Tag Archives: Laptop

In need of a new laptop? Fancy getting into VR? Well then you might be in luck. We are teaming up with Acer to give away an Aspire 7 notebook bundled with an Acer Mixed Reality headset for WIndows 10!

This version of the Aero15X is a little more expensive than the model we’ve reviewed before – and it’s more expensive than the Razer Blade, which is its key rival.

If you are a TV enthusiast or even an audio enthusiast, then chances are you’ve come across Dolby before. The company is currently pushing its Dolby Vision HDR technology for TVs and bringing Dolby Atmos ‘cinema quality sound’ to homes. Now, Dolby is taking on a new endeavour, the company …

The battle for top spot in the gaming laptop market continues to intensify, with notebook specs improving all the time. MSI is clearly one of the front runners and working hard to innovate its way to a leadership position. At Computex 2017, we caught up with MSI marketing guru, Chris Gough. As …

At its press conference in Taipei, AMD has announced that the RX Vega consumer GPU will launch at SIGGRAPH 2017 which starts on July 30th. Also confirmed was the summer 2017 launch date for Threadripper and the X399 high-end platform, with further details being given. Vega: AMD will launch the Frontier …

The Razer Blade with GTX 1060 not cut it? Why not upgrade it with a full on desktop GTX 1080 instead via the CORE system?

One of the bigger competitions at Insomnia i60 was the massive gaming laptop giveaway at the MSI-Sponsored VR Experience on the Overclockers stand. The closing date is 25th April, so watch the video for a chance to win! With over 40,000 gamers of all shapes, sizes and ages walking through …

Eurocom are a Canadian company. That’s unusual, but even so we won’t drag up a weak joke about Bryan Adams, Rush or maple syrup.

Are a GTX 1050 Ti and a Core i7-7700HQ a smart team for 1080p gaming on MSI's GE72 7RE?

A GTX 1060 and Kaby Lake i7 combined with a 14"-class 3K display. How is the Aorus X3 Plus v7?

MSI have been producing a fine line of gaming-oriented laptops for the last couple of years and today we look at their latest super slimline 17 inch model which features a Core i7 processor, Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics, and a 4k IPS panel along with Steelseries keyboard and Killer networking. …

From the moment Nvidia announced its new GTX 10-series graphics chips we only had one question ‘When will we see the new MSI Titan?’. Well, the answer is ‘now’. The previous GT80S 6QF Titan was a gaming monster that packed dual GTX 980 GPUs in SLI along with a Core …

MSI GT62VR 6RE Dominator Pro 4K has an absurdly long model name that gives us a fair amount of information about this impressive gaming laptop. The GT part tells us this is a chunky chassis that can dissipate a fair amount of heat, VR shows support for your Oculus Rift …

Around eight years ago, a man named Vincent Deroo-Blanquart set out to buy a Sony laptop in France for €549. Like most laptops, it came with Windows pre-installed, something that he wasn't planning on using, so he contacted Sony to see if he could get a refund for the software. …

These days, any system worth its salt should probably include an SSD, whether it be just for booting or general storage. However, when it comes to laptops, a lot of vendors do still use traditional hard drives for many cheaper models. However, that could change fairly soon, as market researchers …

Gaming on the go is set to get a lot more impressive with this generation of mobile chips from Nvidia, and MSI, like many manufacturers, is looking to take advantage of that. It has a new line of gaming notebooks, each sporting new mobile Pascal GPUs, high-end displays and powerful …

Update:  You can read our performance analysis of The Division on PC, HERE.  The Division launched this week and while our performance review isn't up just yet, it will be landing soon! However, we're not here to talk about that right now. If you jumped into the game at launch, …

A couple of weeks ago, AMD began teasing that it was working on something new for external graphics cards and today, the company finally put its cards on the table, showing off XConnect, a new feature aimed to make external graphics solutions as good as they should be. Starting from …

The Surface Book was one of the more exciting announcements to come out of Microsoft towards the end of last year and while it has been available in the US for a while now, it looks like the laptop/tablet hybrid is finally heading over to the UK, with pre-orders set …

LG has gone ahead and revealed its lineup of products for CES 2016, which takes place early next month. New products that we can expect to see more of at the trade show next month include ultra-wide 21:9 monitors, 4K gaming monitors and a super light laptop for productivity. On …

Way back at the start of the year, Samsung unveiled the ATIV Book 9, a relatively low power laptop featuring an Intel Core M chip in a thin and light form factor. Now, Samsung has taken the ATIV Book 9 back to the drawing board and beefed it up a …

Being the first to release a new piece of hardware using new processors is always a good way to net yourself a few early adopter sales, which is no doubt what MSI is hoping for with its release of the WT72 workstation aimed at high performing enterprise users. Sporting sixth …

Gaming Notebooks have come a long way over the last few years, they have gotten thinner, lighter and now they are going to come with full-blown desktop-grade GPUs packed inside. Nvidia has today revealed that it has managed to cram a fully spec'd GTX 980 in to gaming notebooks. This …

Retrofitted with a new CPU based on Intel’s latest-and-greatest Broadwell micro-architecture, MSI’s GT72 2QE Dominator Pro G also ships with an additional gaming-centric gem – the use of a 1920×1080 G-Sync panel that runs at 75Hz. As is expected from MSI’s GT72 series of gaming laptops, a considerable portion of …

There are a lot of companies vying for attention at this year's Computex, with everything from NAS drives to drinks dispensing desktop cases. MSI has taken a different route however and merely put front and centre some of the most powerful gaming laptops ever seen. The first one up is …

It sounds like the script for one of the Pornhub's many thousands of videos. One dedicated fan of the adult video site recently posted a picture of his broken laptop, after he allegedly punched the screen when it froze just as his mother was coming up the stairs. Apparently having …

Ah to be a member of parliament. Not only do you get an average, basic salary of £67,060, expenses to cover a second home, staff and other -not always relevant – costs, but as of the May election, when everyone returns to work, they'll be given a free iPad Air …

At CES today Dell announced refreshes of it's XPS 13 and XPS 15 Ultrabooks, with the XPS 13 seemingly getting most of the attention. The reason for this is that Dell is claiming that the XPS 13 is the smallest 13-inch Ultrabook available today, along with the stunning virtually borderless “infinity display” that …

When MicroStar International (MSI) introduced its truly monstrous GT80 gaming laptop last year, the company clearly impressed the whole world with a fully-fledged mechanical keyboard as well as with extreme performance such system could deliver. What MSI did not say last November were exact specifications of the system as well …

Well, well. The time has come. Over 20,000 of you sent through responses to one of our biggest competitions of the year, to try and win a brand new MSI GT70, 2OD gaming laptop worth over £2,500, and now the task lies with me to let down 19,999 of you. For …