1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Prestige, you can't spell that without MSI. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,920 What we've got right here today is the MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo, 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,920 and it looks like it could be a real good one. 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:17,040 So huge thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video, and let's get right into it. 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,040 Got a quick guide. For charging, we have a 100 watt brick, 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:25,360 that's actually quite nice and small, maybe gallium nitride, 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,760 and it is delivering that 100 watts over USB Type-C, 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:33,100 which I do really like to see. That means that if, say, you forget this, 9 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:37,040 you can just plug in your laptop to your phone charger, and charge it that way. 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,560 Now what you might have noticed is that this says AI in the name, 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:46,160 and it isn't complete bogus, it has Intel's new core ultra chips inside of it, 12 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:50,280 which has a neural computing chip, which allows it to just like accelerate AI workloads, 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,480 such as stable diffusion, even just like AI blurring the Windows window, 14 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,800 so that these use less power when it's doing like transparency and stuff like that. 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,920 It is actually kind of useful. One thing a lot of notebooks these days get wrong, 16 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:10,160 especially when they're trying to be thin and light, is the IO, and fortunately MSI has not made that mistake here. 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,520 On the right hand side, we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone microphone combo jack, 18 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,320 full-size SD card rear, every photographer is super stoked about that one, 19 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:23,800 and a full-size Ethernet port. Or on the back, we have full-size HDM, 20 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:29,000 I love to see that USB Type-A, and two Thunderbolt 4 ports, 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,480 and on the right hand side, we have a Kensington lock, and that is it, just a couple of fins. 22 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,960 MSI, in their notes for this, says that it's ultra-thin and ultra-light, 23 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:42,880 but it looks not the most thin. 24 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,500 I'm kinda curious. Oh, I see what's happening here. 25 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:51,600 This is one of those ones where the laptop itself is actually pretty thin, 26 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,320 but they have these feet down on the bottom, so it has nice and lots of room 27 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,240 for the air intake, so I'm guessing that the thermal performance is pretty good, 28 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,360 and that's why when I just had it on the table, it seemed kinda thick, 29 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,360 even though it actually is right around 19 millimeters thick. 30 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:12,520 And that is not what I would consider ultra-thin, 31 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:17,700 but at the same time, I think that it's a good compromise because it is a tiny bit thicker, 32 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:21,520 but also like full-size Ethernet, full-size HDMI. 33 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,000 I think a lot of you guys know which one you would rather have 34 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,180 between thin and usable IO. MSI claims the Prestige 16 is 3.3 pounds. 35 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:36,320 Let's see how this one is. 3.44, not bad, not bad. 36 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,960 I'm guessing we have just a little bit extra RAM or something. 37 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,960 The actual weights of things can change a fair bit 38 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,120 from config to config, like you get this with a 4070. 39 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,900 I imagine that's adding an extra like 3,400 grams to it. 40 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:53,200 The overall look of the Prestige 16 is quite nice. 41 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,920 It does have that professional feel. It does have, I'm actually reefing on it pretty hard right now, 42 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:03,240 and it has exceptional chassis rigidity. That's being provided by an aluminum 43 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,360 and magnesium blend for the chassis. 44 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,480 Is it fingerprint-resistant though? 45 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,600 That's, yeah, that's pretty good. I'm like half a greasy one right now, and this is... 46 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:21,160 Yeah, you have to shine it straight into the light to see those fingerprints, so good job there, MSI. 47 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:26,240 The chassis around the keyboard and the trackpad is also really nice and firm. 48 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,320 There's a little bit of a soft spot over here. At the same time, that's in the numpad area, 49 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:35,280 so I'm not super-duper concerned about that. MSI's build quality in their laptops 50 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,400 has just completely changed over the last couple of years, 51 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,760 and I'm really impressed with just how well built this thing is. 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,640 This has an OLED panel. I don't even need to look at my notes to tell you that much. 53 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:53,160 Just using my eyeballs, I can pretty easily tell you that this is a fantastic looking display, 54 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,360 but our Labs did have a sniff of it, and it's actually kind of interesting. 55 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,600 First of all, it is quite good, but what's interesting is that in SDR, 56 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,600 the accuracy of the panel is actually pretty bad 57 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,720 with an average Delta E of 4.8, which is way higher than the two 58 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,960 that we would expect for professional work, which is what this is aimed at. 59 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,040 Everything's a lot more vibrant than it should be, and we weren't able to find any obvious ways to stop that, 60 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:25,120 but if you just turn on HDR, okay, that just looks way better. 61 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,360 So you enable HDR, and it's quite accurate in HDR 62 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,600 right around that two that we expect of the Delta E, 63 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,520 but turning on HDR also makes it way more accurate in SDR 64 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,680 for some reason, so there's not really any reason to not just turn on HDR in Windows 65 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:46,360 because then the color mapping of this display in all of your content is just way better. 66 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,840 Why that is, I don't know, but it's just one click right here, 67 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,720 and you're good. Also, the peak brightness of this display is 600 nits, 68 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,280 so that's bright enough that you might be able to go outside and work on this, 69 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,800 although it is quite shiny, and really, it's an OLED, 70 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,720 so where it's really, really going to shine is in dark rooms, 71 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,080 where you can just see those completely black blacks. 72 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:13,040 It's just, oh, darn. No touchscreen, though, that's unfortunate, 73 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,800 but what is fortunate is that in here, we have an Intel Core Ultra7 155H, 74 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,200 and this one right here, you can go up to an Ultra9. 75 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,440 In this one, we have 16 cores, so that's six performance cores, 76 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,640 eight efficiency, and a total of 22 threads. 77 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:35,080 This thing goes up to 4.8 gigahertz, which is just ripping fast. 78 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,280 Also quite fast, 6,400 megatransfer per second RAM, 79 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,320 32 gigabytes of the stuff is in here. 80 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,080 It does say it's a row of chips, so chances are we can't upgrade that in the future, 81 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,280 but such is a thin and light. One thing we just realized that is strange 82 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:56,400 is that if you have six performance cores and eight efficiency cores, that is 14 cores, 83 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:02,560 but it says that it has 16, and that's because it also has two ultra low power efficiency cores, 84 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:09,120 which are, honestly, I don't really know what those do, besides use way less power than the already efficient cores, 85 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,480 but good job, Intel. For storage, we have one terabyte. 86 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,320 Wi-Fi, it's a killer Wi-Fi 7 card, so that should be ripping fast 87 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:24,920 if your router is able to do Wi-Fi 7. GPU, it's Intel ArcGraphics that's built onto the chip. 88 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:30,480 Now, this is available with up to a 4070, so if you want to do less photo editing 89 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:35,720 and more hardcore video editing, I might suggest that you go for the 4060 90 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,520 or the 4070 version of this, although we weren't able to test those, 91 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,200 so maybe just look up how good it is somewhere else. 92 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,840 Also, we have Intel's NPU. This is dedicated to accelerating AI tasks, 93 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:51,320 so doing stuff like stable diffusion in GIMP, 94 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,960 we can do different stuff within Lightroom Classic, 95 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,600 and just general AI things. How is the keyboard? 96 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:09,360 The keyboard overall is pretty decent. I would give it maybe a B minus somewhere around there. 97 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,360 It's been a real sore point for MSI for years and years, 98 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,440 and it has gotten a lot better as they have improved the chassis rigidity, 99 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,560 but it still isn't quite there. 100 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,960 Like if you look, the key stability, if I push on the side, isn't fantastic. 101 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,760 There's a lot of deflection from the key before it starts to actuate, 102 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,960 and that can hurt your speed and your accuracy, 103 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:37,880 and there's definitely some inconsistencies. Like on ours, the J key takes less force to press 104 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:42,120 than the K key. Maybe something like a 15% variance 105 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,080 or something like that, when you normally expect more like 10 or five 106 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,600 on a really high-end laptop. That said, though, after a while, 107 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:56,560 I was able to get mostly used to it, and some of those inconsistencies do still rear their heads 108 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,640 as a little bit of not the accuracy that I would expect to have on a keyboard like this, 109 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,720 but a lot of you might trade that for the inclusion of a numpad on the right. 110 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,440 A lot of people I know, and like myself, when I'm using SOLIDWORKS, 111 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,120 absolutely love having a numpad over here, and that can be the make or break 112 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,560 of if you want this laptop for your actual professional job. 113 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,720 One area, though, where MSI has just knocked it out of the park on this is the trackpad. 114 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,040 Now, it is over to the left to align it with the keyboard 115 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,280 and not the numpad, which I do dig. 116 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,600 It's glass-topped, it's accurate, it's really nice and large, 117 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,400 and overall, just no complaints about the trackpad. Good job there. 118 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:43,520 All right, so I'm gaming at 1080p here. First of all, Rocket League looks absolutely fantastic 119 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:49,120 on this OLED monitor. It is 60 Hertz, but OLED has super quick response times, 120 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,980 which does mean that things look absolutely fantastic, 121 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:58,480 and it should play really quite well, although it's not the best gaming experience 122 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,320 that I've ever had. One thing for performance that's nice that MSI has here 123 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,800 is the MSI AI engine, so that smartly just changes 124 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,920 between your various power modes, depending on what you're doing, 125 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,220 and that's great because I've seen the data from a bunch of different companies, 126 00:09:13,220 --> 00:09:16,260 and only like 10% of people actually take the time 127 00:09:16,260 --> 00:09:20,940 to go like extreme performance mode, balance, silence, super battery, and stuff like that. 128 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:26,300 Most people never look at that ever, and having it just be AI engine, it figures it out for you, 129 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:30,820 and it's probably mostly really quite good. We've had Rocket League open for like five or so minutes. 130 00:09:30,820 --> 00:09:37,420 Let's see how hot she's getting, 46. So that's pretty borderline, if I'm honest. 131 00:09:37,420 --> 00:09:41,500 It looks like that the keys themselves are in the 42 range, 132 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:45,220 which is okay-ish, although if we look at right up 133 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:49,020 at the top here, this aluminum is conducting 134 00:09:49,020 --> 00:09:52,260 quite a bit of heat, that's 48 degrees. 135 00:09:52,260 --> 00:09:55,340 It'll take a while to burn you, but that will burn you, 136 00:09:55,340 --> 00:09:59,860 so don't hold your hand here while it's rendering. 137 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:04,420 Even though this might be a little bit hotter than I wanted, it is at least not very loud, 138 00:10:04,420 --> 00:10:10,620 like I don't know if you can hear it right now, but I barely can, and like holding it up like this, 139 00:10:10,620 --> 00:10:14,180 you can hear a bit from the bottom, but on the desk, 140 00:10:14,180 --> 00:10:18,340 the amount of noise that the fans are making is really quite reasonable. 141 00:10:18,340 --> 00:10:23,340 Okay, all right, that's respectable. 142 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:30,740 It's not the loudest laptop that I've ever heard, but at the same time, staging is good, clarity is good, 143 00:10:30,740 --> 00:10:36,180 and they haven't just like cranked up the volume to where the poor speaker is distorted and stuff. 144 00:10:36,180 --> 00:10:40,900 It's all nice and clear, even if there isn't a whole lot of bass in there. 145 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:43,940 Crab rave is also just so good for showing off 146 00:10:43,940 --> 00:10:51,300 how fantastic OLEDs look like. Look at that, pitch black, that is nighttime right there. 147 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,300 Now on to the webcam, so we have a 1080p webcam up here, 148 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:58,340 and the first thing that I really like is this little switch right here. 149 00:10:58,340 --> 00:11:04,140 You can just hard disable it. I really, really appreciate these kind of little switches 150 00:11:04,140 --> 00:11:09,100 so that you know for sure that your webcam is not looking at you when you don't want it to. 151 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:13,420 Coming in here though, it looks fine. 152 00:11:13,420 --> 00:11:18,700 It's kind of noisy, but not too bad. But speaking of noisy, gentlemen, 153 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:23,020 we now have two laptops playing 10 hours of construction sounds. 154 00:11:23,020 --> 00:11:26,300 Now MSI says that their AI noise cancellation Pro 155 00:11:26,300 --> 00:11:29,860 works really quite well, so let's just turn that on 156 00:11:29,860 --> 00:11:33,660 for a bit, and maybe it sounds way better, or maybe it doesn't. 157 00:11:33,660 --> 00:11:39,900 We'll find out in a second. Damn, that worked really well, that is sick. 158 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,940 I do have to say MSI, good job on the AI noise canceling. 159 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:47,100 Now I do have a little surprise for you guys. 160 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:50,700 Second laptop, it's the same thing, but three inches smaller. 161 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:57,180 It's so cute. And also like, quite nice. 162 00:11:57,180 --> 00:12:01,060 It really does achieve the being very thin and very light 163 00:12:01,060 --> 00:12:07,060 that MSI said that the 16 is, but 16 is pretty large, 13 is much more manageable. 164 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:12,220 But you are giving up things like, there's no Ethernet, there's no full-size SD card reader, 165 00:12:12,220 --> 00:12:16,060 but if what you're looking for is something that's just super duper nice and thin, 166 00:12:17,220 --> 00:12:21,100 we'll see it's 13. 13 also has an OLED display. 167 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:25,620 It has a keyboard that is quite similar to the 16, 168 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:29,980 slightly smaller touch pad, but I'm not too concerned about that. 169 00:12:29,980 --> 00:12:36,740 And it also has a 75 watt hour battery which in a laptop of this size is very, very impressive. 170 00:12:36,740 --> 00:12:41,700 We also have a 99 watt hour in this one, but that's kind of what you expect in 16 inch. 171 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:46,220 75 watt hours is really, really good in a 13 inch. 172 00:12:46,220 --> 00:12:50,300 Eight Phillips head screws later, all of which are the same size. 173 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,780 And wow, that's where the GPU goes. 174 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,540 Wow, there's just nothing there. 175 00:12:58,540 --> 00:13:01,980 Normally you see like, you know, the heat pipes going over to another fan 176 00:13:01,980 --> 00:13:08,340 so that your CPU has a higher TDP, but they're just like, no, there's a gap. 177 00:13:08,340 --> 00:13:11,700 Now the good news in here is that we have two SSD slots, 178 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:15,160 so we have the one terabyte from the factory, and if you want to upgrade it, 179 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,180 there's another one that is just nice and free. Is it free when you get a GPU? 180 00:13:19,180 --> 00:13:23,860 I'm not entirely sure, but it is without the GPU, we know that much. 181 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:28,660 Also unfortunately, the RAM is soldered down right here, which does allow you to have higher speeds, 182 00:13:28,660 --> 00:13:33,620 but you can't upgrade it in the future, so make sure you get enough when you purchase the laptop. 183 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:38,620 The real star of the show in here is the 99.9 watt hour battery. 184 00:13:38,620 --> 00:13:41,820 Now that is just a hair under what you're allowed 185 00:13:41,820 --> 00:13:46,580 to take on a plane, and it gets us over 10 hours of battery life, 186 00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:50,500 which you might be thinking, we don't even have a dedicated GPU. 187 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:54,820 Why isn't it more than that? And that's largely down to the OLED panel. 188 00:13:54,820 --> 00:14:00,900 OLEDs just suck back battery life, and that's why we need this absolutely massive thing 189 00:14:00,900 --> 00:14:05,540 to compensate for that, so that you can have those just actually stunning visuals 190 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:08,660 that it is able to provide. Now of course, this video is sponsored, 191 00:14:08,660 --> 00:14:14,520 so take my recommendation with a grain of salt, but I'm actually quite impressed with the price. 192 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,300 The config that we have right here, one terabyte SSD, 32 gigabytes of RAM, 193 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:23,820 and that fantastic 4K OLED panel is $1,400 US, 194 00:14:23,820 --> 00:14:28,580 which for that is actually quite good. It wants something a little bit less than 13 inch 195 00:14:28,580 --> 00:14:33,460 comes in at a starting price of 1050, and it can go up from there. 196 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:38,440 And of course, this right here, if you want to outfit it with a 4060 or a 4070, 197 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:44,460 it can get pretty pricey pretty fast, but this config right here particularly, 198 00:14:44,460 --> 00:14:48,140 I am quite impressed with. And of course, I'm impressed with MSI 199 00:14:48,140 --> 00:14:52,380 for sponsoring this video. Huge thanks guys for watching, hit like, get subscribed, 200 00:14:52,380 --> 00:14:54,380 and just have a great old day.