WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.359 Are you looking for a gaming laptop to justify as a work expense? Well, MSI's 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:13.200 got you covered because they sponsored this ShortCircuit today to take a look at the MSI Vector 16 HX AI. And I say 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:18.560 that because this laptop kind of has an identity crisis. While they market it as 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:23.439 a STEM laptop, this bad boy is packing all the power you could want for gaming. 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:28.880 We're going to open it up here. And holy crap, that is a huge power brick. 00:00:27.279 --> 00:00:33.280 My goodness, you could kill a man with this thing. and you'd have fun doing it. 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:37.840 >> How many watts is this bad boy? 330 watts. While this seems like a lot for a 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:41.920 laptop, because it is, this laptop can drop to 250 watts at its max load. 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:46.000 Meaning if you're drawing that much power, you'll still be able to get a 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:50.960 charge. So, that's kind of nice. And then we've got the other end, which is 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:52.320 our C13. Oh, wow. Nice 6T C13. How long 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.760 is this one too? You might be able to plug this thing in like three desks 00:00:54.160 --> 00:01:00.800 away. Three work desks away. Yes. Thank you, 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.879 Andrew. another like fourish, fiveish 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:08.560 feet. So, you got quite a long power cable for this thing. And then, of 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:10.080 course, the laptop itself. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:16.159 Is there anything else in here before I look at the laptop? Just some MSI 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:18.080 propaganda. Wow, look at that. See what 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:23.520 I mean by identity crisis? It's marketed for STEM students, but this is a gaming 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:27.119 laptop as far as I'm concerned. On the right side here, you've got two USBA 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:30.479 ports and a headphone audio jack combined. On the back here, you've got 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:36.640 your Kensington lock, your power plug, HDMI 2.1, and LAN 2.5 Gbit. So, again, 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:40.880 full fat speed on this bad boy. And on the last side here, you've got two 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:44.560 Thunderbolt 5 ports, and a full size SD card reader, which again kind of goes 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.399 back to their point of maybe a student laptop because depending on the projects 00:01:46.720 --> 00:01:52.560 you're working on, you might be plugging in an SD card from a camera cuz again, 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:55.840 they talk about some editing workloads as well, some video editing or photo 00:01:54.399 --> 00:02:00.719 editing. I'm more interested in the gaming side. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:03.280 Oh my gosh, these hinges are like crazy. I don't know if I'm going to be able to 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:08.399 get them really good on camera. These hinges are kind of crazy. Like a full 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.120 90° hinge. They look super cool. They 00:02:08.399 --> 00:02:15.920 feel fine. It's got that one-handed laptop open. That's always nice to see. 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:20.239 It lifts it a tiny bit, but that's fine. I call that passible. As for the screen 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:23.280 itself, oh, that is quite strong, actually. Even though it's only held on 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:27.040 by the two little hinges here, I'm moving the laptop more than I'm like 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:32.239 twisting the actual screen. And on the bottom, oh 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:36.800 wo. Oh, we're going to have to open this bad boy up after. Can you see the heat 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:40.800 pipes in there? Oh, it's really hard to see with it closed on camera cuz this 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:47.440 bad boy has kind of a crazy cooling system because it has to cool a 5080. 00:02:44.239 --> 00:02:49.760 specifically a 5080 that draws 175 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:54.319 watts, which in case you don't know, is the maximum wattage that you can get on 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:58.560 a mobile 5080. As well as cooling the 5080, it also has a core Ultra 9 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:03.200 processor, the 275HX in here, which is a 24 core processor. 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:06.800 Eight of those are performance and 16 of those are efficiency cores, which again 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:10.720 just kind of speaks to how much power this bad boy is going to be drawing. I 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:14.879 man, I don't know how much I can wait. I kind of want to just get right into this. [music] By the way, investment 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:19.040 disclosure, Lionus is invested in framework laptops. Man, actually doing 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:23.519 another tour of the outside. Look at how much space there is of cooling. I I 00:03:21.519 --> 00:03:27.519 mean, I hope that translates to excellent cooling performance, but these 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:32.560 bad boys got like full headers on this. I would actually worry I would spill a 00:03:29.200 --> 00:03:34.000 drink in there or something, but no 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.080 Mountain Dew when you're gaming on this bad boy. Let's give it a power up here. 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:42.799 The first thing I noticed when booting this up, I mean, obviously, is the 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:47.040 screen. It is a 16x10 aspect ratio at 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:48.879 240 hertz, which again for school work, 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:54.959 a little bit insane if you ask me. And MSI says this hits 100% of the DCIP3 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:56.959 coverage spectrum on this IPS display. 00:03:54.959 --> 00:04:00.560 When we tested it, we didn't quite get to 100%. Which we did talk to them about 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:04.879 and they said that there could have been some variance in the displays that they're using. At least they're aware of 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.879 it and hopefully they'll make some changes by the time you get your laptop. 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:13.200 But even just saying that, I'm on the Windows home screen right now and it 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:16.720 looks fantastic. I mean, I want to boot up a video to actually verify this. I 00:04:15.459 --> 00:04:21.600 [music] want to crank the brightness up on this first. 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:24.320 Unless it's already up all the way. It was already up all the way. Okay. Would 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:28.000 have expected it a little bit brighter then, but it looks very good for 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:31.360 watching this video that we're watching. We're watching the re test footage, 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:36.400 which is our HDR content, even though the screen isn't in HDR. The one thing 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:40.639 I've noticed a tiny bit again is in these black bars, it almost gets a 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:44.560 little bit I don't want to say cyan like the framework laptop had, but like it's 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:48.320 not quite a solid deep black. I mean, it's not an OLED display, so I wouldn't 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:51.759 expect it to get super super black there. Could be a little distracting, 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:56.320 especially since I actually can see it more on the camera than in front of me. 00:04:53.919 --> 00:05:00.720 But right here, I can almost see the RGB backlight like reflecting on the bottom 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:03.840 of the screen. So maybe you want to turn yours off. I was going to comment on the 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:08.240 keyboard and trackpad, but one thing I'm hearing just now is the fans are on. And 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:12.000 I've been wondering if they've been on this whole time now, which for watching 00:05:10.479 --> 00:05:16.560 a YouTube video, I wouldn't necessarily expect fans to ramp up a little bit. But 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:21.440 hopefully that means it's just staying super cool, but it's so faint that if 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:24.400 you didn't have headphones on, be like maybe a little bit of white noise for 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:29.120 you. It's a nice large trackpad, which I like. My fingers are getting a tiny bit 00:05:26.880 --> 00:05:32.743 stuck. I have greasy fingers though, I will admit that. So, if you don't have 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:37.440 greasy fingers, you're probably fine. [laughter] This feels like a very good trackpad 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:41.199 when my finger is actually sliding on it, though. And as for the click, I am 00:05:39.520 --> 00:05:44.639 very satisfied with a nice click on a trackpad. I hate kind of squishy 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:48.720 trackpads that don't give me the feedback. It's able to register all my 00:05:46.479 --> 00:05:52.759 gestures that I would need. So, for me, I feel like it's totally fine. 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:58.479 Man, this is a nice keyboard. I'm 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.160 bringing up my daily driver, my Lenovo here. I want to just test it. My Lenovo 00:06:00.479 --> 00:06:08.000 has way more flex. And I've always found that this was my bar of like acceptable 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:12.639 for me. This, if you like a nice stiff keyboard in your laptop, holy, I like 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:16.639 this keyboard a lot actually. And they managed to fit a numpad in on it. It's a 00:06:14.880 --> 00:06:21.280 probably the smallest numpad I've ever seen on a laptop. But I love numpads. I 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.639 when we had to pick our internal laptop, I made sure I picked one with a numpad. 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:28.400 It's so much easier just to type anything, whether it's a phone number or 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:32.720 an address or something. I'm very happy they managed to squeeze one in on here. 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:38.280 I'm I got to push really hard to get any bend on that. But just like normal 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:38.280 typing, 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:44.080 our configuration, we have 16 GB of memory. You can configure it on their 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:48.080 website up to 32. The board says it supports up to 96 GB. So, I don't know 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:52.720 why they would only let you configure up to 32. I guess it's very much BYOM then. 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:57.120 Bring your own memory. Holy crap. This thing's ready to go. Oh, I got a hand 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:01.440 warmer, though. If I put my hands right here. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:06.080 Okay, it seems like everything is on our Labs test suite. I thought maybe it was 00:07:03.440 --> 00:07:11.520 dialed down somehow because I'm getting over 100 FPS as my average. 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:15.280 And on this display, it looks really, really good. I had a little hitch there, 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:18.880 but I was loading something, so understandable. 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:23.680 For not even the topsp spec version of this laptop. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:29.280 Dude, this is sick. this would be a great portable gaming work work machine. 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:34.400 Great portable work machine. My only complaint about this gaming experience 00:07:31.599 --> 00:07:37.599 would be that I would need headphones, which I don't think is necessarily a 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:40.880 complaint cuz again, if you're in the middle of class and you just heard all 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:47.520 this gunshot going on, people would know anyway. So, you're probably wearing headphones. Holy cow. 1% lows have 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:53.039 dropped down to 70ish there, but it seems to bounce back up to 80. And I can 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:56.720 actually I can actually feel a tiny bit of the fan pressure coming back up 00:07:54.960 --> 00:08:00.400 through the keyboard. It's keeping my fingers nice and toasty. I complained 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.280 when I first walked on set that it was cold in here. I'm happier now. 00:08:02.740 --> 00:08:07.199 [laughter] I wasn't the only one that was happy with the numbers. Labs told me they were 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:12.960 pretty happy with the numbers as well, considering at the 1200 resolution, our 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:16.000 Cyberpunk was getting 170 FPS average, 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:17.280 which again is a lot for a mobile 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:21.360 device. You're still not even pushing the full display though in that game. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:27.520 And same with F124. That was one of our games that managed to push over 220 FPS, 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:30.479 which is freaking amazing at 12,200 resolution. When you go up to the full 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:35.680 resolution of the display, which is 1,600, our FPS drops a little bit, but 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:42.959 it's still above 120 in Cyberpunk average and almost 180 in F124, which 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:47.920 again for a gaming experience is more than enough on a device like this. And 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:52.080 our last game of Total Warhammer 3, same story. We saw 150ish FPS in 1200. Once 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:57.761 we bumped up the resolution, it dropped down a little bit. And that was the only game in our test suite that actually 00:08:54.959 --> 00:08:59.781 dipped just barely below 100 FPS. [music] 00:08:59.839 --> 00:09:05.800 Wow, these are loud. Holy crap. 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:15.519 Oh, that's a lot of bass though. 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:19.600 That's a lot of bass in that laptop and they are very loud. So, my point stands 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.959 earlier. If you were playing uh Cyberpunk on these speakers in your 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:27.120 class, they would probably drown out that fan noise. I'm going to drop it 00:09:24.880 --> 00:09:31.360 down to 50%, which is what I often find is like the sweet spot for mobile 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:36.680 devices. It's still very loud at 50% YouTube. 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:51.120 They're loud. I I I think it's too much bass for my personal liking, but I think 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:54.240 once you dial it down a little bit, I don't think it overpowers it anymore. 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:57.279 So, I think it's totally fine. But to each their own. Don't listen to it on 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:00.720 full volume, then I guess. As for the webcam on this thing, this is what I 00:09:58.959 --> 00:10:04.640 look like. It's a webcam that is good enough for 00:10:03.040 --> 00:10:08.720 the schooled work that you will be doing on this laptop. I would not record a 00:10:07.040 --> 00:10:13.120 professional YouTube video on it like I am right now. But let's make sure my 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:18.560 kill cam works. I hope that worked. And turn it back on. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:25.040 Hey, there we go. I'm still recording. Does this have a microphone kill switch? 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:27.200 I don't see one at immediate glance, 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:31.680 which might be a turnoff for you, but at least you have a hard a hardware 00:10:30.160 --> 00:10:39.240 covering the camera, which is really important. Now comes my favorite part to 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:39.240 suffocate this thing until it turns off. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.800 Beauty. Those are some thick feet, actually. I never even realized. Look at 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:49.519 those feet. My goodness. That way hopefully you'll have lots of clearance. 00:10:48.079 --> 00:10:54.399 We're on a squishy mat, so that might not be the best, but you should have plenty of airflow on the underside. 00:10:52.880 --> 00:10:59.920 Let's open this up. Where's my screwdriver? Oh, finally. 00:10:58.160 --> 00:11:04.320 My goodness. That took me a bit to get into, but I did have to take off the 00:11:02.079 --> 00:11:09.440 hinge in order to get at some of the clips under here. Now that I have the 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:14.240 back panel off, it looks really [music] good. So, you got your two SSD slots 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:19.360 right here. You have your Wi-Fi. This is our Wi-Fi 7 chip here. And I'm just 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:25.200 looking overall, where's our battery size here? 87.4Wh 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.640 hour battery. That's a bit smaller than I would expect in a device like this. I 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:32.640 think the legal limit for like airplanes is 99 W hours, which I guess I don't 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:36.560 know, maybe if you're just taking it around for land, you're always plugging it in. You're probably going to have to 00:11:34.880 --> 00:11:40.800 plug it in, though. If you're just using the iGPU on this bad boy and you're 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:45.680 idling, just watching a YouTube video, you get 6 and 1/2 hours of battery. If 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:51.279 you decide to use the dedicated GPU, that number goes all the way down to 2 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:54.399 and 1/2 hours battery. I won't lie, MSI, 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:56.399 I'm a bit disappointed in that. But I 00:11:54.399 --> 00:12:00.000 kind of understand your vision if you're plugging this in and always using it 00:11:58.160 --> 00:12:04.959 because then you don't have to worry about it. But if this is supposed to be 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:09.200 a student laptop, like you're going to use it, right, viewer? That might be a 00:12:07.680 --> 00:12:13.120 little bit of a concern for you. So, always keep your power cord, I guess, 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:17.040 under here, I'm assuming. And yeah, that's our memory, which again you can 00:12:14.959 --> 00:12:21.279 swap out for any other sodium. And this confirms yes, this is 16 GB total for us 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:26.959 here. While I just mentioned the battery results, I might as well talk about the display results as well. And across the 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:30.639 board, it seems to hit about 500 nits, which is what was advertised from MSI. 00:12:29.040 --> 00:12:34.720 So that's positive that it hit our brightness. But I was on to something 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:39.040 again when I talked about the black bars on the YouTube video. It seems to again 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:44.480 trend a little bit above average, which kind of gives it that little bit of a 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.560 cyan blue gray tint, especially in the 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:50.880 max brightness. Again, it's not an OLED panel, so I wouldn't expect perfect 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:53.839 blacks, [music] but if you're going to use this for any sort of color 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:57.360 correcting, might want to be a little bit careful on that. But for gaming 00:12:55.760 --> 00:13:02.560 performance, it's going [music] to look beautiful. And I thought it looked incredible even in just that quick demo 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:07.040 in Cyberpunk. And I'm sure any other game that could push this thing to 240 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:10.959 hertz, for example, or just with a little bit of ray tracing is going to 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:14.320 look immaculate. [music] I'm also going to call MSI out on one more thing, even 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:18.320 though they sponsored. Again, thank you guys very much. They mentioned that you 00:13:16.160 --> 00:13:23.120 can put these two M.2 two drives into something called a super RAID 5, which 00:13:20.959 --> 00:13:28.320 basically is a RAID zero >> except you get to use the speed benefits 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:32.240 of having that PCIe gen 5 slot cuz one of them is gen 5, one of them is gen 4. 00:13:30.959 --> 00:13:38.959 So if you're reading that and a little bit confused, it's not actually RAID 5, 00:13:35.040 --> 00:13:41.279 which MSI just call it faster. I don't 00:13:38.959 --> 00:13:44.639 confuse the user in my opinion, but it is nice that you are able to raid them 00:13:43.040 --> 00:13:48.880 together if that's something you're wanting to do. I know some other boards 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:53.519 in this market might not actually be able to raid the two M.2s together, so 00:13:51.680 --> 00:13:58.079 at least you're getting that. Overall, for gaming, this thing is pretty sick. 00:13:55.789 --> 00:14:01.839 [music] I'm not again sold on the whole for STEM students or for school 00:13:59.839 --> 00:14:06.079 research, but I'm sure that if you wanted to still do some rendering, 00:14:04.079 --> 00:14:09.519 whether that's video editing or 3D modeling, CAD work, this bad boy is 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:13.440 going to be able to do it totally fine for you. And MSI is trying to be 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:19.120 competitive in the market by pricing this specific skew at $2,400ish US. 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:23.440 Again, you can change that depending on the GPU versus how much RAM or storage 00:14:20.959 --> 00:14:27.229 you can get. And for that price with a 5080, that's cheaper than some other 00:14:25.760 --> 00:14:32.079 laptops we've looked at that had a [music] 5070. So, that seems pretty in 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:35.760 line with them wanting to be competitive. [music] If this one is too 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:40.880 much for you, though, they have a slightly more affordable laptop called the Cyborg A15 AI. [music] a little bit 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:44.399 less powerful, but again, it might be more affordable for you. If you're interested in checking out either one of 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:48.480 these laptops, we're going to have them linked down below. Thanks again, MSI, for sponsoring this video. Let me know 00:14:47.199 --> 00:14:52.720 what you guys thought about these down below. And if you uh like the video, 00:14:50.800 --> 00:14:57.839 subscribe for me. [music] It would mean a lot to me. 00:14:54.560 --> 00:14:57.839 Belle might break my knees if you