having a shitton of money to spend might help as well . <| sep |> Quick review for those considering MSI GL 62 above nbsptldr IMO the best technical specification for it ' s price point , cheaper than most similar specs on 16 GB RAM , 128 GB SSD 1 TB HDD , and GTX 960 M . Good build , good midhigh gaming performance . Great keyboard but no backlight . soso trackpad , the lid is a fingerprint magnet . nbspI bought the MSI GL 626 QF last month around 3 weeks ago from Ebuyer . com for 800 GBPmsigl 626 qfapacheprogaminglaptop 9 s 716 j 5621089 . As for some background , I ' m a software engineer Android and I play some games . Desktop is not an option right now since I ' m only staying for at least 1 year in UK , and I can work in some coffee shops or library around the campus if I want to . I need CPU power and RAM , so i 7 and 16 GB RAM is nice , most I ' ve used is 12 GB right now Android Studio project compile with Mozilla Firefox and several desktop chat client Game performance is good , 960 M should be enough to play latest games on mediumhigh resolution , I played these games Dota 2 90120 FPS , Civilization V 80 FPS , CSGO above 100 FPS , DivinityOriginal Sin 6080 FPS , and Skyrim no mods 70 FPS , all played on 19201080 resolution Ultra detail , without any noticeable problems . Keyboard is great , good spacing between keys and has good travel , I do expect a good one from Steelseries but this one is really above my expectation . No backlight . There ' s a button to activate more fan at the back of the laptop and increase the speed for better cooling , I use it when playing games since the temperature inrcrease is noticeable when the GTX 960 M kicks in . I think it ' s called CoolerBoost Fan noise isn ' t audible on normal usage but gets rough when CoolerBoost is activated . I think it ' s okay to bring this to the class Haven ' t really tested the battery life since I always set my laptop to high performance and do heavy computing most of the time . It lasted 1 hour 30 mins 2 hours on high performance and lots of compiling . I don ' t game on battery TouchPad isn ' t that good , usable , but not good enough for me , I used a Steelseries Kinzu v 2 mostly . Screen looks good enough . I honestly doesn ' t know the difference with the others because I ' m not really using this laptop for image editing , but it has a nice contrast and since I didn ' t usually watch in HD resolution , this is an improvement . also I have partial colorblind p I rarely use the speaker because I use a headphone so I can ' t comment on this . Overall build quality is good , looks sturdy , but the surface is fingerprint magnet , something to consider . Has some bloatware but it ' s easy to clear it on the first few hours , no complaints here . Weighs around 2 . 3 kg , or around 4 . 6 lbsI think that should cover most of the features that you ' ll be using , feel free to ask if you have questions . Cheers ! P . S if you buy from Ebuyer , it ' s 50 GBP cheaper than the current amazon offer 484 UK 156 InchGamingNotebookdpB 01 LMWCCXW , but they deliver using Yodel , so if you have any concerns , you can snag the Amazon one instead .