MSI Unveils Multiple Gaming Notebooks With Intel Skylake Processors

[IInuyasha74]

MSI released a new wave of laptops based on Intel's Skylake chips across its Gaming and Prestige product series.

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[amk-aka-Phantom]

"Non-reflection", "anti-glare"... it's called MATTE. "Non" and "anti" imply that there's something extra added to reduce reflections (like an anti-glare film you can buy for your smartphone), which isn't the case: instead, something (glass or plastic) is MISSING.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Looks good. It's about time we've gone to 2k resolutions. the GTX 980M is nearly overkill for 1080P by now. Especially when we have the new GTX 980 coming to laptops soon.

 

[jasonelmore]

i would recommend everyone wait less than one year for nvidia's pascal. Your gonna get waaay more performance, with waayy less power since it uses 16nm

 

[joex444]

MSI's Super RAID 4 is a pair of PCIe 3.0 SSDs in RAID0. This must mean a pair of 128GB mSATA drives for 3 drives total, including the 1TB HDD which must show up as a separate logical drive.

 

[firefoxx04]

Maybe the 1080p display is there to make long gaming sessions smooth. Sure it can do 2k but can it do it for hours after the heat sets in and the system throttles?

I honestly find high res much more useful for productivity than gaming. I'm hard pressed to see the difference between 1080p and 2k on a small 17 inch display when strictly gaming.

 

[flowingbass]

I would take 1080p anyday on a gaming laptop. For the practical people, 1080p with a gtx 980m would net you two or more years of gaming at ultra settings. Rather than a laptop with 2k or 4k screens and "hoping" to run upcoming games on ultra without lowering settings. I guess people just dont get that you get more mileage for your 1500$++ investment with a 1080p screen.

 

[cvaughn]

I'm convinced a 17.3" or 19.5" touch panel in QHD or 4K does NOT exist.

All they've got are 15" panels in touch, everything else is non-touch with that stupid "digitizer touch glass" stuck on top ... which makes horrible picture quality (angles, fuzzy, dusty).

 

[hst101rox]

Per the table, no 2TB hard drive option? I guess MSI doesn't like Samsung's M9T hard drive.
And, despite the 9/22/2015 Tomshardware article "MSI Updates GT72 Dominator With GTX 980, Announces Special Edition" , I don't believe this laptop has a desktop 980 in it. It just has the 980m mobile GPU, which is a fantastic performer. I don't know where you guys got the idea that they'd use a desktop version of the GPU. They've been using the 980mobile GPU for quite a while now.

 

[Mortis Angelus]

You have incorrect information here. According to the specs on MSI.com, the new GS60 6QE Ghost pro (http://gaming.msi.com/products/notebook/gs-series?id=3539) has "2x USB 3.0 and 1x USB 3.1 Type-C SuperPort" while the GS70 6QE DO NOT have a SuperPort, but has "2x 3.0 ports + 2x 3.1 Type-A" ports (http://gaming.msi.com/products/notebook/gs-series?id=3545)

In your previous article from 2 Sep 2015 you had this all correct (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-gaming-notebook-skylake-update,30000.html)

And I'm pretty sure that the GS60 is called "Ghost Pro", while the GS70 is called "Stealth Pro" (http://gaming.msi.com/products/notebook/gs-series).

I didn't bother to check the info about the other models, as the GS-series is the only one to appeal to me, but please double check the information on those as well.

Then a question to anyone: Is there a modernized GTX 970M-chip coming out along with these laptops? Engadget writes this in their article: "Elsewhere, the graphics cards have been bumped to the newer GeForce GTX 980M or 970M." (http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/02/msi-skylake/)

 

[Mortis Angelus]

And, despite the 9/22/2015 Tomshardware article "MSI Updates GT72 Dominator With GTX 980, Announces Special Edition" , I don't believe this laptop has a desktop 980 in it. It just has the 980m mobile GPU, which is a fantastic performer. I don't know where you guys got the idea that they'd use a desktop version of the GPU..

Here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Noob-Ensemble/discussions/0/517142253880741788/
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9P-ihThT-A
and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu9ql6oARZo
and: http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-is-putting-desktop-caliber-gtx-980-gpus-in-laptops/

and so on... Among those models: The MSI GT72 Dominator

The launch of full GTX 980 in laptops has been one of the more hot-topics in PC the past weeks.

 

[hst101rox]

Yes sorry i misread. It looks like it is the same GPU (GM204) as the desktop cards. 330W AC adapters will be standard on these laptops for sure, 240W won't be enough. Will be fun if mobile chips stick around for the next generation GPUs or all the same.
I guess these modern desktop GPUs, regardless whether engineered for a desktop or laptop computer, runs at a low power efficient voltage. It used to be that desktop chips ran at higher voltage so they took more power. Still true for desktop Intel CPUs I believe.