Pros: Excellent power for the price, can't be beat as of writing this Comes with built in webcam, great video card, lightning fast processor, tons of space, and above all - a whole lot of RAM. The touchpad and look are amazing too. No dead pixels, very crisp screen, great speakers, has not had any lag processing anything or any programs not responding. Everything is instant and I love it. I'll be doing some video editing with this machine and it'll go much more smoothly than I'm used to.

Cons: The only things I can comment on are minor. The software that comes with it is more of a bother than a help, but that's just a personal preference. Two USB ports are really minimal, though.

Overall Review: I was somewhat hesitant, like any good shopper, about purchasing a laptop with no prior reviews in a brand I've never heard of. I'm very impressed though.

Pros: As of now, I still can't find any true quad-core, >4GB RAM, >500GB HD, dedicated serious GPU laptops in this price range. Thanks, MSI's lack of brand recognition in laptops! This laptop is a bargain. It has 2 (actually maybe 3) GPU's-- a high performance ATI 5XXX GPU for gaming, and an ATI 4XXX for power conservation. You can easily switch between them via MSI's built in software. Yea, it comes with some bloatware too, but as someone who has never overclocked a GPU, it's worth it to not have to deal with 3rd party software, driver incompatibility, update issues, etc. I basically click a button, it says "Switching GPU's now" and that's it. You go from getting 15-20fps to 50-70fps in TF2. With power conservation mode on, you can get 3 hrs of battery life. Gaming... forget about it, you need to be plugged in. It doesn't get too hot. Keyboard is alright. HD webcam is a huge plus.

Cons: No real complaints.

Overall Review: If you want a gaming laptop, this is an amazing bang for the buck.

Pros: Radeon HD 5470 built in GPU $700 bucks You can disable the mouse pad with a button on the top left Runs Dead Space 2 obviously.

Cons: BSOD'ed on me when I updated the ATI drivers, but came back to normal after a simple restart. gets a bit hot on the fan exhaust located on the upper left of case.

Overall Review: Pretty awesome laptop for the buy, I would recommend it to anyone looking for an overall laptop for anything or their first portable gaming rig. As you can see on the vid, I only have Dead Space 2 on it so far, I'm loading Portal 2, and Oblivion cuz I haven't finished Oblivion. (Sorry for the video quality, I did it on my phone, but I hope its enough to get a final thought.)

Pros: Still going strong. Many hears of service and still able to perform playing memory

Cons: Well perhaps not a con its been in service for 4+ years and only now is the battery running less than when new it lasts at full charge nearly 80 minutes under fair internet use.

Overall Review: I would buy MSI Laptops without hesitation, just d not have the money at this time.

Pros: Eveerything; by the way to use the esata port as a usb YOU NEED TO INSERT THE USB UPSIDE DOWN!! someone here also noticed that .. so it does have 3 usb ports

Cons: none, maybe the instructions manual being unclear about how to use the esata port as a usb port

Overall Review: I run sap, solidworks, matlab, google sketchup, and some video games all like a charm

Pros: The dual GPU is fantastic, it allows for a great gaming experience while plugged in and good battery life when running the Power-saving GPU. Runs L.A. Noire and Deus Ex: HR perfectly. The quad-core processor, 6 GB DDR3 and 640 GB HDD are a huge plus as well. There wasn't anything else in the price range with near as many features. The 1366x768 LED screen is very nice, one of the best looking screens I've seen.

Cons: No cons.

Overall Review: A great buy for the price. Runs Adobe CS5 Master Collection like a charm; runs most games on optimum settings. I wish there were more things that utilized the e-SATA port.

Pros: Love the Processor and the GPU. 6Gb of RAM made it so pretty much everything I have thrown at it has been handled very well. the HDMI port works like a dream. i love streaming HD Videos from HBO GO to my LCD TV.

Cons: the install of windows that came with it came with alot of extra stuff you dont really need. i personally reformatted the harddrive and reinstalled the OS with a non-oem copy. the top row of buttons (Silver power button etc) there labels have wore off already... so to someone who is forgetful. this may cause an issue. battery life is less then ideal when running at full power. but the dual GPUs make short work of that. just switch to the Power-Saving GPU and turn down the brightness. makes the battery run alot longer

Overall Review: there are THREE usb ports on here. 2 on the left. and 1 on the right. hiding INSIDE the ESata port. the USB is just upside down compared to his other buddys on the other side.

Pros: Great processor, awesome gpu, overall excellent product produced by msi

Cons: The hard drive was a mess when I got it. So much unnecessary software that I couldn't take it and just reformatted the drive with a fresh copy of windows 7 pro and started from scratch.

Overall Review: I run very demanding applications on it daily and it can handle everything very well. It does put out a lot of hot air when the gpu is running at full steam but the battery area doesn't get too hot, a definite good thing.