A bit of an unusual beast this. They describe it as a gaming machine, but the 960M doesn't quite justify that - but at £610 I don't think you are going to find much better with a proper quad core Skylake Core i7. If you need the processing power in a portable box it looks like a decent option.
There's room for an M.2 SSD if you want one and it is standard DDR4 2133MHz laptop memory if you want to expand that later on, but obviously that's going to jack the total price up. Not bad if you can't afford to do it all in one go though.
It's not going to be to everybody's taste, but I can't see anything better for the same money at the moment.
If anybody can do better for around £600 (or even less if possible) please do let me know as I'm on the lookout for a decent laptop for a local charity where they are going to be doing some 1080p video promotional work. Thanks.
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zzak to alhambra7
24 Mar 173#33
You don't have this laptop then as this does not have that spec.
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towan
24 Mar 17#1
Hot, very weird combo though, probably best as a portable video-editing machine but doesn't come near to today's gaming requirements.
slayermatt to towan
24 Mar 171#4
Really do question the use of a 960 in a system with a skylake processor and DDR4 :laughing: But looks alright for the money either way even if you'd like a bit of light gaming. 960m was perfectly adequate if you dont mind dropping the resolution or graphic settings a notch
PulisOut
24 Mar 17#2
Well hot this, was looking for this 3 months go :-(
Musicrab
24 Mar 17#3
Would be nice - with an SSD - which they seem to agree with - "it has an unused M.2 slot which you can use to build in an SSD and you have one powerful machine. "
Spod
24 Mar 17#5
It looks like the model number is MSI GL62 6QF-635NL - does anybody know if the NL means it is a Netherlands model?
towan
24 Mar 171#6
Definitely a capable gaming machine; I could have added a few more things to my original post to make it clearer but you've seemed to have covered everything for me :smiley:
brilly
24 Mar 172#7
whats odd about it? it came out last year and as such has last gen components
was decent at the time and still fine now, especially for the money
Bilbo1968 to brilly
24 Mar 17#9
Never gonna be good enough for all the armchair critics on here.
philb100
24 Mar 17#8
Tempted want a decent laptop for graphics work. what are Ibood like I've
never used them?
TANDY
24 Mar 17#10
No SSD which amazon are selling for a bit more, great laptop though.
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A bit of an unusual beast this. They describe it as a gaming machine, but the 960M doesn't quite justify that - but at £610 I don't think you are going to find much better with a proper quad core Skylake Core i7. If you need the processing power in a portable box it looks like a decent option.
There's room for an M.2 SSD if you want one and it is standard DDR4 2133MHz laptop memory if you want to expand that later on, but obviously that's going to jack the total price up. Not bad if you can't afford to do it all in one go though.
It's not going to be to everybody's taste, but I can't see anything better for the same money at the moment.
If anybody can do better for around £600 (or even less if possible) please do let me know as I'm on the lookout for a decent laptop for a local charity where they are going to be doing some 1080p video promotional work. Thanks.
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was decent at the time and still fine now, especially for the money
never used them?