![]() ![]() There’s no way to sugar-coat this: MSI really needs to up its game when it comes to the quality of the displays fitted to its gaming laptops. MSI Katana 15 review (B13V, 2023): Display and audio It doesn’t support Windows Hello facial recognition, either. The click-action on the lower portion feels a bit shallow and cheap, too, and the 720p webcam rounds things off with a dull, colourless and noisy image. Image 15 of 17 The trackpad is less impressive, simply because it’s rather on the small side at just 105 x 65mm. Thankfully, now it’s actually landed at retail, it can be yours for a more reasonable £1,199. When first announced, MSI quoted the Katana 15 as having an RRP of £1,499 for the RTX 4050 model. MSI Katana 15 review (B13V, 2023): Price and competition You’re getting a 1TB SSD alongside 16GB of RAM packed into a device that weighs a total of 2.25kg. Both screens are 1,920 x 1,080 144Hz IPS affairs and, size apart, they have identical specifications. The new Katana is available in four variants: choose between a 15.6in or 17.3in display and either the Nvidia RTX 4050 or RTX 4060 GPU. MSI Katana 15 review (B13V, 2023): What you need to know That means the MSI Katana 15 on trial here is one third more expensive, which in turn means we’re expecting more – after all, failings that are acceptable at £900 are most certainly not at £1,200. And there’s the rub, because those RTX 40-series GPUs have led to a not inconsiderable price hike, turning the word “budget” into a relative term with no absolute meaning.Ĭase in point: you can pick up a previous-generation Katana 15.6in with an Intel Core i7-12700H processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU for £899 currently. ![]() However, new Katana machines have now landed with 13th-generation Intel chips and the latest Nvidia GPUs (in this case, the RTX 4050) inside. A 2021 Katana GF66 with a GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is still my daily driver and it’s never missed a beat. MSI’s Katana gaming laptops have always offered decent gaming capability at a reasonable price, even if they don’t sit at the cutting edge of design or performance. ![]()
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