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Review: MSI GT72S 6QE Dominator Pro G

by Parm Mann on 13 October 2015, 17:30

Tags: MSI, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

This no-holds-barred, £2,000 laptop takes few prisoners in its attempt to out-gun most of the competition...

PC enthusiasts in the market for a high-performance gaming laptop may find themselves enthralled by the GT72S Dominator Pro G specification sheet.

This no-holds-barred, £2,000 laptop takes few prisoners in its attempt to out-gun most of the competition with an array of components that will put many a desktop to shame. A quad-core Intel Skylake CPU, GeForce GTX 980M graphics, NVMe PCIe storage, 16GB of DDR4 memory, six USB 3.0 ports, USB Type-C and an IPS G-Sync display. The list goes on.

That's a whole lot of goodies for a 17.3in machine, but there are one or two inevitable provisos. Battery life hasn't improved over last year's model, the baseline SSD offers only a 128GB capacity, and if you're contemplating parting with this amount of money, you may well be inclined to wait for the Anniversary Edition touting a full-fat desktop GTX 980.

The Good
 
The Bad
Quad-core Intel Skylake CPU
Powerful GTX 980M GPU
Ultra-fast NVMe PCIe storage
16GB of DDR4 memory
G-Sync display is great for gaming
Excellent connectivity inc. USB Type-C
 
Battery life isn't great
Measly SSD capacity
Little change from £2,000



MSI GT72S 6QE Dominator Pro G

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Considering how cheap SSDs are getting it's a bit miserly of them to still be using 128 GB SSDs. Tbh though, if spending £2,000 I'd probably just splash out £118 and get a 500 GB SSD and put that in instead.
I imagine most people would sacrifice the speeds of NVMe in favour of a larger SATA or m.2 drive, but I suppose if you're looking to top benchmark charts in a review…
I don't really see how 48mm 3.8kg can be considered as a “portable machine”…