But let's say I want a thin gaming laptop with good performance. The one I'm looking at is 17 inch, thin, with i7 processor and a GTX 765M... Despite its size , the performance should be on par with the GT series that has the same gpu right ?

Aside from the heat, are there any drawbacks ? Let's say GS70 vs GE60 20E . Both should perform the same right since it has the same graphic card and processor except that GS70 will heat up quicker right ?

Thanks for the patience in answering my question, as I have never own a gaming laptop before and I am looking forward to purchasing a thin gaming laptop so MSI was the first I looked into.

Thank you very much for clarifying this with me. I didn't realise it does not comes with a dvd-rom .. I guess most likely I will still go with GS70. Thanks for your time and patience !

Guys, what are you thoughts on Toshiba Qosmio X75 (With GTX 770M) vs GS70 ? I find it cheaper than MSI and it comes with SSD and a blueray writer except that its thicker.

Yes, it's around RM4,000 .. will the heat management of GS70 better than Qosmio as it runs on 2 fans ?

hi there
right now planning either to get alienware or msi depending on my budget
what do you guys think about msi ge70?
any problems that anyone lf you facing yet?
especially on heating issues or perfomance issues?
and what about battery life?

what is the difference between both of them?
and lets say I'm buying gs70, what cons and problems of the laptop i should know beforehand?

anyone know which laptop using graphic card gtx780m and the price for the laptop? seriously need some info since im not really good in deciding which laptop is good. but currently searching for laptop with gtx780m thats y i asking the price from u guys now     

Just sharing my experience with MSI service:

I wanted to upgrade the HDD with 1 TB SSHD on my GE40.  I bought the SSHD at a local computer store and asked them to install.  Can't because there's a warranty sticker blocking the screw to open the chasis.

So, I called MSI careline and asked about this.  They said, for RM85, they can factory restore my computer, transfer the contents of the existing drive into the new drive and stick a new sticker for warranty.  THAT was on the phone.

I went to the local MSI Service Center and it was like "back to square one".  Here are the issues:
- Warranty for laptop is one year, but included OS can only be restored within 3 months.  After that, I have to buy my own.
- The charge is RM85 - to swap (no cloning, just physical swapping of the drive) and sticking a new sticker (all of which I can do myself, if I had the sticker).
- Can't factory reset unless using the recovery drive on the existing drive.

Since my laptop is more than 3 months old, I can't get MSI to do a fresh reset, unless I provide the recovery partition.  Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted it when updating to 8.1.  I do, however, have the 4 recovery DVD I made just before the upgrade.

So now, I'm faced with a dilemma.  Should I swap the disks myself and restore using the 4 Recovery DVDs?  Will it restore everything (including the recovery partition) back to the original factory settings?  Or am I screwed into buying a new OS? 

Regardless, to get warranty, I need the sticker, which will cost me a whopping RM85 just for the guy to stick a new warranty sticker! 

Opinion?

sorry to ask , but what is 2OD mean ?

Hi guys i would like to ask,
Is the heat management on ge60 20e very bad?
How hot can it really get? Up to the point u cant even touch the laptop or is it still viable to carry around?
Need some insights here thank you

If just like browsing and streaming videos would it get hot? So basically even if its "hot" its still acceptable right?

Play dota med to low setting no hot ah? :0

Well from ur sig, ur using the gt series.. so.. not a fair comparison haha  
Anyway thanks for the insight..
might pick up the ge60-20e.. maybe not..
huhu lets just hope when i see it in person it appeals enough

Thanks for the flyer!

But just to check, the price difference is huge from the flyer & these 2 online reseller;

1) http://www.lazada.com.my/msi-ge40-2oc-drag...ram-438681.html
2) http://www.techhypermart.com/notebooks/msi...p-notebook.html

The specifications looks the same, are those website selling genuine stuff?

Doubt those websites are authorized resellers, so what kinda set are they selling? Refurbish set?

New msi gt60 user reporting in

Ummm 5650 huhu

Sharing info on GE40 upgrade.

I finally got MSI service center to swap the 750GB HDD with a 1 TB SSHD. A simple upgrade but the warranty sticker got in the way.

The charge is a standard RM85 (same price at all SC). Very expensive sticker indeed since I opt not to have them factory restore the new drive. Didn't want to leave laptop there, so I used my own 4 recovery DVDs.

Recovery went well. I chose full restore and it created and partitioned the new 1TB drive into several partitions, including recovery partitions (Yay!)

SSHD is noticeably faster. (More Yay!) Opening programs now is in a blink of an eye! Haven't tried gaming yet.

Unfortunately, I didn't see any option of setting the sizes of the partitions OS_install and Data. And upon upgrading to Windows 8.1, it created another recovery partition in between the two. Sigh.

Anyone know how I can increase the size of Data and shrink OS_install? I certainly don't need almost 600GB in OS and 300GB in Data is tiny. The problem now is the hidden recovery partition in between. Is it safe to move that?

Hi guys, am currently using GT70 and just installed Battlefield 4..When running the game, it asked me to upgrade my driver for a better performance...the problem is, NVIDIA Geforce Experience only detect latest driver up to ver 311.83.
Not that the driver got any issues running games, but just wandering does anybody update their graphic driver here? if so which firmware and does it run better than the 311.83? thanks