The dragon’s still there, but it’s subdued. I had no trouble with the microphones, which support AI noise cancellation, and the webcam has a physical shutter switch on the side for some peace of mind. There are a whopping six speakers inside, and while they don’t deliver the best audio on the 17-inch market, my games still sounded pretty good. (The SD reader is weirdly slower than it was last year, however, as other reviewers have noted.) The QHD display does make games look great. There’s a good range of ports including two USB-C, two USB-A, a headphone jack, HDMI, ethernet, and an SD card reader. It’s a nice-looking computer, and it didn’t pick up any scratches or dents after being battered around in a suitcase for a few days. The trackpad collected some fingerprints fairly easily, but the rest of the chassis wasn’t too much of a magnet for them. I’ve had gripes about MSI’s chassis in the past, but the GS77’s base and lid are both sturdy and unyielding. What we’re left with is a computer that asks many of the same compromises as the most powerful gaming laptops on the market without bringing the same exceptional frame rates.įirst, the aspect of the GS77 that’s an unquestionable improvement over last year: build quality. The keyboard is on the flat side, the touchpad is uncomfortably stiff, the battery life isn’t good, and the device is too big and too heavy to reliably bring anywhere. The model we were sent includes a 12th Gen Core i7-12900H - one of the most powerful mobile chips in Intel’s history - paired with Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage, all powering a 240Hz QHD screen.īut the new girth takes away a major advantage that the GS77 used to have over these models: the GS77 Stealth appears to have lost some of what made it desirable as a “portable” buy. One can see why MSI may have wanted to go bigger because the chips inside have been frying just about every chassis they touch this year. And it’s almost the same weight as MSI’s more powerful GE76 Raider.
It now weighs a bit more than Razer’s Blade 17 and Asus’ Zephyrus S17. This isn’t necessarily a huge knock against the device - the GS76 was quite light for what it was, and the GS77 has brought the Stealth series back in line with the rest of the 17-inch market. This laptop is big, thick, and bulky, and while it lacks the light strips and LED grids that other showy gaming laptops boast, its RGB keyboard still makes very clear that it’s for gaming above all else.
The MSI GS77 Stealth has long been the portable option among MSI’s gaming elite, and while that fact remained dubiously true with last year’s 5.4-pound GS76 Stealth, this year’s 0.79-inch-thick, 6.17-pound GS77 has effectively launched that idea into the sun. Don’t let the name fool you - there is nothing stealthy about this device.
0 kommentar(er)
