MSI Prestige 14 Evo: What Real Users Actually Think

I'm typing this on mine-- had it since May. I have the Costco version, so it's the Core i7-1195G7 and 32gb model, 1tb SSD, running Win 11 home. Got it on a big sale with a rebate so it was about $650. At that price point I'm very happy with it overall, but the battery life is terrible. Even on low power/battery mode I might get 5 hours of use, nothing like the Evo spec or what MSI claims. Otherwise? It's an ultra-portable business machine and it does what I need to for work.

A little late of a comment, would rate it a 3/10. Would not recommend. Mine is running on hopes and dreams. Internet suddenly stops working every now and then, updating the drivers doesn't do anything, hardware needs to be changed every year for it to continue working. The quality is very questionable, I opened up the laptop and the back of the screen hit a ceramic mug very lightly, well now there's a massive dent in it and the display seems to be impacted. The corners are also very weak.

I have the i5 11th gen model (A11M), it's fast but the software is glitchy if you factory reset your laptop and the hinges are terrible like most msi laptops.

I had this. The 14 evo (A12m). It's a fantastic laptop. I did unfortunately return it though. I knew the 16GB RAM was not upgradeable before purchasing but in the end I decided I do need 32GB. So I needed something with upgradable RAM. If you can look past that, this is an amazing little machine. I cannot comment on the hinges as I didn't own it long enough, but I was pleased with the build quality, it didn't feel super cheap or weak.

I bought it for 600, so far its great. Amazing cooling as far as I can tell, mine came with 16gb ram, intel 125h and 500gb storage. I love the looks of it, but I can't really tell you about the battery yet since I haven't started school -- also its amazing for gaming as long as its not triple A, although it can still run it.

Still going strong. Had a chance to test the battery and so far im somewhat impressed. It can hold a charge decently even while gaming on for around 2 hours. When doing just standard work on it the battery holds very well. Good battery, nothing crazy though. Only issue is that it comes with only 1 USB port, which is a bummer since my new headphones need a port for the wireless adaptor.

I have it for the last two years, and I'm also a student. Decent laptop. My only real problem with it is it's battery usage, runs out way too fast. If you're studying where you can't charge it, it will run out after 2-3 hours of basic use. But other than that, if you can plug it most of the time, it'll do the work.

I bought a refurbished one (condition: excellent) for 6 months. Everything has been working fine except two things: Occasionally, the laptop doesn't switch to the external display after I turn the laptop on from sleep mode and connect it to the external display. The laptop starts to slow down and the display will keep switching between the external one and the laptop's, if I connect it to the external display and close the lid for a while.

I am using the Core U5 version. I have tried some very simple 4K video editing using Davinci Resolve. You could hear the fan a bit but I would say it's still pretty quiet, probably because it has dual fans. It does get warm when doing intensive tasks and I don't recommend putting it on your lap. Other times when I am doing web browsing, I can barely hear the fan. I use Eco mode most of the time. That 400-nit non-glossy display is very nice.

The latest intel graphics driver solved the external display issues for me.

It's the core ultra processor that's helping in this area (along with the 90Wh battery). The new architecture uses the respective efficient or performance cores based on the usage. Similar to how the Apple silicon M processors did the magic for the MacBook series in recent years. Now, Intel is doing similar chip architecture.

I got this laptop a few days ago - can't believe how good the battery life is - also i like the whole laptop so far. Only thing i don't like is that it has 2 x usb c ports both on the right side. would prefer more usb c ports or at least one on right side one on left side - for charging.

Why are you so confident in giving advice when you have no clue what you are talking about? I just replaced my MacBook Pro with this MSI laptop (but the i7 ultra) and the battery life is spectacular.

This is my second laptop of this one. The first one I had to return for a different issue. Both of them have these same issues though -- the fan runs CONSTANTLY. Even just logging into Windows for the first time, no programs open or running, the fan constantly runs. Compared to my old Dell Latitude that I use for work, which almost never has a noisy fan even with multiple Chrome windows and heavy Excel macros open.

I am actually a full stack developer working on Go, Rust on the backend with React in the frontend, also running some docker containers. The MSI 13700h has evo certification and they claim a whopping 16 hours of battery life. Even if we get 8 hours I am happy with it.

Please do yourself a favor and don't go with MSI. The fan noise will drive you insane, you're limited to only 4 cores with such high power consumption when compared to the M1. For a laptop of this category and price, the performance-per-watt simply doesn't justify it compared to alternatives.

I would go for the MSI EVO simply because as a front-end developer most of your users would be Windows users. Also unlike on the MacBook you can upgrade your SSD yourself.

Check out the Prestige AI 14, it's the next year's version to this so has the Core Ultra 5 -- only slightly more money but better screen and way better battery life.

Spec wise it's good but the build on MSI Prestige is not very good. Would do for uni though.

Just bought it. Wonderful.