WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Prestige, you can't spell that without MSI. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.920 What we've got right here today is the MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo, 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:11.920 and it looks like it could be a real good one. 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:17.040 So huge thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video, and let's get right into it. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:21.040 Got a quick guide. For charging, we have a 100 watt brick, 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:25.360 that's actually quite nice and small, maybe gallium nitride, 00:00:25.360 --> 00:00:28.760 and it is delivering that 100 watts over USB Type-C, 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:33.100 which I do really like to see. That means that if, say, you forget this, 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:37.040 you can just plug in your laptop to your phone charger, and charge it that way. 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:40.560 Now what you might have noticed is that this says AI in the name, 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, 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:50.280 which has a neural computing chip, which allows it to just like accelerate AI workloads, 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:55.480 such as stable diffusion, even just like AI blurring the Windows window, 00:00:55.480 --> 00:00:59.800 so that these use less power when it's doing like transparency and stuff like that. 00:00:59.800 --> 00:01:03.920 It is actually kind of useful. One thing a lot of notebooks these days get wrong, 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. 00:01:10.160 --> 00:01:14.520 On the right hand side, we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone microphone combo jack, 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.320 full-size SD card rear, every photographer is super stoked about that one, 00:01:19.320 --> 00:01:23.800 and a full-size Ethernet port. Or on the back, we have full-size HDM, 00:01:23.800 --> 00:01:29.000 I love to see that USB Type-A, and two Thunderbolt 4 ports, 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. 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.960 MSI, in their notes for this, says that it's ultra-thin and ultra-light, 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:42.880 but it looks not the most thin. 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:47.500 I'm kinda curious. Oh, I see what's happening here. 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:51.600 This is one of those ones where the laptop itself is actually pretty thin, 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 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:00.240 for the air intake, so I'm guessing that the thermal performance is pretty good, 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:03.360 and that's why when I just had it on the table, it seemed kinda thick, 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:08.360 even though it actually is right around 19 millimeters thick. 00:02:08.780 --> 00:02:12.520 And that is not what I would consider ultra-thin, 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, 00:02:17.700 --> 00:02:21.520 but also like full-size Ethernet, full-size HDMI. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:25.000 I think a lot of you guys know which one you would rather have 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:31.180 between thin and usable IO. MSI claims the Prestige 16 is 3.3 pounds. 00:02:31.180 --> 00:02:36.320 Let's see how this one is. 3.44, not bad, not bad. 00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:39.960 I'm guessing we have just a little bit extra RAM or something. 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.960 The actual weights of things can change a fair bit 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.120 from config to config, like you get this with a 4070. 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.900 I imagine that's adding an extra like 3,400 grams to it. 00:02:49.900 --> 00:02:53.200 The overall look of the Prestige 16 is quite nice. 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, 00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:03.240 and it has exceptional chassis rigidity. That's being provided by an aluminum 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.360 and magnesium blend for the chassis. 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.480 Is it fingerprint-resistant though? 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... 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. 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:26.240 The chassis around the keyboard and the trackpad is also really nice and firm. 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, 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:35.280 so I'm not super-duper concerned about that. MSI's build quality in their laptops 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:39.400 has just completely changed over the last couple of years, 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.760 and I'm really impressed with just how well built this thing is. 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. 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, 00:03:53.160 --> 00:03:57.360 but our Labs did have a sniff of it, and it's actually kind of interesting. 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:02.600 First of all, it is quite good, but what's interesting is that in SDR, 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:05.600 the accuracy of the panel is actually pretty bad 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:10.720 with an average Delta E of 4.8, which is way higher than the two 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:14.960 that we would expect for professional work, which is what this is aimed at. 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, 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:25.120 but if you just turn on HDR, okay, that just looks way better. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:28.360 So you enable HDR, and it's quite accurate in HDR 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.600 right around that two that we expect of the Delta E, 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.520 but turning on HDR also makes it way more accurate in SDR 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 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. 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.840 Why that is, I don't know, but it's just one click right here, 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:53.720 and you're good. Also, the peak brightness of this display is 600 nits, 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, 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:00.800 although it is quite shiny, and really, it's an OLED, 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.720 so where it's really, really going to shine is in dark rooms, 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:08.080 where you can just see those completely black blacks. 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:13.040 It's just, oh, darn. No touchscreen, though, that's unfortunate, 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.800 but what is fortunate is that in here, we have an Intel Core Ultra7 155H, 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:21.200 and this one right here, you can go up to an Ultra9. 00:05:21.200 --> 00:05:25.440 In this one, we have 16 cores, so that's six performance cores, 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:29.640 eight efficiency, and a total of 22 threads. 00:05:29.640 --> 00:05:35.080 This thing goes up to 4.8 gigahertz, which is just ripping fast. 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:39.280 Also quite fast, 6,400 megatransfer per second RAM, 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:42.320 32 gigabytes of the stuff is in here. 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, 00:05:47.080 --> 00:05:51.280 but such is a thin and light. One thing we just realized that is strange 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:56.400 is that if you have six performance cores and eight efficiency cores, that is 14 cores, 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, 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, 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.480 but good job, Intel. For storage, we have one terabyte. 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:18.320 Wi-Fi, it's a killer Wi-Fi 7 card, so that should be ripping fast 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. 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 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:35.720 and more hardcore video editing, I might suggest that you go for the 4060 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.520 or the 4070 version of this, although we weren't able to test those, 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:43.200 so maybe just look up how good it is somewhere else. 00:06:43.200 --> 00:06:47.840 Also, we have Intel's NPU. This is dedicated to accelerating AI tasks, 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:51.320 so doing stuff like stable diffusion in GIMP, 00:06:51.320 --> 00:06:54.960 we can do different stuff within Lightroom Classic, 00:06:54.960 --> 00:06:58.600 and just general AI things. How is the keyboard? 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. 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.360 It's been a real sore point for MSI for years and years, 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.440 and it has gotten a lot better as they have improved the chassis rigidity, 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:20.560 but it still isn't quite there. 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:24.960 Like if you look, the key stability, if I push on the side, isn't fantastic. 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:28.760 There's a lot of deflection from the key before it starts to actuate, 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:31.960 and that can hurt your speed and your accuracy, 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 00:07:37.880 --> 00:07:42.120 than the K key. Maybe something like a 15% variance 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.080 or something like that, when you normally expect more like 10 or five 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:49.600 on a really high-end laptop. That said, though, after a while, 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 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, 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. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.440 A lot of people I know, and like myself, when I'm using SOLIDWORKS, 00:08:10.440 --> 00:08:15.120 absolutely love having a numpad over here, and that can be the make or break 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:18.560 of if you want this laptop for your actual professional job. 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. 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.040 Now, it is over to the left to align it with the keyboard 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.280 and not the numpad, which I do dig. 00:08:30.280 --> 00:08:33.600 It's glass-topped, it's accurate, it's really nice and large, 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.400 and overall, just no complaints about the trackpad. Good job there. 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 00:08:43.520 --> 00:08:49.120 on this OLED monitor. It is 60 Hertz, but OLED has super quick response times, 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.980 which does mean that things look absolutely fantastic, 00:08:52.980 --> 00:08:58.480 and it should play really quite well, although it's not the best gaming experience 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.320 that I've ever had. One thing for performance that's nice that MSI has here 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.800 is the MSI AI engine, so that smartly just changes 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:09.920 between your various power modes, depending on what you're doing, 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:13.220 and that's great because I've seen the data from a bunch of different companies, 00:09:13.220 --> 00:09:16.260 and only like 10% of people actually take the time 00:09:16.260 --> 00:09:20.940 to go like extreme performance mode, balance, silence, super battery, and stuff like that. 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, 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. 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. 00:09:37.420 --> 00:09:41.500 It looks like that the keys themselves are in the 42 range, 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:45.220 which is okay-ish, although if we look at right up 00:09:45.220 --> 00:09:49.020 at the top here, this aluminum is conducting 00:09:49.020 --> 00:09:52.260 quite a bit of heat, that's 48 degrees. 00:09:52.260 --> 00:09:55.340 It'll take a while to burn you, but that will burn you, 00:09:55.340 --> 00:09:59.860 so don't hold your hand here while it's rendering. 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, 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, 00:10:10.620 --> 00:10:14.180 you can hear a bit from the bottom, but on the desk, 00:10:14.180 --> 00:10:18.340 the amount of noise that the fans are making is really quite reasonable. 00:10:18.340 --> 00:10:23.340 Okay, all right, that's respectable. 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, 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. 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. 00:10:40.900 --> 00:10:43.940 Crab rave is also just so good for showing off 00:10:43.940 --> 00:10:51.300 how fantastic OLEDs look like. Look at that, pitch black, that is nighttime right there. 00:10:51.300 --> 00:10:54.300 Now on to the webcam, so we have a 1080p webcam up here, 00:10:54.300 --> 00:10:58.340 and the first thing that I really like is this little switch right here. 00:10:58.340 --> 00:11:04.140 You can just hard disable it. I really, really appreciate these kind of little switches 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. 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:13.420 Coming in here though, it looks fine. 00:11:13.420 --> 00:11:18.700 It's kind of noisy, but not too bad. But speaking of noisy, gentlemen, 00:11:18.700 --> 00:11:23.020 we now have two laptops playing 10 hours of construction sounds. 00:11:23.020 --> 00:11:26.300 Now MSI says that their AI noise cancellation Pro 00:11:26.300 --> 00:11:29.860 works really quite well, so let's just turn that on 00:11:29.860 --> 00:11:33.660 for a bit, and maybe it sounds way better, or maybe it doesn't. 00:11:33.660 --> 00:11:39.900 We'll find out in a second. Damn, that worked really well, that is sick. 00:11:39.900 --> 00:11:43.940 I do have to say MSI, good job on the AI noise canceling. 00:11:43.940 --> 00:11:47.100 Now I do have a little surprise for you guys. 00:11:47.100 --> 00:11:50.700 Second laptop, it's the same thing, but three inches smaller. 00:11:52.540 --> 00:11:57.180 It's so cute. And also like, quite nice. 00:11:57.180 --> 00:12:01.060 It really does achieve the being very thin and very light 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. 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, 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, 00:12:17.220 --> 00:12:21.100 we'll see it's 13. 13 also has an OLED display. 00:12:21.100 --> 00:12:25.620 It has a keyboard that is quite similar to the 16, 00:12:25.620 --> 00:12:29.980 slightly smaller touch pad, but I'm not too concerned about that. 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. 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. 00:12:41.700 --> 00:12:46.220 75 watt hours is really, really good in a 13 inch. 00:12:46.220 --> 00:12:50.300 Eight Phillips head screws later, all of which are the same size. 00:12:50.300 --> 00:12:53.780 And wow, that's where the GPU goes. 00:12:55.280 --> 00:12:58.540 Wow, there's just nothing there. 00:12:58.540 --> 00:13:01.980 Normally you see like, you know, the heat pipes going over to another fan 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. 00:13:08.340 --> 00:13:11.700 Now the good news in here is that we have two SSD slots, 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:15.160 so we have the one terabyte from the factory, and if you want to upgrade it, 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? 00:13:19.180 --> 00:13:23.860 I'm not entirely sure, but it is without the GPU, we know that much. 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, 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. 00:13:33.620 --> 00:13:38.620 The real star of the show in here is the 99.9 watt hour battery. 00:13:38.620 --> 00:13:41.820 Now that is just a hair under what you're allowed 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:46.580 to take on a plane, and it gets us over 10 hours of battery life, 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:50.500 which you might be thinking, we don't even have a dedicated GPU. 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:54.820 Why isn't it more than that? And that's largely down to the OLED panel. 00:13:54.820 --> 00:14:00.900 OLEDs just suck back battery life, and that's why we need this absolutely massive thing 00:14:00.900 --> 00:14:05.540 to compensate for that, so that you can have those just actually stunning visuals 00:14:05.540 --> 00:14:08.660 that it is able to provide. Now of course, this video is sponsored, 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. 00:14:14.520 --> 00:14:19.300 The config that we have right here, one terabyte SSD, 32 gigabytes of RAM, 00:14:19.300 --> 00:14:23.820 and that fantastic 4K OLED panel is $1,400 US, 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 00:14:28.580 --> 00:14:33.460 comes in at a starting price of 1050, and it can go up from there. 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, 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:44.460 it can get pretty pricey pretty fast, but this config right here particularly, 00:14:44.460 --> 00:14:48.140 I am quite impressed with. And of course, I'm impressed with MSI 00:14:48.140 --> 00:14:52.380 for sponsoring this video. Huge thanks guys for watching, hit like, get subscribed, 00:14:52.380 --> 00:14:54.380 and just have a great old day.