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日本Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx)
With MSI having two lineups, that are less gamer-y, the job is distinguishing between the two becomes harder and harder. The Modern and the Prestige lineups both offer relatively thin and light devices that have a decent amount of power inside them.
MSI is really trying hard to make the Prestige brand stand out and be the premier brand when we don’t talk bout gaming laptops. They have achieved that with the MSI Prestige 14 by offering Tiger Lake hardware from Intel and a dedicated GPU, which makes for a pretty good 14-inch ball of awesomeness.
Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s Top 5 picks about the MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx).
MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx): Full Specs / In-depth Review
3 reasons to BUY the MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx)
1. The Design
While it packs quite powerful hardware, the MSI Prestige 14 manages to do it in a very portable and lightweight package. Weighing only 1.29 kg and being just 15.9 mm tall, it is definitely one of the most portable and powerful 14-inches out there. MSI states that the body is made out of aluminum alloy, which we can confirm, as the laptop’s base is very sturdy and resistant to bends. The lid, however, is made of plastic, and you can definitely tell. Thankfully, its saving grace is the way it opens with a single hand and lifts the body so that the fans have ample room to breathe.
The keyboard is good, with long key travel, backlight with three brightness settings, and LARGE keycaps. However, the feedback is a bit dull and soft. We would have loved a more clicky sound to come out of it. The touchpad is just amazing and while the shape of it is a bit strange, it has a big surface area plus it is made of glass so gliding is excellent. It also has a fingerprint reader on it, which comes in contrasting black.
2. The Display
The MSI Prestige 14 uses a 14-inch Full HD IPS panel, which has comfortable viewing angles, a good contrast ratio, and decent maximum brightness. Additionally, the panel covers a whopping 97% of the sRGB color gamut. However, we found that the display uses aggressive PWM to adjust the brightness levels, which is harmful to your eyes. Fortunately, our “Health-Guard” profile completely gets rid of this issue.
The color accuracy was horrendous with the factory settings but with our “Gaming and web design” profile, we managed to get it to a quite good level. Below you can check the results from the color accuracy test with both the factory settings (left) and with the “Gaming and web design” profile applied (right).
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办公室工作
Office Work应该主要由那些花大部分时间看文本、表格或仅仅是浏览的用户使用。该配置文件旨在通过保持平坦的伽玛曲线（2.20）、本机色温和精确的色彩来提供更好的清晰度。
设计与游戏
本资料针对专业处理色彩的设计师，以及游戏和电影。设计与游戏》将显示面板发挥到了极致，使其在白点D65的网页和高清电视的sRGB IEC61966-2-1标准中尽可能准确。
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3. The Performance
With such a small body, we were very surprised to see that the laptop was offered with up to a Core i7-1185G7. The Prestige 14 is quite powerful both on the CPU and the GPU level, with the GTX 1650 Max-Q and 1650 Ti Max-Q. Below you can see some results from our tests with the MSI Prestige 14 along with other devices in its price range.
结果来自Cinebench 20 CPU测试（分数越高越好）。
结果来自于我们的Photoshop基准测试(分数越低越好)
结果来自3DMark：Time Spy（图形）基准测试（分数越高越好）。
结果来自3DMark：Fire Strike（图形）基准测试（分数越高越好）。
2 reasons NOT to buy the MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx)
1. The Upgradeability
Unfortunately, small devices tend to suffer the same fate when it comes to upgradability. The MSI Prestige 14 comes with up to 32GB of RAM, but it is soldered to the motherboard. The only thing that you can upgrade on it is the storage and even that is through only one M.2 PCIe x4 drive. Beware though that in some countries upgrading the storage means breaking the factory seal, which will void your warranty.
2. The Cooling
The Prestige 14’s cooling didn’t hold up when we were doing CPU and GPU stress tests. However, the Core i7-1185G7 maintained pretty high clock speeds, even though it reached 91°C. In the CPU stress test, we use 100% of the CPU cores, while monitoring the clock speeds and temperatures.
Average core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.
| Intel Core i7-1185G7(15W TDP) | 0:02 – 0:10 sec | 0:15 – 0:30 sec | 10:00 – 15:00 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx) | 3.80 GHz @ 94°C @ 53W | 3.48 GHz @ 95°C @ 42W | 3.22 GHz @ 91°C @ 35W |
| Lenovo Yoga 9i (14) | 3.08 GHz @ 92°C @ 42W | 3.14 GHz @ 96°C @ 34W | 2.28 GHz @ 76°C @ 19W |
In the GPU stress test, the MSI Prestige 14 performed the worst out of any laptop with the GTX 1650 Max-Q. This shouldn’t be a surprise, however, as the small form factor and low TDP of 23-24W.
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q | GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 2 min) | GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 30 min) |
|---|---|---|
| MSI Prestige 14 (A11Sx) | 1235 MHz @ 74°C | 1148 MHz @ 74°C |
| Microsoft Surface Book 3 (13.5) | 1480 MHz @ 66°C | 1476 MHz @ 68°C |
| MSI Prestige 15 | 1408 MHz @ 70°C | 1388 MHz @ 74°C |
| MSI GF63 10SCXR | 1230 MHz @ 77°C | 1250 MHz @ 78°C |
| Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 | 1345 MHz @ 69°C | 1343 MHz @ 72°C |
| ASUS ZenBook 15 UX534 | 1229 MHz @ 77°C | 1221 MHz @ 78°C |
Gaming comfort
The laptop was pretty loud when running at max speeds, and the outer temperature reached 51°C.
