I must say, I am extremely impressed with this laptop. I primarily bought it for work, and unlike my previous laptops which were maxing out on 8gb ram and working the 4 core cpu, this laptop's resources at work is beyond adequate for my tasks which are intensive. It's very thin, and lighter than all my other 15 inch laptops which were majorly dells. Transferring of files to and from the laptop via ethernet but especially USB 3.0 is lightening fast with the solid state hard drive My dell USB 3.0 maxes out at 86MB/sec on an hdd, amd this thus far from ssd to USB so far was 172MB/sec From ssd to external ssd is basically over 1GB/sec. The gpu stays asleep basically all the time. It's only active sometimes when i'm editing a few videos, depending on how demanding the editing is on pc resources. Otherwise, the cpu which shows as 8 cores on my cpu monitor is well capable, and mostly operates at about 15% to 55%. Games! I've played the latest sniper elite at max settings and the gpu budged slightly. After 30mins of playing, the cpu temps were steady at max 86 degrees, and the gpu at about 68 degrees. I haven't used the vr as yet, just bought it for when I'll need it. Based on what I'm seeing with the speeds on the ssd and 5 secs to boot from completely off, I'm gonna get an external ssd drive for backing up stuff, as opposed to my 8tb western digital external hdd which is way slower. I'll upgrade this 512 gig sdd in the laptop to a 2tb NV pro ssd in about 12 months because I'll end up voiding the 15mth warranty when I do so. All in all, happy with my purchase. BTW, Battery life is as you'll expect for a system like this; I get about 2.5hrs on battery with the settings that I use. This is fine for me considering the last dell inspiron I had with less resources than this lasted about the same time.Read full review
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Nice laptop, smaller form factor, good hardware. However, the build quality is atrocious and MSI doesn't stand behind their products, offering a measley 1 year warranty and repair costs that are significantly higher than a new laptop costs (quoted over $1300 for a repair). In my case, the fan(s) broke after less than a year of ownership, and after a lengthy RMA process, got it back only to have the video card break shortly thereafter and have MSI refuse to repair the product. Shortly after that the SSD broke. I can only say that if you are considering this laptop for yourself or someone you love, that you should run as fast as you can away from it.
Verified purchase: No
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