A look Inside

The guts of the Pulse GL66 are well thought out as well, with this configuration sporting a full-sized battery that fills the upper edge under the trackpad. You can see the heatpipes snaking around the bottom edge; MSI uses special thermal paste to help make sure they work to their utmost capability.


The chipset itself is bare and doesn't have a cooler. I located an open M.2 port for upgrading the rather meager 512 GB capacity.


I also noticed a standard SATA port near the battery, but the battery is in the way. There is a model that features a standard laptop 1+1 TB drive; I'm not sure if the secondary drive is mechanical or SSD-based. Either way, you have a choice of expanded storage at the price of smaller battery size and thereby battery life, depending on which configuration of the Pulse GL66 you choose.


We have 16 GB of memory standard, at 3200 MHz. Both DIMM slots are populated, so this is a dual-channel memory setup in all configurations. A maximum of 64 GB are supported.