Unfortunately, build quality has not been dramatically improved over the GS60 models and we find that it pales in comparison to the Razer Blade, Blade Pro, XPS 15, and the MacBook Pro series.
It's tough to dislike the thin design and brushed aluminum surfaces of the GS series from a visual standpoint. The 15.6-inch GS Ghost and 17.3-inch Stealth series of notebooks compete directly against the Razer Blade series, most Gigabyte models, and the older Asus G501 series of super-thin gaming notebooks.
As such, we recommend checking out our original GS63VR page as the two systems are otherwise identical in hardware and features. The GS63VR 7RF is the Kaby Lake update to the Skylake GS63VR 6RF we reviewed last year. The latest refresh tackles these major issues directly both by adding in a third internal fan and incorporating more power-efficient Kaby Lake and Pascal processors compared to the older Haswell and Maxwell incarnations. The original GS60 notebooks were undeniably attractive, but they also suffered from extremely warm surface temperatures and very loud fan noise. The MSI GS series holds some of the thinnest gaming notebooks available and the new Pascal GPUs have turned them into more powerful machines than even most thicker Maxwell alternatives.
