Sir Loin
Utter disaster right out of the box. TWICE! The first machine suicided the OS on the first windows update literally the day after unboxing it. MSi was like, dude, re-install the OS somehow lol. So I went back to Amazon who immediately sent out a replacement. The second one continually crashed, bugged out, etc., from the first week on as seen in the images. Literally just closing it and opening it up later was a 50/50 proposition if it would wake up, or the display would crash, or the disk would crash, or some driver would fail - on a brand new laptop. Meanwhile, the other laptop and gaming PC I built previously for my kids from parts I bought on Newegg are both humming along with zero issues, and its teenagers using them. Its like MSi tried to find components that conflicted with each other and with the OS. As I missed the return window on this second laptop by like a week, Im stuck with it. Ill probably use the parts and make my own machine again. I could see getting a bad one, but two crap machines in a row... **UPDATE - so I closed and opened this laptop again, and the simple act of putting it to sleep and waking it up, as usual, caused a problem. The credentials for logging into the machine got corrupted, so there literally is no login box to enter the password on the login screen. The machine refuses to diagnose or repair itself, so for like the 4th or 5th time on a month old laptop, my only recourse is to do a machine wipe and recovery. WTF? Fortunately, there is an MSi warranty that is still valid so Im going to see if I can get them to take this $800 door stopper back.
