Pros: This is a great looking laptop with screaming fast specs. MSI kept their utilities useful but unobtrusive except for a monthly small ad popup I have figured out how to squish yet. The sound system is amazing. I have never heard such great sound from a small sound bar like this before. The SteelSeries keyboard is top notch and the LED backlighting is fully configurable from gaudy to off. I prefer a subtle red sweep of lights across the board. Windows 10 is well... Windows 10. I chose to use Tron script to shut down all the data being fed back to Microsoft. All the latest games run at ultra settings and the screen makes my jaw drop now and then. It is that good. I have built PCs since the early 80s and this one is hands down my favorite.

Cons: The plastic screw down points holding the metal cover to the plastic frame are weak. Mine broke after normal usage. It split along the left side of the screen. This was about 6 months after purchase. Newegg sent me to MSI. MSI took 2 weeks total roundtrip time to repair it and I paid shipping one way. If they just replaced the plastic frame it will probably break again. SteelSeries utility often auto updates and loses connection to this MSI version of their keyboard. I usually uninstall and clean install to get it working.

Overall Review: Final edit of this review after 6 months owning it: My case split due to a bad design with plastic screw down points. My RAID Boot volume crashed when one of the SSDs failed. I have lost an entire month of use due to RMAs. MSI is now backpedaling saying that they will not honor their marketing that stated this laptop can have graphics card upgrades for 2 generation. Now it is NOT upgradeable! And they are offering some type of trade-in that will cost me another $1,000! That was the reason I paid extra for this laptop. Checkout the pending class action on the notebookreviews forums. Just don't buy MSI. Learn from my experience and financial loss.

Pros: Fast at first.

Cons: - Windows 10 didn't work well for long, I assume due to pre-installed crud? Re-installed Windows and worked much better ever since then. - Screen case split apart down left side. Screen became damaged from this flaw. Terrible durability. This was caused simply by closing the top, not from rough handling.

Overall Review: - Beware of this manufacturer.

Pros: The laptop is great when you get it out of the box runs fine played every game I have at max settings and can run my VR headsets with no problems

Cons: Now after a month and in the past 2 weeks the thing has started crashing and black screening for no reason and now has gotten to the point that when I turn it on 90% of the time it gets logged in them craps out screen freezes and drivers fail all are up to date but then 10 min ago tried to lunch or and 2min in freezes and had to shut off no control over it and does this for hours then after 10 restarts it will work for about hour or two then back to this I don't know if there is something wrong with mine but right now I can't even use it

Overall Review: If I get it fixed or replaced I would give this product a 10/10 but for now it is a 3 I hope someone can help

Pros: Hardware wise, it's a solid machine. RAID0 128GB PCI-E SSDs form a 256GB OS/p program drive, 1TB 7200RPM HDD for extra storage that I load large applications or games to, 980GTX desktop GPU allows for some serious power in the go. 1080p G-Sync monitor. CPU is over lockable, but I have yet to do so, or need to do so. I currentky attach one 27'' 1440p ASUS monitor to it via HDMI while I spec out a dock build that'll allow me to split the DP 1.2 port into my other two monitors that are exactly the same. This would allow for a 3 or 4 monitor setup, 3 would be if i decided to close the laptop lid.

Cons: The laptop was a little wonky while in Windows 10, which I attribute to the preinstalled garbage that comes in the device. I finally got tired of trying to chase down issues as they arrived, and went for a reformat. Somehow the RAID array ended up breaking, but I was able to restore that in the BIOS and then reformat the laptop with the Windows 10 media creation tool by creating an install DVD of Windoes 10 and having the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers (from Intel, MSI's caused a problem) on a USB and was able to load those during the install to get the RAID array to show in the drive listing. After getting the laptop back up and running, it seems to have alleviated the issues I was having before thanks to the preinstalled software that I attempted to completely remove using Revo Uninstaller Pro, CCleaner Pro, and REGEDIT. The laptop also needed to go through a hefty OS upgrade after getting it up and running. Tried calling MSI support, they refused to help after I brought up the discussion of a clean OS install and not the F3 recovery process. Luckily I was able to wade through it as if I was working on PCs I built.

Overall Review: Other than the issues related to the software, it's been a solid machine. I'd recommend it for gaming on the go or a desktop replacement if you're wanting to cut down on the space a tower takes up.

Pros: Everything is blazing fast with this gaming laptop, connected via HDMI to my Dell 27" gaming monitor when home.

Cons: None