Question 1

What is the approximate battery life?

Accepted Answer

Hard to say. I use mine a lot at night unplugged just surfing the web and it lasts a long time 4+ hours. Gaming not so long but why would you game unplugged. I did take this on a trip from Ohio to Florida and watched movies the entire flight in the battery save mode and once we landed my iPad was dead after about 2 hrs and laptop still had over 50% battery. I don't let it go dead but I will occasionally run it down to 10% to condition the battery. Hope this helps. This is an awesome PC.
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Question 2

MSI has a very good reputation with build quality. Anyone know if the 1TB w/8mb cache is good enough for gaming (thought it would have been at least a 32mb cache)? Newegg has a great MSI product video/evaluation link on this if you're new to MSI btw.

Accepted Answer

A SSD is an order of magnitude better (don't even need to add "gaming" to that)  than any rotating platter. With only A 128 GB SSD you do have to manage the games you have installed a little bit, but I have a good handful installed just fine.

A SSD makes for much faster load time, which usually only occurs during level changes or application load time. It doesn't have too much affect during gameplay.

Question 3

just wanted to make sure that, that this is a 1TB SATA  + 128mSATA, and not in fact a 1TB SATA HDD + 128gb ssd HDD?

Accepted Answer

Its a 128GB solid state drive and a 1TB 7200rpm hard drive. I love this laptop I have had alienware and Asus gaming and this blows them all away. It boots fast and is super fast with all the apps and programs I have installed. Only draw back is that the 128GB is used up fast if you don't partition the hard drive and have programs install on the 1TB hard drive.

Question 4

Does this laptops mobo support Raid 0 by any chance, for example two 500gb velocirpaptor WD notebook drives or is it one drive and a mini bay? Thanks for the help, couldn't find this in specs.

Accepted Answer

One drive and a mini bay.

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