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Update February 12, 2020: This is the worst laptop I have ever owned, and I have had a couple really crappy ones. Pretty sure that this laptop is officially dead, no warning other than one blue screen a day or so ago. Was turned away from it, with it plugged in and charging while I played a game on my xbox, turn back to check my cell phone and not a single light was on. Assumed maybe it came unplugged, maybe plug wasnt working, maybe its the cord.. long story short its none of those things its definitely the laptop. Never will I buy a MSI computer ever again. Not even sure I will ever touch the parts again. Not planning to contact the company because their customer service has been rude and unhelpful every time I have spoken to them about any of their products/services. I saw an affordable laptop, with decent specs from a name that seemed trusted in the tech community, and I went for it. Don't waste your money on their products. Please, maybe spend a little more on something from a brand with less issues. If this is how they handled this laptop with its issues when it was fresh to market, I can't imagine they behave any better about their newer models.I have really mixed feelings about this laptop. I like the design, and theoretically the stats are pretty good. In use, it doesn't work out quite so well. I knew I would need to upgrade the ram, but out of the box this computer has always been on the slower side. It can play some games fine but struggles with several. For example, multiplayer games like Terraria to games like Black Desert Online seem to make this laptop struggle to keep up. And no, its not my internet connection. My internet can handle 3 people streaming and two people playing mmo's without really breaking a sweat. On the laptop I lose frames, it freezes up now and then, crashes the games, and the fans kick on their high setting at a moments notice. Which are very very loud by the way. On the plus side, the laptop doesn't overheat much.The display is really poor quality. Trying to watch or play anything where the movie or game intends it to be dim or look like night time is pretty bad because it all starts to look the same. I have tried to adjust these settings with the programs provided but it seems to not make much of a difference.The battery life on this is awful, but I knew that when I bought it. It doesn't take a year to charge up, so I don't gripe much on it. However, the location and charger style is incredibly inconvenient. A laptop meant for gamers, in a world where the majority is right handed, puts one usb slot on the right side not far from the charge port, where the cord design lines up the charger cord to run along the side of the laptop. Plug-in mouse setup can be annoying because I either have to fix the charger to point out the back (which would be fine if it weren't for the point of laptops to be travel) or it overlaps my mouse usb and the charge cord aomwtimes will get in the way. Its a minor design annoyance, but I felt was worth mentioning.Last but not least, the built in camera is useless. First, it tries to make you pay for the ability to use the camera because it doesnxt come already registered or with a code for the software that makes the camera operable. I sought assistance on the MSI site and felt treated a little rudely when offered a solution. The solution was a little convoluted but worked, where I also felt like I had been thrown back in time to my old baseball sized logitech webcam from when I was a kid. I live decently far from family so skype calls are important to me so I can catch up with them and see how they are. The camera quality is rough. And then, amusingly enough, the camera stopped working again entirely. It doesn't detect that I have one, regardless of installing or uninstalling drivers or anything else. The whole camera saga really irritated me. It decided not to exist right before a discord D&D session. Embarassing and frustrating to go through all the crap to make the camera work (This is how it is shipped by the way, not an accident in set up or anything! They literally put webcam hardware in the laptop that they don't bother having registered the software. I've never experieced this in my life, so it boggles my mind that this is standard for this laptop) only to have it become useless again. So if cameras aren't that important, I suppose don't worry about it. Or if they are and you have your heart set on this laptop, just save yourself the frustration and buy a camera to plug in.On the plus side, I enjoy the size, shape, weight, and design of the laptop. I appreciate the cooling abilities. MSI is a company I generally like a lot, and I don't feel like this laptop represents the quality of their company as a whole. With a little love, patience, and a chunk of money I can fix most of the issues I have with this computer. My bone to pick is that when you buy a laptop like this, you shouldn't have to go through all this when most other laptops (Especially with this pricetag) work as intended right out of the box. I've owned and worked with laptops ranging from crappy tiny netbooks to macbook pros. These are problems I only ever encountered on low end computers, except the camera. That was a doozy, and a new one for me.Oh! Advice in regards to the harddrivev before you set anything else up after you get it up and running, change the drive locations of your folders like Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc. Use the main hard drive mostly for the operating system (sincr its small) and put everything else on the secondary drive. That is how it is intended and will save you drom MSI alerts constantly telling you your HD is full. I forgot a couple times and installed things on the main HD instead and the pop ups were a mild nuisance.If i find better solutions for some of these problems, I will update my review with how I got it fixed. I bought this laptop in February 2018, Reviewing it November 2018.

I'm going to be writing this review coming off my old Asus G751JY-DH71 with a GTX 980m, 24GB DDR3, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, and an i7-4710HQ.I bought this laptop kinda out of nowhere because one of my good friends decided that he wished to buy my old laptop, the one that I named above, within a week's time. So with the final 7 days that I had my old laptop, I went searching online for something that could replace it. Long story short, after searching through many different sites (including eBay and Newegg), I ended up landing on this laptop because of it's (relatively) affordable price tag of about $1450 whenever I bought mine off of Amazon Warehouse just a few days ago.For anybody who has an i7-4710HQ or a GTX 980m, the i7-8750H is about 50% faster than the i7-4710HQ and probably any other pre-8th gen Intel CPU. and the GTX 1070 is about 2x faster than the GTX 980m. Compared to my old Asus, this laptop is significantly thinner and lighter. It still shocks me after about a couple of days of ownership just how light the laptop is whenever I pick it up to move it around (not that the old Asus was particularly heavy, but it was noticeable whenever it was in a bag) especially considering how much more powerful this is compared to the Asus.I have two negatives about this laptop (that aren't really too huge of a deal to me personally, but they could be a dealbreaker to some others): 1. the vertical viewing angles of the laptop screen aren't the best. However, thankfully, since the laptop hinge can go back a pretty large amount, the vertical viewing angle thing ended up not being an issue for me at all. Also, it's a 60hz non-GSync display but I bought this laptop realizing that it wasn't able to go to 120hz or do GSync, but if you want to buy this laptop, be aware of that. 2. The laptop is a fair bit louder than my old Asus laptop. However, you can create custom fan profiles for the CPU and GPU that can alleviate this issue, and headphones block out the sound very well, too.A few final notes (not really negatives, just something to be aware of) are that the Windows key is on the right side of the laptop, the Numpad is kinda small, and you have to press the Space key a little harder than the rest of the keys. The keyboard's very nice and I'd say Steelseries did better on this keyboard than I had on my old Asus and I thought that was pretty good to begin with. Also, if you intend on removing the back cover of the PC, after removing the screws and opening the pins, pull it on the side that has the two USB-A ports, the SD card slot, and the power cable as pictured above. If not, then you can risk snapping the motherboard in half if you pull on it from the side with the HDMI and the USB-C.Tl;dr is that the laptop is really fast, but it's 60Hz, the vertical viewing angles and fan sound aren't the best, and the keyboard has a few tiny quirks that aren't issues necessarily but it takes getting used to. Also, if you plan on opening the laptop, after opening the screws and pins, pull on it from the side that the picture is shown (2 USBs, SD Card, and Power cord side)

Bought this 4 years ago for gaming, school and work. It still works well and only degradation is the plastic air intake gill in the front right corner, that I most likely broke handling my pc by that single corner. Am now looking into upgrading/adding another ram stick, since I have the option and feel like I need more ram. As well as looking into 2nd external monitor option, although I read it supposedly supports 2 monitors, it seems for the second monitor support I need a different cable connection, mini port - which might be an issue. I ordered this after doing a 12 hour research, since I didn't know much about pc's and their components, must say this was the best money could buy for my needs back then. When buying a pc I considered I should make do with 2 drawbacks, judging from the feedback I read on forums discussing pc's. So in the end, with the budget I allocated for this, I choose sound (speakers) and battery life to be the drawbacks (instead 50%+ price tag or sacrificing other specs). In the end I didn't even notice these "drawbacks" as I use external speakers or headset and mostly use my pc while plugged in. I have heard people often complain about battery life and speaker quality on many pc reviews, I think that its rather odd to expect a pc to run high resource demanding games on battery power. About speakers I don't know, is it the cost or the space that impacts the quality, but it doesn't matter to me as long as its decent. If i need something better, just plug in or connect proper audio devices. Also I don't use camera much, but its okay.

Hace poco más de un año, compré este producto, cuando me llegó, en cuanto saqué la laptop de la caja me di cuenta que el sello de la parte trasera (el que te asegura que nadei la ha abierto) estaba roto, pero sinceramente no lo di mucha importancia en ese entonces, hasta ahora me voy dando cuenta que todo mi sistema dice que la tarjeta gráfica no es la misma que la que se supone debía traer, se supone que trae una gtx 1050 Ti, pero en todos lados que me puse a buscar de mi laptop dice que es 1050 simple, descargué programas que me analizan los componentes que tiene mi laptop y todos me dicen lo miso, que e sla 1050 simple y no la Ti, ademas busqué las especificaciones que mi laptop y los programas me daban sobre la tarjeta gráfica y todas coinciden ser con la 1050 simple, no quisiera decir que fué una estafa pero no sé que más pensar, además estoy conciente que para mi ya es muy tarde para pedir una devolución.

Hermosa laptop, la utilizo para photoshop, after effects, premier pro e illustrator. Super veloz con el SSD M.2, el unico extra que hice fue agregarle 8 mas de ram. La pantalla muy buena, brillante. Tenia una Macbook Pro 15” y la cambie por esta PC, mucho más veloz para lo que la requiero