Pros: Sturdy, Solid, Stable. Very fast, very quiet. Cons: Upgrading SSD and RAM I am a truck driver away from home 300 days a year so my only real option for PC gaming is a laptop. My last laptop was 5 years old and finally died. As I was only home 2 days and needed a replacement I had to buy local, best buy was there for me. As these are comparisons to a 5 year old laptop I have to say I am blown away. The case is metal and feels quite sturdy while being half as thick as my last laptop which was all plastic. The KB is beautiful and can have colors assigned to individual buttons and you can make separate profiles for any games you have to light up certain buttons. Large, silky smooth trackpad which I rarely use unless I'm just watching movies. I was also impressed with the speakers as they are much louder and crisper than my old laptop. Gaming performance is what I would expect for a laptop in this price range, which is to say I was blown away. The 144hz screen is crisp and vibrant and so far every game I have thrown at it has run like butter. This laptop is also suprisingly quiet when you have the fans set on auto, with cooler boost on the 6,000rpm fans sound like my laptop is going to float around the room. I was able to get a max overclock on the gpu of +200 on the core and +350 on the memory. and though I was not able to stress test it I was able to run 3dmark a few times with no errors pulling out a 6213 over the performance overclock score of 5789. Now, as with anything, there is always a downside. With this laptop for me it was storage. While SSDs are blazing fast a 500GB hard drive is just too small for me. With AAA titles taking up over 40GB and having my entire movie collection on my hard drive 500GB is woefully inadequate. Luckily there is a second SSD slot and you can get 2TB SSDs for around $200. BUT, I learned installing memory and SSD upgrades in this laptop are quite involved. If you are not comfortable in the guts of a laptop I strongly suggest having a qualified tech do your upgrades. On my old laptop you just removed a back panel and viola, there were your memory slots and hard drives. Not so with the MSI GS65. First you remove over a dozen screws to take off the back cover. Then 3 more screws to remove the battery, another screw to remove the network card. Then you need to disconnect about a half dozen ribbon cables and 3 more screws. Then you must pull the motherboard and only then will you be able to access the SSD and memory slots to install any upgrades. Doing this the first time on a new $2,000 laptop is a nerve wracking experience. Also, I do not like how the factory drive is partitioned. I understand why they made a separate boot and data partition, but the way they did it forces you to leave the stock hard drive this way unless you plan on doing serious data wrangling backing up, formatting, and restoring. After installing my 2TB second drive that is where I keep all my data and installs. I would like to have merged the 200GB drive C and 300GB drive D into a single drive but cannot because they put the hidden recovery partition right between them. But, such is life. In all I am very happy with this machine and the only thing preventing 5 stars was the difficulty upgrading the memory and SSD. Here is a link to the 3dmark results I got https://www.3dmark.com/spy/7034725

> Pros: - Boots up incredibly fast. - Plays games at 60-120 FPS on high visual settings (Overwatch, World of Warcraft, DayZ). - Fast processor and adequate RAM. - Beautiful thin-bezel display. - Gorgeous chassis design. - Fully customizable keyboard. - Light and easy to carry. >Cons: - Runs a bit hot in the keyboard, but not terribly so. - Slightly awkward power/HDMI port placement. >Overall: Five stars, for certain. It's using the first Geforce RTX card released (2060) and an Intel 8th gen processor, so it's got some great tech; while not the absolute top-of-the-line, for the price, this combo of specs can't be beat. Add in the SSD for the incredible boot-up speed, and this Stealth model is a winner.

This is the thinnest gaming laptop in the market with some competitive specs. I have an eye on this product but never pulled the trigger as it’s not in my price range but bought it on one day sale and I’m very happy with the purchase. Coming to the looks it has thin bezels & camera on the top(not everyone is doing this recently) with nice gold/copper touch around the edges & good build and finish. The performance is great with its updated specs per the current market. The screen looks a lot like 4K even though it’s a 1080p HD. Lots of options to customize the performance, keyboard, screen display. Even though it’s thin they didn’t compromised on the battery - it’s pretty good compared to its competitors. Great graphics. Now coming to its cons they need to improve the thermals. It’s not great but good when taking its size into consideration. The track pad quality is good but doesn’t work the same. It’s missing a SD card slot. And by the way the motherboard is built upside down hence it’s difficult to upgrade in future. Overall, It’s a great laptop and I’m very happy with my purchase.

This computer has been nothing but amazing. The fact that it manages to have an RTX 2060 in it for $2000 with the RGB keyboard and 144 hertz screen makes it a steal. The SSD makes loading every application super fast. The thinness of the computer is the most impressive part, it manages to look very subtle in a public setting which is uncommon for most computers like this. It is very lightweight as well which makes traveling great. Overall one of the best products I have ever purchased.

I'm happy with it, fast startup, great graphics, awesome design, customizable keys, yeah love it.