MSI Prestige 14 Review – 10th Gen Intel!

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If you are a gamer that’s after a great value gaming laptop, this isn’t it. What this is, is a semi-professional machine with the long awaited Intel 10th Generation CPU and a GTX 1650, which, yes does mean you can game, but no, it’s not that great at it. MSI market this thing as a portable powerhouse – a 6 core CPU with 16GB of RAM and a dedicated GPU for acceleration – great. But is it any good?

Well first off, let’s run through the specs. It’s CPU is a brand new intel 10th gen part, an i7-10710U, a 6 core that can boost to a little over 3.6GHz, but thermal throttles like a mad man running at just 2.4GHz when doing the Blender BMW test. Then there is the GPU, a GTX 1650, a decent mid to low end option that works well for acceleration and eSports gaming, and does ok at AAA titles, as long as they’re on medium to low settings. 

The model I have comes with 16GB of RAM, and for some reason mine only came with 240GB of storage which is pretty shocking to see on a supposed “professional” machine. I had the drive full on multiple occasions just trying to install my usual test suite and actually ended up having to delete games after benchmarking just to be able to install the rest.

It weighs just 1.29kg which is insane, but only sports a 52WHr battery, which doesn’t last at all. I posted this on twitter when I started setting this up, but at it’s worst I had 58% battery left and only 36 minutes of usage and i should add i wasnt gaming or anything, I was just installing my test programs. Pretty insane.

So, that’s the spec, what about performance. Lets take a look.

Noise and temps are also something you’d consider when looking for a professional machine, and I can’t say this one is too great. Noise level doing anything other than basic web browsing or word documents is pretty loud, loud enough to be distracting in an office for sure. 

Temps aren’t much better either, the CPU peaked at it’s TJMax, at 100°c, and regularly sat above 90°c when doing anything CPU intensive. The GPU peaked at 82°c and regularly sat above 70 while practically idling. What’s worse is the heat isn’t dissipated from the keyboard at all, meaning under heavy CPU and GPU loads the keyboard itself gets to nearing 50°c, aka hot enough to literally burn you. 

Now speaking of the keyboard, when it’s not trying to hurt you, it’s not too bad. It’s not the same design as their usual style and has a pretty weird tactile yet empty feel too it that I can’t say is my absolute favourite. The track pad is pretty massive which is nice, even features a fingerprint reader, but isn’t brilliantly supported in the middle and I’ve actually had my finger caught in the gap at the bottom too which hurt. 

I/O is pretty limited, just 2 USB A ports, 2 USB C ports, which do have Thunderbolt 3 support on both – great to see that one – and a microSD card reader. It charges with the USB C ports too, with the included 90W adapter. 

Finally, I’ve saved possibly the best part of this for last, the display. It’s a pretty stunning 4K panel, MSI label it as “IPS-Level” which I think is because LG’s IPS patent lawyers are rather strict, but it doesn’t matter because this thing delivers. It can get impressively bright for a laptop, it’s capable of 98% of the AdobeRGB spectrum. For colour sensitive work this is a treat, and for this price, it’s one of the only options that offers this. 

So, if you are a creative professional, aspiring or not, is this worth the $1400 or so it costs? Well, it’s hard to say. The display practically makes it worth it on it’s own, and the performance isn’t exactly horrific, but the thermals, noise and battery life are pretty big detractors for me. Acer offer their Concept D 3 for a similar price with basically the same spec, but with a much larger battery and I think a better build quality and feel, if a bit heavier at 2.35kg instead. 

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