I'm currently testing out a MSI GS70 and I have the following observations (coming from a macbook pro 17"): * The keyboard is fantastic. Feels very natural onc

I'm currently testing out a MSI GS70 and I have the following observations (coming from a macbook pro 17"): * The keyboard is fantastic. Feels very natural once you get used to the layout. * The performance is incredible (3x SSD RAID 0 + 1TB spinner). This has made me much more productive working on a C++ codebase. * The touchpad FUCKING SUCKS. I think it's a driver issue. I don't say "fucking sucks" lightly. I know how hard it is to hardware and software well but for a laptop as expensive as this one, this really shouldn't be the case. It just randomly decides not to work and it jiggles around a lot. I've had to attach another mouse, it's that bad. * The sound seems to only come from the right speaker, so I think it's busted. * The weight is just perfect. * The drivers come in a CD, but this laptop doesn't have a CD drive... * The speaker quality is just OK. Nothing amazing. All in all, if the mouse and sound/speaker issues were not there, I would be incredibly happy with this laptop as a dev machine. As it is though, I will be returning the laptop this weekend. I previously had an alienware m17x but its power gave out so I decided not to repeat the purchase. The sound on that one though, holy cow, it was amazing and it too was quite fast. Look into gaming laptops, those are built for performance (if that is what you need). HTH.