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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an

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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts by popular

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demand here is my video about the MSI gs60 ghost the super thin super sexy

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gaming notebook that made big waves at CES 2014 so let's start with a brief

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rundown of the specs it's got a Haswell 4th gen core i7 4700hq quad core

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processor that's clocked anywhere from 2.4 to 3.4 GHz depending on the turbo

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boost frequency it's got a 15.6 in 1920

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x 1080 matte IPS display that uses

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embedded DisplayPort rather than a more traditional notebook interface

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internally although don't worry too much about that all you guys need to know is

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it looks very beautiful and motion blur doesn't seem to be a concern here huge

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points for using a nice IPS panel and not using a TN panel on a gaming

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notebook I hope those days are behind us it's got 16 gigs or 12 gigs of DDR3

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memory depending on the skew and it comes with a GTX 860m 2 gig with gddr5

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memory graphics card although there's a pro model coming later that will have an

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870m and will upgrade the screen to a 3K IPS panel for storage it has a 128 gig M

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SATA SSD with either a 1 tbte or 750 gig

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7200 RPM drive and for network connectivity it's got a 7260 802.11 AC

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Intel wireless card that also includes Bluetooth as well as a killer e2200 gbit

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landan implementation with packet prioritization the power brick is a

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little bit on the larger side but at least it's thinner than a typical one

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there could be some improvement here especially with what we've seen from

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Razor with respect to how power bricks can be innovated on physically the

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laptop is absolutely stunning it's only

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19.8 mm thick that makes it about 10%

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thinner than gigabytes p34g and 10%

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thicker than the razor blade 14 it weighs only 1.98 kg which makes it

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marginally lighter than the razorblade 14 in spite of its significantly larger

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screen and overall size this is achieved with a special magnesium lithium alloy

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construction that manages to feel solid in spite of the lightness of the

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material the overall build quality of this notebook is a really strong point

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there's about as much Flex in the screen as my gx660 from a few years ago except

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it's much much thinner and better looking so we'll do a short tour of the

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ports around the outside of the notebook just going to drop that there okay so on

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the left hand side we've got a ventilation Port as well as a Kensington lock power in two USB 3 ports microphone

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and headphone Jacks at the front we have all the indicator LEDs with everything

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from Drive activity to wireless to caps lock then on the right hand side we've

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got a usb3 port SD card reader very nice

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thank you MSI for including that I still use them HDMI out mini DisplayPort out

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that hardwired gigabit Lan I was talking about and another ventilation Port then

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at the back we've got two more ventilation ports and that is pretty

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much all she wrote now on the top of the

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notebook once you've opened it up you can see there's a massive Grill here

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that I initially thought was for speakers but actually it's for

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ventilation the speakers are located instead near the bottom of the front of

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the notebook and Beyond pointing out that their performance doesn't feel

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worthy of the Dine Audio co-branding I don't have too much to say about those

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speaking of branding though the back of the notebook is absolutely beautiful the

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brushed aluminum finish here looks even better in person than it does on camera

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and the subtly illuminated gaming series branding reminds me of a performance

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vehicle rather than tacky gamer bling like on MSI's earlier gaming notebooks

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the one disadvantage here as you can see I'm wearing gloves is that it does tend

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to fingerprint pretty uh aggressively

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the keyboard and touchpad locations um both Luke and I noticed almost

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immediately that something was a little bit different about the this layout um

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but it took me about 30 minutes and a measuring tape to find exactly what was

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bothering me first up the touchpad is offset to the left and aligned directly

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below the home row second the touchpad and the keyboard had been moved down to

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make room for the grill and lone power button up at the top this gives it a

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smaller wrist rest surface compared to other notebooks this size the last thing

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I noticed was that the relocation of the start button is an unnecessary decision

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ision on a notebook with a fully programmable keyboard more on that later

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by the way uh shifted the space bar to the left quite a bit and I used my right

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hand for space most often and it threw me off a bit at first to be barely

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hitting the right edge of the space bar rather than being closer to the middle

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but aside from those niggles about the layout the tactile response of this

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steel series co-branded RGB backlit keyboard is surprisingly solid and its

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lack of flex combined with a surprisingly Long Key travel distant

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makes it feel great considering that it's on a notebook this thin all in all

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I was impressed with how quickly and accurately I could type after a short

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adjustment period And I consider the inclusion of the steel series engine

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software powering it a bonus at this point it gives you four layers of

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remapped or macro functionality for every key per profile an unlimited

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number of profiles a wide variety of LED effects including wave breathing and

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multiple colors and even some other neat features like a heat map of your most

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frequently used keys so you can analyze your gaming style and up imize your key

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mappings for the shortest travel distances the touchpad is less

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exceptional so all I'll say is that the subtle chromed accent around the outside

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looks really really sharp other than that it's a touchpad and okay changing

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years a bit I really wasn't sure where in the review to put this but this

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notebook features NVIDIA's new battery boost that lets you save GPU Power by

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entering a limit to the number of frames the GPU will draw per second when the

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laptop is on battery I found a spot in crisis that runs at 50 FPS on wall power

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and 40 FPS on battery normally and I ran

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it both with a 30fps limiter and without

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it then I used a time-lapse camera to see when the battery actually ran down

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my limited scenario I only did one test achieved 47 minutes of Play Time versus

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45 minutes of play time um without the

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limiter so I'll take the 10 FPS over the 2 minutes of extra time in this case but

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it's obvious to me that this feature requires some more inves ation so the

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only real takeaway here is that if you're not playing at low details or

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running older games that your GPU can plow through at really high frame rates

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you're unlikely to see the two times battery life that NVIDIA says the

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technology is capable of delivering some other thoughts now both Razer with the

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blade 14 and Gigabyte with the aurus X7

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made a big fuss about their cooling implementation but MSI has been

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relatively quiet and even covers up the bottom of the notebook with a big

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warranty void if removed sticker to prevent inexperienced users from mucking

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about in there but the good news is that as long as you don't physically damage

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the inside they will still honor the one-year Global and 2-year local

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warranty so let's find out what makes the gs60 so cool while keeping it within

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reasonable noise levels first up it's obvious why MSI doesn't want end users

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trying to upgrade this thing other than the 2 and 1 12 in hard drive and Wi-Fi

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module nothing is accessible without removing the entire motherboard we can

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and get a good look at the cooling solution though so there are two blower

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fan cooling modules that are connected via heat pipes to the CPU and GPU and

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that pull air in from both the top and the bottom of the notebook when it's

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open and then exhaust it out both the sides and the rear we can also see that

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the sound system includes two speakers that I didn't notice before that fire

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down and away from the user at the back of the unit although they didn't help

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much I also noticed while I was poking around that while MSI's website says the

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SSD M SATA the slot it's plugged into is

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in fact m.2 a newer standard that is a

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derivative of SATA Express and capable of higher throughput than M SATA with an

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appropriate SSD on top of that there are actually two of them and MSI confirmed

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that they are both functional and a handy notebook owner could easily throw

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a couple of m.2 ssds in there in raid zero for a hefty storage upgrade with

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that out of the way let's take a look at our actual temperatures for a gaming

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notebook I expect the keyboard to stay relatively cool so as not to heat up

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your hands while you're gaming and I use the chassis temperature near the rear

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exhaust as a gauge of the overall cooling efficiency of the notebook I run

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crisis one for both of these tests and I'd say the results are great to the

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point where the trade-off between Cooling and onboard sound may have been

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worth it but that's going to come down to the individual to make that

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decision all right so who's the competition for this notebook obvious

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ones are the Mac Pro 15in uh the razor blade 14 or maybe the aorus X7 but those

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are all somewhat different sizes with different feature sets and very

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different price points so that makes the conversation here less about how does it

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stack up to the other well-built yet thin and super light 15.6 in gaming

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grade notebooks with HD displays since there ain't really much out there and

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more about who is this product for I mean well the short answer is that it's

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targeted at the same sorts of folks as those other models that is to say on

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the-go Gam but with a couple of features that really differentiate it its weight

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to screen size ratio is a big one and so

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is the inclusion of a full-size number pad something that will be important to

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many Road Warriors who want to get some work done on the thing while they're

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traveling the great feeling keyboard and the fact that all the gamer bling except

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the badge on the back is optional and be can be configured in software is keeps

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this notebook from falling into the no one with the money to afford this would

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want to be seen with it trap and finally the strong specs very limited bloat

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Weare although I did see a copy of Norton there and fairly aggressive

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pricing compared to other well-built thin gaming notebooks makes it a very

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compelling option speaking of compelling

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options chiro is back with another deal for lonus Tech chips viewers their grip

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two portable batteries on for $9.99 at the link in the video description it's

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small and hand-shaped so you can carry it around with you and its 1 amp

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charging port is hooked up to a surprisingly large 5200 milliamp

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internal battery that has enough capacity to charge an iPhone twice with

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capacity to spare and even the beefiest Android phones at least once or more

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it's available in four different colors I've got the blue one here and the

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highquality internal battery can be recharged around 500 times now if this

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sounded like a sales pitch I'm about to make things even worse because act now

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and I'll throw in this flashlight a 999

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value free of charge wait that can't be right wait that can't be right hold on

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sorry no no it's not free of charge it's rechargeable and the grip 2 is the

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flashlight for flashlight so fantastic

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