MSI GE Series GE70 0ND-213US 17.3" Intel Core i7 3rd Gen 3630QM (2.40 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 8 GB Memory 750 GB HDD Windows 8 Gaming Laptop

Pros: GE70 runs quiet, fits well onto 17" cooling stands, GTX660M video card handles most games I've thrown at it on high-ultra settings. The button for extra cooling from the laptop itself is nice when editing videos or playing graphics intensive games. Steel series keyboard is very nice but the shift key is about half the size of most other keyboards I've used. Threw me off at first but I've gotten used to it. The laptop itself is very light, skinny, and easily taken apart to upgrade (RAM, SSD bay, and HDD bay are all pretty straightforward). The sound also sounds better IMO than a MacBook and you can hear to sound move from left to right if you are playing games. Also takes a little getting used to. Overall, so far I'd definitely recommend the GE70.

Cons: The reason I took off 2 eggs is because my GE70 came in a large box almost 6 times the size of the actual laptop box. That would be totally fine if there was some kind of buffering inside. There was nothing. Just 2 pieces of paper thin brown paper. I wouldn't care about something like that, except I paid $1,200. That's alot of space for a $1,200 piece of hardware to rattle around or fall down in. Then the next day I bought a backpack, cooling stand, and got a free wireless adapter thing. It came bubble wrapped and the whole box had packing peanuts. Am I missing something here Newegg?? Are your packing people okay? Anyway, that being said... The black case attracts dust easily. I haven't had it for more than a month and it's pretty much grown a beard. Nothing a little canned air can't help though. Also, when I put a CD for the first time into the optical drive it was making noise from running hard and made the drive itself shake. Don't know if this is just mine though...

Overall Review: Overall very easy to get used to and user friendly. Looks sick. Strong under the hood. good value for price. Good cooling and so far MSI has much enter customer service than ASUS.

Pros: Great hardware - compared to other gaming laptops I would consider it to be in the medium-high range. I love how responsive the machine is, its much nicer then what i came from, my Asus G73jh. As for the hardware its all in the title, the machine is a beast, as for the touchpad, keyboard and everything else, it feels state of the art. Although i do wish it had a backlit keyboard. The speakers also have some high quality sound to them, compared to most laptops that is. Nice for listening to music on the go. Come's with minimal "bloatware". Basically it's just software for some of the hardware components, of course the software isn't all necessary, but it's nice to make the full use of your system. Overall I am VERY pleased with this laptop, and i look forward to many more months/years of using it under hard conditions (gaming)

Cons: none really, but i wish it had a backlit keyboard.

Overall Review: Solid laptop for the price, and heck right now its on sale (2 days after i bought it) but im not even mad, it was worth the money!

Pros: - Excellent form factor. Very sleek and appealing to the eyes - Screen is beautiful - really amazing. - Keyboard is solid, feels mechanical - Touchpad is precise, so I don't have to drag a mouse around when I'm on the go. - Easy access to drive bays for adding in SSD or RAM. - Great price!

Cons: None at this time.

Overall Review: Even if you are not a gamer I would seriously considering this machine. You could save a few hundred and get a laptop with no dedicated graphics, but you'd just limit yourself to what you are capable of doing!

Pros: I am an ex pro-gamer turned casual for school/real life and this PC is awesome for all the games that I currently play (CS1.6, HON, SC2, etc..) Also its very lightweight for how good its specs are, making it ideal for taking to school.

Cons: Windows 8.... I can't emphasize enough how bad Windows 8 is for this laptop in my opinion. I gave Windows 8 a 2-week trial period and I was VERY dissappointed. It seemed to run games choppy and all around the features of Windows 8 just aren't for systems without touchscreen... I've now had Windows 7 pro on it for about a week and the difference was immediate. I was running HON at 1980x1020 on low settings with Windows 8 and getting terrible choppiness. With Windows 7 I run HON at 1980x1020 on ULTRA and it feels really good (maybe a little chop but not noticable enough to down settings to HIGH) I'm not sure if this problem was somehow a fluke or what but now that I have Windows 7 Pro installed this laptop is awesome.

Overall Review: In my opinion anyone looking to buy a new laptop should try to avoid Windows 8. But even if the PC comes with Windows 8 you can reformat with your own Windows 7 and MSI has drivers for W7 as well.

Pros: Has the mSATA slot, Full HD 1920X1080p screen and a WD Black 7200rpm HDD. When I was looking at buying a laptop I read a lot of reviews about this and other similar laptops. I couldn't find a definite answer whether this particular model had the mSATA or not. It does. The procedure to migrate is pretty simple. This comes with the MSI BurnRecovery software which makes recovery DVD's that restores your HDD image. I needed 5 DVD-R's to do this. After I made those I removed the stock HDD (Western Digital Black 7200rpm) and installed a Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series MKNSSDAT120GB-DX mSATA 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) drive. Need to find a screw to secure the mSATA because the drive does not come with one and you cannot install without it. It’s the same screw that would secure a mini card like a wireless card, modem or Bluetooth. Important!-Get into the bios by pressing Del when the MSI logo pops up and disable the secure boot option in the Bios. Booted from the recovery DVD's and restored the image to the mSATA drive. This puts 5 partitions onto that drive-EFI boot sector, Windows recovery, OS partition, Data partition and Recovery partition. Opened computer management after reboot and removed the data partition. I also removed the recovery partition which is about 17 GB because I have the backup DVD's. Extend the OS partition to the unallocated space. This gives you about 100GB for your OS. Get back into the Bios and enable the secure boot option again and boot into your OS. Shut down, reinstall the HDD and reboot. Go to Settings, Change PC Settings, General and select Advanced Startup. When it restarts get to the command prompt. Type in "DISKPART", enter, "list disk", enter. Find the disk that is 698GB (should be disk 0) then type in "select disk 0", enter, "clean", enter, "Y" because yes you are sure you want to wipe the drive. Reboot, get into computer management, activate disk and make the partitions you want. I moved all of the library file folders to the single "Data" partition I made on that drive. Music, Videos, Documents and Downloads. Installed 'most' programs on the OS drive and still have about 20GB left. Takes seconds to boot now with no stability issues at all.

Cons: A lot of reviews say this laptop is a little flimsy or fragile and does not seem durable. If you live your life with a broken screen on your cell phone I would not recommend this laptop for you. It is, however, thin and light which is why I chose this particular one. Take care of your stuff and it will last! If not, buy the extended warranty. You cannot set up the mSATA as a Cache drive on this laptop due to the Bios not being able to create a RAID array so a 32GB or 64GB mSATA purchase will result in nothing but hate and discontent because you will only get 32 or 64GB of additional storage out of it. Or, a compacted Windows install with the need to buy aftermarket file management software to store system and program files on the Data drive. If you do this and have to wait for the transfer rate of the spin drive what is point of going to mSATA in the first place?

Overall Review: I’ve had this for about a month now and love it. When I bought this I also bought the mSATA drive and 16GB of ram (this is manufacturers limit) G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8G) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-1600C10D-16GSQ the entire process to do the upgrades took me about two weeks because there isn’t much info on migrating the OS without an OEM Windows install disk or some software that doesn’t work because of the EFI partitions. I refused to buy another OS when the laptop I just bought has one. There is very little bloatware on this laptop, MS Office setup, MSI BurnRecovery, Battery Calibration and SuperCharger. That’s about it. No additional toolbars or ads as you would get with other manufacturers. If you duplicate my procedure the process should take you no more than an hour or two unless you have already put your own stuff on the laptop. In that case you just have to back up your files and then put them back on when you wipe the drive. If you don’t want to wipe the drive you can just delete the OS partition but then you end up with dynamic instead of a basic partition because when you extend your Data partition you extend it to the left instead of the right. One last item-performance and graphics. I use this to play WoW and I have the graphics set to Ultra settings. The lowest frame rate I recall seeing is 27fps but definitely no performance issues even at the ultra setting.

Pros: Everything, but wifi adapter.

Cons: Wireless adapter (Intel Centrino 135 N) is a headache... It will disconnect randomly, then get stuck in a connect/disconnect loop -- no internet access when connected. When it does connect, it gives me a "Limited" status, I open Chrome to view a webpage, then it disconnect immediately. I reviewed the driver details and it turned out that the driver originally installed was for Windows 7 (why?), so I thought I solved the issue when I installed the Windows 8 drivers from Intel's support site. Unfortunately, I was wrong and the issue still remains. :-/

Pros: - i7 @ 2.4 GHz - dedicated and integrated GPU - 17" screen

Cons: - Feels really cheap (plastic case) - slow hard drive - heats up pretty good

Overall Review: It's not bad for a beginners gaming lab top Batteries drain pretty quick when gaming I gave it to my nephew who needed it for college

Pros: +All around fast performance +Games look great +Great speakers +Lightweight for how good the specs are +Cooling button feature (great for when your playing games) +17.3 inch screen 1920x1080 resolution

Cons: -Windows 8 -Touchpad seems buggy (Might just be mine since I did buy mine refurbished, but I use a wireless mouse anyways so it's really not an issue) -2 hour battery life -DVD player instead of BD player

Overall Review: I got mine refurbished for $950! I am very happy about that and would recommend going that route if you want to save a little money. You might receive a BSOD with a "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (e22w8x64.sys)" error. This is caused by a program called Qualcomm Atheros Killer Service. Just go in your System config setting and disable it. Even the developers of this program say it doesn't work (at the moment) so I'm not sure exactly why the laptop comes with it..