1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:09,120 Inside of this box right here is the new MSI Raider, but not any MSI Raider. This 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:11,759 right here has both the new AMD X3D 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:16,640 mobile chip and a mobile 590, meaning that this right here has the fastest 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:21,840 possible hardware combination for a laptop. Just how fast is it? 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:25,840 Well, we're about to find out. It's a big box. Takes up like the whole frame 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:29,599 of the top down. Jeez, this thing's freaking 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:36,559 huge. I can already tell you that much. Oh my. This thing's freaking heavy. It's 8 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:39,280 like an absolute weapon of a power brick 9 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:44,719 here. Holy freak. 400 watts is what we're able to 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:49,280 get out of this charger over a proprietary connector, which makes a lot 11 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:54,559 of sense cuz you would need two USB type-C chargers in order to deliver that 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:58,879 kind of power. And this just makes a lot 13 00:00:54,559 --> 00:01:02,000 more sense. 3 lb on the power brick. For 14 00:00:58,879 --> 00:01:04,920 context, uh the laptop I'm currently 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:12,000 using, the HP ZBbook Ultra, is half a pound heavier than just the 16 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:13,159 power brick that comes with the Raider. 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,600 Holy freak. This thing has to be like 7 12 18 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:26,080 lb. Let's see about that. 8 lb on the laptop. That is 19 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:32,799 freaking wild. You're going to have 11 lbs in your backpack with both of these. 20 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:35,040 But I can see why. Look at the size of 21 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:40,880 the heat sinks that are in this thing. So much just bare copper in there. It is 22 00:01:37,759 --> 00:01:43,320 freaking beautiful. The the heat pipe 23 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:49,200 situation down here is crazy. Looking at the outside of the 24 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:52,479 Raider, the design is quite gamer. It's 25 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:54,960 not super duper insane, but these red 26 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:58,479 accents here and the general mass and size of the thing certainly lets you 27 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:03,600 know that it's a gaming laptop and a half. As for IO, on the right hand side, 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:09,759 we have headphone microphone combo jack, USB typeA, two Thunderbolt 4s. Around 29 00:02:07,119 --> 00:02:15,840 the back, we have our power input, HDMI 2.1 and 2.5 GB networking. And on the 30 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,720 left hand side, we have two more USB type A's and a full-size SD card reader. 31 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:29,360 Now, one thing that you don't get on this model is Thunderbolt 5. 32 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:31,760 But we also have a second MSI Raider 33 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:38,400 here today. This one has Intel in it and the IO is all basically the same except 34 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:40,319 over on this side you get Thunderbolt 5. 35 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:44,400 Unfortunately, we can't fully drag race these two because the Intel one has a 36 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:50,000 5080 in it, but it will be nice to see the 5090 versus the 5080. And we can do 37 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:55,280 a little bit of CPU testing. One thing I am definitely noticing here is that this 38 00:02:52,800 --> 00:03:00,319 laptop is a bit of a fingerprint magnet. Like if you look here, I'm just going to 39 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:04,120 give it a little bit of a touchy touch. I'm not even like incredibly sweaty or 40 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:09,599 anything right now. This thing just really really 41 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:14,959 Yeah. All right, let's open this beast up. As I am sure you've been able to 42 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,720 tell, this is an 18-in laptop and it is 43 00:03:14,959 --> 00:03:22,319 gargantuan. Like this trackpad right here, it is of a pretty decent size, but 44 00:03:19,599 --> 00:03:27,440 it just looks like a tiny little island because this laptop is so freaking big. 45 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:32,720 Like let's compare to the one on like a normal laptop. They are basically the 46 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:38,640 same size which means this is more than good enough. It just looks tiny. There's 47 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:44,400 no point in even trying to use this on battery, right? Let's plug her straight 48 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:46,239 in. It's the Dragon RGB. Oh, it is. Hell 49 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:51,519 yeah. One thing I am immediately noticing using the Raider is that the 50 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:53,360 trackpad just is not big enough. Uh, I 51 00:03:51,519 --> 00:03:58,080 know that I did just say that it's about the same size as on the 14 in, but the 52 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:03,200 problem that I'm having is is that it's just not really like in a position that 53 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:10,200 makes any sense cuz I keep on like indexing my hands based off of it being 54 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:13,640 down here, but you actually want to be 55 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:16,079 like thereish. So, I keep on clicking 56 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:20,880 like down here on the bottom where there's no actual trackpad. And one 57 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:24,880 thing that also is very unfortunate is that because there's a numpad over here, 58 00:04:22,639 --> 00:04:29,840 absolutely love it. Thank you, MSI. The trackpad is not centered with your 59 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:32,880 keyboard. So, you're going to be sitting 60 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:34,240 here something like this. And for one, 61 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,880 the palm rejection is an absolute nightmare because I keep on clicking it 62 00:04:35,919 --> 00:04:42,960 cuz my entire hand is on top of the trackpad. But also, I really like to use 63 00:04:40,479 --> 00:04:47,520 my thumb and it's not anywhere close to the trackpad. So, that sucks. Uh, and 64 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:50,720 also it's not RGB, which I was hoping it would be. So, uh, I don't know. It's 65 00:04:49,199 --> 00:04:57,199 just kind of all around. The keyboard is pretty good. The problem I'm 66 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:59,199 having is that this stupid trackpad is, 67 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:02,800 like I already mentioned, exactly where I want to have my right hand and I keep 68 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:06,720 on clicking it and then I'm not typing where I'm supposed to be typing. This is 69 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:12,240 a desktop replacement, so chances are you will just turn off the trackpad and 70 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,240 use a mouse over here. But a lot of 71 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:19,360 other brands have figured out how to do trackpads properly on 18-in laptops, and 72 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:23,280 this is not good enough MSI. Actually, you know what? Let's just do that. I 73 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:27,360 want a mouse. There we go. I can't believe it. The keyboard's not even bad 74 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:31,440 either. On a lot of MSI laptops that don't have those, like the Cherry MX 75 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,880 switches, I sort of expect the keyboard to be mediocre, but this right here is 76 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:40,479 like decent. Like I'm going to give it an A minus for a keyboard, but the 77 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,080 experience of using it is like a B 78 00:05:40,479 --> 00:05:46,479 because I just keep on clicking the trackpad and you can't use the trackpad 79 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,160 when you do the keyboard. So, it's a B. Well, that's a bit of a disappointing 80 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,360 start, but you know what's not disappointing? The segue to our sponsor. 81 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:58,080 Thanks to War Thunder for sponsoring this video. Take control of over 2500 82 00:05:55,919 --> 00:06:02,320 tanks, ships, and aircraft to wreck havoc on a massive battlefield. 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None of those nonsense going slow 93 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:52,080 stuff. These are 16 real big fat meaty 94 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:58,479 cores that can do whatever you want them to besides have your battery last a 95 00:06:54,639 --> 00:07:00,800 while. To complement that, we have 64 GB 96 00:06:58,479 --> 00:07:04,400 of RAM which is running at 5600 mega transfers per second, which means that 97 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:12,160 we might be able to replace it. That's the sort of speeds that you can get out of a Sodom. We also have two SSDs. One 98 00:07:09,599 --> 00:07:16,720 is 2 TB. Oh, the second one is also 2 TB. So you could raid zero them if you 99 00:07:14,479 --> 00:07:21,919 want it to be even faster and you don't care at all about your data. And for the 100 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,759 GPU, we have AMD Radeon graphics, which 101 00:07:21,919 --> 00:07:27,919 only has two cores in this configuration, meaning it's not really 102 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:35,280 there, but that doesn't matter because we also have an RTX 5090 mobile, which 103 00:07:31,479 --> 00:07:38,160 is basically a desktop 5080, but even 104 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:41,840 slower. Now, we do have 24 GB of RAM. So, if you're doing professional 105 00:07:39,199 --> 00:07:48,039 workloads on the go, this thing will be pretty awesome, but it has almost 106 00:07:45,039 --> 00:07:51,120 identical core counts to the desktop 107 00:07:48,039 --> 00:07:53,280 5080 and it's also clocked an entire 108 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:58,000 gigahertz slower. So, if you're going into this expecting desktop 5090 109 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:03,919 performance, you're not going to get it. But what I want to do right now is see 110 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:05,919 just how fast all of those cores can go. 111 00:08:03,919 --> 00:08:11,120 We have Cinebench on here. And let's bring out the Intel version as well. All 112 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:15,160 right, we have laptop number two here. And it is speced out with an Intel Core 113 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:21,680 Ultra 9285HX, which has 24 cores, but only 114 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:26,960 eight of those are performance cores and 16 of them are efficiency cores. It's 115 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,560 also able to go up to 5.5 GHz. And the 116 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:33,120 memory on this one is also slightly faster at 6,400 mega transfers per 117 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:37,519 second instead of the 5600 that we found on our AMD system. All right, it is time 118 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,919 for our drag race. We are in Cinebench R23 because I think it's more fun to 119 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:43,919 look at than R24. 120 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:53,360 Go. The AMD1 started up way faster and 121 00:08:50,880 --> 00:09:00,480 it's going way faster. And what's our score? 122 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,480 38,988 points out of this guy and 123 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:07,680 38,187 points on the Intel. That is nearly a dead heat between these two. 124 00:09:05,839 --> 00:09:12,399 Under 1,000 points when you're going that fast is pretty much within the run 125 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:17,120 to run variance. So, we can effectively say that these are pretty damn close. 126 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,600 Well, now that we know it's slightly slower, our Intel system can once again 127 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:27,040 go away. All right, let's give this guy a little game here. booted up Doom 128 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,279 Eternal and hopefully it is a good one. I am screen recording at the moment, so 129 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:37,279 the FPS won't be quite as high as you would expect to have. Oh wow, I am bad. 130 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:44,959 It does look like we're getting around 140 to 160 FPS, which is pretty good, 131 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:46,120 especially given that this is 4K, but at 132 00:09:44,959 --> 00:09:50,880 the same time, I am seeing a lot of screen 133 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:56,800 tearing. And I'm really really disappointed that this monitor does not 134 00:09:53,480 --> 00:10:00,320 have G-Sync as an option for a laptop 135 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:02,800 that is this expensive. And especially 136 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:06,880 given the fact that it is a 4K monitor where in all games you aren't 137 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:10,240 necessarily going to be able to get all of the 120 FPS or even in this where 138 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:16,160 we're getting over it. I'm still seeing screen tearing. It's not as premium of an experience as I would hope for. And 139 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:22,320 the actual gaming portion is pretty great, but the screen is not so good. I 140 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:24,959 am not super impressed. I need to break 141 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:29,279 out the other laptop because this AMD system has an engineering sample panel. 142 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:32,720 So, it's not quite what we're looking for, but we have the Intel one. So, one 143 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:37,120 second. All right, we're on the Intel machine now with the properly calibrated 144 00:10:34,959 --> 00:10:42,800 panel, and it actually looks really quite good in SDR. We're able to get a 145 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:48,320 bit over,00 nits peak brightness, which is fantastic. and it's accurate enough 146 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:52,320 for most of what you're doing as long as you're not a photo or video 147 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:57,360 professional. Out of the box, our model was a little bit blue in sRGB mode. I 148 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:00,959 don't mind that too much cuz you'll just get used to it. Your eyes will sort of 149 00:10:59,279 --> 00:11:05,120 white balance it for you after a little bit. And overall, I think that this 150 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:10,079 looks pretty great. Where things fall apart, though, is when you enable HDR. 151 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,800 Just look at this background right here. Then I'm going to turn on HDR. 152 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:21,920 It's bright. It certainly is really bright. All right, we are now in 153 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:29,440 HDR. It looks 154 00:11:27,079 --> 00:11:36,160 horrible. Like, did you see that? It's just literally the entire screen is 155 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:39,600 blown out and the saturation is just off 156 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:42,079 the charts. It is obscene how colorful 157 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:47,680 this is. Future Alex here. After recording, we found out that if you turn 158 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:50,399 on HDR and then restart the whole 159 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:56,160 laptop, the display goes from really bad to really bad but not quite as bad. For 160 00:11:54,079 --> 00:12:02,480 comparison, this time I have a MacBook Pro, which by the way has a brighter 161 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:05,920 screen. And it is so much less bright 162 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:08,560 and also so much just actual colors. 163 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:14,959 Once again, now we'll take this guy, turn the HDR brightness all the way down 164 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:17,279 to make it somewhere reasonableish. And 165 00:12:14,959 --> 00:12:21,680 now it's kind of looking okay. And all that we had to do was restart it and 166 00:12:19,839 --> 00:12:26,800 completely change the settings. Okay, this I can kind of stand, but it is 167 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:32,000 still completely incorrect. It's not even close. In our bestcase scenario, 168 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:37,160 with the brightness turned all the way down on the MSI and it restarted, we're 169 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:45,399 only able to get a 64.3 delta EITP. And again, 12 is what 170 00:12:41,839 --> 00:12:48,560 we expect for an okay viewing 171 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:51,600 experience. It is still so comically 172 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:53,519 oversaturated and over brightened that 173 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:58,639 stuff that you're looking at in HDR on the MSI sadly just looks cartoonish. 174 00:12:56,560 --> 00:13:04,320 Now, for our performance results, we tested the MSI Raider with the 5080 and 175 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:09,760 the Intel chip, plus our 5090 against an Asus Stricks Scar that had a 4090 in it 176 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:17,120 to see how it's improved generation over generation. And it has a little bit at 177 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:20,000 1600p in Total War Warhammer 3, we were 178 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:26,839 able to get an extra 13% performance on the 5090 compared to the 4090. The 5080, 179 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:32,720 however, was 1% slower. In 180 00:13:29,079 --> 00:13:37,279 F12024, similar results. The 5090 has 181 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:40,880 about a 9.2% uplift, while the 5080 is 182 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:43,839 again 1% slower than the 4090. And in 183 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:50,959 Cyberpunk 2027, we had a much bigger uplift for the 5090 over the 4090, 184 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:53,839 nearly 20%, but the 5080 was only 3.25, 185 00:13:50,959 --> 00:13:58,000 25, meaning that it's near as makes no difference to last generation's best. 186 00:13:56,079 --> 00:14:02,480 So, overall, it is a nice little gen over gen bump, but at the same time, 187 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:06,079 it's nowhere near the price bump. We'll get to that later. Maybe the speakers 188 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:10,279 will be a redemption, though. In here, we have six speakers, two woofers, and 189 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:17,839 four tweeters, which maybe sound good. We'll find out. 190 00:14:15,199 --> 00:14:21,880 All right. It sounds loud and clear, although I suspect there won't be a 191 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:27,199 whole lot of bass. Oh, that's not too bad. It's kind 192 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:33,920 of nicely balanced. Belle, can I borrow your MacBook for a second? Here we have 193 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,680 the MSI. Switching over to Mac. Wow, 194 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,720 that's way 195 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:43,600 better. The MSI sounds like junk now. 196 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:48,480 It's amazing how a laptop of this size is able to just completely destroy the 197 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:53,040 speakers on one that has all this space to put in way more bass. One thing that 198 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:57,279 is quite nice though is the webcam. Well, maybe the webcam itself isn't, but 199 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:01,360 we do have a little switch here beside the webcam, which I really appreciate. 200 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:05,760 You can super easily just know that no one's looking at you on your free time. 201 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:10,399 Open back up here. We also have Windows Hello facial recognition. Absolutely 202 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:15,360 love to see that. So, this webcam right here is going to be decent enough for 203 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:18,720 what you might want to do for video calling people, but do not expect it to 204 00:15:16,959 --> 00:15:22,240 be accurate. Actually, maybe this is just the display being a piece of Once 205 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:26,720 again. Oh, that looks way better. It's just that HDR was on and it looks like 206 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:32,639 ass. Going back to the AMD one here to have a look inside of that 207 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:38,160 one. 12 Phillips head screws later and we are in. And holy 208 00:15:34,839 --> 00:15:41,360 crap, that is some impressive heat 209 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:44,560 pipage. In here, we have two big beefy 210 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:47,920 fans and also six heat pipes. Although, 211 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:50,000 if you spring for the Gen 5 SSD option, 212 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:55,839 you even get a seventh heat pipe that goes down onto that guy. In here, we 213 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:58,320 also have two SSDs that are upgradeable. 214 00:15:55,839 --> 00:16:03,040 Love to see that. Looking underneath the SSD here, we have a great big thermal 215 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:06,800 pad, which is great. So, if you want to put in a double-sided SSD in the future, 216 00:16:05,199 --> 00:16:10,959 it should be no problem. You just might have to get a slightly thinner thermal 217 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:15,440 pad for it. Also, what is incredibly exciting here, look at that. We have our 218 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:20,959 RAM right here. You can replace it just as you want. This one's 32 GB. So, if 219 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:27,360 you want to upgrade it in the future or just your RAM dies, here you go. You can 220 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:31,920 do it. Now, what's a little bit not as good is the battery. It is literally as 221 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:38,079 large as they could make it. This thing right here is 99.99 W hours. And uh that 222 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:43,120 doesn't matter when you have a computer that's this large and this powerful. We 223 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:49,040 tested the Intel one, which is verified to have the correct battery life, and it 224 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:51,360 came in a bit over 4 hours. So, uh do 225 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:56,240 not expect to be like going to the library and writing a paper with this 226 00:16:53,759 --> 00:17:00,000 thing right here on battery. You're going to have to take that three lb 227 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:03,920 great big brick wherever you go. And one final thing while we're in here, the 228 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:09,199 Wi-Fi card is replaceable. And on the AMD system, you will want to because the 229 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,120 MediaTek Wi-Fi cards are just not as 230 00:17:09,199 --> 00:17:15,120 good as the Intel ones or the Qualcomm ones. You will have some problems with 231 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:19,839 connections and stuff like that. At least in my experience. So, so far, this 232 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:25,120 laptop's been a bit of a mixed bag, but the price makes it not. This thing right 233 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:26,880 here is $5,600, and for that, MSI's out 234 00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:30,880 to lunch. Who the is going to buy this thing for 235 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:36,400 $5,600? The strict SCAR that we looked at with the 4090 in it cost $4,000. Now, 236 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:43,120 that does have less RAM and less storage, but 237 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:46,080 $1600 to upgrade to the next gen, plus a 238 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:50,640 better RAM and storage is insane. I am sure this is not entirely MSI's fault. 239 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:56,640 NVIDIA probably has the prices of these 50 series chips just absolutely to the 240 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:59,600 moon. But man, it's pretty rough. The 241 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:03,360 Intel system with the 5080 also is very close to 242 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:10,840 $5,400. And as we saw, it performs pretty much identically to the 4090 that 243 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:13,840 uh costs what, $1,400 less. 244 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:16,000 Uh, wow. It's not a great time to be 245 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:21,400 buying a gaming laptop, at least if you're trying to get one that's this 246 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:24,160 baller here. So, MSI, let's just 247 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:28,640 uh talk about this one for a second. This laptop is 248 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:34,559 $5,600. The trackpad being really annoying and just not good enough for a 249 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:39,360 laptop of this price, I think I could get over, but the screen I cannot. The 250 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:43,760 things that matter the most when you are designing a laptop are the keyboard, the 251 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:47,679 trackpad, and the screen because those are things that you are actually 252 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:51,840 interacting with. And when two of those three are misses, the whole laptop's a 253 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:57,039 miss. It doesn't matter. A MacBook Air is a better laptop than this $5,600 254 00:18:54,880 --> 00:19:02,559 piece of trash. It doesn't matter if you can game at 1,000 FPS if those,000 FPS 255 00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:05,200 are delivered to your eyeballs through something that looks like a piece of 256 00:19:03,679 --> 00:19:09,520 crap. But I hope that you, the viewer, had a good time. I hope you guys enjoyed 257 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:13,760 watching this. Hit like, get subscribed, and I don't know, tweet at NVIDIA and 258 00:19:11,919 --> 00:19:16,720 tell them that their prices are stupid. And have a great old