MSI GS63VR 6RF Stealth Pro (15.6-inch, 2016)

Ports for days ; Beautiful display ; Lightweight ; Solid performance

Touchpad is bad – really bad

The MSI GS63VR 7RG Stealth Pro is quick, well designed and as powerful as a laptop of this size can get. Now if MSI would only fix the touchpad, it’d be practically perfect.

We need to details such as price and battery life but the MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro is a seriously sleek and portable gaming laptop. With Nvidia Max-Q it's got a GTX 1070 plus plenty of other great specs.

Sleek, good-looking chassis; Great graphics and overall performance; Lovely display; Comfortable customizable keyboard ; Runs hot when gaming; Finicky touchpad ; Packing an Nvidia Max-Q GPU, the MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro delivers the power of a big gaming...

Runs hot when gaming; Finicky touchpad ; Packing an Nvidia Max-Q GPU, the MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro delivers the power of a big gaming rig in a superslim body.

Packing an Nvidia Max-Q GPU, the MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro delivers the power of a big gaming rig in a superslim body.

Slim, attractive chassis; Good graphics and overall performance; Agile transfer speeds; Very comfortable keyboard ; Runs hot when gaming; Subpar battery life ; The MSI GS63VR offers the portability of a 14-inch gaming laptop with the graphics and...

Runs hot when gaming; Subpar battery life ; The MSI GS63VR offers the portability of a 14-inch gaming laptop with the graphics and performance of a desktop replacement.

The MSI GS63VR offers the portability of a 14-inch gaming laptop with the graphics and performance of a desktop replacement.

nice design with good build quality ; thin and light ; high performance ; good keyboard with multi-colored illumination ; almost full sRGB coverage ; fast WLAN ; useful software additions ; sufficient storage ; modern ports ; VR-ready (HTC Vive, ...)

GPU throttling in extreme scenarios and on battery power ; loud fans under load, audible HDD ; meager sound ; limited maintainability ; mediocre battery runtimes ; port layout ; high surface temperatures with 3D workloads ; slow card reader

MSI's GS63VR Stealth Pro is a good evolution of the predecessor. The chassis is even slightly slimmer than before and the GPU performance has been increased dramatically thanks to Nvidia's new generation of graphics cards. The temperatures are still...

Thin and light chassis without compromised cooling. Very powerful for its size: the GTX 1060 is a fantastic 1080p gaming GPU. Great keyboard and great selection of I/O.

Premium priced. Difficult to upgrade RAM and SSD. Minor design issues, including a rubbish trackpad.

Still crazy slim and light for a powerful gaming laptop. NVIDIA Pascal GTX 1060 performance beats the old GTX 980M. Good keyboard

Still hot and loud, but not as bad as previous generations. Display contrast isn't good, battery life is middling

As ever, MSI is first with next generation gaming laptops (a few Asus models are out too). As ever, MSI offers the lightest and skinniest high end gaming laptops on the market starting under $2,000 (Razer specializes in the higher price tier, with...

A nice lightweight extremely capable gaming laptop with a very effective cooling system.

Being predominantly used to Macs and OS, I still dislike Windows 10