Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MSI Made the Gram LG Couldn’t”.
We’Re here at CES, 2023 in msi’s booth, and we have 10 laptops to look at and shockingly none of them are trash. How did you do it MSI, first of all, stealth 14 Studio, which we’ll tell you about after this word from our sponsor thanks to Acer. For sponsoring this, video they’ve been working on their earthian initiative to be as sustainable as they are Innovative, so stay to the end of the video to find out more. This thing is freaking sick. It is so rare that you get 14 inch laptops that are actually good, but this thing has up to a 40 70 with a 90 watt TD feeder.
I got that right. I did heck yeah. This also has a 13700h, but the most surprising thing is that it’s really well built this thing has a magnesium chassis and only weighs 3.7 pounds. Look at this Andy.
It’S like well built, I’m genuinely shocked, guys. Sorry, it’s not magnesium they’re telling me that it’s magnesium aluminum alloy very important to get that correct, also important. How is the keyboard? It’S fine, it’s what like, maybe an A minus somewhere around there. You guys can’t get everything right, but that said most of it is very good.
This thing also comes with up to a Quad HD 16 by 10 display that’s 240 hertz. That is so awesome on something like this. It is just really impressive that it’s a gaming laptop that you can just Chuck in your backpack and just go off and do whatever. What also is impressive is the amount of battery life of this thing, I’m sure it’ll die pretty fast, given how powerful it is. But if you look at this, it doesn’t look all that big, but when you sort of look at it from the side, it is a thick boy. This is what is this here: 72 Watt hours and a laptop of this size is hecking impressive. Also, of course, they have a big old Vapor chamber here to keep everything, cool and replaceable memory. This stuff goes up to 5200 Mega transfers per second and that’s the fastest that I’ve ever seen in a gaming laptop that has replaceable memory well until the next one. That we see that has 56 up next is the stealth 16, and they say that they have vastly improved the speakers on this thing. It’S six Speakers by Dyna, audio and uh. Let’S just see how good it is, can it beat the HP it better because it’s so much larger and has two more speakers, but here we are six speaker, Dyna audio. It was pretty good, it actually does stage pretty well like it gets pretty wide, not bad, not bad kind of hard to tell because it’s so loud in here. But how does it compare to the HP foreign guys they look so unimpressed. The absolute best part is now they have to hold it for a prompter. Thank you very much.
What’S fortunate, though, is that, if you’re not fully satisfied with those speakers, though you’re able to pair a second Bluetooth speaker as like rear fill surround, it’s actually super cool. So if we play this here, are we allowed to play this? What is what is this? Okay, it’s so weird because it does actually process surrounds. So that’s a rear speaker.
It’S so cool, like you, can see how it’s set up here in the software like there’s laptop, there’s the Bose speaker, you can even program in the rear delay. That’S a really cool way to use Bluetooth speakers. Oh! Does it support Atmos, nice, very good feeling laptop again magnesium, aluminum, alloy, chassis and uh? Let’S see how the keyboard is foreign and, of course, this thing has all of the power that you need for gaming up to a core I9 13700h and a 4070 with 105 watt TDP.
Now I just wan na get really mad at Nvidia for a second here. Uh, that’s sort of like the top end of the 4070, but it can be down to 35 Watts. That is just unacceptable guys.
Why would you do that and anyway? Moving on next up is something that I was not expecting to see here, though this right here is the Raider ge78hx, with their smart touch pad look at this. Where is it where’s the touchpad? I don’t see anything well. Look at that all of this right here is touchpad area and they’ve actually done it in a pretty smart way, so it isn’t just a large touch pad, but you’re able to have programmable macros here on the right as well. So you can, you know, use your touchpad for actual useful things, instead of just turning it off when you’re gaming with a dedicated Mouse very cool anyway, we’ll look at the normal one, oh geez! How heavy did you say this thing was six and a half pounds? 6.8, pounds of absolute gaming chunk.
This right here is the ge78 Raider HX, which is kind of the same as the last one, but without the big touchpad and with a lot more RGB, they were kind of like. Oh, it’s like retro, oh wow. That actually does look really cool. I’Ve only seen it from the top, but when we look at there it’s kind of like the ionic five. Of course, the specs of this thing are absolutely Bonkers, so get up to a core I9 13980 HX terrible name, Intel excellent CPU 24 cores in a laptop that go up to 5.6 gigahertz.
That is freaking crazy. Not only that, but the memory is replaceable and it’s 5600 Mega transfers per second, how the heck did they do that? That’S like outside of the sodium standard. I think, of course this has the beefiest mobile GPU that you can get. So that’s the 40 90. That’S what 16 gigabytes of vram and that’s 175 watt TDP. The total TDP of this thing is 250 Watts, even though they have the largest battery that you can legally put on a plane, 99 Watt hours in here. That’S what like one two hours battery life, something like that one and a half they’re saying yep! Oh no engineering sample! Sorry! It’S going to be better later, I’m sure no on physics says it won’t.
But what physics does say is that this right here is one heck of a heatsink. Look at all of that copper right there. It’S just beautiful and look at how big these heat sinks are.
It goes all the way up there. It’S like a whole inch of fins. Also, not only do they have dedicated heat pipes for the CPU and GPU, they even have a heat pipe for your vram they’ve gone so hard on this thing, it’s just so pretty. I love that they left it just as copper is it painted on the inside nope. Wonderful, absolutely love it, but I know what you all are thinking 6.8 pounds.
That’S all the MSI has no. Here we have the Titan and this one’s 7.2. Oh my God. What a ridiculous machine this is! It has Cherry MX switches which actually feel really good.
Let’S just uh have a little typey type here, that’s like an easy, a maybe even an A plus it’s about as good as you can get for a keyboard on a laptop because well it’s mechanical Cherry switches and all that it costs you is it being this Thick and what’s the starting price of this guy 42.99 geez, we should go look through more budget options if you’re more budget conscious. This right here is what you want. This right here is the cyborg 15, and it starts at just one thousand dollars now that gets you an i5 and a 40 50, but that still is pretty good, and even though this whole thing is made out of plastic well, this right here is aluminum, but That doesn’t really count. It feels really good like look at this. I’M gon na just push on it here, even msi’s top laptops of just a couple years ago.
They just flop all around like an LG gram or something this one right here, not a single problem and more good news. The keyboard is no better or no worse than their much more expensive stealth lineup, so a minus maybe somewhere around there, but I’m still pretty impressed and sure you don’t get anything fancy like a mini LED display, but I don’t know who cares? 1080P 144 Hertz is going to be good enough for most of you, and especially if you only have like a 40 50 or a 40 60 you’re, probably not going to be pushing 4K anyway. I really want to get this thing into the lab.
What’S the TDP on the 4060, oh, they just told me that the TDP on the GPU – and this is 45 Watts. Maybe it won’t be all that fast, but 1080p. You could still probably do that we’ll need to get this into our lab. Everybody knows that MSI has heaps of gaming laptops, though what really impressed me here is the way they’ve stepped up their game for create. Oh, my God. This is light this thing’s just 2.2 pounds which is the same as an LG gram, but shockingly it doesn’t feel like a wet noodle again just MSI.
You made laptops that don’t flex all over the place, I’m so impressed. My keyboard is like a solid, a it’s. Not the best I’ve ever felt, but dang that slight also, we have a 1980 by 1200p display that gets up to 400 nits, and what I really appreciate is that they haven’t taken the bezels right down to nothing. This is fantastic because I can actually put my hands on it, so many 13-inch devices it’s just kind of like that, because they took so much time to make this super small and the whole device sort of does not benefit from that. Also, the real fantastic thing about this is the battery. Somehow they have fit a 75 watt hour battery into this thing, giving you an actual 15 hours of battery life.
This is this is generally good guys, I’m I’m impressed. I want to have this for, like a proper run, not only that, but they give you two Thunderbolt fours, it’s HDMI, 2.1 2.1 band 2.0 boom. All right, never mind! Well, half points for that. Wait! Oh there’s a headphone jack geez.
I almost thought they dealt us there for a second fantastic work, guys and also full size type, a and a Micro SD card reader. This is this is really good. It’S the LG Ram that we’ve been wanting for years. That LG just has not made at all.
As the cherry on top, this thing gets the 1360p, so that gives you four performance cores eight efficiency cores and something this big. Now, I’m sure it’s not going to have the same level of performance as something like the 13 plus because uh well. This right here is what you get for cooling, but at the same time that’s a lot better than something like the HP dragonfly Elite. That only gets the! U, if you want a slightly larger Creator, laptop we’d have the prestige, 14 Evo, and the CPU in this is very strange. So it’s the i7 13620h weird name, weird CPU, so you get six performance cores and four efficiency cores. So half the efficiency cores of the 13, but I don’t know sure maybe someone wants that well, you probably do want, though, is a 40 60.. If you go up to the 16 inch, that is what you can get. I’M sure this thing right here again: okay, this one’s a little bit more flexible, it’s not too bad.
It feels like the same key switches, a a minus somewhere around there. What’S really cool, though, look look at this look at this, so this is the new pen for the Creator, z17 and watch. I can just write something here, because this tip is graphite, but then I can also come over to the laptop and still write things uh. They currently don’t know how much graphite tips will be when this one runs out, but they did say that there’s a plastic one, that’s also included so yeah, I think, should be what like three bucks, four bucks for a couple of them.
They say it’ll last three years, but uh we can see how much it’s worn down just from today. So there is one fatal flaw of the panda look at this. This is It’s magnetic guess where it Clips on. Oh couldn’t, go anywhere else, guys nothing anyway.
Fortunately, the rest of it is fantastic, so this has a Quad HD display the 16×10 version and it’s 165 Hertz. That is so good for something like this. Also, we have a RTX 4070 in here with a 90 watt TDP, look at this Vapor chamber. They have for it overall, though I’m super impressed, like they have actual laptops that aren’t floppy it’s fantastic, especially that Prestige 13 75 watt hour battery.
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