Thin GF63 15.6" 144Hz Gaming Laptop: 12th Gen Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050, 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD, Type-C, Cooler Boost 5, Win11 Home: Black 12VE-066US

Pros:Decent battery lifeEasy to upgrade. Just unscrew the bottom screws pop open the bottom lid (but be careful not to break the side ports and internal components obviously) and wala! You have access to the ssd ram and a spot for a 2.5” ssd or hdd. M.2 ssd and ram are fully upgradable. Ram goes up to 64gb max so you can do a lot with thatIt has usb 3.1 and usb cIt’s fairly low power and lightweight tooThe onboard gpu isn’t too bad but the RTX 4050 is pretty good for what I use too. Both gpus perform well in Daz Studio Marvelous Designer and BlenderI’m not a gamer but I do play GameCube Wii Gameboy and DS emulators and occasionally simcity 5 and a TON of simcity 4. On simcity 5 the most graphics intensive game i play I can crank the settings up to maximum using the RTX and it plays very smoothly and looks great as well.WiFi is wifi 6 so not too bad either but I use Ethernet so that doesn’t matter to me really all that muchCPU is a 10 core 12th gen i7 with upper 4.ghz range boost clock so cpu rendering in blender and Daz is fairly painless. It’s not gpu rendering but still very good—definitely good enough for me and I make big complex scenes with lots of lights characters VDBs special effects and other intricate stuff also I do short animation clips as well so let that be your gauge.Cons: more like nitpicking—because ya know we ALL have nitpicks about everythingIt’s not 2.5gb EthernetIt has red led keyboard not RGBIt too lightweight for me but that’s probably because all the previous laptops I owned were giant bricks of gaming laptops from the mid 2000s back when everyone used first generation i7s (or back then the ONLY generation i7s) you should have seen the dinosaur dell gaming laptop I had before this. Oomph! My back (and wallet) hurts just thinking about that old laptop I had before I bought this one. This is by far a massive upgrade and improvement!It’s ddr4 not ddr5 which is really not the worst thing for me as my gpu rendering workstation desktop pc runs a Maxwell gpus and 2666ghz ddr4 ram and it’s pretty good at gpu rendering.The RTX dedicated gpu is only 6gb vram but really for me I use it primarily for CPU rendering anyway and barely ever use the RTX on it except for computations in my rendering software and every once in a while my emulators and simcity 5 for which the RTX 6gb is plenty of VRAM for meThis laptop is definitely worth getting if you’re looking for a really good entry level gaming enulator gaming or CPU based 3d graphics modeling and rendering laptop

Waiting on some things to download but so far the benchmarking is showing it is a worthwhile upgrade over my old laptop.Laptop was very easy to open up (careful of the pins in the back they are very easy to snap upon inspection)Came with hardware and a free spot to install a 2.5" SATA SSD so I've got a lot more storage now. 2 ram slots are in use so 8GB each from factory. I am a little curious how well the cooling will work with just the one fan, but the copper tubing is much more than my 2 fan laptop. Temperatures stay stable around 70C under full load gaming.So far main issues is power consumption. Gaming at 1080p ultra definitely results in a power drain that the 120w charger cannot keep up with. Edit: After some research this is actually a feature of the MSI laptops to increase the longevity of battery capacity over time.