MSI Thin GF63 15.6" 144Hz Gaming Laptop: 12th Gen Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050, 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD, Type-C, Cooler Boost 5, Win11 Home: Black 12VE-066US

Pros:Decent battery lifeEasy to upgrade. Just unscrew the bottom screws pop open the bottom lid (but be careful not to break the side ports and internal components obviously) and wala! You have access to the ssd ram and a spot for a 2.5” ssd or hdd. M.2 ssd and ram are fully upgradable. Ram goes up to 64gb max so you can do a lot with thatIt has usb 3.1 and usb cIt’s fairly low power and lightweight tooThe onboard gpu isn’t too bad but the RTX 4050 is pretty good for what I use too. Both gpus perform well in Daz Studio Marvelous Designer and BlenderI’m not a gamer but I do play GameCube Wii Gameboy and DS emulators and occasionally simcity 5 and a TON of simcity 4. On simcity 5 the most graphics intensive game i play I can crank the settings up to maximum using the RTX and it plays very smoothly and looks great as well.WiFi is wifi 6 so not too bad either but I use Ethernet so that doesn’t matter to me really all that muchCPU is a 10 core 12th gen i7 with upper 4.ghz range boost clock so cpu rendering in blender and Daz is fairly painless. It’s not gpu rendering but still very good—definitely good enough for me and I make big complex scenes with lots of lights characters VDBs special effects and other intricate stuff also I do short animation clips as well so let that be your gauge.Cons: more like nitpicking—because ya know we ALL have nitpicks about everythingIt’s not 2.5gb EthernetIt has red led keyboard not RGBIt too lightweight for me but that’s probably because all the previous laptops I owned were giant bricks of gaming laptops from the mid 2000s back when everyone used first generation i7s (or back then the ONLY generation i7s) you should have seen the dinosaur dell gaming laptop I had before this. Oomph! My back (and wallet) hurts just thinking about that old laptop I had before I bought this one. This is by far a massive upgrade and improvement!It’s ddr4 not ddr5 which is really not the worst thing for me as my gpu rendering workstation desktop pc runs a Maxwell gpus and 2666ghz ddr4 ram and it’s pretty good at gpu rendering.The RTX dedicated gpu is only 6gb vram but really for me I use it primarily for CPU rendering anyway and barely ever use the RTX on it except for computations in my rendering software and every once in a while my emulators and simcity 5 for which the RTX 6gb is plenty of VRAM for meThis laptop is definitely worth getting if you’re looking for a really good entry level gaming enulator gaming or CPU based 3d graphics modeling and rendering laptop

Extremely Pleased! The only disappointing aspect is the sad 512gb drive on A GAMING COMPUTER and memory upgrade as I kept getting not enough memory errors with the 8gigs on the 1 game that fit. In 2025, a game usually sits at 120gigs or more on average. Within 3 days I had no choice but to break my warranty and add a 2TB SATA SSD and 64gigs of DDR4-3200. No issues and has been a great gaming rig. Just make sure you have a proper fan trey under for long gameplay. Keeps everything at 70°C with adjustments made. Cyberpunk2077, no problem. Smooth.

Summary: December 2023 best laptop for computing power under a thousand dollars. Handles CAD work and Gaming easily. The build quality of the device is somewhat lacking in quality.First the Pros:1. I purchased this computer when my last Alienware went out as a more affordable alternative for higher-than-average computing power and mobility.I mainly use the device for 3d rendering tools like SolidWorks and TinkerCAD along with some light gaming. The device handles these with ease. Storage not being at least 1tb in 2023-2024 seems insane but I can use an external storage device to meet my needs (wish I didn't have to).2. For the price I believe this could be the best on the market for December 2023. Competitors in the price range do not carry Intel processors or have Intel processors older than 2022.Cons:The only real cons I have are build quality.1. Feels like if you were to press the power button hard it would invert on itself and break2. The mouse pad is not super reactive for clicking and sometimes have to physically push down on the pad instead of tapping the pad.3. Traditionally you see power plugs on the back or at least the back corner of laptops. This laptop has a power cable in the middle of the device along the left side. Makes using accessories and having a clean desk harder.MSI Thin GF63 15.6" 144Hz Gaming Laptop: 12th Gen Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050, 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD, Type-C, Cooler Boost 5, Win11 Home: Black 12VE-066US

This is a really good laptop that so far plays every title I throw at it with ease. I’ve played a few sessions of the latest Call of Duty and it’s performed very well. It can get a little hot so having a cooling pad is recommended. If you’re looking for a reasonably priced gaming laptop and are on the fence about this one, I highly recommend picking it up.

This laptop gets so hot while playing games. There is no way you could put it on your laptop without a fan. I bought a fan. It was still incredibly hot. Almost all of the heat is on the ESC key side. It gets hot enough that it is too hot to put on your laptop.The battery life is not good. I think the listing says 2 hours. It probably gets 2 hours.It seems durable. I dropped it. It was fine, but I wouldn't want to make a habit of it.It's easy to set up.It is capable of playing the games I want to play. I didn't know the specs. I'm playing COD 6 without any issues.I would like to say it's a good value for the money, but the heat it produces makes it barely a laptop.

Excelente laptop

I kobe this laptop. I feel like there's nothing I can't do with it. It's powerful. I do see like the rest how it gets hot fast but it depends how bright you put your display light on. It does t do that with me much. The battery life doesn't last long ger than like 3 to 4 hours with lights lower. But this is an amazing computer. Worth the price