MSI WS63 7RF (i7-7700HQ, FHD, P3000) Workstation Review

[Redaktion]

Workstation gamer. The gaming notebook in disguise is one of the first to ship with a Quadro P3000 GPU. Performance will not throttle even if under the heaviest of loads.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-WS63-7RF-i7-7700HQ-FHD-P3000-Workstation-Review.232262.0.html

[nodir]

Thanks for the review!
This looks like a good notebook, but there's still a room for improvement.

[dthrp]

US$2,500 for throttled "worse than 1060" and "base i7HQ" and not even a decent battery life? I can't imagine why anyone would even consider this laptop. MSI's own GS63VR (FHD, 6GB 1060), which this is based on, goes as low as US$1,400 during a sales season. A slightly heavier, budget 1060 option like the Acer Helios 300 can be purchased for less than US$1K atm.

Companies and clients don't buy mobile workstation laptops because they have Quadro graphics with "certified drivers", "server-grade workhorse" Xeon CPU, "reliable" ECC memory and all that expensive nonsense bs. I can ensure you, all the components on a regular gaming laptop performs up to the standard 99.8% of the time for most professionals and specialists. No, they buy them in spite of that and in spite of the obviously worse dGPU config and display quality, and bulkier weight.

NBC, I don't know if relative price is among the factors within your scoring system, but if not, please try and consider including it, for the sake of fair comparison with the alternatives.

In short, this laptop is a horrendously overpriced piece of garbage. End of story.

[KumaHIME]

I can ensure you, all the components on a regular gaming laptop performs up to the standard 99.8% of the time for most professionals and specialists...

lots of cad software aren't supported by consumer drivers. Siemens NX is a very good example for this. It runs like s*** on GeForce cards. In fact it runs no better than on intel's integrated graphics. Lots of companies use NX too. (GM, Mazda to name two off the top of my head)