MSI GP vs GE Chassis

I'm having a really hard time finding an answer to this with my Google-Fu. I know the GP has a plastic chassis with aluminum palm rest. Does the GE series have a metal chassis?

 

Checked one out in store and it seems the lcd back panel is aluminum or some metal.
GE's keyboard area has that same material whilst the GP has plastic.
Everything else is the same in terms of material.

 

From what I understand the GP73 Leopard has the aluminum back panel for the screen as well as the aluminum palm rest.

 

I'm on a gp73 and where my palm are resting, it's plastic.

it's the msi gp73 609 if maybe there's a different in that sku.

 

And I have the MSI GE73 raider RGB and the entire chassis is metal except the hinges, and the bottom cover.

 

Well, crud. I guess the review I read was dead wrong. My apologies.

Do you feel like the laptop is well built? Would you pay $300+ more for a metal chassis?

 

It's definitely well built. I would pay for metal if it helped in cooling only. Fortunately MSI's cooler boost 5 is already maxing out the internals so absolutely no throttling witnessed in this one.

 

Thank you. It's hard to tell with reviewers whether or not a laptop actually feels cheap when they handle the best of the best all the time.

 

Very few reviewers give the devices the time they require and yes, they get jaded by the volume of laptops the test and play with.

For example, MSI is hands down way better than any laptop this generation when it comes to performance. People claim hinge problems but I believe that might be more user mishandling then anything. Yet the reviews have been trickling way later than the "comparable" ones from other brands.

 

Thinner lids have me noticing more hinge problems across the board, even in computers with metal construction, I don't think it's limited to MSI (and mishandling is a common reason).

Honestly I don't use plastic in the construction to call something cheap either. Full metal body is a bad idea, having the bezel and bottom cover plastic is best, regardless of the material of the lid and wrist rest.

 

I like laptops thick just because of thermodynamics. There's is no way to solve the heat problem as of now and any "slimness" will cost performance.

 

This is why I went with the GP series. I could've gone with something slimmer with the 1050 Ti, but I was willing to go a bit thicker for better thermal management.

And I also realize that it's kind of ridiculous for me to be praising the thermal management of a gaming laptop that is only 32mm thick but hey, it's better than the sub 1" machines.

 

I also agree with this, my main reason for not liking metal bezel or bottom cover is they are always so easy to bend when doing maintenance, and where plastic will just go back to where it was (takes a lot more bending to break it), metal when bent won't fully go back and causes all kinds of problems. The old ASUS N series was incredibly obnoxious with its metal bottom cover (and other unrelated reasons, but I hated that cover).

I like a compromise in system thickness as long as it has enough airflow to cool it under any load and doesn't need to do weird things with power levels to compensate for the size.

 

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