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MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RE: Stylish enough for work and powerful enough for play

If you’ve been looking for a gaming laptop to trick your corporate IT department into funding your PC gaming—MSI’s GS65 Stealth Thin 8RE may be just what you’ve been looking for.

On the outside is sedate black aluminum with bronze edges. On the inside are state-of-the-art, gaming-grade components with enough performance to basically put anything made before it to shame.

THINK OF IT AS TWO BETTER THAN THE GS63

The GS65 is basically a complete rework of the ground-breaking GS63VR gaming laptop that made its debut in 2016. With the redesign, MSI said it wanted to make a laptop that could lurk in a conference room without making it look like your company splurged for a gaming laptop. The only outward signs would be the MSI logo on the lid.

Open up the GS65, though, and the most immediate change can be seen:

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