Description: I’ve been a gamer since before people knew what a gamer was, so when this laptop came to me, I was so sad for her. She needed care. She… she was special to me. Her full name is: MSI Katana 15 b13vgk-2000us. Her haunting appearance, those sleek lines, they… stay with me, even now. The left side of her chassis holds a USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A and a USB 2.0 Type-A port along with a, dare I say, seductive intake grill? Across the bottom through her “mesh where it counts” housing, you can see all the beautiful copper that moves the heat she generates when your gaming session goes long! From the back, exhaust ports and a sea of cooling fins means the heat won’t be too much before her fans whisk it away. A new cooling solution with 6 heat pipes and 2 fans makes the magic happen. Along the right side, she’s just full of surprises! She has a 3.5mm jack, another USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A, HDMI (Up to 8K@60hz, or 4k@120Hz, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C/DP, and RJ-45 for wired networking. She just gets into your brain. So many ports, so many options. Then I saw her, really saw her, for all of her features. Those colors… the keyboard, like a rainbow, 4 zones of RGB, and she knows what I like. The WASD stood out, yeah, she’s pretty great! Who am I kidding? She's GORGEOUS! But to behold her fac… .monitor. It’s glorious! QHD@165Hz? Are you kidding me? That’s 2560x1440 pixels of buttery smooth gameplay… SHE’S A KNOCKOUT!!!! But hey, I’m not all about looks. She has it all. She’s VERY artistic. Her GeForce RTX 4070 is MORE than enough to display fantastic visuals at extremely high frame rates, even new AAA titles! It also lets her run almost any editing or rendering software with lightning speed and incredible precision. She's an accomplished artist! Right now, it doesn’t get ANY better than her 4000 series Geforce and there isn’t MUCH better than the 4070. Hers has 8GB of dedicated RAM! She’s just so fantastic in every way! Did I mention her brains? An Intel i7 13620H and 16GB of DDR5 RAM clocked at 5200Mhz? That’s 6 Performance cores and 4 Efficiency cores for a full 10 cores of processing power connected to a FAST pool of system RAM! If you need a partne… laptop that can think on her feet and do it quickly, this is her, She is SO smart! She also sports a PCI-E Gen 4x4 SSD helping her to store TONS of your data at amazing transfer speeds of up to 7.88GB/s! That’s not all, she’s also a GREAT communicator! She has wired ethernet, an Intel Wi-Fi 6E chip, Bluetooth 5.3, a 720p webcam, Hi-Res Audio and Nahimic in game 3d audio. She's so great that I almost forgot she runs Windows 11. It's preinstalled and ready to go! I'm certain she can run Linux as well. She’s just… the whole package…. She came to me on a liquidation pallet and had obviously been with someone that didn’t care for her. While they did no physical damage to her, she WAS packaged like a commoner. She was in her box, sure, but where were her cushions? What happened to the foam that no doubt protected that beautiful monitor? There was an awful excuse of a mangled, underpowered, HP power cord in her box. WHY did they ship it with her? It was horrific, I don’t want to think of those times, too painful. Since then, I’ve purchased her an OEM, Delta power supply, just like she had originally. Although she had no signs of dirt, or even hand oil that I could see, I gave her a thorough wipe down. She did have somebody else’s data, their photos no doubt, memories she’d rather forget, so I helped her forget them with the therapy of a factory reset. Then we went through some intensive stress testing together to make sure she didn’t have internal damage. We were so happy when she passed 3DMark Fire Strike, Heaven Benchmark (24 hour loop), memtest, and hours upon hours of Blender! While I worked on her, I listened to a playlist she inspired, I’ll share it with you below: I Want to Know What Love is - Foreigner Take My Breath Away - Berlin Crazy for You - Madonna Keep On Lovin’ You - REO Speedwagon Let’s Stay Together - Al Green Total Eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tyler I’m all out of Love - Air Supply It Must Have Been Love - Roxette All By Myself - Eric Carmen In the end, I had to wipe her again. She has no memory of me and the times we shared. I can’t bear to have her around, it’s like living with a ghost. It breaks me to see her go, but I can’t live with her like this. She doesn’t even know my name anymore, she just says “Welcome” and wants me to finish setup…. Default… I can’t… I miss her. Now she’s ready to stand on her own two feet. It’s just as well she’s leaving. I think my wife was getting suspicious. I didn’t like sneaking around, and my wife has already mentioned that she doesn’t like the way I look at her. She has to go. It’s time, I don’t know how I’ll live without her. I don’t remember my life before she came into it, but this isn’t the man I am. It’s over. She can be yours now… Please treat her well. We have thoroughly tested this laptop, it worked perfectly through wiping and setting up windows, installing all testing applications noted above, running all of them as described, and through the second reset to default wipe. It will arrive in working condition. You can certainly purchase an aftermarket warranty on this item through All State, or some other warranty provider, but none is provided by Home-Fi.
Price: 950 USD
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
End Time: 2024-11-18T13:22:25.000Z
Shipping Cost: 20 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Backlit Keyboard, Bluetooth, Built-in Microphone, Built-in Webcam, Multi-Touch Trackpad, Virtual Reality Ready
MPN: B13VGK2000US
RAM Size: 16 GB
Series: MSI Katana
SSD Capacity: 1 TB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Processor: Intel Core i7-13620H
Unit Type: Unit
Most Suitable For: Gaming, Graphic Design
Graphics Processing Type: Dedicated Graphics
Model: B13VGK-2000US
Storage Type: NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)
Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Screen Size: 15.6 in
Operating System: Windows 11 Home
Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TB
Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, USB 2.0, USB 3.1, USB-C, USB 3.2
Release Year: 2023
Unit Quantity: 1
Brand: MSI
Color: Black
Processor Speed: 4.90 GHz
Type: Notebook/Laptop