MSI GE65 Raider
Price: £2,098 from fave.co/2kJ3L19
MSI’s GE65 Raider is proof of how far gaming laptop performance has come. Just two years ago, a top-end gaming laptop would run on a quad-core 7th-gen CPU. The GE65 Raider doubles the core count with its 9th-gen Core i7-9880H chip. Real-time ray tracing support? It has that, too, with its full-power GeForce RTX 2070. All this, mind you, weighs 2.27kg. This much power at this weight comes with a compromise, though, which we’ll get to later.
Size and weight
The laptop measures in at 357.7x248x26.9mm. It weighs 2.27kg. Throw in its massive 280-watt charger, and you add another 1kg to your backpack. We should point out we actually found the size of the GE65 to be very appealing. It’s not anywhere near as slender as its GS65 Stealth sibling, but it feels and looks amazingly compact considering its performance.
That same thickness also lets MSI jam in up to seven heat pipes inside. The CPU gets two dedicated heat pipes and two more shared with the GPU, while the GPU gets three dedicated pipes.
Upgrade options
First the bad news: there
