Brandish, Keyboard and Trackpad

MSI has used a 15.half-dozen-inch "IPS-level" LCD with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, giving this laptop a display pixel density of 141 PPI. This resolution is typical for a gaming laptop of this size, and is well suited to the performance of the GTX 1060. There is also a 4K IPS option available with the height end $1,899 model.

Displays on gaming laptops are rarely fantastic, and the GS63VR is no exception. The IPS-level (whatever that means) panel delivers good viewing angles, notwithstanding brightness is limited to simply 271 nits; unremarkably I'd similar to see at least 300 nits. Black levels aren't great either, leading to a dissimilarity ratio of only 871:ane, which isn't unusual for an entry-level IPS display but yet disappointing nonetheless.

Colour functioning from MSI laptops is generally okay, particularly equally they are configured to use an sRGB manner past default. The display on my review unit had a slight blue tint, but greyscale accuracy was a respectable dE2000 value of 2.58 (less than 2.0 is considered very skillful), while colour accurateness was also decent enough at a dE2000 of three.39. This leads to a generally decent color feel with skillful, though not outstanding levels of vibrance and accuracy.

Display calibration via SpectraCal's CALMAN 5 software can resolve lingering bug with greyscale accuracy, pushing the brandish below a dE2000 value of 0.v. Color functioning was more catchy to correct, and I only managed to attain a slight increase in accurateness.

Perhaps the nearly disappointing aspect of the GS63VR's display is a lack of Grand-Sync or refresh rates higher than 60 Hz. The included 1080p display is bog average and this is the case across MSI'due south 15.6-inch laptop line. Asus, on the other hand, is an instance of a visitor that offers a 15.6-inch 1080p G-Sync panel in their cheaper GTX 1060 laptops, so ideally I'd have liked to meet G-Sync in this laptop besides.

The SteelSeries keyboard included with the GS63VR is decent for a laptop that doesn't take a ton of space for a keyboard with deep travel distance. In terms of travel distance, this keyboard falls between a larger gaming laptop like the Alienware 15, and an ultrabook. MSI has used chiclet keys, which are fine for gaming, and the tactile feel of each cardinal is surprisingly clicky considering the use of rubber dome keycaps; it'southward non equally mushy as some other gaming laptop keyboards I've recently tested.

The keyboard layout is good, with adequate size for of import gaming keys like tab, left shift, control and the spacebar. At that place are total-sized arrow keys awkwardly crammed betwixt the standard keyboard and the numpad, although I appreciate the inclusion of a numpad on a laptop that clearly has enough space to include i. Organization functions such every bit volume suit, effulgence conform, airplane mode and then forth are mapped to both the F-keys and the arrow keys, and there's a expert mix of inclusions here.

The GS63VR's keyboard is backlit via 3-zone RGB LEDs. In MSI's software utility you tin change the color of each of the three zones, and there is additional functionality to pulse the backlight in various patterns. The rainbow upshot you lot tin can attain here looks cool, though it should be noted that each individual central is not RGB-programmable. If you'd prefer a solid backlight color, carmine looks best so information technology matches the physical scarlet highlights of this laptop.

MSI has opted for a garbage ELAN touchpad, which provides a mediocre tracking and gesture recognition. I had to plough upwards the sensitivity to nigh the maximum to accomplish a responsive feel on this trackpad, and even and then it just feels… janky. Not that this surprised me: ELAN hardware is terrible and it'southward no wonder that only a small handful of gaming laptop manufacturers yet use their products.

Luckily most gamers will be using an external mouse, so the trackpad is of petty business organization, only I would have liked to run across a better trackpad for the times you're using this laptop as a portable work machine.