MSI Crosshair Gaming Laptop – 16″ FHD+ IPS Display, with Accessories, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070， Intel 16-Core i7-14650HX, 64 GB DDR5 RAM, 4 TB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, WiFi 6, Windows 11 Pro

Great gaming laptop
It’s a gaming laptop so if your looking for battery life you’re just not going to find it anywhere it does after maybe an hour and a half to two hours of gaming. It runs everything great and looks great. If you’re looking for the best bang for your buck get a desktop tower but if you want a laptop this one is a great option. The storage runs out quick but it’s easy to add another drive.

Very Happy
I was so mad for first couple weeks. Tried adjusting settings and everything and it wouldn’t ruin games right. I finally realized I just needed to use the dragon app to adjust performance settings and that one gets the system working very nice for all games I’ve tried, including call of duty on high settings with no lag.My only complaint is the size of the charging cord and battery life isn’t good. (If I have the settings all to battery saver it lasts a few hours for simple things like browsing the internet.)

Surprisingly powerful gaming machine
I got the gtx2060 / 10th gen i7 iteration of this model. I was just hoping to be able to play Nioh and Monster Hunter World with decent settings and a playable FPS. Much to my surprise, it plays both at 60+ (locked 60 for Nioh) fps on the highest settings, without the GPU overheating (does tend to get into the low 80’s c, but nothing that would damage the 2060. The chassis allows for great air flow, which can be supplemented well with a cooling pad due to its design. Color is great on the screen. Keys feel really nice. It doesn’t really feel to me like anything was compromised in the design of this laptop. Would absolutely recommend.

Beyond disappointed-Updated battery information at bottom
Let’s start off with the merchant was fine. It was well packaged and arrived in about a week.I own an MSI GE62 6QD Apache Pro with an NVIDIA GTX 960M graphics card, 128ssd 1 TBHDD i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz. It’s a great machine and I love it. But with the whole work from home thing, I screwed up and for the first time since the dawn of laptops, I toppled mine and cracked the screen. I figure, hey, it’s four years old, I should get a new one and use the old one as a back up when I replace the screen.The MSI GP65 Leopard 10SEK-048 is a major disappointment.The cons:The AC cord connects in the center of the the side, not in the back of the side. I have enough trouble with cables being in my way and this is ALWAYS in the way.2 USB ports are on the very front of the side on the right. Again, who wants a cable right where your right hand is reaching for a drink? Much less 2? If you don’t use many USB peripherals, this may not be an issue for you.Less than an hour of battery life. How does this even make sense for a notebook? No matter what you are doing, even on the lowest brightness and saver setting. LESS than an hour. My four year old GE62 gets 2.5 hours still.Sleep? Good luck with that. On sleep, even with the lid closed, mine wakes up every three hours and cycles through something, then goes back to sleep. Don’t leave it unplugged and think sleep will do you any good at all.The camera. I don’t understand it. Maybe its because the screen is sharper, but the quality of the camera appears far worse than my GE62.The speakers. Really not worth much at all. Even plugging the laptop into a 32″ TV with an HDMI cable didn’t help the sound much. It was quite sad.The ProsPretty keys, if you like colorsSharp screen for watching your less than an hour of video or playing your less than an hour of games or conversing with anyone on Zoom or Skype for less than an hour. Unless you don’t want to be mobile and just want to plug in your power cable.Fast. There is no denying the speed.Multi tasks well. I am a person who keeps several things going at a time. Excel is a notorious memory thief and I am famous for having dozens of massive spreadsheets open and working, along with Netflix, Photoshop, image editing programs, and maybe running a game on the side. It doesn’t affect the performance of this machine at all.Much as I wanted to love this machine, I’m barely able to use it at all. It’s useless as a notebook, has a terrible design for the power cord and USB ports, is a disappointment in so many basic ways. But the deal breaker is the lack of battery life. What is the point of a notebook where you can’t take it mobile? If all you want is a processor and a graphics card to plug monitors into for game play, there are better choices out there.Update 2020-5-1: Through no help of the (admittedly very nice) help desk, I finally found a way to extend the battery life on my personal computer (no guarantees it will help anyone else). I shut down the Dragon Center completely. With Dragon Center up, I get 1 hour and 18 minutes of browsing time, doing absolutely nothing else. By opening task manager and completely ending the Dragon Center task, so it isn’t running in the background, I increased my battery time to 4 hours of browsing time. At first I thought it might be my keys so I set it to Super Battery (which turns off the lighted keys). Did not help. So I checked to see what was affecting my battery life. Dragon Center appeared at the top. Shutting down Dragon center reset the battery life to nearly five hours, but I only got four hours out of it (I shut it down before it died, so maybe four hours and 15 minutes). This is light browsing: Amazon, eBay, reading articles, posting on couple of forums. Nothing that takes any real CPU processing power or RAM. Will update again once I have recharged and run the battery through some real work but wanted to post this in case anyone else had this issue and it could help.