Pros: Plenty of power for playing Elder Scrolls Online in High Ultra Graphics mode. Plenty of memory. Tough rugged case.

Cons: Lousy Keyboard. Died twice in the two years I've had it and having to pay to send it back only to be told it was water damage and I had to pay $180 to replace it. Ok Fine. I don't have liquids at my desk and it hasn't even been a year and the replacement keyboard is failing on the exact same WASD Movement keys used by ESO as before. Then today, DEAD. The whole laptop just died. I will never buy another MSI.

Pros: -Runs games pretty well (Skyrim, WoW) modded on ultra with a few tweaks
-SSD was fairly easy to install
-Looks nice

Cons: Here we go:
-Stock HDD was not 7200 as advertised. It's a 5400.
-Adding an SSD, though easy and necessary, voids the warranty, as they put the voided sticker over the cover you need to remove to access the drive port.
-Bloatware. Major bloatware. So much that I just did a clean OS install. Which removes the software that runs the light up keys. Do to the way the program is handled, it is difficult to get back (even redownloading) without screwing around creating mirror paths off the original files.
-Heavy. Very heavy. Like leaves imprints in your legs through your pants heavy.
-Runs very hot. All gaming laptops do, this one even more so. Requires some form of insulation between it and your legs.
-Which brings us to my main gripe. The fan. First off, the only way to turn it on/off is a manual toggle touch button that only has 0 or 100%, slight inconvenience. It is extremely loud. Like I can hear it clear as day, 20ft away in another room loud. It screams through all but noise cancelling headphones with the volume up.
-The hinge to open the screen is extremely stiff. Even under this things massive weight, opening with one hand is not an option. You have to hold the bottom and pry the screen up with the other hand.
-The plastic on the power cord/brick is extremely cheap. It is starting to flay in certain spots under very minor wear and tear conditions.

Overall Review: I loved this laptop for the first few months I had it. After the initial glow was gone, its faults really started to grind my nerves pretty hard.

Pros: Quality hardware

Cons: I really can't say enough about MSI's poor customer service. Trying to get support from an actual person on their site is impossible. MSI is the only vendor I've ever bought from that when I had to send in a part (gtx 960 graphic card) for replacement because it went bad after a month after purchase they made me pay for shipping. Lastly what I'm writing this for is windows 10 has been out for about a year and they haven't added any new drivers or bios updates for this laptop for windows 10 more than a year after windows 10 came out. So now I have a nice quality laptop that has a bunch of hardware that doesn't work right because they won't release updated bios or drivers. MSI sells some really cool looking and usually pretty quality hardware, but they don't support it well and their customer care is my least favorite of all.

Pros: Loads operating system in under 10 sec, Also doesn't partition the drives like Asus does. Another advantage is MSI puts Operating System on SSD compared to Asus which does not. Very minimal bloatware which cane be easily deleted.

Cons: Had issues with it wanting to shutdown, changed the fan still shutdowns intermittently.

Pros: I bought this laptop for my daughter, and it's performed excellently. I'm actually jealous that this laptop is better than my desktop. She uses it for everything from school projects, robotics to gaming. Extremely happy with this purchase, and will be looking into buying myself an MSI laptop in the future.

Cons: none.

Pros: I am torn from 1 egg to 5 eggs. I have owned this laptop for a year and it has worked great up until mid February of 2015, it started to randomly shut off on me, now it won't even come on for me. MSI has accepted my RMA, so I am sending it in to them. My experience with newegg was amazing as usual and MSI responded fast to my inquiry and hopefully it gets fixed. Otherwise, I have no complaints about the laptop. I play WoW on it and use it for school work. WoW plays like a champ on it. I haven't had a chance to run a FPS game on it yet, but plan to in the future.

Cons: The random shut off is annoying, especially now that the problem has gotten worse and the laptop won't even come on for me anymore. I have no real cons for this laptop other than it is having problems on me a year later. As long as it gets fixed, I will continue being happy with it. Otherwise, no excuse for a $2,400 paper weight. I chose to have faith that the MSI techs can figure out my problem.

Overall Review: MSI is a solid company. I would definitely recommend one of their gaming laptops if you have the money to shell out for one. I plan to upgrade mine as well once it is fixed.

*EDIT* Thank you MSI for fixing my laptop! The problem I had seemed to happen in a decent % of the GT70s (at least from what I gathered on MSIs forums) and HOPEFULLY it was bad RAM like it was for me.

Pros: Fast at everything it does at all times, never had a slowdown of any kind

Cons: Killer Lan causes a bunch of games to have very high latency (including Garys Mod, LoL, WoW)

Within the first year my MB went bad and had to RMA it, not a big deal, but then less than six months later after I recieve it back my computer shuts down randomly again and now goes through a power cycle loop, suspected bad MB again, called MSI about getting a different unit but was told that i cannot and had to keep with this one, it costs me around $45 to send my computer back in for RMA thats almost a $100 dollars i have to fork up just to get my computer to run as it should have this entire time.

Pros: * Extremely powerful for the price.
* Keyboard feels very tactile and back lights are high quality.
* Disc drive for installing software and operating systems.
* Tons of ports for USB, video, audio, etc.
* Can easily plug in a larger monitor if you want.
* When set in power saver the battery lasts a long while.
* Screen is nice and big running at 1080p - plenty large enough for a screen this size.
* Built-in speakers are pretty high quality, though I never use them.
* Included software is actually useful and not a bunch of bloatware.
* Room to expand RAM and storage drives. There are two hard drive/SSD slots.

Cons: * 60hz screen is not ideal, but understandable for price.
* Gets dirty extremely easily, shows finger prints and dust.
* The one I got didn't come with an SSD. Installed that later.

Overall Review: I would definitely recommend getting an SSD with the laptop, since the standard hard drive really bottlenecks the performance potential of this beast. Personally I'd recommend the Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB.

Works fine with Windows 10. Didn't even need any updates to laptop-specific software.

This is the first laptop I've ever owned, and I honestly can't see going back to desktops. I use this for school and gaming.