MSI GX60 1AC-025

Casing's cool surfaces ; Very potent graphics card ; Matte, Full HD screen ; Blu-ray drive ; Many interfaces ; Strong battery ; Great sound ; Fair price

Unusual keyboard layout ; Very flashy design ; Weak processor ; Sensitive lid ; Bulky chassis

The processor has a surprisingly high influence on the gaming performance

Excellent graphics performance for price; Full HD matte display; Powerful THX speakers; Long battery life ; Runs cool

Chunky design; Small touchpad; Keyboard not backlit

Click to EnlargeBudget minded gamers should no doubt give the GX60 a serious look. Its impressive Batman: Arkham City scores alone should tell you that this AMD workhorse is no slouch. The 1080p matte screen makes movies and games look like candy for...

Extremely powerful graphics card; Sharp anti-glare screen; Decent speakers; Solid keyboard; Loads of connectivity options; Low temperatures; Comes with decent gaming mouse

No backlit keyboard; Typical MSI bloatware; CPU bottlenecks some games

I needn’t remind you dear reader that the AMD Radeon HD 7970M performs on par with the Nvidia GTX 680M and is literally one of the fastest mobile GPU’s on the planet right now, to the point that the performance is double what anything lower (from both...

This laptop is perfect for the price,runs everything maxed with fee exceptions sky rim will run at 60 fps on ultra with shadows turned to medium and distant object detail on med,however after I installed an ssd and win 7 it will play on ultra with 60...

WINDOWS 8 IS TRASH..INSTALL WINDOWS 7 AND AN SSD ASAP ; A10 4600m is on par with high end i3 or low end i5 but an ssd helps it a lot,still for the price I can't complain,or drop an egg for that matter

All AMD. Let's face it, this is a fanboi box ; It's quick for everyday productivity tasks ; Runs engineering applications rather well considering the price I paid open box ; Better battery life than is stated. 7 hours is easy to get around the house...

It looks horribly unprofessional ; Plastic abounds --and it's poor quality bubble plastic. I'm worried about durability to be quite frank ; The built in speakers are not as bad as some machines I have seen, but they aren't on par with most newer...

specs

excessive light bleeding. white blotches against dark screen

Fast, fast, fast. Top of the line Radeon GPU on a very affordable machine

Fan is loud, but that is to be expected on a machine with this level of performance

High price to power ratio ; Quiet ; Fast ; Best AMD mobile graphics card and processor at the time

Windows 8

Games look awesome ; Good battery life ; Excellent sound quality ; Aggressively priced

A10 processor isn't good enough ; Radeon HD 7970M graphics held back ; Disappointing SSD RAID array ; Thick chassis ; Gets hot under load

The GX60's powerful AMD components aren't up to the standard we expect from a gaming laptop