YESSS!!! Favorite subject! Haha.
I love my MSi GP72 6QF 17" laptop. It's got an Intel Core i7, it's actually built really well with solid materials (rare now adays it seems aside from Mac), it has 16GB of RAM upgradeable to 32, and it has an nVidia GTX960M. I also have a 256GB SSD in it and added another 1TB SSD as well.
The best part about it is it is extremely lightweight, nice looking, ergonomic, and powerful. It's very difficult to find a laptop which meets all of these. On top of that, I love the screen real estate and I love that it's an "anti-glare" screen rather than a glossy screen. Even more, it has an upgraded cooling system where when I'm working the processor (I do this all the time for my job since I analyze software and am constantly running giant jobs scanning for strings, encryption, etc...), I hit the button and it fires up a couple extra fans and runs them at high speed. It also has 6 added heat pipes. Despite all of that, this thing is only like maybe 2lbs/1kg or less basically. When I got this guy, I got it for only $1,000. An equivalent Mac at the time would have costed $2,500 LOL. I was like, yeah the trackpad on a Mac is better... But not $1,500 better.
I never understood the argument that a 17" laptop is "not portable." As far as I'm concerned, any laptop is portable. But maybe that's because I go to the gym and I used to work a job where I had to carry _real weight! _When I was in college, I carried one this big and about 3x as heavy on my back all day!
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