JULY 2019 PCWorld 53airplane mode, at a relatively bright 250 to
260 nits. We’d rank that in the good range.
In general use where you don’t push the
GPU or CPU hard, we’d say expect from
four to six hours depending on the task. If
you run a game or CPU-intensive task,
expect battery life to plunge to an hour or
two, in a worst-case scenario.
BOTTOM LINE
It’s hard to believe but when we first saw the
original MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RE a year
ago, there was scant competition in its class.
Sure, you had Gigabyte’s Aero 15X series (go.
pcworld.com/a15x)
(heavier) and the original
Asus ROG Zephyrus
GX501 (go.pcworld.com/
gx50) (faster but heavier,
with compromised battery
life), but few other players
were pushing the kind of
performance you got in the
GS65 Stealth Thin.
Today, however, it feels
like a whole different
world. Besides Alienware’s
m15 (go.pcworld.com/
lm15), Acer’s Predator
Triton 500 and the Razer
Blade 15 (go.pcworld.
com/bl15) among others,
thin gaming laptops are a
crowded field now. Against
this crowded field, the GS65 Stealth Thin
offers top-notch performance in its class and
is very price-competitive too. It just doesn’t
have the same uniqueness it once did.MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 9SD
PROS- Features the latest Intel and Nvidia hardware.
- Still pretty damn light.
CONS - Trackpad is always under you palm.
- The extra six ounces of weight the newest GS65
puts it far closer to the competition.
$1,699
Rise of the Tomb Raider echoes our synthetic 3DMark results for the
GS65 and its GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU.Dell XPS 15 9570
(Core i7-8750H)
MSI GS75 Stealth
(Core i7-8750H)
M(Core i7-9750H)SI GS65 Stealth Thin
Acer Predator Titan 500(Core i7-8750H)
Dell G7(Core i7-8750H)
M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS65
Origin PC EVO-17S
(Core i9-8950HK)
Alienware Area-51m R1
(Core i9-9900K)
Acer Predator Helios 500
(Ryzen 7 2700)4K battery life
(Minutes)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE847332374136399323354134
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