1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,960 We're here at CES 2024, except it's not CES 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,040 and it's not 2024 yet because MSI has brought the show to us early 3 00:00:08,040 --> 00:00:12,080 and they sponsored this video. We're going to check out a bunch of their brand new laptops 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,680 and I am super excited about this incredibly specific world's first. 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,720 This right here is the world's first seamless RGB haptic touchpad. 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,640 We have seen many of those things before, but not all of them together, so they get the first. 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:32,080 This laptop is incredibly beastly and I know that because it has a 400 watt charger. 8 00:00:32,540 --> 00:00:36,280 I have never seen something this powerful before 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,480 and particularly it's not even that big 10 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:44,680 in the past they'd have to have two bricks for a laptop like this, but not anymore. 11 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:49,920 With a power brick that chunky, you know that we have some real powerful components 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:56,640 in this thing, which of course we do. An i9-4900HX, which is 24 cores, 13 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:02,880 two of which can go up to 5.8 gigahertz and then all of the PCORs can go up to 5.2. 14 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,920 In a laptop that's this big, like it is heavy, if I'm honest, it's very far from light, 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,800 but like it has that in a 490 into it. 16 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,440 The total wattage of this thing is 270 watts 17 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,320 and I have no clue how they have been able to tame that. 18 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:25,360 We'll find out very soon though. First, it has a cherry keyboard in it. 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,720 Could MSI have fixed their keyboard woes? 20 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:39,320 I think the sound says it all just, can you hear this? Like, oh yeah, it's just as satisfying as it sounds. 21 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,440 This is genuinely a fantastic keyboard 22 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,840 and I am really happy that they have it on here, 23 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,440 but I'm even happier that I get to take it apart. 24 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,880 There we go, before you look in there, don't look. 25 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:01,880 I wanna direct your attention to these feet. Instead of, you know, just having a small little foot 26 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,760 like they have here in the back, they got fancy with it and they have these little mountainous feet 27 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,760 with gaps underneath so air can actually go in here 28 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,600 around the feet. There's much easier ways to do this, 29 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:22,160 but I really appreciate that they didn't do those. In here, we have some really impressive upgrade ability. 30 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:28,440 We have three SSDs in here. One of them is PCIe Gen 5, the other two are Gen 4 31 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,480 and we have four Sodium slots. So right here, we have got our RAM. 32 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:40,840 This one right here has a total of 64 gigabytes. Here we have just a single at 5600 mega-transters per second. 33 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,040 Love to see it. There's even some fun little graphite pads 34 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:50,320 in between all of them, look at that. In here, we can also see 99.9 watt-hour battery 35 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,440 as is expected in something this large and Wi-Fi 7, 36 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,000 but why we actually came in here is this vapor chamber. 37 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,880 Look at the size of it. It goes all the way up here, over to there, 38 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,080 down around the corner. 39 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,320 I have never seen a vapor chamber that massive before. 40 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,460 I thought for a second that there's three vapor chambers here, here, and here, but they tell me no, 41 00:03:14,460 --> 00:03:18,640 it's one vapor chamber. All of this is just shared. 42 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:25,920 I'll have a little chipset cooler there. These massive fans, look at how thick those are in here. 43 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:30,840 In here, we can see the speakers. So we have one woofer there, one woofer on the back. 44 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,920 I'm not totally sure, but I'm guessing it's done so that the force of those two cancel each other out. 45 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,660 And we have a little speaker here, so your high notes are going to bounce off of your tables 46 00:03:40,660 --> 00:03:43,780 into your ear, and then it'll sound a lot wider 47 00:03:43,780 --> 00:03:47,240 than it just being speakers on the top of a laptop. 48 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,560 That's my guess though. I didn't kill it, fantastic. 49 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,560 They can continue this tour, but what they can't continue 50 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:01,360 is me knowing how good their Mini-LED display is. So this will only be coming with Ultra HD Mini-LED display 51 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,360 at 120 Hertz, but this engineering sample, sadly, 52 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,760 does not have that panel, which is too bad 53 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:13,960 because the best screens that we've seen this year were Mini-LED, but also the worst one that I saw 54 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,920 was also Mini-LED. So we'll see how well MSI does in the future. 55 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,240 Maybe it's good, I hope so. Just kidding, turns out we can look at it right now. 56 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,200 MSI has brought us their new Stealth 18, which also features the Mini-LED panel. 57 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,760 We were able to figure it out for sure by using a backlight test and being able to see sort of 58 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,120 the artifacts that you get from the Mini-LED panel, 59 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,960 not that they're really artifacts, just a little bit of blooming. 60 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,640 Okay, MSI didn't really want us to do this comparison, but we are anyway. 61 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:49,520 Here we've got their new Mini-LED panel compared to their OLED panel. 62 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,840 And the first thing that you can notice is just, this one is way brighter. 63 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:56,320 The Mini-LED is so much brighter than the OLED, 64 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,440 but also it is so much less reflective. This has a nice matte display on it. 65 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:07,020 I don't know if you can see the lights in the background and stuff on the OLED, but this right here, nothing at all. 66 00:05:07,020 --> 00:05:10,160 What we can see is a little bit of blooming 67 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,040 around the edges of objects. It isn't just the pitch black, 68 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:19,720 like you can see on this OLED, but man, they have done a really good job 69 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:25,360 with the dimming zones on this Mini-LED display. So I'm happy to say that based off my eyeballs, 70 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:30,200 without any Labs testing or stuff, that this Mini-LED panel will be in the top tiers 71 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,960 of what we've been seeing and not those bottom ones. 72 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:39,340 Once you're done admiring that panel though, you are going to be drawn to the speakers. 73 00:05:39,340 --> 00:05:43,260 They have these incredibly fancy grills down here. 74 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:46,940 It's like the Burmester system that you'd find in a Mercedes. 75 00:05:46,940 --> 00:05:50,920 And let's just see how well they've done. 76 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,820 Okay, not bad, not bad. 77 00:05:55,820 --> 00:06:00,280 Same sort of thing, two speakers, four woofers in this guy right here. 78 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:03,920 And it is pretty darn loud, I do have to say. 79 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,760 This is also a good opportunity to see this Mini-LED display. 80 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,420 And like these crabs are just so bright. I love it. 81 00:06:11,420 --> 00:06:16,860 This right here is also in a P3 color space. So everything's a little bit oversaturated, 82 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:20,860 but I'm guessing we can change it to the correct color profile in the menu. 83 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:26,300 They're nodding yes, yes we can, nice. Now of course, this thing being much thinner 84 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:29,500 and lighter than the Titan is also not quite as powerful. 85 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:34,180 We have 185 watt TEP, but now we have to talk about Intel. 86 00:06:34,180 --> 00:06:38,620 This right here has the Intel Ultra-9 processor, 87 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:43,180 which is series one, not to be confused with series 14, 88 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:48,280 which they are selling at the same time. It is different and apparently on a new process node 89 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,320 called Intel 4, which you might think is four nanometer, 90 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:56,000 but it's actually seven nanometer. But this thing has a bunch of really cool AI stuff in it 91 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,520 and it supports a whole bunch of apps with functions that actually make a lot of sense. 92 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,920 Having AI stuff already built in for, let's say upscaling in Lightroom, 93 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,200 noise suppression and audacity, AI green screening and OBS, that is really cool. 94 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,980 They do have like your standard AI features, like your noise suppressions 95 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:18,900 and your switching of modes automatically in here too. 96 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:23,020 But seeing all that stuff that Intel has integrated into a bunch of other apps, 97 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:27,380 makes it feel much more useful to me. All of which say that they have managed to get 98 00:07:27,380 --> 00:07:32,380 an Intel Core Ultra-9 185H and a 490 Intel laptop 99 00:07:33,860 --> 00:07:38,860 that weighs just 2., let's say 2.8 kilograms or six pounds. 100 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,400 Okay, six pounds doesn't sound so light. Again, tighten, tighten, tighten. 101 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,600 18-inch laptop, whole kilogram on it. 102 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:52,320 8.03 pounds, okay. The final thing that MSI is super proud about, 103 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,960 I am talking just over the moon about with the stealth, 104 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,400 is that they have ambient RGB for the keyboard. 105 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,280 If you look here, not only is there RGB for every single key, but if you don't want 106 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,740 all of those lit up, they have a lot of light. If you don't want all of those lit up, 107 00:08:08,740 --> 00:08:13,460 they have a little strip in here that gives you ambient light for your keys. 108 00:08:13,460 --> 00:08:18,100 So if the RGB on each individual key is too bright for you, 109 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,460 you can still see your keyboard in the dark 110 00:08:21,460 --> 00:08:25,220 with just this right here, very cool. 111 00:08:25,220 --> 00:08:32,140 What I think is the coolest though, is the new Cyborg 14 and it's translucent chassis. 112 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:36,460 Look at that. I absolutely love that companies are having fun 113 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,600 with plastics again and this right here 114 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,480 is such a neat little guy. They have had the Cyborg series out for a little bit. 115 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:48,160 This is the first time that it comes with a 14-inch screen and I think this right here is going to be a laptop 116 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:53,920 that makes a lot of sense to a lot of people. This is expected to drop for around $800. 117 00:08:53,920 --> 00:09:00,440 They don't have finalized pricing yet and for that you get a 13th gen processor and a 4050. 118 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,480 This thing right here also is really nice and light. Where did my scale go? 119 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,100 We are talking 1.6 kilograms, three and a half pounds. 120 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,380 That's actually quite reasonable to have in your backpack. 121 00:09:11,380 --> 00:09:15,260 It's so cute. It's so nice at these laptops that once we're, 122 00:09:15,260 --> 00:09:20,620 I don't want to call it cheap because it's not cheap but it's pretty inexpensive compared to like 123 00:09:20,620 --> 00:09:24,980 the Titan that we have here. It feels really good. 124 00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:30,460 Why did MSI get so good at building laptops? Look, I'm actually like reefing on this. 125 00:09:30,460 --> 00:09:33,640 This is really low in your tears 126 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,960 and it's not flexing at all. The only metal on this thing is the back panel 127 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,160 but they had me fooled thinking of this right here with metal as well. 128 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,520 It's pretty darn nice. 129 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,120 This thing comes with a 1200p 144 Hertz panel 130 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,200 and not the kind of IO problems that you will see on some other smaller gaming laptops. 131 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,400 We got USB type A, type C, DisplayPort 132 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:02,760 but doesn't look like Thunderbolt, HDMI 2.1, full size Ethernet 133 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,100 and around the other side, one more type A and headphone microphone combo jack. 134 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:13,260 I am super excited for final pricing of this thing. Just like I'm excited to show you their professional laptops. 135 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:17,200 Here are MSI's Prestige laptops which you might have already seen 136 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,340 because the embargo already dropped when this releases but I haven't seen before. 137 00:10:21,340 --> 00:10:26,380 This is my first time seeing them. Right here we have the Prestige 16 and the 13 138 00:10:26,380 --> 00:10:31,780 and the incredible thing about both of these is MSI claims they will each do 16 hours 139 00:10:31,780 --> 00:10:37,240 of continuous video playback which is just a crazy amount of time 140 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,200 for your battery to last. So this 13 inch, we did see this last year 141 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,200 but it has a 75 watt hour battery in this thing. 142 00:10:46,420 --> 00:10:49,440 It is only 2.14 pounds. 143 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:56,480 That's under a kilogram. Yeah, 973 grams with a 75 watt hour battery 144 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,800 and this guy right here has a 99.9 watt hour battery 145 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:07,040 and it is this thick. Like I can just hold this with one hand, no problem. 146 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,200 Really nice and light and it comes with up to a 4070. 147 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,880 Now it is only a 65 watt TDP on that 4070 148 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,080 and the MSI guys were like, oh, some people were complaining. 149 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,840 That's really impressive for how thick this thing is. 150 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,400 Like look at how much heat sink they have. Heat sink there, heat sink there. 151 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,880 And they're around the side and all of this grating 152 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,680 so that a laptop of this size can be that powerful. 153 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:37,680 This thing comes with a Core Ultra 7155H processor. 154 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,800 One of the things that's kind of surprising about this one is just the number of holes in it. 155 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,080 Like we've got IR emitter, IR emitter that gets you your Windows HelloFacial recognition. 156 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,000 We have our webcam right there with a nice little shutter 157 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,400 and we have two microphones there and one down by the keyboard 158 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:01,920 by having all three of these at once and their fancy AI noise cancellation, whatever. 159 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,520 Apparently they're able to figure out who's in front of the laptop, 160 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:12,040 to the side of the laptop, behind the laptop and you can sort of using AI and maths and stuff, 161 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,520 figure out exactly where the user is and just block out everyone else if you want to 162 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,600 or have them all talk. If you feel like it, it's AI, it's magic. 163 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:26,760 It is a little beast and we've already seen this OLED panel, looks fantastic. 164 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,180 Just like it's fantastic that MSI sponsored this video. Thanks guys. 165 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:36,760 MSI also gave us early access to their new gaming handheld, the claw. 166 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,480 MSI's brand new first ever Intel Core Ultra-powered 167 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,840 handheld gaming PC with a 53 watt hour battery 168 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,640 up to one terabyte of storage and inclusion of a Thunderbolt 4 port. 169 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,020 There is a lot to love and be excited about with this bad boy. 170 00:12:51,020 --> 00:12:54,460 We didn't have much time with the unit before having to return it to MSI 171 00:12:54,460 --> 00:12:58,340 since it was one of only two prototypes at the time of filming, 172 00:12:58,340 --> 00:13:02,540 so we didn't get to lab test it or go in as depth as we were hoping to, 173 00:13:02,540 --> 00:13:07,100 but that's only for now. Stay tuned so we can get a final retail version in hand 174 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,660 and get some full coverage on it. 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