Customer Ratings & Reviews

Really light, slim, sleek laptop. Chassis seems good enough. IPS screen had a good color. Very portable and easy to carry. It's pretty quick overall to turn on as well, maybe less than 5 seconds to boot up. As the other reviews have mentioned, the fan is fairly active and would turn on while browsing the web, but I personally didn’t mind it. The laptop did sometimes get warm without doing any gaming too (just idling on a web browser or something). The temperature and fan software the laptop comes with (Dragon Center) let me keep an eye on things and there is a silent fan mode, though I didn’t try it out. RTX graphics card is pretty powerful. I ran APEX legends with high graphics and got a consistent 100+ FPS. What’s dragging down the rating was that I received a defective keyboard. Some keys on the keyboard were a bit stuck, and they would actually jam. After examining the jam, keys would actually come off. See my photo. I managed to put the keys back on, but after 3 days of use I ended up returning the laptop in person after buying it online, since this shouldn’t be an issue plaguing a $1,500 laptop. Unfortunately, I couldn’t exchange so the deal I utilized while buying the laptop is gone. Best Buy customer service however gave me a full refund. Other issues: I came from an MSI GP60 2PE that’s 7 years old, and I think it has a higher maximum volume and better bass than this laptop. Also, the key to turn off the backlight was not working at all (it could have been due to the defective keyboard). The keyboard build itself didn't feel very strong either. It’s safe to say that I’ll be looking for another laptop in this holiday season.

I purchased this laptop before i knew a thing about pc gaming. They really try to sell newcomers with the “11th gen intel i7”. Bottom line? The CPU is not great. Don’t get me wrong, this is a good gaming machine that can run most games well over the standard. But find a laptop with a better CPU even if it’s $100-$200 more it’s worth it. I have many performance problems on several games because the cpu simply can’t keep up with the gpu. As strange as it sounds, cranking up your graphics settings can fix many if these issues (sometimes) but it’s really not worth the headache, and the cpu will probably be completely obsolete in the next few years. Leaving you with a laptop that has a very capable GPU, but a worthless CPU. Keep in mind that some games will run better than others, so look into what games you like, and what they require. RDR2 for example runs great on this laptop, some frame drops down to about 50 in larger areas on Ultra-High settings, that’s nothing to complain about. Rainbow Six Siege on the other hand, runs at a nice 130-144 fps on max settings UNTIL it randomly drops down to 25-55 fps for several seconds 1-3 times per play session.

I love this laptop and the performance. This laptop was my dream come true. I always loved playing games but i was getting poor performance on other laptops. I highly recommend this one. Price and performance is on point.

As a gaming laptop, this MSI Stealth certainly provides plenty of bells and whistles to supplement your gaming experience in a small package. even being surprisingly beefy and is able to run modern games at a consistent framerate on medium-low settings. BUT... At the same time, I've had noting but issues with this laptop since I got it to begin with, from failing batteries, to random BSODs, to the keyboard al of a sudden deciding that certain keys don't work anymore. The cherry on top is that each time I contacted MSI, they weren't much help either. This laptop might hold you over for now. But I wouldn't recommend this thing long term

I don't understand where all these five star reviews are coming from but apparently we aren't using the same laptop. I was excited when I was getting a laptop with NVidia's RTX 3060 graphics card. At the time I was looking to upgrade my PC's graphic card but the 3000s were to expensive or out of stock. Till I came across this diamond in the rough, or so I thought. When I first got it I realized that the fans were really loud, not only were they loud but they barely do anything to cool the laptop down, my laptop has gotten so hot, even in rest/sleep mode, that I couldn't even touch it, I had to sit it in front of a fan for a few minutes first. Not to mention it freezes a lot and not just on games that go heavy on the graphics card but for EVERYTHING. I think I also came across one review where it said that ray tracing is bad, I am here to confirm it. I put on ray tracing in Cyberpunk and the game started to lag horribly, I had to take it off for the game to run smoothly again. The batter life is so bad it's laughable, it's so bad that I just leave it on the charger, there is no point in trying to take it off you'll be looking for it in a few moments anyway. Not to mention that game performance just tanks when the charger isn't plugged in. Even if you set the battery settings to high performance if the charger isn't plugged in, performance will still be abysmal. The speakers are a joke, I have to use external speakers just to hear anything or sit in a room so quiet you can hear a pin drop (but that doesn't even matter once the fans turn on). Finally, the mouse/touchpad works when it wants to. It's like one day it works, the next it doesn't, it's so bad to the point that I just use an external mouse. The only praise that I can give to this laptop that it works fine for stuff that doesn't involve gaming. I can do my school work on it just fine without it freezing. It boots up pretty fast and web browsing is seamless. However, if I was just looking for a everyday laptop for my school work, I wouldn't pay this much for it. I just want it to be known that I am no computer expert. All I know is my experience with this laptop from a casual gamer standpoint and let me tell you...it ain't good.

Looking for a new laptop was a bit of a pain. The more you try and compare one to another, you think you have it and then realize you are missing something you need. This is one of the only units out there that checked all of my boxes. 11th gen processor, 3060 GPU, 16 GB, 1TB SSD, Thunderbolt ports, micro SD slot, front camera and usb ports. The main thing I do is video editing with Power Director 365. Last night I had my first chance to produce a 35 min HD video. My old laptop took roughly 55 min to do a 35 min simple video. It now took only 14 min. The touch pad is more sensitive than my old one so I will have to get used to it. Just an fyi you can change the color of the backlight on the keyboard or turn it off in the dragon center. So far I am very happy with my decision. One more thing some of the reviews of older Stealth 15 mentioned a loud fan. They may have updated it because I could barley hear it when it was producing last night.

This laptop is kinda loud for being something that is called stealth and it is freezing issues where the screen will freeze up after being on it for some time so you will have to restart the laptop. It also is a little laggy at times. Otherwise the fps performance on games is decent.

Overall, this laptop was a good purchase! It was on the cheaper end of gaming laptops when I got it, and it’s performance leaves nothing to be desired. The only issues I’ve had with it other than the low battery life (2-3 hours?) may be more Windows problems than the laptop itself though. It was a weird issue with WiFi sometimes where it won’t recognize that there’s any WiFi around, took a while to fix that one. The other issue is that this specific laptop has issues with my specific KORG Microkey Air 2-37 MIDI keyboard. It will connect to other keyboards of the same brand, and my keyboard will connect to other Windows machines. Tried everything to fix it and no luck, so I’m not sure what that’s about. Otherwise, it’s been a great laptop for the few weeks I’ve had it! Runs quickly, restarts quickly, never had a lagging issue, the 1TB of storage is plenty for me, and it can do everything I need it to. Even runs the Unreal Engine! It whines about it but it gets the job done easily.

It is unfathomable how terrible this computer is, I have never, in my life made such a regrettable purchase. I have had this computer for about 7 months now, and had issues out of the box. For reference, here is what I use my PC for: -Class: I am a college student -Coding: pretty low-demand programs -Gaming: I play Rainbow 6, CSGO, Overwatch, Elden Ring and Minecraft on this. A wide variety of hardware demand- they ALL had issues CONS: -Battery life is terrible, I never get above 2 hours just when coding or surfing the web. Gaming? I would get maybe 20 minutes. The battery is already failing, it does not hold charge while plugged in and gaming. -Overheats: Takes about 5 min to overheat on Rainbow 6 and maybe 30 on CSGO. I had to buy an external fan to keep it cool. -Cannot go to sleep: Not sure if this is hardware or software, but after about 3 months I could no longer let the PC enter sleep mode, otherwise everything would crash when I launched anything. -Customer service: terrible. they just emailed me links to the MSI site to update the BIOS or drivers, things I had already done. The only option was to send it to them which I can not do as a computer science student. Very uninterested in actually helping. -Graphics cards: overclock easily. cannot play Rainbow 6 without constant issues, the cards switch between integrated and high end randomly. Games freeze and I have had the graphics cards overclock just using chrome. I have tried many things to fix this. Heavier games like Elden ring and rainbow 6 have constant frame fluctuation. Should not happen with a 3060. Issues persist on low graphic settings. -Speakers: very weak, cannot use this for any group movie nights or anything. -Random issues: there is a new problem with my PC each week. Sometimes it is slow on startup, sometimes the CPU is overclocking, just this week my whole system has started freezing up at random moments. I've done a pretty thorough malware check and my system is at low risk for that anyway. These issues happened out of box. -F12: there is a button, on the keyboard, that's ONLY purpose is to flip your screen 180 degrees. Why? this isn't touch screen, the lid does not fold back, it has NO purpose except manually lagging the whole machine for a few seconds as it struggles to change the display. Pros: -lightweight? pretty easy to carry around and throw in a backpack. -Runs light game alright: things like minecraft and overwatch run alright for the most part. Occasional frame drops but they are ok. But if this is all you want to play you do not need a PC this kitted out. -cook an egg: you could safety scramble eggs on this thing Overall: there are so many problems with this thing, it is never functioning properly. I bought this for around $1600 but I feel like I got a chromebook. Absolutely do not buy this and based on the customer service alone I would avoid MSI altogether.

Overall, after about a month of use, I have no complaints about this computer. I think that for any gaming laptop you should get some gimmicky 'cooling stand' because it is very helpful to lift the base and get better air flow. I have one and my cpu/gpu rarely go north of 90 degrees on fairly heavy gaming. I also have 0 qualms about the 'silent' mode for 3 hour lectures in class; no fan noise and the battery last for about that time, maybe another 30 minutes after (though I keep the on battery charge at only 80% to not overdo it 24/7), so battery could maybe last up to 5 hours on silent mode while taking notes Everyone wants to play pc minecraft. Running the vanilla ray tracing pack this computer can get decent chunk rendering (12-16) on ray tracing while maintaining about 45fps with little to no issue and only maxing at about 85-90 degrees which, for a laptop, is pretty good. Not bad for rtx, but with rtx off this can run 70-100 chunk at 144fps no problem and I haven't noticed enough heat to warrant checking. I was hesitant at first seeing as how there are other gaming laptops which may be marginally better on price (gf 65, a 3060 for about 1000$) or better on performance for price (one of the asus), but as a full time student who casually games at high settings (used to a ps5, really), I would say this is a great dual threat. No one in class is going to look over and know you have a gaming laptop, and if you need a study break this can pump out some fun game play pretty well. Overall, I would say you will have little buyer's remorse over this for the price. Fits really well in a lot of scenarios, but is not the 'best in class' for anything, but those best in class often lack other areas to a significant degree, but this computer is pretty much good or better in every category of what an average person, who likes high quality gaming, would need.

Great little laptop. It does not run long on the battery under any load (about 1 hour). That said, I read the specs and didn't expect great battery life. This little beast does everything I need it to do. It is light, powerful, and portable. I take it on the road to stream TV onto hotel TV's VIA HDMI and at home hook it up to a 55 or 65 Samsung (120hz input) TV(s) for gaming. I'm running titles like Serious Sam 4 @ 1080p with fairly high settings and everything looks great and run smooth. Very happy with the purchase and the "on sale price".

I have to plug in when I turn on the laptop. I don’t know why the battery is dying so fast. Other than that I had no issues with the computer.

So im not going to lie and say im some super spy h4cker man or anything but i can yell you this. This laptop is a beast, at least as far as ive owned anyway. It runs Halo Infinite multiplayer on max settings just fine (idk fps because i just stopped being a console peasant) with no lag. The cirsor pad is a littl small and it only has a 75% keyboard which is fine because i bought a keyborad with it. Idk the difference between the rtx 3060, 2090 or gtx 960 but im like 85% certain that bigger numbers equal more gooder or whatnot. I bought this laptop instead of paying my rent but 10/10 would regret this purchase again

I just got this laptop today. I picked it up at the store, and I installed all of the software I decided I would need. After, I took a break and ran some games that worked wonderfully with the 3060 inside it. Additionally, I love that there are so many port options that allow me to forgo having to use a hub for ports (it is a bit disappointing that there was no ethernet port, but an ethernet usb cable was included). Overall, I can say that it was a very solid purchase that will be able to handle everything I need to do.

As a casual gamer, who enjoys winning and not losing, this is the perfect laptop. I upgraded from the previous MSI model, and both can get kind of loud when the fans are running to cool the device. The keyboard can also get kind of warm on the left hand side for the WASD keys, however it's not unbearable. Great laptop, great speed, great graphics, perfect for the casual gamer.

It is a good computer just not to my liking. It is a fast computer, it starts off fast, fast to download large files, like the way the keys feel when typing, playing games is awesome, screen has excellent resolution. this computer has an extremely long batter life playing games, surfing the web etc. One thing I do not like is its hard to open the lid as it has a very thin opening and is hard to find. It's not a deal breaker it's just irritating. Also the charging cord is in the middle! What is with that? The deal breaker for me is there are only two USB ports I have a lot of peripherals that use USB so I was disappointed with this discovery.

This computer is terrible. I have owned many computers and never had an experience like this. I should have adhered to the reviews about the noise. It's so loud it can be heard in the next all over the apartment. The touchpad is touchy and the keys are flimsy.The battery life has to be less than 3 hours. It had a system failure 3 days after purchase and the next day stripes in the background of every screen. It was dithered and unfocused. I am returning it on the 5th day. I was hoping for the best since it seems to have a great graphics card, but now I'm back to square one.

Amazing laptop, sleek, thin, super fast. Only slightly thicker than my ipad pro, hard to believe it has the specs it says it does. Runs most games 60+fps at full details. Currently have it running a 34" ultra wide monitor with no issues.

Gets really hot and loud, but the specs are no joke. For the price I got it ($1100) its a steal, but there may be better options around its original price ($1400)

The laptop is really thin and light which made it really appealing to me as a student. It was discreet so that it didn't scream gaming laptop when you pulled it out in a classroom which was a big plus to me. The con is the CPU, 4 cores in 2021? Really? Now most games wouldn't have a problem with it but the laptop comes with a 3060 so you should be playing some AAA games. But the problem is the CPU it just cant catch up with the GPU. Overall not bad if you are looking a discreet gaming laptop.