MSI GF63 Thin 15.6" Gaming Laptop, Intel Core i5-11400H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 8GB Memory, 256GB NVMe SSD, Windows 11, 11SC-693

Look through all the low score reviews and notice people are complaining about stuff that to be expected from a budget gaming laptop. They didn't look into what they needed and/or we're buying. I bought this last week to game a bit during downtime at work. I have another gaming laptop and a gaming desktop that also doubles as a miner. Overall it has good specs for what you pay in the current market. Ive played several games off gamepass and everything has been good so far with most game getting in that 60fps range (med for older games and low/med on newer games) I initially used it as is with 8gb of ram but i had a 8gb stick laying around and after installing it i had a good boost to multitasking and gaming. Storage space is low (as expected at this price) but the give you a bracket for an SSD and there is another m.2 slot in there. Another 256 gb SSD or m.2 can be found for $25-$30 and 512gb for $45-$55. It'll be a must if you want to install more than 2-3 games since format and windows itself bring down available space. For those of you that were expecting a card that would play newer VR games with a budget laptop. For VR to work with consistent framerates for all/most new VR games you need an RTX card with 8gb of Vram moving forward. Start looking at laptops that are around double this price. Battery life in most gaming laptop isn't going to be great. It's the nature of having a video card drawing a lot of power from the battery when gaming. You also need to factor in that they have limited space in these so you only have room for so much battery in already cramped area. Check online and I'm sure there are bigger aftermarket batteries for a decent price since MSI sells a lot of these. The good news is that when not gaming it uses the lower powered GPU that Intel includes with the processor so when doing basic tasks it'll help keep thing going longer. Tweek the brightness and other setting for maximum battery and in my experience i got around 4.5-5 hours with writing documents, checking emails browsing the web at 50% bright levels. On the other end of the spectrum Gaming on 50% bright got me about 2 hours 20 min to go from 100%-20%. Overall the hardware and style of the laptop is great and well worth what i paid. For around $50-$60 you can double the ram and ssd space available. MSI did a great job of protecting the screen with a metal cover. Overall this is just fine for most people as an entry level gaming laptop and/or multi use laptop.

What an awesome product..... performance was better than expected according to the price