rzaman
So got this thing because I needed a windows laptop for some unity development and the macbook pro/imac I have wont cut it. First issue, while setting up I got to the fingerprint part of setup and it locked up. No biggie, just restarted and skipped that part and then did it after it booted up the first time and all was well. Get Unity and several other large programs loaded and do all of the updates from windows and now the fingerprint reader stops working. Begin the googling, try installing driver, deleting driver, updating driver, go to MSIs website download that driver and nothing works to get it back to operational. Look in device manager and it just has a exclamation point on it. So I try rolling back windows to previous state before updates, still nothing. Next step, I do a factory reset and choose the quick option. Wait 20 minutes and go through setup but fingerprint reader doesnt work still. It didnt even give me the option to set it up. Next step, do factory reset again but choose the longer (erase all data securely and overwrite it). This take about 1.5 hours, and I go through set up again. Its working...everything begins working. I just dont let windows update and load everything I need on it and create a restore point so I have a working machine. About midnight as Im installing the last item and logging into the last account I notice two things. First, my windows license is not activated, so I click on that and give it a go and it fails. Whatever, I could mess with that later and find the code in the book. Then I notice the final straw...a bunch of dead pixels in the center of the screen about four inches from the left. After all that setup I call it a night and called Amazon today. The got MSI on the phone who offered to have me send it in so they can replace the screen...its less than 24 hours old at this point. I opt to return to amazon instead. I really wanted to like it, but it was a nightmare for me with that particular machine. Maybe I just got a lemon. I gave it two stars because for the price you get a lot...a good graphics card, tons of RAM, decent SSD and its lightweight. The power port location was a bit awkward since it was on the right side in the middle (why?). Also the USBs werent in a very intuitive position. All these little things kept this from being a great laptop and the issues I personally had made this a complete waste of time.
