Why the MSI Stealth GS77 Gaming Laptop is Also the Perfect Work Machine

MSI has exploded what you can expect from a gaming laptop with the MSI Stealth GS77. It delivers the top-tier performance of Nvidia’s cutting-edge RTX graphics cards, but also has the experience-enhancing features of a more lifestyle-led or business laptop. Why?

Gaming is the largest area of entertainment, generating greater revenues than sport, movies or music. PC gaming platform Steam recently announced it saw 132 million players a month, and that playtime rose a massive 21% in 2021 over the year before.

The MSI Stealth GS77 acknowledges every type of person plays games, and that the best gaming laptops should shine no matter what you do with them — including jobs completely unrelated to play.

A sharper design

As soon as you lay eyes on the MSI Stealth GS77 you’ll be drawn to its sleek, sand-blasted metal casing—it’s a far more sophisticated, premium look and feel to the plastic of the typical gamer laptop.

It is also just 20.8mm deep at its thickest point, making for unusually breezy portability in a performance laptop with a 17-inch display. The angular, tapered design of the MSI Stealth GS77 is carefully balanced and instantly recognisable, and is more than ready for a serious business meeting at a moment’s notice.

Work finished? Use the MSI Stealth GS77’s SteelSeries keyboard to bring back the fun. Its per-key RGB backlight lets you choose any color of the rainbow and even pick different tones for every single key—or you can plump for one of MSI’s eye-catching animated transitions.

Indeed, every activity benefits from the sheer quality of the MSI Stealth GS77’s keyboard—SteelSeries is renowned for making some of the best laptop keyboards in the world, offering great tactile feedback for long-form typing and the fast feel that’s essential for satisfying play.

This high-end keyboard is paired with a large glass touchpad, whose surface avoids the squeaky feel of a plastic pad. At every turn the MSI Stealth GS77 just does more than almost any other gaming computer to make sure you have a good time.

No feature left behind

There’s more. Speakers in gaming laptops can often seem an afterthought, but the MSI Stealth GS77 has the kind of advanced array that elevates it above the rest.

It has six speakers, and how they are arranged is crucial: two sets of woofers sit in force-cancelling pairs on each side of the chassis—this is what lets them generate serious volume and impressive bass without causing the casing to vibrate. Each pair is matched with a tweeter speaker for high frequency sound, mirroring the layout of a classic hi-fi speaker.

The MSI Stealth GS77’s webcam is also far more advanced than the category average, using a Full HD camera sensor for much improved image quality in video calls. Some versions of the GS77 also have an infrared-capable webcam, for enhanced security when using the Windows 11 Hello face-unlock feature.

To some, elements such as a slim design, upgraded webcam and speaker quality, or the use of a glass touchpad, may seem superficial. But they are not. These are features you can appreciate every time you use the MSI Stealth GS77, no matter what you choose to do with it.

In other models, accepting a drop in some or all of these areas might feel appropriate. However, the MSI Stealth GS77’s entire purpose is to get you the best of multiple worlds—the power of a gaming laptop, the practicality of a business laptop, and lifestyle laptop features that add a layer of gloss to your everyday use.

All of this is matched with near-unbeatable performance. The MSI Stealth GS77 is available with processors up to Intel’s latest 12th Gen Core i9 and GPUs up to the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti, the most powerful series of Nvidia laptop graphics cards in the world.

You can choose whether to have a 1080p display with a 360Hz refresh rate, a 1440p one at 240Hz or a 4K screen with 120Hz. And all MSI Stealth GS77 models include important future-proofing features such as a Thunderbolt 4 connector and an HDMI port that supports 8K output and 4K at 120Hz.

Filling a laptop with the most powerful components possible is one route to success when designing a gaming laptop. MSI went much further with the MSI Stealth GS77, focusing not just on gaming performance but also the parts that make a truly great work PC, and make any laptop simply more pleasant to use each day.

Discover more about the MSI Stealth GS77 here.

This article was originally published by WIRED UK