i own ge 70, yes the heat is abit turn down for me but still acceptable, if plan to do heavy gaming, then it can be very hot, and the most turn down that is, if u want to upgrade the ssd u cant do it by urself, need to upgrade by authorize service center.
my suggestion if u want to buy the model without ssd, u better add some money to buy the ssd and upgrade at the same day. hope can get better deal.
oh i suggest u buy atleast 256gb ssd.

finally got myself a MSI GE 62 - 2QE Apache with GTX 965M

so far not yet found any cons, If really need 1 , I have to mention the left hand palm rest area was warm on gaming , but not hot, its due to the hdd place on below it, but after I change my OS to ssd ( super raid ), the hdd only for storage use, the rest area was cool  , about pros, a lot I need to mention, this time MSI did well on ge 62 series which inherited current GT series design