MSI PS63 Modern 8RC (Core i7-8565U, GTX 1050 Max-Q) Laptop Review

[Redaktion]

Slim yet powerful is no longer witchcraft. MSI has developed the PS63 for productive power users who edit images and videos. Its dedicated GPU should meet the high demands of video and photo editing, design work, 3D animation or music production. We will put the PS63 Modern 8RC through its paces in this detailed review and see how it stands up against its competitors.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-PS63-Modern-8RC-Core-i7-8565U-GTX-1050-Max-Q-Laptop-Review.403141.0.html

[hfm]

Lack of TB3 killed this for me.

[D]

I was looking forward for this, but the color and brightness of display is quite dissapointing.  :(

[davijoh]

In Europe, the MSI PS63 8RC actually costs around €1499, rather than €1700, which makes it considerably cheaper than the i7 XPS 9570 (€1900). Also, unfortunately, the i5 8300H variant of the XPS 9570 is always limited to 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD, when buying new. It's a shame for Dell to put such high prices here... but considering these 2 facts, the PS63 seems like the best contender. Too bad for the sRGB score though.

[Hwgeek]

You can try to run Cinebench R15 Extreme Edition to show the actual performance of the CPU and the Cooling in single run, this Mod renders x4 the scene size and take over 3 times the render time that will extend beyond turbo time and cooling will start to thermal throttle if it's not upto the task.
guru3d.com/files-details/cinebench-r15-extreme-edition-download.html

[123]

Another junk with 16:9 screen ratio. No, thank you, I'll wait for a proper laptop.

[Jena]

93% for pointing device that has hard to use buttons? 90% for unevenly lit low brightness low sRGB coverage display? Is it just me or is MSI getting some dividends for all the advertisements here by this favourable score? Or is this actually sponsored article and I've missed it?

[sticky]

Egregiously overpriced and so far off from "premium".

I got the X1 Extreme with i7-8750H and 1050 Ti for $1,200. A mid-range level laptop with GTX 1050 should be starting at less than $1k.

[Toob]

Plastic chassis, nope nope for my travel needs.  Too much money for mediocre chassis.

[Dimitri]

Usually I keep quite, but this time I had to write a "angry" comment!
I cannot understand why they cannot improve on that keyboard... how hard can it be? And the font above everything is just plain ugly! Who thought this was a good font to use?! Take a look at the surface keyboards (or Dell or Lenovo or Apple or HP)... but nobody else complained about it, so maybe it is just my taste  ;D Haha and yes I understand, this is for gamers, but hey some gamers also have an eye for good design.

[tikujuso]

Any coil whine or electric buzzing? You guys usually comment on this but not in this review =(

[Sylvester]

Is it possible to increase the fan speed or power when it is on heavy load. Why this i7-8565 processor is slower than others?

[Ichi]

Is it possible to increase the fan speed or power when it is on heavy load. Why this i7-8565 processor is slower than others?

It is possible to speed up the fans. Not sure about power though. When it's in balance or quiet mode fan speeds around 2500-3000 rpm which is absolutely unnoticeable. But you can manually speed it to the around 7000 rpm. I don't care about synthetic benchmarks so I don't know how it's effect the cpu benchmark.

[uuggoo]

I've recently bought this PC and immediately returned it, unfortunately.   :( On/off (energy) button was problematic - has anyone had this issue?!

After unboxing, only on the 3rd attempt I've managed to turn on the laptop. By the day, this problem grew and ended by not being able to turn on the PC at all!   :-[

I've always liked and have been a Lenovo user and decided to try this brand for the great specs (and looks) of this MSI.

Sorry to say, very bad first impressions.

[Jose]

The 8RC is the 091 model?