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this is the MSI gs65

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g for discrete gaming graphics

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s for thin light and stealthy

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six for 15.6 inches the screen size and 5

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because this is the brand new fifth generation chassis design which

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wait hold on a second the last model i saw was a gs 63 so did they just skip

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gen four solely because four is considered unlucky in some parts of asia

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or is it just that much better honestly

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this could go either way because in my hands right now is the most important

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letter thank you

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h this is the first laptop we've seen with

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a six core Intel core i7 h-series mobile

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gaming CPU oh crap i meant to take the letter off

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the first thing that stands out about the gs65 is how much more premium it

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looks than its predecessor the industrial design has been simplified

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the grain finish has been replaced with a cleaner blasted finish and the red

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pinstriping has been swapped out for a more mature gold

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but the chassis redesign is more than cosmetic even though its screen is

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larger than high performance compact competitors like the razer blade and

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macbook pro it has a surprisingly

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similar footprint so how did they pull this off

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well first they dramatically shrunk the bezels the sides are a mere four

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millimeters now with the top bezel only about half the size and the webcam

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while it's the same very unexceptional 720p affair from over

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a year ago to its credit it's still positioned above the screen in its

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optimal location so it doesn't look up your nose and it's also got this nifty

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diffty little hardware button down here that if you press actually disables it

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outright on a hardware level so all of

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this adds up to a screen to body ratio of 82

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a stat made only a little bit less impressive by the obvious way that they

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padded it by enlarging this gap back here that you won't be able to unsee

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the next thing they did was to remove the number pad which is sure to enrage

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some while simultaneously bringing jubilation to those who hate having

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their hands off center while they're trying to type none pattern no though

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the new steel series keyboard is definitely an improvement the switches

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are less mushy the keycaps are a lot wider and the legend is now transparent

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to let the now individually controllable RGB backlights shine through and another

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shining point for the gs is its io the

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ports themselves haven't actually changed that much from last gen but

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every usb port runs at 10 gigabit spec now and with HDMI 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 and

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mini displayport you can plug in up to three

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4k 60hz external displays at once and i

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mean pretty much whatever else you could want even the carryability is better

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than last time the notebook itself does

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weigh about the same but the power brick which you do have to take with you so it

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matters is definitely smaller and lighter the display itself is a 15.6

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inch 1080p ips panel that's calibrated on the box with 95 coverage of the srgb

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color gamut so nothing really stands out here but it managed surprisingly decent

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delta e values meaning that colors are true to life and you could definitely

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use this machine for some casual photo editing or graphic design which is great

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but what really matters for the uh

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capital g gamers out there is it's

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144 hertz refresh rate the gaming

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experience on the gs65 is simply put

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awesome it's compact but this thing is armed to the teeth for the latest titles

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thanks to its gtx 1070 max q and 8th gen

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core i7 8750h processor the first one of

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Intel's shiny new premium mobile cpus that we've seen in the wild clocked

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between 2.2 and 4.1 gigahertz boost and

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it's only set to get better a little bird told me that unofficial g-sync

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support might turn up later the hardware's in there it's just a matter

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of whether or not it gets the certification and even in professional

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workstation tasks like rendering the gs65 performed as well as much bigger

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not to mention pricier laptops from last gen but

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many a high performance notebook around here has been brought to its knees by

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our usability tests the gs65's battery life well that's

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pretty okay for a gaming notebook though considering it's hybrid graphics i might

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have asked for more here and while its three fan four heat pipe cooling design

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does look set to handle gaming loads pretty much effortlessly under extreme

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CPU loads like what you might see rendering out a video we saw significant

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thermal throttling with our CPU cores reaching as high as 90 degrees after 30

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minutes so other than that though sounds pretty good time to buy right

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well maybe but with competing coffee lake h-series machines like the dell xps

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9570 and Gigabyte arrow 15x do for

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launch any moment now you might want to hold off at least a couple weeks to see

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if those ones are a little bit less fingerprint prone and flexible like

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i do get that MSI needed to keep the weight down but

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a little more reinforcement like maybe behind the power button here probably

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wouldn't have been a backbreaker with all of that said there's no denying that

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the gs65 is an all-around

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solid performer that hits the sweet spot between performance and sides i mean

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it really wasn't that long ago that normal

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non-g laptops used to be this size

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plus it's got insane i o and all of that

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at a price point that is barely above what last gen is selling for so you know

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what high four MSI i mean i mean five

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