The SteelSeries keyboard is a nice touch, and a pleasure to type or game on for hours at a time without feeling cramped. The GS60 includes an almost too-familiar lineup of hardware additions, including a sixth generation Intel Core i7-6700HQ, an Nvidia GTX 970M with 6GB of GDDR5 RAM, 16GB of DDR4 RAM clocked to 2133MHz, and a 256GB SSD/1TB HDD combo. Hardware The number of available ports on the MSI GS60 should cover everything you needįor all the headway the GS60 makes in pushing the design of gaming laptops to their limits, there’s not a whole lot on the spec side of things to write home about. If the company wants to earn the trust of gamers (a notoriously fickle set of consumers), they’ll have to start trusting us to download what we want on our own, instead of shoving it in our face from the moment we boot up our laptops for the first time. This isn’t exclusive to the GS60, and was just as much of an annoyance when we first encountered it in the GT80S, but just because it’s common at MSI doesn’t make it any more acceptable. See also: Our MSI GI65 Leopard 10SFK 062 15 6 review.īloatware has been a problem in the laptop industry since its inception, and nowhere is the issue more prevalent than in MSI machines. From innocuous additions like the SteelSeries Engine (where you configure your keyboard LEDs) to annoying, abrasive programs like Norton’s Security Suite (“Hey did you know we sell other products too? Here’s forty notifications to remind you”), the GS60 is burdened by enough extraneous software to make our heads spin. Of all the laptop manufacturers out there, MSI has got to be one of the worst offenders when it comes to the practice of including heaps of unnecessary extra software in their default load outs. Software Seen here: a whole pile of unnecessary do-nothingware It’s clear that MSI had a clear, determined vision for what they wanted this laptop to look like, and the effort has paid out in full. Nothing on the Ghost Pro 4K feels tacked on unnecessarily or thrown in as an afterthought, and the result is a shocking sense of purpose from the moment you get your hands on it. I’m a fan of the choice to go with the chroma board, which gives you the ability to turn everything off if you’re in the middle of an important meeting, but really light up the room with a rainbow of colors if you’re going to a LAN with your gamer friends and want to show off a little bit. The SteelSeries keyboard is backlit by a chroma-schemed LED array which can be configured to display any color (or combination of colors) you want in breathing and wave patterns, or just remain static. Related: Also check out our MSI GS65 Stealth Thin review. From the outside it looks like a system that means all business thanks to its brushed aluminum casing and a lone MSI logo in the middle of the shell, but once you open it up the real fun begins. With its hard, clean angles the Ghost is an homage to the laptops of old, with just enough style added on to keep it feeling new. From the ultra-sleek ASUS ROG Strix to the heavy and clunky (but proud of it) MSI GT80S, we’re no stranger to the many different forms that laptops can take when the “gaming” label is attached somewhere in their name.įalling easily into the “ultra-sleek” category at an impossibly light profile of 4.2lbs, the MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 4K is a marvel of a machine, and a truly exceptional example of laptop design at its finest. Here at Gadget Review, we’ve tested every different type of gaming laptop you can think of. Intel 6th-Gen Skylake Intel Core i7-6700HQĭesign The GS60 may not look like much, but that’s what makes it look so good Large bezels on the side of the display.Great 4K performance in a small package.Summary: The MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 4K is a highly portable, surprisingly powerful gaming laptop that exceeds expectations in nearly every category we can think of. WHY IT’S A TOP PICK: The GS60 Ghost Pro is a 4K gamer’s paradise putting it in contention with the best gaming laptops. Read on in my MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 4K review to find out. With stellar specs and a petite design that hides a monster of a machine underneath, can this laptop prove that 4K is finally ready to make its way out of your home and on the road no matter where you go? And, how does it stack up against the best gaming laptops? Do you rock an Asus laptop or an MSi? For the past several years, 4K gaming has been a privilege reserved for desktop PC owners only, but the MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 4K could soon change all that.
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