MSI’s GS70 Proves that Powerful Gaming Notebooks Don’t Have to be Huge

For those who like to game-on-the-go, nothing beats a good gaming laptop – at least until the time comes to move it. While notebooks in general are getting thinner than ever, beefier hardware requires a beefier build, and that of course means more weight, and a larger size. With MSI’s GS70 though, the company shows us that improvements can be made to our gaming notebooks, and that there’s no excuse to simply design a thicker notebook because it’s expected.

The GS70’s chassis measures at under 1″ thick, so closed up, it won’t take up an absurd amount of room in your bag, and at 5.73lbs, it’s a lot lighter than other gaming notebooks that have crossed our path (7lbs isn’t totally rare). Despite this slimming-down, the GS70 features Intel’s Haswell-based Core i7-4770HQ, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 765M 2GB, an mSATA SSD and a hard drive, 16GB of DDR3L-1600, Killer networking, four USB 3.0 ports, HDMI out, a 720p webcam, SteelSeries keyboard, 6-cell battery (no word on battery-life) and a 17″ display.

Two configurations exist, with the lesser-expensive one priced at $1,799, which includes a single 128GB SSD and 750GB hard drive; the $1,999 configuration doubles the SSDs for RAID 0 performance and bumps the hard drive to 1TB.

All-around, impressive specs, and top-rate aesthetics. Feel free to send one my way, MSI, I wouldn’t mind that one bit.