Is THIS the Best Thin-Budget Gaming Laptop? - MSI Cyborg 15 A13V Review

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From its ultra-thin build to its budget-oriented performance, let's see if the MSI Cyborg 15 is worth your hard-earned money.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro, design, weight, etc
1:24 - Ports
2:08 - Keyboard and trackpad
2:36 - Screen
3:51 - Webcam and microphone
4:21 - Speakers
4:53 - Power and thermals
7:55 - Upgrade Options
9:18 - Battery Life
9:41 - Specs
10:30 - Benchmarks
12:15 - Gaming Performance
13:52 - Conclusion
15:08 - Outro

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[rayankada]

You got incredible dedication to make your videos look clean buddy. Really nice! 💪🏼

[Subbmerged]

Don't underestimate this gaming laptop, I pushed mine to 75w by swapping v-bios and now it performs just aswell as any other rtx 4050 laptop.

[aneesaziz]

worst port numbers (only 2), no thunderbolt, screen is not bright enough, no extra ssd or hdd slot (only 1 ssd 512 GB so upgrade possible only via replacement), battery size/life sucks, only 45W 4060, no nvidia optimus, no mux switch, terrible hinge design, no RGB I must have been drunk when i bought this laptop. Dont buy this crap at any price. Only thing good about this laptop is the 40 series card and low weight, but sucks otherwise

[warrenmcclure]

Not sure if you forgot to mention it or maybe I wasnt paying attention but the 4050 in this laptop is also capped at a low 45 watts. This GPU has the ability to utilize 115 watts max. So this GPU may not perform as well as other 4050 GPUs. Besides that, nice review

[zacharyvoss]

Quick question, why do reviewers always let us listen to the sound? How could we possibly get a nice representation of sound going through their mic and then compressed and out our tiny phone speakers?

[beatsaway]

thanks for going into details the thermal side of things

[barbarossa]

Does it cause a problem if the graphics card is 45w? Is it okay to have just one cooler?

[mustafamadian]

Thank you .. I was planning to buy this laptop but after I watched your video I cancelled it so if you can recommend for me good laptop with 1000 budget for design and games

[Aussielight]

I'd love to build a PC, but unfortunately don't have much room to set one up at the moment & thus am opting to get a laptop. The game I generally play the most, is 'World of Warcraft' and I was curious at what the best gaming-laptop for that would be? 🤔

[isharadhanushan]

Is it possible to install a new display with great color reproduction and higher brightness if I want to do the upgrade later with at least 120Hz refresh rate.

[RuTo]

On sale the 4050 and 4060 go for $700-800

[thabangmonnakgotla]

I'm looking for a photo and video editing laptop so thanks for the heads up

[chrisbaki]

Would be better if you put the srgb, Ntsc and Nits Values instead of saying ( I don't like it ) .

[arabicman]

Can i use an external display to make 3d content using the specs of it?

[Gefix]

have same model but on 4060 and 32/1Tb configuration and how upset I was when it didn’t come with Msi stickers) but they included a branded laptop bag

[firstnamebunchofnumbers]

just needs a better battery barely lasts the whole day with the gpu off and on power saving settings

[muhammadsami]

Hi, I recently bought this laptop and I am facing some issues with it like it takes a lot of loading time. Iam not talking about game instead iam talking about the overall performance of the laptop. I feel like it is performing much slower then it should. I have not ran a single game on it uptil now, please advise if you have any suggestions to make it perform faster and better.

[dieaking]

I got the 12vf003 at launch next to my RX7800xt Nitro + Desktop build. And its been pretty good so far.

Positives
4060 45watt ( yes 45watt still with resize bar its pretty good performance overal )
i7 chip
i changed the 512gb m.2 to 4tb m.2
16gb ram might change it to 32gb

also people hating Build quality but i got this one over Katana and GF cuz those felt horrible in store, so i went with the 45watt version cuz the Cyborg build felt better.

Also for better colors enable Windows Auto color management. Makes it a whole lot better to look at.

Also update the BIOS day one. i never had stutter issues. Just put everything on performance like Nvidea control panel power options and msi center.

With resize bar enabled its running pretty much any new game at almost highest settings.

[moussaba]

gaming laptop with 1 fan ?go with levovo or asus guys

[UNKNOWN-kbhh]

Super thin ???? 😂😂😂 Why do we need that for . All we need is not to get hot and burn in time of long performance . More super thin will be, more faster will burn . I will be happy not to get that thin in the shop, but to be able to use for long time . And not after one year to buy another, and another one etc .If is all about ventilation, why do we need that thine for ? 😂😂😂