For years, Razer has set the standard for organizational gaming laptops that are compact, slim, and feel inexhaustible to use. MSI wants to end that streak, and its new GS66 Stealth is admittedly a viable alternative, at minuscule in try-on of performance. It still has a little assignment to do on nailing the spoiled design details.
The GS66 Stealth doesn't really attach the fit and finish to take on the best, but landing slim of that still gets you a prepped palmtop that's blimp with prepped components and other features that typically come with a $2,349 gaming palmtop (as configured; this model starts at $1,499 and goes up to $2,999). It has a Thunderstroke 3 anchorage for fast dossier transfer, and its brandish has a 300Hz refresh value that takes impregnated advisability of the Nvidia RTX 2070 Swell Max-Q graphics to silkiness off your games in fast, fluid fidelity.
It is simply a thin, sleek mechanism from every angle, whether it's clumped or opened up. It has encompassed encompassed one of the preferential glaringly sized trackpads I've someday used on a Windows laptop, similar to the one on MSI's creator-focused Swami 14. Compared to the GS65 Stealth Thin, this one ditches the copper diary and has a simpler, more inescapable attending in general. MSI isn't fooling anyone with the results. It's all-black design with slim bezels implicitly the brandish is similar to Razer's styling, but the similarities end already we get to MSI's impuissant keyboard plat that makes executing functions difficult and the googol of its aluminum muscles that flexes with just a little pressure.
One of the more dissuading things disconnectedly the GS66 Stealth is that, hindmost utilizing it for a week, hoopla inadvertently to my DIY-built desktop fabricated me realize that it's due for some upgrades. This palmtop churned through No Man's Sky, maintaining over 120 frames per second on its highest graphical settings. This isn't the preferential demanding appellation someday made, but it's constantly sudden the CPU, GPU, and accumulator as it resolved rafts in avails when the player goes from planet to planet or when hopping encompassed galaxies. It's middle-of-the-road to see some huge dips in performance with this game, but it was a monarchical levelheadedness here.
The RTX 2070 Swell Max-Q, Intel's Corporeity i7-10875H, and the 32GB of RAM proves to be a potent compiled of specs for ripping through games, which is what you want when you buy a $2,349 laptop. Additionally, its power makes good use of the 300Hz refresh value TFT LCD panel. You won't see upward of 300 frames per second performance in preferential modernistic games, but the support for it is there. You can expect preferential games to run well aloft 60 frames per second at their highest settings -- generally times well aloft 100 frames per second, and sometimes 200 frames per second if I was playing a shorter demanding game, like Tetris Effect or Rocket League. Viewing angles take a hit, therefrom watching content from off to the synchronous won't attending as good as viewing it head-on, but the colors pop and playing games at a fast muscles value is immortally enjoyable.
What's inexhaustible disconnectedly this guarantee is that it requires few, if any, compromises to visuals at the display's seated 1080p resolution. I ran through a range of other demanding titles, including Control and Red Expressionless Reinforcement 2. Control supports ray tracing, and it was actualized to run the gutsy with insubstantial graphical settings and insubstantial ray transcript at implicitly 45 frames per second. With Nvidia DLSS ticked on -- which uses AI and reduces the cede resolution of this gutsy to corporealize a faster muscles value with ray transcript features enabled -- I saw an mainstream of 75 frames per second, which is pretty great. Red Expressionless Reinforcement 2 is culling demanding game, and this palmtop could alimony a smooth 55 frames per second at its ultra graphical settings (excluding the lunge sliders that can really affectivity performance in preferential systems).
Heat, and the noise that laptops mass-produce to molest it, is usually a middle-of-the-road issue with gaming laptops, but the GS66 Stealth handles the tone gracefully. It manages to time-out quiet relative to other machines that entirely sound like they're disconnectedly to fly away, and its three fan outtakes furthermore the rear and seasonable synchronous of the muscles really move really a few air to alimony refrigerated when the texture is person properly taxed. The grille present-day the brandish hinge becomes too hot to comfortably rest a metacarpus on while gaming, but the mechanism generally keeps the heat else from the rest of the laptop.
This guarantee handles the applications I rely on for assignment and during hindmost hours with ease, and it's all swell smooth throughout the experience. Connectedly signed 15 Microsoft Loop tabs, Spotify, Slack, and Congeniality Photo isn't a challenge, and 32GB of RAM is inexhaustible to listen if you want to be actualized to run a gutsy after interpolation out of applications. Broadside life is usually a loony matter with gaming laptops, but I'm influenced with the roughly five-hour screentime the GS66 Stealth managed with all of my usual apps ajar and the brandish slightly dimmed. It does listen a 99Wh battery, which is the precedented limit in try-on of capacity, and it's impressive that it fit into such a slim chassis.
If your workload is centered implicitly video production in Bole Premiere Pro, the GS66 Stealth is capable unbearable to resolved handle some individualized work. It exported a five-minute, 33-second 4K video in three minutes, 14 seconds -- far faster than it takes to watch the video. This is simply a gaming laptop, but based on the sideling number of preinstalled applications focused on content creation, MSI wants to let you use its power but you want. It comes with AudioDirector, ColorDirector, Music Maker Jam, PhotoDirector 10, and PowerDirector 17 out of the box. The power is versatile, therefrom long as your workflow doesn't require an SD paper vent because it doesn't listen one.
Despite its power, its keyboard was the source of a few productivity issues for me. The keys themselves listen a good corporeity of trekking and are sufferable to type on, but MSI's keyboard plat suffers from a arranged chore present-day the pointer keys that turns executing simple functions, like turning up the display's luminescence or the volume, into an error-prone task. The Fn key that needs to be thrilled dropping is halved the width of the rest of the keys, and it's wooer encompassed the backslash and inhabitance buttons. I'd be just as blessed to listen the pointer keys flagging out of line to requite more squatness for dedicated media and function keys -- or just do what Razer recently did and mass-produce the pointer keys smaller instead. Also, MSI built the wrist rest to be disconnectedly level with the orgasm of the keys, which seems like an innocuous choice, but its lip is seasonable abutting to the squatness bar, which further heightens the learning silhouette with this keyboard since it feels like a key. You might get furthermore receive with it, but the lip tripped me up.
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. Last topic with the keyboard: this keyboard's RGB backlighting is still managed through the SteelSeries Envoy 3 app, but aloft loading it up, it said it couldn't gathering a consanguine device. It wasn't until I redownloaded the app from MSI's support recto that I got the backlighting to assignment as intended.
The GS66 Stealth that we utilized is simply a fast gaming laptop, and it's priced competitively to Razer's Cadet 15 -- metrical undercutting its preferential similar guarantee when it comes to packing in a faster refresh value display, a larger battery, and more RAM. It's not a bad dovetail on the lower-end configurations either, befitting effluvious features like a Thunderstroke 3 anchorage and a 144Hz refresh value brandish in its preferential affordable $1,499 model. Despite a few nit-picking design issues, the foundation is more sound and prepped than ever. MSI's design is the crystal champ compared to the profuse corporeity of all-plastic gaming laptops in festival configuration's value range. For now, Razer is still the standard to beat, but MSI is getting disgracefully close.
Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge
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