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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is my review of the msi ge62 QE they're naming systems a little bit confusing but the short of it is this they have a P series which stands for prestige and a G series which is their gaming line and within each line they have a bunch of different screen sizes and configurations so they have a whole bunch of like numbers and letters that can get a little confusing but the one we have here P 62 QE alright so I've had this for like a week and a half I've been using it as my daily driver for basically everything I've played a lot of games on it I've done very little work out of it because of it but I've edited two full videos on it including the one you're watching right now so here's my review it comes in a grey box you open it up notebook is sitting in a foam bracket it comes with an AC adapter a bunch of pamphlets and msi stickers the top surface of the notebook is aluminum and it gives it a surprisingly premium look on the exterior it's brushed aluminum and it doesn't have any issues with fingerprints or smudges on the bottom we have five rubber feet that are pretty grippy and they help to prop up the notebook for good air intake so the two main air intakes are up here and down here you can see the front-facing speakers now there's a sticker that says the warranty is void if the stickers are removed so I've removed all the screws but that last screw is underneath that sticker so it kills me that I can't open it up but if you're willing to void your warranty it looks like you can easily upgrade your RAM and your hard drive and even add a second M to SATA drive if you want okay going around the notebook on the right side we have a DVD Drive a USB 3 port a deep SD slot and the power connection on the left side we have a lock slot a killer 2200 Ethernet port three more USB ports an HDMI port a mini DisplayPort and lastly dedicated mic and headphone jacks on the front here you can see how the speaker's face the user there are actually a total of four speakers like each one of these grills has two speakers behind it but we'll talk about them in a bit on the back you can see the exhaust vents of the system now the build quality of the chassis is pretty good I mean there's a lot of plastic but it feels well made and nothing feels flimsy the screen has a little bit of flex even though there's aluminum on the top but there's not much and it never felt like an issue okay the unit I'm reviewing has four core Intel Broadwell i7 that's running at 2.7 gigahertz a 15.6 inch 1080p screen 12 gigs of ram gtx 960m with 2 gigs of video ram a 1 terabyte hard drive a DVD drive all for around $1,100 us the screen is an IPS panel with a resonate e it's not a touchscreen but it's pretty good matte finish colors are great viewing angles are good but it's not like a really bright screen the color accuracy is also pretty good it's picking up at 96% srgb and 74% Adobe RGB there's a hardware key on the notebook that you can press to cycle between different color profiles for like games or movies it's kind of cool but I didn't use it very much I just found that the default srgb profile was the nicest to look at and just out of curiosity I tried both video connections and you can push out 4k from either of the ports the keyboard has triplet Keys they're comfortable to type on but the arrow keys take some getting used to because they're positioned a little differently from most notebooks and it's a keyboard with a number-pad again which shifts the entire keyboard over to the left so you're going to get some accidental keystrokes at first like I legitimately lost it Street Fighter because I kept pressing the wrong keys I mean I'm not good but I swear it was the keys all right it's got three stages of backlighting and overall once you get used to the positioning of the keys it's an enjoyable keyboard the trackpad has also shifted over to the left of the notebook it's a pretty decent trackpad I mean it's not as good as an apple trackpad but I like it and I find it so weird that a middle priced notebook like this ends up having one of the better Windows traffic pads my only complaint are the buttons the physical buttons which are cool but they feel kind of cheap and they click really loud the speakers are really good and again I'm surprised that a mid price notebook like this has such good quality speakers good mids good highs very good base for a notebook speakers and there isn't much distortion at max volume here's what they said the system idles a little bit loud like it's not completely silent the hard drive and the fan both have a little noise so it comes in just under 30 decibels when you play some light weight games like dota 2 or counter-strike the fans kick in and it comes in around 40 decibels but when you play some heavier games or if you want to hit this hardware button for maximum cooling it hits 45 decibels it's pretty loud but it doesn't stay at max speed for very long I took some thermals with the Fleur 1 and cooling is really good on this machine it runs like 5 or 6 degrees cooler than a MacBook Pro and it's only a little bit louder okay let's talk performance the hard drive in here is a 7200 rpm Drive you get about a hundred megabytes read and write but it just feels really sluggish I did some video editing and I had to use an external SSD because that one terabyte drive was too slow it edits 1080p footage easily and even though I couldn't see my footage in 4k without an external monitor it handled it well so if you're looking for a notebook for video editing this is not bad it's just that I would totally pop off that bottom lid void the warranty and just get some faster storage in there gaming is pretty good on this guy it's running a gtx 960m so light or moderately demanding games like counter-strike dota 2 here's of the storm these all run pretty well at 1080p on high settings so like you're getting a comfortable 60 frames per second but more demanding games like rust or GTA 5 or witcher 3 you're just gonna have to fiddle with settings and drop down your quality to get better frame rates like if you really want to play demanding games this isn't an ideal computer you're going to want a gtx 970 or a 980 for that frame rates when it's running just on battery are poor like we're talking half the frame eights you'd normally get when it's plugged in so no amount of fiddling in the geforce app or windows is going to fix that okay i need to talk about battery life so this thing has a built-in DVD drive which is pretty cool I mean in 2015 it's almost retro hipster cool to have a DVD drive built into your notebook they're pretty rare these days but if you need one if you're like workflow or if you have a lot of disk based games if you need one it's kind of cool to have one built in the issue though is that when you have a disc drive inside your notebook you end up taking away the space that's normally allotted for your battery and as a consequence it has a very small battery so the average 15.6 inch notebook it has a battery of like 62 maybe 90 watt hours this one has a forty 1.4 watt hour battery it's pretty small so just the numbers out there just so you know when you're playing games just playing games on battery life 45 minutes it's pretty short if you're watching movies off the dr two and a half hours and if you're just doing regular work like light web browsing or just chilling out on the computer you're going to get about three hours the screen and about 3/4 brightness so I mean battery life is not a strong point but if you need a DVD drive this is kind of cool ok recap the PE 60 it's got pretty good build quality with its aluminum surface and plastic chassis it has a 1080p screen which is solid good colors reasonably bright and a matte finish the keyboard is comfortable has a numeric pad so it shifted over and you'll have to get used to it the trackpad is good the buttons are less good and on the inside if you peel off that warranty sticker it has a broad wall i7 that's fast very well cooled a GTX 960 that isn't the fastest mobile card but it's very capable for playing everything aside from the most demanding games right now 12 gigs of ram which can theoretically be upgraded to 16 gigs if you want to peel off that sticker a one terabyte hard drive that I would like to replace with an SSD a hipster DVD Drive 4 front-facing speakers that sound pretty good and a disappointingly small battery ok so some closing thoughts here I really like this notebook I think they did a great job in terms of its technical components I think they did a good job in terms of build quality especially for the price now two things kind of bugged me the first is that battery I wish they'd given us a bigger battery in the first place and just gotten rid of that DVD drive or to have a removable DVD drive that you kind of stick in a secondary battery into I mean that's very 1990s but it's been done before that'd be kind of cool to bring it back the second thing is I mean this affects me not everybody is that sticker on the bottom that says not to remove it if you want to keep your warranty and that bugs me because I mean the hard drive that's in there that should be out of there and it's very easy and inexpensive to swap that out if you don't care about warranty but if you do I mean it will deter you from upgrading your system that's the review I hope you guys liked it if you did give me some thumbs and if you loved it give me some subs it's been nice and I'll see you guys next time