MSI GS43VR 7RE (Phantom Pro) 061UK 14 Inch Gaming Laptop (Black) - (Kabylake Core i7-7700HQ, 16 GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX 1060, Windows 10)

I feel myself obliged to write a couple of words about this laptop. It seems like many one-star reviews here are not justified at all.Very briefly: that's probably the best gaming notebook I have used or seen recently. First of all, it's powerful and fast in ANY aspect: data processing, gaming, downloading, file transfer etc. Recent games run on ultra settings without any lags. Build quality is fantastic. Monitor and keyboard do not flex. Keyboard is very comfortable, near to silent with decent travel of keys. These things are rear nowadays. I don't like coloured backlight of keyboards, but there's an option to setup the colour to be neutral white. Monitor is beautiful with great colour reproduction, with absolutely no light leakage on sides and extremely good viewing angles. Sound quality of the notebook is top if not the best in the class. It's a real pleasure to work and play using this machine.So far there there are several very minor complaints from me which still can't spoil my excitement:1) I don't like when power cable is attached at the right side because that's the standard place for mouse; left-handed users will be negatively surprised by a warm exhaust on the left side of the machine.2) power adaptor is big and heavy (that's to be expected from such a powerful machine, but in that case such a parameter like notebook's weight is not relevant and it should be adjusted to the weight of the notebook and the power adaptor together);3) trackpad is still no match to Apple's notebooks. Neither its texture and smoothness nor precision are on the same level as Macs;4) i don't like the placement of a power button on the right side near to the front edge as I once switched the notebook off accidentally while trying to move it.5) fan noise is audible and sometimes excessive, although fans' speed can be adjusted with preinstalled soft6) I'm sick of 'gaming' design of notebooks and consider it silly, but many people would not agree with meBottom line: a fantastic notebook of high performance with a lot of outstanding features and some negligible ergonomic flaws.

I purchased the laptop to use it for photo editing (LR and PS). I got the 14" one as I bought a Dell U2717D; great combo!!!The laptop can handle anything, PS is soooo smooth! Moments that LR lags it's because of LR, not the laptop. Read reviews and you will see that even users with £3k desktops face common issues.The display is fine, I can trust it to do photo editing even when I travel and do not have my external monitor. The monitor came pre-calibrated and the colours on the 2 screens are very close to each other when both are set to the sRGB profile. I just had to turn the temperature of the MSI screen a bit down to match that of the dell monitor.The laptop in general is really fast, the keyboard is nice and so is the touchpad. For what you pay I think this is a great value.Battery life is 2-3 hours depending on what you do, but nobody that buys this laptop buys it to get a full day's charge... We got a GTX1060 and I7 to power up :)Highly recommended for photo editing... Not so good for general internet browsing with the laptop on your lap as it gets quite hot! This is a portable powerful machine. This is what it was designed for! This was not meant to compete with Macbook, macbook air or hp spectre or whatever.

Exceptional small gaming laptop. My previous gaming laptop now 5 years old, and I have been looking for a few months for one that would be able to play the type of games I like. I didnt want to spend more than 1500 pounds and I wanted a smaller laptop as I travel a lot and dont want to be loaded down with bulky hardware. Been using it for a month now and it has performed great. Ghost Recon, The Division, Dirt , Sniper Elite 4, For Honor have all been smooth, with good visuals. As mentioned in other reviews it does run hot, and the cooling fans make a little bit of noise, but I wouldnt consider them excessive. Only negative point for me is that there are only two USB 3 ports, but this is not entirely surprising in such a small laptop. I purchased a Anker 4port USB HUB, for those days when I need more ports. A good buy for me, and hopefully this will last me for a few years. Oh.. one more thing. Uninstall all the junk software that has been preloaded onto this. It will only take you twenty minutes.