MSI - Stealth 15M 15.6" 144hz Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 - 1TB SSD - 16GB - Black

Really light, slim, sleek laptop. Chassis seems good enough. IPS screen had a good color. Very portable and easy to carry. It's pretty quick overall to turn on as well, maybe less than 5 seconds to boot up. As the other reviews have mentioned, the fan is fairly active and would turn on while browsing the web, but I personally didn’t mind it. The laptop did sometimes get warm without doing any gaming too (just idling on a web browser or something). The temperature and fan software the laptop comes with (Dragon Center) let me keep an eye on things and there is a silent fan mode, though I didn’t try it out. RTX graphics card is pretty powerful. I ran APEX legends with high graphics and got a consistent 100+ FPS. What’s dragging down the rating was that I received a defective keyboard. Some keys on the keyboard were a bit stuck, and they would actually jam. After examining the jam, keys would actually come off. See my photo. I managed to put the keys back on, but after 3 days of use I ended up returning the laptop in person after buying it online, since this shouldn’t be an issue plaguing a $1,500 laptop. Unfortunately, I couldn’t exchange so the deal I utilized while buying the laptop is gone. Best Buy customer service however gave me a full refund. Other issues: I came from an MSI GP60 2PE that’s 7 years old, and I think it has a higher maximum volume and better bass than this laptop. Also, the key to turn off the backlight was not working at all (it could have been due to the defective keyboard). The keyboard build itself didn't feel very strong either. It’s safe to say that I’ll be looking for another laptop in this holiday season.

I purchased this laptop before i knew a thing about pc gaming. They really try to sell newcomers with the “11th gen intel i7”. Bottom line? The CPU is not great. Don’t get me wrong, this is a good gaming machine that can run most games well over the standard. But find a laptop with a better CPU even if it’s $100-$200 more it’s worth it. I have many performance problems on several games because the cpu simply can’t keep up with the gpu. As strange as it sounds, cranking up your graphics settings can fix many if these issues (sometimes) but it’s really not worth the headache, and the cpu will probably be completely obsolete in the next few years. Leaving you with a laptop that has a very capable GPU, but a worthless CPU. Keep in mind that some games will run better than others, so look into what games you like, and what they require. RDR2 for example runs great on this laptop, some frame drops down to about 50 in larger areas on Ultra-High settings, that’s nothing to complain about. Rainbow Six Siege on the other hand, runs at a nice 130-144 fps on max settings UNTIL it randomly drops down to 25-55 fps for several seconds 1-3 times per play session.

I love this laptop and the performance. This laptop was my dream come true. I always loved playing games but i was getting poor performance on other laptops. I highly recommend this one. Price and performance is on point.

As a gaming laptop, this MSI Stealth certainly provides plenty of bells and whistles to supplement your gaming experience in a small package. even being surprisingly beefy and is able to run modern games at a consistent framerate on medium-low settings. BUT... At the same time, I've had noting but issues with this laptop since I got it to begin with, from failing batteries, to random BSODs, to the keyboard al of a sudden deciding that certain keys don't work anymore. The cherry on top is that each time I contacted MSI, they weren't much help either. This laptop might hold you over for now. But I wouldn't recommend this thing long term

I don't understand where all these five star reviews are coming from but apparently we aren't using the same laptop. I was excited when I was getting a laptop with NVidia's RTX 3060 graphics card. At the time I was looking to upgrade my PC's graphic card but the 3000s were to expensive or out of stock. Till I came across this diamond in the rough, or so I thought. When I first got it I realized that the fans were really loud, not only were they loud but they barely do anything to cool the laptop down, my laptop has gotten so hot, even in rest/sleep mode, that I couldn't even touch it, I had to sit it in front of a fan for a few minutes first. Not to mention it freezes a lot and not just on games that go heavy on the graphics card but for EVERYTHING. I think I also came across one review where it said that ray tracing is bad, I am here to confirm it. I put on ray tracing in Cyberpunk and the game started to lag horribly, I had to take it off for the game to run smoothly again. The batter life is so bad it's laughable, it's so bad that I just leave it on the charger, there is no point in trying to take it off you'll be looking for it in a few moments anyway. Not to mention that game performance just tanks when the charger isn't plugged in. Even if you set the battery settings to high performance if the charger isn't plugged in, performance will still be abysmal. The speakers are a joke, I have to use external speakers just to hear anything or sit in a room so quiet you can hear a pin drop (but that doesn't even matter once the fans turn on). Finally, the mouse/touchpad works when it wants to. It's like one day it works, the next it doesn't, it's so bad to the point that I just use an external mouse. The only praise that I can give to this laptop that it works fine for stuff that doesn't involve gaming. I can do my school work on it just fine without it freezing. It boots up pretty fast and web browsing is seamless. However, if I was just looking for a everyday laptop for my school work, I wouldn't pay this much for it. I just want it to be known that I am no computer expert. All I know is my experience with this laptop from a casual gamer standpoint and let me tell you...it ain't good.

Looking for a new laptop was a bit of a pain. The more you try and compare one to another, you think you have it and then realize you are missing something you need. This is one of the only units out there that checked all of my boxes. 11th gen processor, 3060 GPU, 16 GB, 1TB SSD, Thunderbolt ports, micro SD slot, front camera and usb ports. The main thing I do is video editing with Power Director 365. Last night I had my first chance to produce a 35 min HD video. My old laptop took roughly 55 min to do a 35 min simple video. It now took only 14 min. The touch pad is more sensitive than my old one so I will have to get used to it. Just an fyi you can change the color of the backlight on the keyboard or turn it off in the dragon center. So far I am very happy with my decision. One more thing some of the reviews of older Stealth 15 mentioned a loud fan. They may have updated it because I could barley hear it when it was producing last night.

This laptop is kinda loud for being something that is called stealth and it is freezing issues where the screen will freeze up after being on it for some time so you will have to restart the laptop. It also is a little laggy at times. Otherwise the fps performance on games is decent.

Overall, this laptop was a good purchase! It was on the cheaper end of gaming laptops when I got it, and it’s performance leaves nothing to be desired. The only issues I’ve had with it other than the low battery life (2-3 hours?) may be more Windows problems than the laptop itself though. It was a weird issue with WiFi sometimes where it won’t recognize that there’s any WiFi around, took a while to fix that one. The other issue is that this specific laptop has issues with my specific KORG Microkey Air 2-37 MIDI keyboard. It will connect to other keyboards of the same brand, and my keyboard will connect to other Windows machines. Tried everything to fix it and no luck, so I’m not sure what that’s about. Otherwise, it’s been a great laptop for the few weeks I’ve had it! Runs quickly, restarts quickly, never had a lagging issue, the 1TB of storage is plenty for me, and it can do everything I need it to. Even runs the Unreal Engine! It whines about it but it gets the job done easily.