MSI GL62-6QC-065UK
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The MSI GL62 looks like a pretty plain entry-level gaming laptop at first, but it has a few neat tricks up its sleeve. Not everyone’s going to love the SteelSeries keyboard, but its mechanical key-inspired feel is something different, and its display colour saturation is impressive at the price, even if the screen won’t blow you away in other respects. It does rather highlight the problem with today’s affordable gaming laptops, though. Its GPU will still leave you scrabbling around at low graphics settings to get satisfying frame rates in recent games and the lack of SSD storage means the system doesn’t feel as speedy day-to-day as laptops with much less powerful CPUs. This isn’t a laptop for hardcore gamers or performance snobs, but it is a solid machine with the right level of future-proofing and a display that makes a punchy first impression.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/12/2016
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 70% features: 80% workmanship: 80%
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Model: The MSI GL62-6QC-065UK is a high performance laptop built for gaming purpose. An Intel Core i7 CPU of the 6th generation with Intel HM170 chipset, up to 32GB DDR4-2133 (2 slots) RAM and a GeForce 940MX GPU with 2 GB DDR3 VRAM are suitable for this purpose. As for storage, it features a 2.5" HDD and a NVMe M.2 SSD by PCIe Gen3 X4 / SATA-SSD Combo. With a size of 383 x 260 x 27~29 mm and a weight of 2.3 kg, it is very lightweight gaming laptop for gamers on the go.
It features a 15.6" Full HD display (1920 x 1080 pixels) with 94% NTSC wide-view panel, which delivers sharp and contrast-rich images for optimum gaming experience. Besides that, it features four speakers with exclusive audio boost technology and Nahimic audio enhancer for stunning audio experience. In addition, it comes with a SteelSeries keyboard. Furthermore, WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth v4.0 is featured for wireless connectivity. The connectivity includes an SD (XC/HC) card reader, an HDMI port, a USB 2.0 port, two USB 3.0 ports, a USB 3.0 Type-C port, a Mini-DisplayPort v1.2, a microphone/headphones jack and a Gigabit LAN port.
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX: Mid-range laptop graphics card based on the Maxwell architecture. Compared to the older 940M, the MX now also supports GDDR5 graphics memory and maybe slightly faster clock speeds.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
6300HQ: Skylake-based quad-core processor for notebooks. Offers an integrated HD Graphics 530 GPU and is manufactured in 14 nm.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.60":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.MSI: Micro-Star International (MSI) was founded in 1986 in Taiwan. MSI is especially known as a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards for PCs, but also offers computer accessories, complete systems, motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktop PCs, monitors and other components. However, the Microstar brand name in Germany belongs to the Medion company. MSI is known for its gaming products and has developed a wide range of gaming laptops and desktop PCs. The company is also active in workstations, servers and industrial automation. MSI has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.