Affordable gaming for the masses? MSI Cyborg 17 squares up against the competition

[Redaktion]

The lower price segment has become a battleground for gaming laptops, with manufacturers fighting for every inch. On paper, the MSI Cyborg 17 looks like a strong contender for the budget crown — but our review shows whether it delivers in real-world use.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Affordable-gaming-for-the-masses-MSI-Cyborg-17-squares-up-against-the-competition.1227701.0.html

[scaMSI - no sRGB]

sRGB Coverage (%)   
50.7

51% of ancient sRGB coverage is the lowest low so far. Usually it's 60%, which is bad enough, but this is quite a bit lower still.

sRGB (standard RGB) is a color space, for use on monitors, printers, and the World Wide Web. It was initially proposed by HP and Microsoft in 1996[2] and became an official standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61966-2-1:1999.[1] It is the current standard colorspace for the web, and it is usually the assumed colorspace for images that do not have an embedded color profile.

In the pixel response times table, check out the ACER or GIGABYTE, this is how it should be at the minimum (or, of course, how it's on the OLED). Everything above 20ms leads to quite visible ghosting. For an actual, true, 144 Hz experience, the pixel response times would need to be 1/144 = 0,006944 seconds = 6.9 ms (nice).

1200 bucks for 8 GB VRAM - you decide - the obligatory: youtube.com/watch?v=ric7yb1VaoA: "Gaming Laptops are in Trouble - VRAM Testing w/ ‪@Hardwareunboxed‬"
(one could try to get the cheapest 8 GB VRAM (used/refurbished) for 700-800 bucks or go for the cheapest 12 GB VRAM (used/refurbished), or build a desktop PC (also has the advantage of rapairability) for much cheaper (may use used parts as well), because a gaming laptops isn't that portable and you are not going to carry it around much anyway)

[scaMSI - no sRGB]

Even this 120 Hz, non-gaming, laptop has better pixel response times - 12.7ms and 7.9ms: notebookcheck.net/HP-EliteBook-845-G10-review-The-almost-perfect-business-laptop-with-AMD-Zen4.741264.0.html

[Tolga]

I know design is subjective but how was this laptop's design considered positive?