MSI Summit E13 Flip EVO 13" Professional Laptop

The MSI Summit 13 has to be the single best laptop I have ever had the pleasure of using. That being said, I haven't used THAT many laptops. Despite this, I believe this laptop has been worth every (heavily discounted from original retail) penny. I first was made aware of this laptop while browsing for small, lightweight, 2in1 laptops for grad school. Let me say, that I would not have expected MSI to be the business class laptop I would have chosen, given that I was only familiar with their bulky, battery hogging Apache series of laptops. Let me just say that this is the complete opposite of those "portable" gaming rigs. The thing is SUPER light in my bag (however, the thing is pretty dense for it's size), the battery just doesn't want to die, and it's the perfect size to flip and use as a tablet for extended reading sessions. I'm also impressed from the provided smart pen. Maybe it's just too easy to get me excited, but I think it's so cool that it kinda just clings onto the side of the device and how it's so dang responsive to scribbling things down in the included Microsoft Whiteboard program (or whatever they decided to call it). And that NVMe SSD? Well, just take a look at that video of its boot time from FULL SHUTDOWN!!! Let me make this clear though, I bought this laptop as basically new-old-stock. The model I purchased was released like 2 Intel CPU generations before. To my knowledge MSI is about to release what is the equivalent of it's 3 generation of this laptop later this year! With it's age I got a discounted price from it's brain melting $1,600 to about $850 for the original i7 model. This price definitely makes this review biased, as the original MSRP is nowhere near what I would pay for this thing (maybe ANY laptop). If you can get any of these models for less than $1,000 I'd heavily recommend picking one up if you're looking for that perfect value business laptop. HOWEVER! Based on other's reviews, don't buy this thing if you're trying to game on it. The thing is going to get hotter and louder than it really needs to be, so skip this or save the on-the-go gaming for a Switch or Valve Steam Deck.