MSI Pulse GL66 Gaming Laptop with a Futuristic Design
MSI has been renowned for its variety of top-quality gaming laptops, but now it’s aiming to attract “every user” with its next-generation lineup of laptops. The firm recently has announced a new lineup of a creator- and gamer-focused laptops. The new collection of creator and gaming notebooks are based on 11th Gen Intel H-series processors and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. The MSI announcement includes a new Creator series laptop with specs tailor-made for content creators, plus an update to MSI’s gaming machines, the GE Raider, GP Leopard, and GS Stealth.
For today, we will be discussing the details, specification, and price about MSI Pulse GL66 which is also referred to as Crosshair 15.
Overview
The MSI Pulse GL66 is a quintessential gaming laptop that comes featured with a redesigned heat pipe and showcases MSI’s redesigned thermal grease, which the firm claims to be more malleable and allows for better airflow for lower temperatures. The Pulse series is also branded as a living pulsating power source and has built a character that symbolizes the Pulse lineup. Additionally, the MSI Pulse GL66 comes as an affordable laptop among the company product line-up.
Design
The design lives up to the Pulse branding. It does have futuristic aesthetics with elements such as the titanium gray metal armor and contour lines designed by Maarten Verhoeven. The design around the keyboard is amplified by the auxiliary display interface. The hexagonal design at the bottom chassis is depicted from a classic movie scene of interstellar fighters soaring over planets. Meanwhile, the dimension of the laptop measures 359 x 259 x 23.95 mm and weighs around 2.30 g. The RGB Backlit Keyboard with a dedicated numeric keypad is there just like other gaming laptops.
Display
Now, for the display, the MSI Pulse GL66 sports a 15.6-inch IPS LCD panel. There are two panels for the GL66, the first of which has a Full HD resolution, a refresh rate of 144Hz, and 99% sRGB coverage. The secondary panel has a higher resolution and refresh rate of 1440p and 165Hz, with the same 99% sRGB coverage. Except for the bottom, the bezels of the rest of the sides are kept to a minimum.
Performance
The MSI Pulse GL66 is powered by the latest 11th-gen Tiger Lake-H series mobile processor which can be configured up to an Intel Core i7-11800H processor (eight cores, sixteen threads), coupled with up to 16GB of DDR4 3,200MHz RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD. GPU choices max out at the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB VRAM) with RTX 3060 (85W), RTX 3050 Ti (60W), and RTX 3050 (60W) also being the options. The latest DDR4-3200 memory makes sure to deliver the latest DDR4-3200 memory, faster system speed, and responsiveness, taking the gaming experience to the next level.
The MSI Center helps users to control and customize the laptop the way they want. It allows users to monitor, adjust, optimize many useful features that are built-in into one unified system. It offers maximum flexibility with new functions such as Smart Image Finder, UI Skin option, and more to customize your personal preference. The laptop comes with a dedicated thermal solution for the CPU and GPU with up to 6 heat pipes. By enlarging the internal diameter of the thermal pipe and using MSI exclusive thermal grease to ensure maximum performance under extreme gaming.
Other features
Similarly, a few of the features of MSI Pulse GL66 include Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, two 2W speakers, a 720p webcam, and gigabit networking. The included software lets users configure RGB profiles for the keyboard, and switch on the dedicated ‘gaming mode’. Users can even hook the laptop up to a TV and enable the console mode to get a console-like experience. Available ports are 1x Type C Gen 2 (USB 3.2), 2x Type-A Gen 1 (USB 3.2), 1x Type-A USB 2.0, 1x RJ45, 1x HDMI ([email protected]), and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Finally, the MSI Pulse GL66 draws power from a 53Wh battery that can be charged at 180W—the base variant only gets a 150W adapter inside the box.
Specification
| Body | 359 x 259 x 23.95 mm |
| Weight | 2300g |
| Screen Type | 15.6″ FHD 144Hz, Thin Bezel |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixel |
| Processor | Intel® Core™ i7-11800H Processor 2.40 GHz – 4.60 Ghz |
| Graphics | Up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (85W) |
| Operating System | Windows® 10 Home |
| Display | Display |
| RAM | 2x SO DIMM Slot, Up to 64GB DDR4-3200 |
| Storage | 1 or 2 NVMe PCIe Gen3 SSD slot |
| Refresh Rate | 144/165Hz |
| Battery | 5 Watt-hours battery |
| Power Supply | 150/180W adapter |
| Webcam | HD (30fps @ 720p) |
| Connectivity | Gb LAN, 802.11 ax Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth v5.2 |
| I/O ports | 1x Type-C (USB 3.2 Gen2), 2x Type-A USB 3.2 Gen1, 1x Type-A USB 2.0, 1x RJ45, 1x (4K @ 60Hz) HDMI, 1x audio combo jack |
| Color | Titanium Gray |
| Audio | StereoSpeakers Setup, 1x Microphone, 3.5mm headphone jack |
MSI Pulse GL66 price in Nepal
MSI Pulse GL66 price in the US is starting from $949. However, the MSI Pulse GL66 price in Nepal after its launch is expected to be Rs 135,000.
| MSI Pulse GL66 | Price in Nepal |
| i5-11400H, RTX 3050 | Rs 135,000 |
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