nerve wracking experience. Also, I do not like how the factory drive is partitioned. I understand why they made a separate boot and data partition, but the way they did it forces you to leave the stock hard drive this way unless you plan on doing serious data wrangling backing up, formatting, and restoring. After installing my 2TB second drive that is where I keep all my data and installs. I would like to have merged the 200GB drive C and 300GB drive D into a single drive but cannot because they put the hidden recovery partition right between them. But, such is life. In all I am very happy with this machine and the only thing preventing 5 stars was the difficulty upgrading the memory and SSD. Here is a link to the 3dmark results I got https://www.3dmark.com/spy/7034725

This is the thinnest gaming laptop in the market with some competitive specs. I have an eye on this product but never pulled the trigger as it’s not in my price range but bought it on one day sale and I’m very happy with the purchase. Coming to the looks it has thin bezels & camera on the top(not everyone is doing this recently) with nice gold/copper touch around the edges & good build and finish. The performance is great with its updated specs per the current market. The screen looks a lot like 4K even though it’s a 1080p HD. Lots of options to customize the performance, keyboard, screen display. Even though it’s thin they didn’t compromised on the battery - it’s pretty good compared to its competitors. Great graphics. Now coming to its cons they need to improve the thermals. It’s not great but good when taking its size into consideration. The track pad quality is good but doesn’t work the same. It’s missing a SD card slot. And by the way the motherboard is built upside down hence it’s difficult to upgrade in future. Overall, It’s a great laptop and I’m very happy with my purchase.

This computer has been nothing but amazing. The fact that it manages to have an RTX 2060 in it for $2000 with the RGB keyboard and 144 hertz screen makes it a steal. The SSD makes loading every application super fast. The thinness of the computer is the most impressive part, it manages to look very subtle in a public setting which is uncommon for most computers like this. It is very lightweight as well which makes traveling great. Overall one of the best products I have ever purchased.

First off, I would like to state that I am very tech savvy. I build media and gaming desktops on the side for my home job and have been doing so for the last 10+ years. I was looking for a laptop that could handle gaming, some video editing, and audio production on the go. I am not a big fan of MSI products, as I have had issues with many of their motherboards over the years. However, the sales rep at the Best Buy store I visited told me that these MSI laptops are a 'top seller' and they are the 'most in-demand'. I had my doubts, but between his suggestion and the reviews I had read online of other MSI laptops, I thought I would give it a try. First off, the laptop itself was fast. It booted up in less than 30 seconds, and I had no issues with speed. I put it through the torture test of benchmarks as well. From Primer 96 to the GPU Heaven benchmarks. It handled everything very well, and for the first week, I was pretty happy with it. However, there were some minor issues that started to pop up. I would notice that my mouse pointer became unresponsive when I would boot it up from a full shut down. The only way to get it to come back was if I ctrl+alt+delete and then hit 'cancel' on the menu. I then also started having issues with the track pad, and LED lights on the keyboard. I tried updating all the BIOS, firmware, and drivers. I even re-installed Windows 10 3 times. The issues still occurred. I called MSI tech support, and the gentlemen I talked to had no idea what would be causing these issues, especially after I had already updated everything. For a laptop that was over $2000.00, I expected far better results. I returned the laptop and am looking elsewhere at other brands.

> Pros: - Boots up incredibly fast. - Plays games at 60-120 FPS on high visual settings (Overwatch, World of Warcraft, DayZ). - Fast processor and adequate RAM. - Beautiful thin-bezel display. - Gorgeous chassis design. - Fully customizable keyboard. - Light and easy to carry. >Cons: - Runs a bit hot in the keyboard, but not terribly so. - Slightly awkward power/HDMI port placement. >Overall: Five stars, for certain. It's using the first Geforce RTX card released (2060) and an Intel 8th gen processor, so it's got some great tech; while not the absolute top-of-the-line, for the price, this combo of specs can't be beat. Add in the SSD for the incredible boot-up speed, and this Stealth model is a winner.

I'm happy with it, fast startup, great graphics, awesome design, customizable keys, yeah love it.

I've been searching for a laptop for about 6 months now to replace my aging Lenovo. A week ago the hinges locked up and when I went to close the lid it snapped a whole bunch of stuff putting a tighter timeline into purchasing a new one. My biggest issue was what did I want? My old laptop had a discrete GPU but was old and heavy. Weighed about 5.5 lbs plus power brick. While this doesn't seem heavy when walking through airports that weight will eventually show it's self to your shoulders. So i was torn b/c i wanted some light like an ultrabook but powerful so i could play some games at leaset. I was about ready to settle on an ASUS S book that was about 2.5 lbs plus an eGPU which would be 5 in it's self but not always needed. Then one day i saw this puppy. Just slightly over 4 lb's but the internals are beefy! 2060 gpu, i 7 upgradeable (though not easy) memory and storage and 2 storage slots. I haven't had this long so it'll be first thoughts at this point and i may update later based off my observations.... Opening the box everything feels premium. Open the brown/plain cardboard box and you see the sleep black box hold the laptop protected by 4 pieces of thick closed cell foam. Remove this and the cellophane around the box and you see the laptop protected in a nice cloth cover to protect from scratches. Remove it and open her and a nice cloth piece b/w the screen and the keyboard. Premium. My first impressions of the looks are nice. Everything is subtle. With the exception of the shiny gold MSI dragon logo on the lid it's fairly subdued. This laptop does not scream Gamer by any means which is what i wanted. This is not really something you'd be ashamed to carry to coffee shop with you. Opening the laptop for the first time the base has a nice enough heft that i can one handed the lid and the bottom doesn't lift with it. The layout is simple, and other than the stickers that can be removed easily any badging is done by either recession or done glossy in a matte area, all very subdued. Build quality is good. Some flex in the screen the area but not horrible and some flex on the keyboard area..... The keyboard is simple, though it does not include a number pad. Keys offer a decent resistance and travel and a satisfying soft click with press. They are individually RGB lit keys but that also means another piece of software is needed to control that (So + and - there) There is very large track pad and is done by Microsoft precision! It's not the greatest but very decent! Palm rejection on it has been mostly good so far. My only gripe is that it is centered on the laptop yet, as we know, the keyboard typing area is more to the left so i tend to have a greater part of my right hand on the touch pad and sometimes put to much pressure and push it. Moving on the screen is decent as well Fairly bright or at least bright enough for me.. It is a 144hz but sadly only 1080p no 2k here, also no G-sync. This would be a complaint for some people but if it was then the gpu would be linked directly to the screen and use the dedicated graphics card full time killing battery life so i don't mind it at all. Colors look good. Small bezels on the sides and tops and they were able to put the camera up top. For I/O we have pretty much everything you could want. Thunderbolt o/c! We also have USB 3.1 type a x 3, Ethernet, mini DP, HDMI, and headphone/mic jacks. I would of preferred two TB 3 however if it were up to me. Also wish you could charge via the thunderbolt port but no go! only with the power brick! Speaking of that thing... the plug for it is about mid way on the right side. I've read complaints about it... doesn't bother me though, just takes some getting used to. The power brick is very small... about the size of a galaxy s7 just a bit thicker. The biggest gripe about this, is the upgrade ability. While yes it is able to be upgraded as far as ram and storage but not as easy as pulling the bottom cover off and swapping chips because the motherboard is upside down. That's right, so you have to remove the entire motherboard to upgrade it... Also, there is no Windows hello feature. So there is no supported camera and NO fingerprint scanner which saddens me b/c there is a model that has a fingerprint sensor in the power switch. This is kinda sad since the ssd they use is a western digital and it feel fairly slow honestly. It has 16 gigs of ram which is great but it's single channel not dual so i'll expect to upgrade that before long. I'll probably end up doing all upgrades at once since it's so hard but i want to put swap in a 500 Samsung nvme and a 2tb sata m.2 for storage and i'll probably go for 32 gigs of dual channel just for giggles :) On book the battery should get 8 hours of life but we all know that's not real. Through normal/light use i would say may be 4-5 hours at best. I would suggest doing some research on extending life of it by undervolting and unlocking the c states. The bios doesn't give you immediate access to options to overclock, however, there is a key sequence you can use to unlock all sorts of features but i wouldn't suggest this if you aren't 100% what you're doing b/c you can brick this thing and there's no cmos reset! So my overall thoughts so far is this is a solid laptop. Loving it so far. All metal case, but a fingerprint magnet. Full of power, I personally don't think you could ask for more from a laptop and still have portability. Oh man the portability is so great on this one. Easy to grab and go! The power light next to the button changes color to let you know which GPU is in use. White= integrated and orange = nvidia! Pros: Powerful Light Decent battery life for what it is Sleek looking Cons No fingerprint sensor! No gsync (this is for some i really don't mind it) Fingerprint magnet No touch screen Difficult upgradability.

I am so disappointed after I disassemble GS75. I saw the stock SSD is a low-quality version of NVMe. My friend bought gs75 from a different distributor. and he got a Samsung SSD nvme x4. while best buy version provided me one 1 the lowest SSD quality in the market. so disapointed for the 2500$ laptop worth.