this right here's the MSI gs70 a
surprised me the most my saw at CES 2020
MSI logo on it like this one right here but it felt and looked good I've gotten
kind of used to their laptops being a bit on the flimsy do this sort of a
thing when you moving around but this right here it felt really good so let's
see if you know what's really lives up to that initial impression all right
what do you have in here laptop there
let's get the power first if I had to guess this is going to be a very power
hungry machine it's a very heavy brick
230 watts not too bad especially for something that's a bit on the thinner
side getting the actual laptop here so nice they have the specs of this right
on the back here we have an Intel Core i7 107 50h we also have a 27 T super 512
Gigabyte SSD and 32 gigabytes of RAM it's going to be quite a beast in games
comes with a 99.9 watt hour battery 100
watt hours is the limit to get it on a plane anyway here it is it's double
bagged so we'll have to kind of get through there one and then two
oh that was an exceptional appeal we
also have a nice little MSI microfiber cloth in here overall I think it looks
pretty smart no it's just it's just black it looks like a laptop but like in
a good way you could use it as like a professional and no one's going to think
twice about it it's actually quite solid you get a tiny bit of deflection here
around the trackpad area but it's really not a whole lot especially on something
dis large it even passes the screen wobble test power in Thunderbolt
full-sized HDMI and USB type-a over here we have two more tight bays a ones not
Thunderbolt but Type C headphone combo jack and Ethernet that's a really fancy
looking headphone jack I wonder if there's some like special DAC in here
it's going to complain a tiny bit that the top bezel is a bit thick compared to
some other competitors but the fact that they have IR facial recognition in there
is friggin awesome you can press on top of the touchpad like not on the touchpad
just on the chassis around the touchpad and actually click the most this is
something that you could do on the old MSI laptop they have not fixed it here I
wonder if the palm rejection is any better because last time it was not
great I have had some little bits of
palm rejection issues here my right palm is able to click the trackpad here
because there's just so much of it as for the keyboard itself I quite like it
they're not particularly well defined key presses I feel like these are the
same key switches that were on their last couple of laptops just they feel
good now that there's a solid chassis underneath of it I'm going to do what
probably everyone else that's using this laptop is going to do and I'm going to
use a mouse yeah like even I just set my hands down and I'm clicking it with my right hand
extracting Sena bench I heard the fans ramped up a little bit
here so I feel like we are in for tornado MSI I very explicitly told me
that if I am doing any performance stuff that I need to put it into extreme
performance there we go it's definitely not what I would consider like a
pleasant laptop sound like some of them
can get away with being loud than this by just being more of like a
instead of like a wah when you have no headphones on you kind of get the full
spectrum where is he's right here I can only hear the high notes coming out of
this and just like in my ears it's like what I was saying before we're like the
keyboard is has a really short travel it's pretty soft there's not a whole lot
of tactility going on there for gaming I think it's gonna be really great you
don't want your hands getting tired because you're holding the W key for like an hour they also do have a smaller
shift key on the right but I think it's fine it's not nearly as bad as on say
like the blade itself which I think they also fixed that hello who oh I just
discovered a problem Ethernet come straight home where your mouse is that's
fine I guess I don't know how they could fix it now
that I'm looking at it but I don't like it I guess that's some other laptops will
have the Ethernet jacks on the back here so you plug it in there and there you
don't have to worry about it hitting your mouse they have to cool like the 27
t and the i7 that are in here somehow and they have a bunch of fins up here
but at the same time it's just annoying and II just pointed out that in the top
down there this thing is an absolute fingerprint magnet like everywhere that
I touch you can just immediately see it just oh it felt like so girls right here
we have 300 Hertz this screen is so fast
I really like this screen now the screen isn't unique to this laptop you can't
get on like I think the new razor blade has it a bunch of paces laptops have it
those are not amazing speakers for sure
they're definitely a bit on the thin side when it's a big ol 15.6 inch laptop
you need a tiny bit more than that I would say they're perfectly usable if it
wasn't for how loud the fans were so it looks like we're getting a very solid
140 FPS on the highest settings in this which is quite good I would say this is
not an easy game to run by any means oh yeah once you have headphones on
there's no way that you're going to notice the fans so one last thing that I
want to take a look at is have they fixed the upgrade abilities on the last
version a lot of the stuff that you would want to upgrade was behind the
motherboard so it required for you to take literally
everything in it out it says factory seal because they have
hidden a screw underneath that that is
greasy there we go any problems that they had before with
upgradability with like RAM on the back of the motherboard appear to have been
fixed so we've got two Rams right here a NVMe and SATA em two right here
another PCIe only m2 spot right here
have our Intel wireless card and a lot
of heat pipes and fans there's actually three fans in here I'm actually
surprised with such an Opie looking cooling system but it is such an
annoying thing overall I'm quite impressed with the new GS 66 it doesn't
address all of the problems of the last one I eat the trackpad but pretty much
everything else has been fixed good job MSI instead of making something that you
know feels like toilet paper feeling
like toilet paper but in 2020 I like it
anyway hope you guys all have a good day
and I'll see you later I need to put this back together now oh yeah get
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