frontpagephoinix | Staff posted Jun 13, 2026 05:00 AM
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frontpagephoinix | Staff posted Jun 13, 2026 05:00 AM
Woot! Sale: Factory Reconditioned MSI Gaming Laptops
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Tech support quoted me repair prices higher than the brand new price.
I'll never buy that brand again.
I'm amazed it got enough thumbs up to make it front page cause there isn't a single one laptop which is a good deal. Crazy...
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SD is not what it used to be. A staff member posts a deal, immediately get 100 likes from their SYMP farm, zero people bought the item. Hmm...
The first laptop the mousepad stopped working completely. Tried reinstalling drivers, etc, nothing fixed it. The battery doesn't last more than 5 minutes when unplugged. Both these issues happened right after 1 yr warranty basically making this no longer a laptop. Had to walk with a mouse and the chord whenever I wanted to use it.
The second laptop came with newest i9 and 5070 ti. One of the fans started to make a grinding noise not even a year in. Had to pay 60 in shipping to send it for warranty work. They replaced the fan. Also, since I got the laptop it randomly freezes and crashes constantly with any external monitor/tv plugged in. Not when gaming, but just surfing the web and other desktop activities. Doesn't happen if I don't use an external monitor.
I would avoid msi laptops at all costs honestly.
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Early on, I had a power supply that died within warranty period (replaced free under warranty) and the keyboard has begun to fail (several keys don't work, parts to repair are over $100, so I now use an external keyboard).
The build quality initially didn't feel like shit, but it's just been a downhill battle, to the point that I would not recommend MSI if another quality laptop is within budget. I've owned Lenovo (non-gaming) and a Razer refurb without issues. I may look into Lenovo going forward.
Early on, I had a power supply that died within warranty period (replaced free under warranty) and the keyboard has begun to fail (several keys don't work, parts to repair are over $100, so I now use an external keyboard).
The build quality initially didn't feel like shit, but it's just been a downhill battle, to the point that I would not recommend MSI if another quality laptop is within budget. I've owned Lenovo (non-gaming) and a Razer refurb without issues. I may look into Lenovo going forward.
I would recommend these for sure. Had to manually add RAM and probably will have to install an additional nvme on the Legion but I think it was only like $800 or so, waited for a Black Friday or year end sale 👍
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For laptops because they have a limited thermal budget and also because Nvidia dominates the market the 5070 Ti mobile and the 5050 are best value for the high and low end respectively. The 5070 Ti used to be the cheapest card with 12GB VRAM which is a req for 1440p modern games (now certain 5070s are as well) making the 5060 and 5070 not worth it when you need at least 10-12 for QHD and they cost more than 5050. The 5050 is perfect for FHD since it is cheap and has the same VRAM as those two and because it's a cheap card is not intended for higher res but it can play most games fine at 1080p.
Anyway laptop gpu rant aside. MSI laptops are pretty bad, but their high-end stuff is good. Most of their cheap stuff is put together very poorly, and the hinges have been notorious for a while now. They are on the low tier of Acer and also Gigabyte, which is funny these two well-known PC companies can't make solid laptops like the big players except for their high-end stuff. Dell, HP, Asus, and Lenovo make far better cheap laptops, and generally speaking TDP is less of a concern with cheap laptops unlike high end ones where TDP makes a large difference between the same gpu. The 50/60 series is pretty good for laptops because they often match desktop counterparts in both price and performance. The higher you go, the less performance you get per $ just because of the physics of stuffing that much heat into such a small space.
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