Samsonite Classic Two Gusset 17" Toploader (Black)

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104 of 105 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect Bag for 17.3" Laptop!
By B. Martin
Just received this for a new Dell 17.3" Inspiron Laptop and it fits perfectly! Actual measurement for our laptop: 16.54" wide, 10.87" Depth & 1.38" thick. The computer pocket is nicely padded and has a velcro strap to hold the computer in place, however, for our computer the strap isn't really necessary. Our laptop slides in easily - it's as if this bag was made for it. The enclosed info for this bag states that it will hold laptops up to 17" wide. This bag's measurements: 17.75" x 12.5" x 4.5". Finding nice bags for larger laptops is not easy and this one is such a deal. The bag is wide enough to hold not only the laptop, charger and mouse but also a lot of paperwork. It's actual tag says, " Classic 2 Gusset Briefcase - 17". It has many nice zipper compartments and a super strong luggage strap on back, if you are looking for that feature. The double carrying handles are covered and comfortable. There is a padded (adjustable & removable) shoulder strap and a nice organizer compartment to hold pens, cards, etc. The silver colored hardware is classic. This bag is everything one would expect for Samsonite. I cannot think of anything negative to say about this bag. It is not too wide and is very stylish for both men and women. It is perfect for both business and casual use. Also has "Limited 3 year Global Warranty.

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Bag for college use.
By Samson
This bag is exactly want I wanted to use for college because of how roomy it is. It has enough room to fit my 15.6" laptop, 1 inch binder with about 500 sheets of paper, a 950 page hard cover book, 3 folders, a mouse and charging adapter. Even though my bag weighs 10 pounds, the padded shoulder pad makes the bag feel light and if I was using the handles to carry the bag, I still believe that it wont be tedious because of the soft leather handles. The zippers seem high quality and while zipping and unzipping it, it feels like a knife cutting through butter. Due to its durability, I don't think I am going to need a bag for a long time. Overall its a stylish bag for heavy or light use, I would recommend it to everyone.

UPDATE 11/7/12
I have dropped my rating from 5 stars to 4 stars because of an issue with the product. After 3 weeks of ownership, and 4 days of usage total, I have noticed that the stitching on my shoulder strap has been half detached. I don't know if this is the manufacturer's fault or mine because I didn't fully examine the bag, when I received it. So its either, the stitching came loose because my bag is too heavy or it was shipped half stitched. I will be contacting the manufacturer about this issue and will update the review when this issue has been resolved.

UPDATE 11/21/12
Luckily Samsonite's repair center repaired my detachable shoulder strap completely free because it was defected. It took the repair center a few days to repair the strap because they use local repair shops for their repairs. Samsonite has a great warranty, but it would have been better if the product didn't break. Hopefully it doesn't break again and finally lives up to Samsonite's quality.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Good for every day and travel
By James P. Malone
I just got this bag to lug my relatively large work laptop (HP Pavilion G7-1033cl - 17in screen) back and forth to work everyday. It has been perfect for this use, but it also is very well constructed for more heavy duty travel. For the price, it's really good choice for every day use, business travel, or both. The pocket to fit the computer into is plenty big enough for my laptop, and there is another full pocket area for notebooks or other items. There are also a couple addition zipper pockets.

Overall, I just think it's simple, does the job as intended, and is very well made (duh... it's a samsonite), so it's going to last.

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MSI GE70 Apache Pro-012 17.3-Inch Laptop

MSI GE70 Apache Pro-012 17.3-Inch Laptop..

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Great Laptop
By Cali
(I bought this laptop at a local Fry's but I wanted to review it here) I have been using this laptop to run The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on ULTRA HIGH settings all maxed with no lag. I get 60 FPS and when running bandicam, it stays the same! No drop of FPS.
Some people do not like Windows 8, and not having the start menu was very annoying, but I have adjusted perfectly by installing a program called Start8, which has a start menu that looks great for the windows 8 theme (you can also change it to look like the windows 7 start menu). The program is $5 though, so if you are looking for a free alternative I suggest "Startisback".

This laptop does not come with bloatware but comes with NVIDIA Control Panel (which is on pretty much all NVIDIA rigs), SteelSeries Engine (which lets you change the keyboard settings, macros, and LED color), Dragon Gaming center, and a few more. They are all useful.

This is a pretty new laptop, as it was recently added to my local stores and amazon.

MSI is actually not a cheap brand. MSI is most known for good computer parts, but they also make great computers.

PROS:
- Fast
- No Lag
- Newer GPU
- Light up keyboard (you can set the color of the LEDs to anything you want)
- Portable
- Not heavy
- Large clear display
- No glare on display
- You can switch between intel integrated graphics and the NVIDIA GeForce 860m GPU to save battery. (Use intel integrated graphics while web browsing, etc, and use the NVIDIA GeForce when gaming or using graphically intense programs)

CONS:
- Computer gets warm when gaming, but I just made sure the left side (where the vents are) were ventilated and it was fine.
- Games lag when the laptop is unplugged and running on battery (but this happens with pretty much all laptops I know of)
it doesnt make popcorn

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Portability, Excellent Design, and Powerful
By Misty
Purchased this laptop over the similarly priced Destroyer with the GTX870M GPU for the style and portability that this unit offers. It is also the most powerful Maxwell GPU available in a laptop currently (870 and 880 are both slightly modified Fermi based units).

Stuff you want to know:
- It appears to be running the Maxwell 860M, supported by clock speed and part number.
- There is one 2.5' bay (filled with an excellent HDD), two mSATA slots, and two RAM slots (filled with an 8GB and 4GB). Accessing any of these will require breaking a warranty seal.
- According to MSI the warning seal is "preventative" and they don't actually deny service when broken, still -1 star for the scare tactic.
- Laptop runs shockingly cool for a rig of this power. 45C at the bottom and 65C at the exhaust port after 30 min. of BF4 on Ultra.
- There are some glitches. Relatively minor thus far, but you should expect this on a system this new.

Pros:
- Extremely appealing aesthetic design, not the typical garish gaming rig.
- Most powerful overall unit in this price range that will still fit in your backpack!
- GTX 860M performs fantastic with the new 337.50 driver. 1080p Max settings on everything!
- HDD is excellent, for a HDD. Absolutely the fastest HDD based laptop I have ever used.
- Keyboard is fantastic. Easily the best laptop keyboard I have ever used, and the color effects can be configured to your preference.
- Screen is extremely good for a matte solution.

Cons:
- Ships with an outdated GFX driver that wont run anything. 337.50 Beta drivers were released today (4/7/2014) and are the only alternative to the shipped version. No issues with 337.50 thus far, but given the Beta status I suspect I will find something broken before long.
- Really should be using at least a small hybrid SSD to be called a modern gaming laptop, but as I said the included HDD isn't bad for what it is.
- Must void warranty to install RAM, add an SSD, or clean the crap out of the fan? -2 stars for this alone, FIX IT MSI!
- Sound Blaster presets are extremely poor. DTS and Dolby have had some wonderful innovations in the past decade, Sound Blaster is still the same as they were back in the 90s from a preset perspective.
- Integrated speakers are disappointing. Midrange and Bass are completely gone. If you only listen to Banjo riffs this should be perfect for you...
- Windows 8.1. It's not MSI's fault, but sometimes I wonder how Microsoft can be so out of touch. Metro was and is a huge flop in the mobile space on Windows Phone, what makes them think it will be a different story here?
- It is configured out of the box with a dynamic disk! That's bad news for those of you who want to add an SSD as you will almost certainly end up reimaging the entire thing.
- Occasional low level crashes that cause the device to completely power down without warning. Able to reproduce this 100% in the boot recovery menu->advanced->boot options. Wait a few seconds after it boots into the utility and it will crash. Have seen it twice randomly in windows.

I'll update this review if anything significant happens over time.

Update: I installed the SSD, what a pain! Use the "Burn Recovery" utility to create a set of backup DVDs or flash drive, then install the SSD (remove the HDD even if you are using an mSATA for now), hold F3 on boot, run recovery disk, proceed thru recovery, after booted into new OS install open disk management, delete the data partition, expand the OS partition to fill the space. If you are doing an mSATA drive you will also need to: connect HDD to USB with adapter, use Acronis True Image to wipe all of the old windows 8 partitions (cant do this in drive management), reinstall HDD in SATA bay, and finally format with a new MBR NTFS partition in drive management. If this process description does not make sense I would strongly suggest you buy one of the models with an SSD included!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
MSI GE70 Apache Pro with GTX860m
By jhughy
I have had this laptop for the better part of four days and have had a chance to play around with it, game with it, tinker with it, so I think that I can post an honest review for the few days of ownership. If there are any updates to my review I will be sure to post them as well.

Four stars is what this laptop will get from me thus far, which I believe is an honest and fair score (albeit a relatively positive score) considering:

Pros: For the price, this laptop is relatively a good value. I have been reading reviews on gaming laptops for the better part of the past year now, and I can say that the new GTX860m packs a pretty good punch for what you pay for. (I'm assuming that a majority of purchasers will be buying for gaming as well). The 860m is quite a bit faster than the 765m and supposedly requires less energy. I was playing BF4 on Ultra (1080p) on a large conquest 64 player map whilst getting a steady frame rate of 40. The low frame rate was around 28 whilst the high frame rate was 58 (these are frame rates that were sustainable that I could physically see in the upper left corner while running FRAPS).

It comes with a 7200 RPM HDD which is a decent upgrade from the 5400 RPM drives gaming laptops usually come with. My previous laptop had a 5400 RPM HDD which was very sluggish.

The case is beautiful, sleek, thin and relatively light. If you are considering between the GT series and the GE or GS series I would recommend stopping by your local Fry's and putting hands on all three. I personally was going to get the GT or the Asus ROG 750 series but I ended up not liking how bulky they were once I was hands on with them. The GE is much more nimble than the GT.

The sound quality from the laptop speakers are incredible for laptop speakers. They play plenty loud and can easily fill a small room with noise.

Cons: The fan is incredibly loud especially during gameplay. I guess this is the trade off as I assume the GT series does not get as loud with the larger base and rear blowing fans. I've noticed that during gameplay the CPU and GPU get rather hot. I ran HWMonitor as the high was in the 90's C for CPU and the 80's C for GPU. MSI could have done a much better job with the temps if they'd use higher quality thermal grease and heat pipes from the factory.

So far the fan is really my only con (besides maybe some of the bloatware and other gimmicky software).

Note (to user and MSI): I'm frustrated that it costs a premium for any small upgrade. If I wanted to get an SSD in place of the HDD I should be able to do this with only paying for the difference between the two (instead of retail price and then some). Same goes for other components. I know that their are companies that allow for upgrades on the MSI (xoticpc) but even they charge a premium for any upgrade. It's cheaper to do some upgrades (HDD to SSD and memory) yourself after the laptop arrives (but then you run the risk of voiding warranties I assume).

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