Dream/target Spec from MSI? ARJiBEAR

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Hi all

Here is another mystic post!

I want to know what peoples IDEAL spec are so we can get something arranged with OCUK as an exclusive.

Price should not come into it at the moment, because first I need to know what people would like to see!

The options are as follows

Chassis :

GP
GE
GS
GT
GT72

For those of you who know MSI, know what each are. If you want more info on them, then shout me, I would be happy to call and discuss (because I am just a nice guy!)

CPU

I5 or I7

Memory

8/16/32GB

HD

How many SSD's?

1/2/3/4x128GB
1/2/3/4x256GB

3/4 SSDs available on GT series ONLY. 1/2 Available on GE/GS.

1x1TD/1x2TB

Screen :

15.6"/17.3"
IPS available on 15.6" only

GPU

Options are :

840/850M on GP
850/850M on GE
850/860/870M on GS
870/880M on GT

All GPU's will update when and IF Nvidia decide to update them.

Optical :

Only available on GP/GS/GT

CD-RW
DVD
Blu-Ray

If there is anything else I am missing let me know!

They all come standard with SteelSeries KB's.

All come standard with 2 year collect and return warranties.

GE/GS/GT come with Dynaudio speakers and Killer Lan.

Now is your chance to spec it up.

Once I get enough feedback I will propose something to Gibbo the master of all things laptop related!

Bare in mind, do not choose the maximum of everything and then say you want it in a £999 box.... :p:p:p

Chassis are as follows :


GP
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GE
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GS
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GT
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GT72
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Like I say, if you have any questions about the chassis etc, please let me know!
ARJiBEAR
The MSI NOTEBOOK UK Team
 
Hi ARJiBEAR,

So I am in the market for a gaming laptop in the coming months, I've surveyed what is available from MSi, gigabyte and others. Here's what I'm looking for:

I really want a sleek-looking laptop so it has to be the GS chassis, it's simply gorgeous. I know this is an expensive chassis and as my budget is in the £8-900 range it may not be possible to reach at this price-point.

As for the specs - I think it'd be great if it IS possible to have a kind of entry level GS series laptop. I wouldn't mind if it was an i5 instead of i7, 8gb RAM and also an 850m as graphics. What I do really want though is an SSD (1 x 128gb would be enough).

Through my search so far I've seen a few that have come so close to my desired specs but fall short in one category. I've seen a sleek, i7, 860m laptop about for around £950 I believe but it has no SSD (I can't go back to normal HDD after having an SSD on my desktop). I've most recently seen a 17" i7, 860m AND SSD laptop at a fantastic pricepoint <£900 but alas it is in a hideously ugly, thick chassis.

So simply put, I'd love a GS series thin notebook (15" or 17", though if I had to choose I'd say 17") at <£900 with an SSD and at least reasonable hardware specs - i5, 850m maybe?

Also I'd just like to say it's great to pop onto this forum having been searching to see a thread like this, shows that MSi are really listening even if what some people like myself want isn't possible! Cheers.
 
If a 15" IPS GS, i5, 8gb ram, 850m (Maxwell right?), 128gb SSD & 1tb HDD came in at maximum £950 then I'd probably be up for it. If not I'd probably make do with a GE version of that - which should be sub £900 for sure looking at alternates that are available.

As stated in other thread, looking for a 15" laptop with a high quality IPS display, and middle of the range graphics card and either a small SSD or at least a hdd with ssd cache, as light as possible, and also with as much battery life as we can squeeze out of it as possible - when not using graphics, so i5 is preferred to i7. Optical disk isn't important, it's just extra weight (altho not much I know).
 
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Guys, great feedback.

The GS chassis is a little beauty and has won many awards so I know why people are wanting that one.

The more feedback I get on this the better, because at the moment the cheapest GS60 we do is a £1099 box.

With the feedback I can go back to HQ and say OI! GIVE ME SOME GS at £xxx :)

I really think it's important to find out what you as the customer wants. Sometimes the price isn't achievable, but if we can help get as close to it as possible then I think it's a win win.

ARJiBEAR
 
yeah the chassis is really interesting. with a more energy saving efficient cpu that can boost up the battery life - and hopefully be a bit cheaper it would be great!
 
Would love a GS chassis with an i7 cpu, 17.3 screen, 256gb ssd, 1tb hard drive, 16gb memory, 860 gpu and blu ray drive, covers all bases then and for less than £1000 :D
 
GT72, cooling on this chassis is just too good to pass up.
I7 and 4810, please no 4710 parts with new 870 and 880.
16gb
1 SSD is fine so long as there is room for another.
1TB is fine for a storage drive.
17.3, IPS can't happen but there are better and worse screens out there and i'd pay more for one of the better non IPS screens.
870 and 880 please, 880 is what i'm personally after.
Dvd or blu ray is nice to have but very optional for me personally.
Preferably under £2k, single ssd helps keep the costs sensible I think, and then we can add drives if/when we want to.
 
Any apart from the GP
15inch 1920*1080 Full HD
i5 or i7 which ever to stay within budget
8gb ram
1TB or 500GB and a 128GB SSD
Atleast 860M as this is a bit of future proof
Don't need optical drivers, ppl still use them? Lol
Windows 8.1

This for 850 or 900 I'd buy it without a sec thought.
 
As I posted in the other thread:
"Not sure I would be able to afford one right now as am paying off the wedding CC, but I am sure that there are many out there who would love to see:

I5/I7
8/16GB RAM
256GB SSD
Storage HDD (5400/7200 options)
970/980m options
**1920x1080** screen.

Obviously priced as competitively as possible.

Without wanting to sound negative, my experience with gaming laptops (Fujitsu, Alienware and Clevo) has been they are expensive, and often have glaring flaws/defects that the companies dont want to acknowledge, sometimes even as stupid as crashing when the volume is maxed!!
Stable, solid, decent build quality without glaring flaws or weaknesses, AND good performance, would be amazing as far as it's gone for me...

I understand 970/980m are due to improve TDP massively, and whilst that would not necessarily translate to costs, I could see it could translate to higher end GPUs in lower cooling/cheaper chassis.

Would be very nice to see if you could do a 'top loaded' laptop as cheaply as possible (similar concept to those AMD machines that were floating around with 7970m in with a weaker GPU), if you could get one onto market with a 970/980 near the £1k mark, with cheaper components elsewhere, as long as it was stable.

Another perfect example compromise is I am sure many would be happy with a competent 1920x1080 screen over UHD, especially at the 15/17" size, and yet so many gaming laptops seem to be opting for UHD which I am sure must cost extra to get a competent screen (competent: read decent viewing angles, colour, and black levels, decent response time...too many laptop screens with AWFUL vertical viewing angles).

ARJIBear, I realise you can't comment on 970m/980m specifics, but are you able to at least comment on the rest of this, effect on pricing/possibility on 'top loading' a model, and how a chassis with lower TDP cooling might affect weight/costs in real world terms. As just asking about chassis with lower TDP cooling, this could be any GPU so nothing NDA specific at all here.

What exactly do you think you could fit into a 1K laptop at a push? "
 
Alexrose1uk said:
As I posted in the other thread:
"Not sure I would be able to afford one right now as am paying off the wedding CC, but I am sure that there are many out there who would love to see:

I5/I7
8/16GB RAM
256GB SSD
Storage HDD (5400/7200 options)
970/980m options
**1920x1080** screen.

Obviously priced as competitively as possible.

Without wanting to sound negative, my experience with gaming laptops (Fujitsu, Alienware and Clevo) has been they are expensive, and often have glaring flaws/defects that the companies dont want to acknowledge, sometimes even as stupid as crashing when the volume is maxed!!
Stable, solid, decent build quality without glaring flaws or weaknesses, AND good performance, would be amazing as far as it's gone for me...

I understand 970/980m are due to improve TDP massively, and whilst that would not necessarily translate to costs, I could see it could translate to higher end GPUs in lower cooling/cheaper chassis.

Would be very nice to see if you could do a 'top loaded' laptop as cheaply as possible (similar concept to those AMD machines that were floating around with 7970m in with a weaker GPU), if you could get one onto market with a 970/980 near the £1k mark, with cheaper components elsewhere, as long as it was stable.

Another perfect example compromise is I am sure many would be happy with a competent 1920x1080 screen over UHD, especially at the 15/17" size, and yet so many gaming laptops seem to be opting for UHD which I am sure must cost extra to get a competent screen (competent: read decent viewing angles, colour, and black levels, decent response time...too many laptop screens with AWFUL vertical viewing angles).

ARJIBear, I realise you can't comment on 970m/980m specifics, but are you able to at least comment on the rest of this, effect on pricing/possibility on 'top loading' a model, and how a chassis with lower TDP cooling might affect weight/costs in real world terms. As just asking about chassis with lower TDP cooling, this could be any GPU so nothing NDA specific at all here.

What exactly do you think you could fit into a 1K laptop at a push? "
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So many questions, so little time!

Inbox me : [email protected] and let's have a discussion on this :)
 
Chassis: GS
CPU: i7
Memory: 16GB
HD: EITHER 1x 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD - OR - 1x 256GB SSD, NO HDD.
Screen: 15.6" IPS
GPU: 870M (I assumed you were about to release laptops based on 900-series though...........)
Optical - Blu-ray or none. I have dvd drives coming out of my ears.

I would like to spend about £1000 on the above, but given the existing GS60 is £1200 I can't see that happening.
 
I5/I7
16GB RAM
256GB SSD + 1TB HDD
15.6" IPS
Any optical drive
Whichever chassis has the best cooling
970m/980m

Any competitive price
 
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I would love to see a 15" 1080p, i5/i7, 8gb, hybrid hdd and something along the lines of 860 gpu for around £800 please :D. 17" if you can squeeze it in (quite class!). Ready for Christmas would be fantastic thank you ;).
 
To add my feedback it won't be quite entirely within the framework in the first post:

I prefer my laptops to look understated, the GP is the closest match but subtle backlighting, etc. wouldn't go amiss.

CPU wise the i7s do a good job of late being close enough to a desktop spec they are a beast of a CPU in a laptop - the lower entries in the highest category are usually a good bet i.e. my current laptop has a i7 3610QM.

Memory wise perfectly happy with 16GB as things stand, enough to handle anything out at the moment with enough headroom for the immediate future - my ideal laptop would as a feature be easily upgradeable to 32GB at a later date without too much messing about taking the whole thing apart just to upgrade the RAM.

HDD wise as things stand I'm perfectly happy with 1x SSD of reasonable size (256GB) to run the OS and a HDD (1TB) again my ideal laptop would be reasonably easy to change the 2nd drive at a later date if I felt the need for a 2nd SSD and/or as tech moved forward.

GPU is a big one - I usually go 1 step below the highest end GPU if its fairly close performance wise i.e. the Samsung I bought has a custom 675m which at the time was very close to the highest end available, depends a bit on how much of a premium the highest end mobile GPU at the time has slapped on it.

Screen wise I'm not worried about anything too fancy in terms of resolution or IPS, etc. - infact I'd rather have a 120Hz TN panel even on a laptop even if its 1920x1080 aslong as its got as natural looking colours as possible and is decently sharp. Screen size depends on what I plan on using it for - ~17" for a desktop replacement (though it would often be hooked upto an external monitor) or ~15" for something used more on the go. Though these days the more popular option is IPS and atleast 1920x1080 or higher but I'm less bothered myself.

A blu-ray drive is a nice addition, I'm less worried about the keyboard quality on the laptop itself aslong as its of a reasonable standard and things like fancy audio or killer NIC don't really do it for me - relatively no frills sound hardware but using a reasonably high grade DAC, etc. and a fairly decent Intel NIC would be more to my preference.

For that kind of setup I'd be looking to pay £1500 or less - but I'd expect to be paying around £1300-1500 or maybe a little more if it had a 120Hz screen.
 
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