Pros: - Plays cs:go, Rocket League, and wow on ultra with no issues.
- Friggin' sweet keyboard yo.
- Its got a disc drive which i always find nice
- I went to a 15 inch from a 17, the weight and size is much nicer.
- I thought the screen difference would bother me, but it doesn't.
- Great price.

Cons: -You will probably be uninstalling things for the first half hour you own this laptop.
- Windows 10
- Did you know windows 10 doesn't come with dvd program? And microsoft wants you to pay 15$ for it?


VLC is free. Been using it for years.

Other Thoughts: Bought the laptop before it went on sale, but new egg price matched it.

Great company, built my first PC with these guys and i haven't looked back.

Also the support team is incredible.

Pros: -Hardware specs and thats about it...
- for this price point you either get to choose dell or this and this has better specs.
-temps are good when under load

Cons: -1. Intel HD is primary gpu. and no you cant change from bios to read your dedicated gpu.
-2. If you want your display to use gtx 960m you gotta completely reinstall windows and find all the drivers.
-3. When you first receive this product it has bad "dedicated" gpu driver

Other Thoughts: Will find out if this is really a dedicated vs integrated gpu.
*If your not tech "savy"* you're wasting your money.
meaning you wont be able to fully utilize these hardware... LOL
probably better off with an dell and requesting no intel hd to be installed

Pros: - Great looking laptop, stylish. Black case + keyboard with red back-lighting, which seems standard for gaming laptops
- Performance is great for the price. I recently played Witcher 3 on high settings at 60 FPS.
- Laptop seems to dissipate heat effectively. Haven't felt the laptop get unreasonably hot so far.
- Very straightforward to upgrade memory on this laptop. I recently upgraded this laptop to 16GB of RAM without much effort, just had to unscrew a small panel and slide it off carefully.

Cons: - Screen could be of better quality, noticing that the image darkens when viewing from an angle.
- NVidia Geforce experience software + drivers are out of date. I recommend uninstalling the Geforce experience app and downloading the latest version from the NVidia website.
- Bloatware.

Other Thoughts: First laptop I ordered had a dead pixel and I decided to RMA it and order a new one. Although the situation was inconvenient, Newegg's RMA process was a breeze. Within 2 days of receiving the laptop, Newegg had issued the refund to my credit card, which was unexpected given that they ask for 7 days to process laptops. Great customer service as usual from Newegg!

Pros: - Beautiful Keyboard, red backlit
- Outside construction is great, brushed plastic and nice texture
- AC wifi, I was able to pull 130mbps wireless
- Not as fat or bulky as other ASUS laptops
- Impressive specs, the i5-6300HQ and GTX 960M is a great combination for gaming
- Great i/o, 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, HDMI, VGA, gigabit Ethernet. The specifications on newegg don't mention it, but it also includes a USB 3.1 type C connection
- 128GB SSD for a boot drive, you can restart and get to the start screen in <20 seconds
- Decent battery life, when not plugged in or gaming it can last 5-6 hours

Cons: - Bloatware; I had to spend a couple hours uninstalling useless software
- It's a non-IPS display, pretty bad viewing angle. I bought this laptop within two days of it's release on Newegg and it advertised an IPS display
- The left and right click on the track pad are not dedicated buttons, there are many situations where you'll need to click on something but the track pad will register movement while you are clicking, it is very annoying
- The material used near the keyboard and trackpad itself gather fingerprints and smudges easily

Other Thoughts: This is not necessarily a con, so I won't put it in the cons section; You will experience a severe performance decrease in gaming if you are not plugged into the charger. For example, this laptop can run Warframe maxed out @ 1920x1080 and get 90+ fps, but once you unplug the laptop from the charger, the framerate will drop significantly, in this situation it dropped to <30 fps, losing 3x the performance. This has certainly something to do with a battery saver function, so in theory you could turn it off, but you would suffer from extreme battery drain.

I would definitely give this laptop a 5 egg rating if it actually included a IPS display and dedicated left and right trackpad clicks, but unfortunately it falls short. Otherwise it is a great entry gaming laptop for the value and I'd certainly recommend it.

Pros: -Solid construction.
-Great keyboard and touch pad IMO.
-Great hardware, I play Fallout4 on high with very solid FPS.
-Back lighted keyboard is a nice feature.
-After two weeks of ownership, I'm very happy with this laptop!
-Great display.

Cons: -Bloatware, but what computer doesn't some with it now days that you didn't build yourself?
-960M drivers were out of date out of the box, I went to Nvidia's website and used their "automatic driver update" finder with great success. Just make sure you ALWAYS check the box that says "Uninstall old drivers" during the install"! (Regardless of what computer you're using).
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Other Thoughts: All in all, I'm very happy with this laptop and I would purchase it again in a heartbeat. I was unsettled with all of the quality control issues in reviews for MSI products and I dislike Dell's Inspiron line. I don't know if I'll ever look back!

Pros:
- Lightweight and not a huge brick for charger.
- Uses Optimus so you're not sucking the life out of your battery by using your discrete graphics for web browsing, etc.

Cons:
Bloatware obviously.
Drivers Issues:
- Had to completely uninstall then reinstall the graphics drivers because they were installed incorrectly and so kept bugging out and wouldn't let me update them as well..
- Sound card drivers are terrible when using any microphone. Was barely audible over different forms of VoIP. Had to completely uninstall the sound drivers and do a rigorous search for conexant sound drivers. Had to reinstall the sound drivers again after a Windows 10 update left me soundless.

Windows 10 just updates itself whenever it feels like. Was starting up my laptop this morning and it decided then would be a good time to update as I logged into my profile.

Other Thoughts:
- Weighs ~6 lbs (Was a concern for me, but wasn't listed at all)
- OS runs on the SSD
- Only games I've ran so far are XCOM (100+ fps Max), XCOM 2 (~30 fps Max), ARK (~30 fps Medium), and Fallout 4 (~30 fps Ultra) all at 1080p. Overall, it's been a good laptop so far (1 week) and I haven't had any issues outside of drivers and bloatware. I plan on updating this review at 6 month and then 1 year as I'll have more use and be able to give a more informed lifetime opinion on it. This is just to inform on any "first-time startup" issues I've had really.