MSI Prestige 14 A10SC-020 Gaming and Business Laptop (Intel i5-10210U 4-Core, 16GB RAM, 2TB PCIe SSD, 14″ Full HD (1920×1080), NVIDIA GTX 1650 [Max-Q], Fingerprint, Wifi, Bluetooth, Win 10 Pro) MSI

★★☆☆☆ Pros: Small, light and packs a lot of power. Beautiful display. Cons: -This laptop cannot handle the hardware inside. It runs uncomfortably warm most of the time unless its basically idle. -The Brightness automatically resets to maximum whenever it goes to sleep, is shut down or you log into another account. Standard windows setting that allow you to customize brightness for different profiles seem to be missing on this computer. -Often has trouble shutting down. The screen will turn off, but the fan will go to max and keyboard will stay lit up. I often have to do a manual 8 second powerbutton shutdown. -Software will often break seemingly at random. Even if the only thing I use is a word processor. -Wifi card will randomly reset during video calls. -The extra large trackpad looks great, but makes typing functionally impractical unless you keep your palms floating or disable it. Takes about twice as long to start up compared to any ssd computer I have ever used before. Overall Review: I would not recommend this machine to anyone. It looks great on paper, but one thing that the description wisely leaves out is whether it works well. All of the issues I have mentioned are consistent regardless of resetting from scratch, which I tried multiple times.

★★☆☆☆ Pros: Cute Cons: Overheats, battery dies quickly Overall Review: Constantly have to have my fan on it even when browsing the internet because it gets super hot, the keys too. Also the battery doesn't last long. At. All. Its cute but I'm really dissatisfied and wish I got something else.

★★★★★ Overall Review: So far this computer has met all of my needs. SAS, R, Python, ArcGIS, and Adobe Creative Cloud all run beautifully on it. I have not yet tried any games.