Thoughts on MSI GE62 apache?

[Becausei'mBatman]

So i am in the market for a laptop does anybody have/had a msi ge62? I haven't found many reviews on it on youtube with the most recent of versions. specs:

i7 5700hq

gtx 960m

128gb ssd+ 1tb 7200rpm hdd

fhd 15" screen

win10 

the price of all this is 1100euros.

[don_svetlio]

solid laptop.

[Scruffy90]

I have the GE62 Apache pro and for the price its an amazingly build laptop. Only thing I dislike is its battery life.

[Philosobyte]

A review of its Skylake successor came out today, and I imagine the screen and case are almost exactly the same. 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-GE62-6QD-Apache-Pro-Notebook-Review.156814.0.html

[don_svetlio]

A review of its Skylake successor came out today, and I imagine the screen and case are almost exactly the same. 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-GE62-6QD-Apache-Pro-Notebook-Review.156814.0.html

With the exception that the 6700HQ runs hotter than the 4720HQ and 5700HQ and a bit slower since it only turbos up to 2.9 on all 4 cores as opposed to 3.4 and 3.3 on the Haswell and Broadwell chips. As for temps, intel seem to have gone back to the crappy TIM to cut costs.

[Becausei'mBatman]

With the exception that the 6700HQ runs hotter than the 4720HQ and 5700HQ and a bit slower since it only turbos up to 2.9 on all 4 cores as opposed to 3.4 and 3.3 on the Haswell and Broadwell chips. As for temps, intel seem to have gone back to the crappy TIM to cut costs.

I didn't really understand the i7 5700hq winning vs i7 6700hq in almost all benchmarks, i chose this version because the one with 6700hq doesn't have an ssd and costs the same.

[don_svetlio]

I didn't really understand the i7 5700hq winning vs i7 6700hq in almost all benchmarks, i chose this version because the one with 6700hq doesn't have an ssd and costs the same.

6700HQ is slower since it's clocked around 500MHz lower and even though the architecture is better, that's still half a GHz.

[GarnetDevil]

Apart from the battery life (it's a fucking gaming laptop ffs)

The MSI GE62 is solid, I have one and really satisfied of it