{"id":11800,"date":"2022-08-06T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/msi-gs77-stealth-review-dont-let-the-name-fool-you\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T15:10:36","slug":"msi-gs77-stealth-review-dont-let-the-name-fool-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/msi-gs77-stealth-review-dont-let-the-name-fool-you\/","title":{"rendered":"MSI GS77 Stealth review: don\u2019t let the name fool you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23291973\/msi-gs77-stealth-review-alder-lake-17-inch-gaming-laptop<\/a>
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Don\u2019t let the name fool you \u2014 there is nothing stealthy about this device. <\/p>\n

The MSI GS77 Stealth has long been the portable option among MSI\u2019s gaming elite, and while that fact remained dubiously true with last year\u2019s 5.4-pound GS76 Stealth<\/a>, this year\u2019s 0.79-inch-thick, 6.17-pound GS77 has effectively launched that idea into the sun. This laptop is big, thick, and bulky, and while it lacks the light strips<\/a> and LED grids<\/a> that other showy gaming laptops boast, its RGB keyboard still makes very clear that it\u2019s for gaming above all else. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t necessarily a huge knock against the device \u2014 the GS76 was quite light for what it was, and the GS77 has brought the Stealth series back in line with the rest of the 17-inch market. It now weighs a bit more than Razer\u2019s Blade 17<\/a> and Asus\u2019 Zephyrus S17<\/a>. And it\u2019s almost the same weight as MSI\u2019s more powerful GE76 Raider<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One can see why MSI may have wanted to go bigger because the chips inside have been frying just about every chassis they touch this year. The model we were sent includes a 12th Gen Core i7-12900H \u2014 one of the most powerful mobile chips in Intel\u2019s history \u2014 paired with Nvidia\u2019s RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage, all powering a 240Hz QHD screen.<\/p>\n

But the new girth takes away a major advantage that the GS77 used to have over these models: the GS77 Stealth appears to have lost some of what made it desirable as a \u201cportable\u201d buy. The keyboard is on the flat side, the touchpad is uncomfortably stiff, the battery life isn\u2019t good, and the device is too big and too heavy to reliably bring anywhere. What we\u2019re left with is a computer that asks many of the same compromises as the most powerful gaming laptops on the market without bringing the same exceptional frame rates. <\/p>\n

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