Review: MSI GT62VR Dominator Pro

By Gabe Carey

Introduction and design

We first went hands-on with MSI’s Pascal series laptops about a month ago at a press conference where the company boasted, once again, that its latest gaming laptops were prone to ‘shatter desktop performance’.

Featuring the same power of the Nvidia Pascal desktop GPUs we were all drooling over not three months prior, it’s not hard to see where MSI was coming from. After all, these weren’t GTX 1070Ms, they were the full-on, kick-ass GTX 1070 proper.

The GT62VR is just one of MSI’s many renamed gaming models in an attempt to take on virtual reality in the notebook space, a sly move separate from the company’s “VR backpack” initiative. In spite of Nvidia’s split focus between 4K and VR with its Pascal series cards, it’s crystal-clear what MSI’s target is. After all, you can’t spell GT62VR without VR.

Design

Though a beast on the inside, the surface of the MSI GT62VR is a different story. Wrapped in a mostly plastic shell, the GT62VR’s display feels fragile and flimsy while the rest of the system is excruciatingly bottom-heavy.

Sure, the GT62VR is a gaming laptop, so it’s not meant to be lugged around on your back in …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac