Official MSI GE60 & GE70 Owners' Lounge

[autobulb]

Thanks south_valhalla! Those temps are pretty good in my book. That certainly helps heaps.

How were the nose levels when you were testing, and in everyday usage?

[technoboy]

Hi, just have a question for anybody who already has their ge60. How is the build quality, screen quality and keyboard typing experience? Thanks!

[chiznitz]

UPS says out for delivery so it should be here tonight! newegg had a shell shock today , 2x8GB ram for 79.99. That will be here in 4 days or so

[Oats04]

any news on the GTX 660M for the Ge60?

[PerpetualBeginner]

any news on the GTX 660M for the Ge60?

I've been discussing this model with GenTech PC, and they told me that their GE60 shipment has been delayed due to the GTX 660M being added. They're expecting it "in June" now.

[PerpetualBeginner]

Question for those of you who are about to get your shiny new GE60/GE70: How is the S-Bar? It seems like I've heard nothing good about it at all, but there's always hope they've improved it with a new version. Specifically I'm wondering...
1) Is that star icon on the desktop still un-hideable?
2) If you shut it down, what stops working? I know you lose the hotkeys above the keyboard, but I've also read about cases in which the optical drive can't be opened without S-Bar running.

[Oats04]

I've been discussing this model with GenTech PC, and they told me that their GE60 shipment has been delayed due to the GTX 660M being added. They're expecting it "in June" now.

Ah that's a real bummer, i need a new lappy in the next 2 weeks

[south_valhalla]

Thanks south_valhalla! Those temps are pretty good in my book. That certainly helps heaps.

How were the nose levels when you were testing, and in everyday usage?

This is my new laptop in years so all I could compare the noise to was my desktop (AMD X3 445, ATI 5770, 3 Gigs RAM, 2 HDDs) and my old Toshiba L20 laptop. All I can say is that the GE70 is MUCH quieter than both and that the noise was something I barely noticed. Ive just ordered a Coolermaster Notepal EroStand as I'm a firm believer in getting hardware to run as cool as possible.

[south_valhalla]

Question for those of you who are about to get your shiny new GE60/GE70: How is the S-Bar? It seems like I've heard nothing good about it at all, but there's always hope they've improved it with a new version. Specifically I'm wondering...
1) Is that star icon on the desktop still un-hideable?
2) If you shut it down, what stops working? I know you lose the hotkeys above the keyboard, but I've also read about cases in which the optical drive can't be opened without S-Bar running.

From what I understand (I got my model without an optical drive...no one really uses them in S.Korea so they give you an SSD slot and an external ODD), and can see from GT70 reviews the GE70 does not have an eject button on the optical drive. You have to do it through windows or the s-bar.

[PerpetualBeginner]

... and can see from GT70 reviews the GE70 does not have an eject button on the optical drive. You have to do it through windows or the s-bar.

Oh right, Windows can eject it too. I forgot that part. Thanks for pointing that out.

I did some more looking and it seems that while the GT70 and GE70 don't have eject buttons on their drives, the GT60 and the GE60 (the one I want) both DO. That's a little odd, but I think it answers that part of my question.