Face Off: The Better Multimedia Notebook with GTX 1050 Graphics

[Redaktion]

Identical performance at almost twice the price. Notebooks with the GTX 1050 Pascal can be had for as low as $1000 USD while the similarly equipped XPS 15 can retail for $1700 USD. Should users spend hundreds less on the HP Pavilion 15t or MSI GL62M when performance is nearly identical between the three?

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Face-Off-The-Better-Multimedia-Notebook-with-GTX-1050-Graphics.213252.0.html

[Nuyan POI]

You guys need to review Yoga 720 15" as well.

[concerned reader]

What about coil whine problem? It's well known that Dell's XPS / Latitudes used to have this issue. In my opinion coil whine pretense makes a laptop totally not usable by a humans.

[Nerdferkel]

I actually bought his particular MSI computer a few weeks ago. I got a decent deal on it too. For what I paid, I'm quite pleased. A good friend of mine bought an XPS 15 at about the same time. Yes, it's certainly a nice machine, but he paid more than twice what I paid. I'm not sure it's twice the computer. I was wondering if I was just telling myself that to make myself feel better; this article helped ease my self doubt a little. Thanks.

[Mark Finney]

One thing to consider for future reviews of comparable machines is that there are other uses for these powerful larger laptops, such as editing photos and videos on the move. As a photographer I want great image fidelity, a blazing CPU, a good GPU, at least 16 gb ram and fast storage - with the option for adding more. I'm still looking to find such a machine, even if the 4K XPS15 seems to be the closest at the moment.