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this is the MSI gs5 g4 discrete gaming graphics x4 thin light and stealthy six for fifteen point six inches the screen size and five because this is the brand-new fifth generation chassis design which played on a second the last model I saw was a GS 63 so did they just skip gen 4 solely because four is considered unlucky in some parts of Asia or is it just that much better honestly this could go either way because in my hands right now is the most important letter Thank You H this is the first laptop we've seen with a six core intel core i7 h series mobile gaming cpu oh crap I meant to take the letter off and this video is brought to you by the LTTE store check out are designed by humans merge store at the link in the video description we've got shirts mugs stickers hats and more the first thing that stands out about the GS 65 is how much more premium it looks than its predecessor the industrial design has been simplified the grain finish has been replaced with a cleaner blasted finish and the red pinstriping has been swapped out for a more mature gold but the chassis redesign is more than cosmetic even though it's screen is larger than high-performance compact competitors like the razor blade and MacBook Pro it has a surprisingly similar footprint so how did they pull this off well first they dramatically shrunk the bezels the sides are a mere four millimeters now with the top bezel only about half the size and the webcam while it's the same very unexceptional 720p affair from over a year ago to its credit it's still positioned above the screen in its optimal location so it doesn't look up your nose and it's also got this nifty Dipti little hardware button down here that if you press actually disables it outright on a hardware level so all of this adds up to a screen to body ratio of 82% a stat made only a little bit less impressive by the obvious way that they patted it by enlarging this gap back here that you won't be able to unsee the next thing they did was to remove the number pad which is sure to enrage some while simultaneously bringing jubilation to those who hate having their hands off-center while they're trying to type numpad or no though the new steelseries keyboard is definitely an improvement the switches are less mushy the key caps are a lot wider and the legend is now transparent to let the now individually controllable Ardrey back lights shine through at another shining point for the GS is its i/o the ports themselves haven't actually changed that much from last gen but every USB port runs at ten gigabit spec now and with HDMI 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 and mini-displayport you can plug in up to three 4k 60 Hertz external displays at once and I mean pretty much whatever else you could want even the carry ability is better than last time the notebook itself does weigh about the same but the power brick which you do have to take with you so it matters is definitely smaller and lighter the display itself is a 15.6 inch 1080p IPS panel that's calibrated on the box with 95% coverage of the srgb color gamut so nothing really stands out here but it managed surprisingly decent Delta e values meaning that colors are true to life and you could definitely use this machine for some casual photo editing or graphic design which is great but what really matters for the capital G gamers out there is it's 144 Hertz refresh rate the gaming experience on the GS 65 is simply put awesome it's compact but this thing is armed to the teeth for the latest titles thanks to its gtx 1070 max-q and 8th gen core i7 8750 h processor the first one of intel's shiny new premium mobile CPUs that we've seen in the wild clocked between 2.2 and 4 point 1 gigahertz boost and it's only set to get better a little bird told me that unofficial g-sync support might turn up later the hardware's in there it's just a matter of whether or not it gets the certification and even in professional workstation tasks like rendering the GS 65 performed as well as much bigger not to mention pricier laptops from last gen but many a high performance notebook around here has been brought to its knees by our usability tests the GS 65 s battery life well that's pretty ok for a gaming notebook though considering its hybrid graphics I might have asked for more here and while it's 3 fan 4 heat pipe cooling design does look set to handle gaming loads pretty much effortlessly under extreme CPU loads like what you might see rendering out a video we saw significant thermal throttling with our CPU cores reaching as high as 90 degrees after 30 minutes so other than that though sounds pretty good time to buy right well maybe but with competing coffee late gauge series machines like the Dell XPS 95 70 and gigabyte Aero 15x due for launch any moment now you might want to hold off at least a couple weeks to see if those ones are a little bit less fingerprint prone and flexible like I do get that MSI needed to keep the weight down but a little more reinforcements like maybe behind the power button here probably wouldn't have been a backbreaker with all of that said there's no denying that the GS 65 is in all-around solid performer that hits the sweet spot between performance and sides I mean it really wasn't that long ago that normal non G laptops used to be this size plus it's got insane i/o and all of that at a price point that is barely above what last gen is selling for so you know what high 4ms I mean I mean five five five MSI good job speaking of good job you know who does a good job ting for sponsoring this episode of Lana's tech tips ting is the mobile carrier that's focused on customer service and customer satisfaction first when you call ting you do not speak to a robot you get put through directly to a person and you don't pay extra for the privilege you pay for only what you use with the average ting bill coming in at just 23 bucks a month per device and if you're stuck in a contract and switch to ting they'll cover 25% of your 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