WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.960 We're here at CES 2024, except it's not CES 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:08.040 and it's not 2024 yet because MSI has brought the show to us early 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 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.680 and I am super excited about this incredibly specific world's first. 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:19.720 This right here is the world's first seamless RGB haptic touchpad. 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. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:32.080 This laptop is incredibly beastly and I know that because it has a 400 watt charger. 00:00:32.540 --> 00:00:36.280 I have never seen something this powerful before 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.480 and particularly it's not even that big 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. 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:49.920 With a power brick that chunky, you know that we have some real powerful components 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:56.640 in this thing, which of course we do. An i9-4900HX, which is 24 cores, 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. 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, 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.800 but like it has that in a 490 into it. 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:16.440 The total wattage of this thing is 270 watts 00:01:16.440 --> 00:01:20.320 and I have no clue how they have been able to tame that. 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:25.360 We'll find out very soon though. First, it has a cherry keyboard in it. 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:28.720 Could MSI have fixed their keyboard woes? 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. 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:43.440 This is genuinely a fantastic keyboard 00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:46.840 and I am really happy that they have it on here, 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.440 but I'm even happier that I get to take it apart. 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.880 There we go, before you look in there, don't look. 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 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 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:12.760 with gaps underneath so air can actually go in here 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:16.600 around the feet. There's much easier ways to do this, 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. 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 00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:33.480 and we have four Sodium slots. So right here, we have got our RAM. 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. 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.040 Love to see it. There's even some fun little graphite pads 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 00:02:50.320 --> 00:02:54.440 as is expected in something this large and Wi-Fi 7, 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:58.000 but why we actually came in here is this vapor chamber. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.880 Look at the size of it. It goes all the way up here, over to there, 00:03:02.880 --> 00:03:06.080 down around the corner. 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:10.320 I have never seen a vapor chamber that massive before. 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, 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:18.640 it's one vapor chamber. All of this is just shared. 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. 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. 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. 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 00:03:40.660 --> 00:03:43.780 into your ear, and then it'll sound a lot wider 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:47.240 than it just being speakers on the top of a laptop. 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.560 That's my guess though. I didn't kill it, fantastic. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.560 They can continue this tour, but what they can't continue 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 00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:05.360 at 120 Hertz, but this engineering sample, sadly, 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.760 does not have that panel, which is too bad 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 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:18.920 was also Mini-LED. So we'll see how well MSI does in the future. 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. 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.200 MSI has brought us their new Stealth 18, which also features the Mini-LED panel. 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 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:37.120 the artifacts that you get from the Mini-LED panel, 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:40.960 not that they're really artifacts, just a little bit of blooming. 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:44.640 Okay, MSI didn't really want us to do this comparison, but we are anyway. 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:49.520 Here we've got their new Mini-LED panel compared to their OLED panel. 00:04:49.520 --> 00:04:52.840 And the first thing that you can notice is just, this one is way brighter. 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:56.320 The Mini-LED is so much brighter than the OLED, 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.440 but also it is so much less reflective. This has a nice matte display on it. 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. 00:05:07.020 --> 00:05:10.160 What we can see is a little bit of blooming 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.040 around the edges of objects. It isn't just the pitch black, 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:19.720 like you can see on this OLED, but man, they have done a really good job 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, 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 00:05:30.200 --> 00:05:33.960 of what we've been seeing and not those bottom ones. 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. 00:05:39.340 --> 00:05:43.260 They have these incredibly fancy grills down here. 00:05:43.260 --> 00:05:46.940 It's like the Burmester system that you'd find in a Mercedes. 00:05:46.940 --> 00:05:50.920 And let's just see how well they've done. 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:55.820 Okay, not bad, not bad. 00:05:55.820 --> 00:06:00.280 Same sort of thing, two speakers, four woofers in this guy right here. 00:06:00.280 --> 00:06:03.920 And it is pretty darn loud, I do have to say. 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.760 This is also a good opportunity to see this Mini-LED display. 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:11.420 And like these crabs are just so bright. I love it. 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, 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:20.860 but I'm guessing we can change it to the correct color profile in the menu. 00:06:20.860 --> 00:06:26.300 They're nodding yes, yes we can, nice. Now of course, this thing being much thinner 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:29.500 and lighter than the Titan is also not quite as powerful. 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:34.180 We have 185 watt TEP, but now we have to talk about Intel. 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:38.620 This right here has the Intel Ultra-9 processor, 00:06:38.620 --> 00:06:43.180 which is series one, not to be confused with series 14, 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 00:06:48.280 --> 00:06:51.320 called Intel 4, which you might think is four nanometer, 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 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. 00:07:00.520 --> 00:07:04.920 Having AI stuff already built in for, let's say upscaling in Lightroom, 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:10.200 noise suppression and audacity, AI green screening and OBS, that is really cool. 00:07:10.200 --> 00:07:14.980 They do have like your standard AI features, like your noise suppressions 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:18.900 and your switching of modes automatically in here too. 00:07:18.900 --> 00:07:23.020 But seeing all that stuff that Intel has integrated into a bunch of other apps, 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 00:07:27.380 --> 00:07:32.380 an Intel Core Ultra-9 185H and a 490 Intel laptop 00:07:33.860 --> 00:07:38.860 that weighs just 2., let's say 2.8 kilograms or six pounds. 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:43.400 Okay, six pounds doesn't sound so light. Again, tighten, tighten, tighten. 00:07:43.400 --> 00:07:46.600 18-inch laptop, whole kilogram on it. 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:52.320 8.03 pounds, okay. The final thing that MSI is super proud about, 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:55.960 I am talking just over the moon about with the stealth, 00:07:55.960 --> 00:07:59.400 is that they have ambient RGB for the keyboard. 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 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, 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:13.460 they have a little strip in here that gives you ambient light for your keys. 00:08:13.460 --> 00:08:18.100 So if the RGB on each individual key is too bright for you, 00:08:18.100 --> 00:08:21.460 you can still see your keyboard in the dark 00:08:21.460 --> 00:08:25.220 with just this right here, very cool. 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. 00:08:32.140 --> 00:08:36.460 Look at that. I absolutely love that companies are having fun 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.600 with plastics again and this right here 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. 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 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. 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. 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.480 This thing right here also is really nice and light. Where did my scale go? 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:08.100 We are talking 1.6 kilograms, three and a half pounds. 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:11.380 That's actually quite reasonable to have in your backpack. 00:09:11.380 --> 00:09:15.260 It's so cute. It's so nice at these laptops that once we're, 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 00:09:20.620 --> 00:09:24.980 the Titan that we have here. It feels really good. 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. 00:09:30.460 --> 00:09:33.640 This is really low in your tears 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 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.160 but they had me fooled thinking of this right here with metal as well. 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:44.520 It's pretty darn nice. 00:09:44.520 --> 00:09:48.120 This thing comes with a 1200p 144 Hertz panel 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. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:57.400 We got USB type A, type C, DisplayPort 00:09:57.400 --> 00:10:02.760 but doesn't look like Thunderbolt, HDMI 2.1, full size Ethernet 00:10:02.760 --> 00:10:07.100 and around the other side, one more type A and headphone microphone combo jack. 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. 00:10:13.260 --> 00:10:17.200 Here are MSI's Prestige laptops which you might have already seen 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.340 because the embargo already dropped when this releases but I haven't seen before. 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 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 00:10:31.780 --> 00:10:37.240 of continuous video playback which is just a crazy amount of time 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.200 for your battery to last. So this 13 inch, we did see this last year 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:46.200 but it has a 75 watt hour battery in this thing. 00:10:46.420 --> 00:10:49.440 It is only 2.14 pounds. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:56.480 That's under a kilogram. Yeah, 973 grams with a 75 watt hour battery 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:01.800 and this guy right here has a 99.9 watt hour battery 00:11:01.800 --> 00:11:07.040 and it is this thick. Like I can just hold this with one hand, no problem. 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:11.200 Really nice and light and it comes with up to a 4070. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.880 Now it is only a 65 watt TDP on that 4070 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:18.080 and the MSI guys were like, oh, some people were complaining. 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.840 That's really impressive for how thick this thing is. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:25.400 Like look at how much heat sink they have. Heat sink there, heat sink there. 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.880 And they're around the side and all of this grating 00:11:28.880 --> 00:11:32.680 so that a laptop of this size can be that powerful. 00:11:32.680 --> 00:11:37.680 This thing comes with a Core Ultra 7155H processor. 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. 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:47.080 Like we've got IR emitter, IR emitter that gets you your Windows HelloFacial recognition. 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:51.000 We have our webcam right there with a nice little shutter 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:56.400 and we have two microphones there and one down by the keyboard 00:11:56.400 --> 00:12:01.920 by having all three of these at once and their fancy AI noise cancellation, whatever. 00:12:01.920 --> 00:12:05.520 Apparently they're able to figure out who's in front of the laptop, 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, 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 00:12:16.520 --> 00:12:21.600 or have them all talk. If you feel like it, it's AI, it's magic. 00:12:21.640 --> 00:12:26.760 It is a little beast and we've already seen this OLED panel, looks fantastic. 00:12:26.760 --> 00:12:30.180 Just like it's fantastic that MSI sponsored this video. Thanks guys. 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:36.760 MSI also gave us early access to their new gaming handheld, the claw. 00:12:36.760 --> 00:12:40.480 MSI's brand new first ever Intel Core Ultra-powered 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.840 handheld gaming PC with a 53 watt hour battery 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:47.640 up to one terabyte of storage and inclusion of a Thunderbolt 4 port. 00:12:47.640 --> 00:12:51.020 There is a lot to love and be excited about with this bad boy. 00:12:51.020 --> 00:12:54.460 We didn't have much time with the unit before having to return it to MSI 00:12:54.460 --> 00:12:58.340 since it was one of only two prototypes at the time of filming, 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, 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 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:10.660 and get some full coverage on it. 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