Costco Wholesale has for its
Members: MSI Alpha 15 Gaming Laptop (Alpha 15 B5EEK-080) on sale for
$999.99. Choose free warehouse pick up where stock permits, otherwise shipping is $9.99.
- Note: Availability for free warehouse pickup may vary by location.
Thanks to community member
kapeed1 for finding this deal.
Specs:
- AMD Ryzen 7-5800H 8-Core, 16-Thread (3.2GHz Base / 4.4GHz Boost) Processor
- 15.6" IPS Thin Bezel FHD (1920 x 1080) 144Hz Display
- 16GB DDR4 RAM
- 512GB NVMe Solid State Drive
- AMD Radeon RX 6600M Graphics
- Intel Wi-Fi 6E (2x2/160) Gig+ and Bluetooth 5.2
- Single Zone RGB Keyboard w/ Anti-Ghost Key
- Microsoft Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
- Ports:
- 1x USB 2.0
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1
- 1x HDMI
- 1x 3.5 mm combo audio jack,
- 1x RJ-45
Top Comments
Dell: Better GPU performance but the most tacky and bulky. Plenty of ports.
Summary: If you care about portability and looks, then MSI one is better but there are other laptops that does this much better. Otherwise, Dell one serve better both performance wise and as a workstation due to ports availability.
You would get a 2 year warranty on the laptop from Costco.
The 2070 is probably about 5% faster than the 6600m most of the time but they will trade blows in titles that favor team green or team red.
The CPU however has 2 more cores and 4 more threads, a higher single core benchmark score and would most certainly be an upgrade
Both screens have a response time of around 4-5ms and a similar color accuracy (according to online reviews) so really it would come down these key differences for me:
Warranty
CPU
GPU
Screen size
Weight
and then how important each of those things are to you.
The MSI is probably the better performing machine overall, but the Dell is probably slightly better when it comes to gaming due to having a (slightly) more powerful GPU and the fact that the i7 has a higher boost clock
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Or do you mean that the 3050 Ti only achieves about 2/3 of the performance of either the 6600M or 3070 Max-Q that people have been discussing?
Yeah you have the poverty spec AMD CPU, Omen 15 limits it to 35 watts when the GPU is active, pathetic LMFAO
You bought the only laptop that has such a sad CPU limit. All competitiors do the normal 45w+, just like the 5800H is supposed to do(it's a 45w tdp CPU ofc). Also your display has freesync until 60hz, so you don't even have freesync above 60hz. This is also something unique to the Omen 15.
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I purchased a Dell G7 7700 ( https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell...Id=6416473 [bestbuy.com] ) for $960 including taxes (I live in Oregon so no sales taxes, but I purchased out of state).
I had all the regular issues of throttling many have complained of until I reinstalled windows without the added Dell software and it has been perfect since.
I purchased from Best Buy and I think I have until the sixth to return it.
Assuming when I return it, they will return my tax paid (not sure if they do), is this laptop an upgrade? It's only $40 more and from Costco. But it's also a lot of hassle considering the Dell g7 works just fine.
Thoughts?
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