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Old 10-29-2014, 05:57 PM
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Dang with that budget I would personally go with:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834152590

$1,599
Ghost series so it's in the thin and light category. Plus it has the 870M gpu:
I'd be very nervous about any "thin and light" MSI latops. I don't know about that particular model, but many of MSI's other lightweight gaming computers have SERIOUS heating issues. In many of them there's only a single fan shared between the CPU and GPU so:
  • that fan gets super loud when you play a graphics-heavy game
  • the laptop gets very hot, physically; the models I read about got so hot after only 1/2 hour of gaming that people couldn't even keep them on their laps
  • when the one fan couldn't cool the computer fast enough (which happened often) it had to throttle the CPU/GPU .. which means you pay for 100% of the CPU/GPU, but only get some percentage of its power

I couldn't find any reviews that mentioned the heating issue for this particular model, so it might be just fine. But if I were buying one, I'd be sure to test it for at least an hour with the newest game I own as soon as possible to see if it gets hot/slow ... before the 30-day return window expires.