MSI Vector A18 HX 18” 240Hz QHD+ Gaming Laptop: AMD Ryzen 9-9955HX, NVIDIA Geforce RTX 5070Ti, 32GB DDR5, 2TB NVMe SSD, Type C, Wi-Fi 7, Win 11 Pro: Cosmo Gray A9WHG-074US

So far so good 🙂 until now 🙁
So the box arrived in great condition with no previous signs of being opened and it did have the brand new feel. It’s an extremely well made and solid looking laptop and so far it’s running as intended. With the rtx 5080 and ryzen 9 this laptop takes on pax dei and dune awakening as if they were older games. Absolutely no issue playing current games out there it has 1 terabyte hard drive which is perfect for 2025 and all gamers have external storage anyways. This laptop makes me feel confident in future games yet to come so for the price I feel so far it’s worth every penny. And the screen on the laptop is amazing I feel it’s 2x better than the Alienware screen I have it plugged into lol. I wish it had more HDMI And USB ports but I made it work none the less. Just to keep it running at peak condition I bought a cooling pad. I love MSI and have yet to have any issues with any of their products they are always of great quality. Update: I had high hopes until I noticed glitching and flickering and then an audio electronic feed back coming from my speakers. After attempting to update every thing and nothing worked I finally gave up and I haven’t had the laptop long at all so sadly I’m returning it and hopefully I’ll have better luck finding another laptop. I had high hopes but this is the first time I’ve had any issues with Msi computers. So as it stands I would not recommend this specific laptop now.

Maybe I got a dud???
Edit: (update) the item was returned and refunded. Glad amazon is very buyer friendly. Not sure if it was just unlucky or what, but it was a beast while it worked!Well, I loved it obviously because it’s a beast of a laptop for gaming. Blazes through escape from Tarkov with very high fps. It doesn’t let you use the full power of the mobile 5080 while on battery though. So be near a wall outlet because it does run out of battery fast. Small 1TB ssd is very lame for the money… After a few days of owning it (and using it very little because I’m so busy working) it wouldn’t power on. Doing an “EC” reset fixed it, but here I am a few days later and I tried to power it on to play, and ofcourse it doesn’t work.. I opened a ticket after letting it charge for an hour with different outlets and I opened a ticket with MSI. May have to send it in because I’m great with technology and I can’t get it to show any signs of life. Before it died on me I had to reinstall the drivers a few times because of random black screens, and grey blocks everywhere. I think this is Blackwell GPUs showing it’s bad side.. Lots of money spent on a big headache.. hopefully it’s resolved soon. Kinda worried about any MSI branded desktop parts I have in various desktops I’ve built that are around the house…

Came in mandarin as primary langauge
Laptop wouldn’t allow me to set it up without keeping it in the langauge it was on when shipped (Mandarin). But I was able to change the langauge later. Had trouble starting up and was slow at first but now its pulling its name. All in all was difficult to set up but runs games excellently

Take the bad reviews with a grain of salt! This thing SLAPS.
I would highly recommend this laptop! You get what you pay for, assuming you get the right thing. I’ve seen that some people received faulty units or a used one after buying it new, and those are real problems–they’re not problems with what this product is, though; they’re separate issues. I expect that, once more people buy this thing, the quality control and shipping issues will be smoothed out. Maybe give it time and buy this later, but definitely buy this!Several of the bad reviews this laptop has gotten have been about the laptop’s design, like its weight or noise level. This is a gaming laptop; this device’s nature is like that of a gaming laptop. Both attributes are within a normal range for what gaming laptops are meant to be; you’re buying portable desktop power. I’ve played games on this thing with max video settings and I don’t think the fans were at even half their maximum speed, and the games ran flawlessly, well above the screen’s refresh rate. Noise should not be an issue, unless you’d set the fans to max and complain. Everything I’ve thrown at this rig hasn’t even come close to turning the fans to max, so I’m not sure what you’d do that would need it🤷I haven’t tested the battery life, but…come on. This is a gaming laptop; you’re not buying it for battery life. Take the charger with you, and a full desktop-level battlestation is yours to take anywhere. I’m a student and want to do my work(game development and 3d asset pipelines) in multiple places, and this rig will let me do it with ease. Students- you should tell your parents a “decent everyday laptop for casual office use” costs $3k!The screen is easily the best screen I’ve had! 1440p with a few extra pixels on the bottom to make it a 16:10 aspect ratio give me a huge amount of screen space, and I feel much more comfortable doing art, games and dev work on this rig than on my previous 15″ gaming laptop. The color accuracy is also amazing; everything looks more vibrant!