MSI Thin 15 15.6” 144Hz FHD Gaming Laptop: Intel Core i5-12450H, NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2050, 16GB DDR5, 512GB NVMe SSD, Cooler Boost 5, Win 11: Black B13UCX-2041US

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

Great product, performs AAA games at high settings with no issues other than the normal high battery usage, well worth the money

Excellent laptop, works as it should. I had to adjust some settings to reduce the noise, but I got it sorted out.

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.

It can run the oblivion remake

This laptop gets so hot while playing games. It melted the power cord. I started using a laptop fan. It kept melting the power cord. Their Customer Service doesn't care. 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.

It’s a great computer for gaming

This gaming laptop is, hands down, the best computer I've ever had! Faster than any computer I've ever owned or used, it boots up in less than 20 seconds, whereas my previous laptops would usually take around a minute to boot up. What's more? The graphics on this laptop are amazing. When I logged into Star Wars: The Old Republic, I instantly noticed an improvement to the game's visuals compared to how they looked on the laptop I was using just before this one. I couldn't be more satisfied with this laptop. If you're looking for a high-speed gaming laptop with awesome visuals and incredible performance, this might just be the one for you. It is recommended, though, that you get a good cooling pad to keep this laptop from overheating.