Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the MSI Stealth 15M

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...から: Severin Kolakov 06 六月 2021 / 00:51 1

Ever since we saw this laptop in person, we couldn’t help but compare it to the older GS65 Stealth. They seem to use the same chassis, but with some obvious design changes, which we think are for the better. The MSI Stealth 15M is a light gaming laptop, which has enough performance to handle intense 1080p gaming.

By the way, there are two variants of this device, depending on the CPU. The first one dubbed the A10Sx, uses Tiger Lake G CPUs, mainly the Core i5-1135G7 and the i7-1165G7. Then there is the A10Ux, which has Tiger Lake H performance and is the device we have today. Regardless of what you pick, you get an RTX 3060 (Laptop), so you know gaming is going to be a delight, which you can take anywhere with you.

Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the MSI Stealth 15M.

MSI Stealth 15M: Full Specs / In-depth Review

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MSI Stealth 15M

プロセッサー: Intel Core i7-11375H
グラフィックカード: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Laptop, 65W)
RAM: 16GB RAM
STORAGE: 512GB SSD

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¥278977^.00

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3 reasons to BUY the MSI Stealth 15M

1. Design and build quality

Different than most of its competitors, the laptop is entirely made out of aluminum. This makes it able to withstand a significant amount of force, without any major flexing. It is also one of the lightest and thinnest gaming notebooks, weighing only 1.70 kg (3.75 lbs) while being just 16.15 mm (0.64″) tall. There are also two color options to choose from, either Pure White or Carbon Grey. Both of them look spectacular, with our preference being the White one. The laptop is very stylish, with sleek body lines all around the place.

2. Upgradeability

The laptop offers superb upgradeability, with both the RAM and storage being available for future expansion. You get two SODIMM RAM slots, which run in dual-channel and can fit up to 64GB of memory. There are also two M.2 PCIe x4 drives, on the opposite sides of the motherboard.

We will leave our teardown video here since the process of getting to both the SODIMM and storage slots is a bit more finicky.

3. Display

The laptop offers a single 15.6-inch Full HD IPS panel, which has comfortable viewing angles, a maximum brightness of 254 nits in the middle of the screen, and 248 nits as an average across the entire area of the screen. The contrast ratio is quite high, sitting at 1130:1. In terms of color coverage, the unit does rather poorly, covering only 51% of the sRGB color gamut.

We tested the color accuracy of the display using the 24 most commonly used colors, both with the factory settings (left) and with our Design and Gaming profile applied (right).

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Since our profiles are tailored for each display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for MSI Stealth 15M configurations with 15.6″ FHD IPS BOE NV156FHM-NX4 (BOE0910).

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Office Work

Office Workは、テキストや表を見たり、ウェブサーフィンにほとんどの時間を費やすユーザーに主に使用されるべきです。このプロファイルは、フラットなガンマカーブ（2.20）、ネイティブな色温度、知覚的に正確な色を維持することで、より良い鮮明さと明瞭さを提供することを目指しています。

$9.90 今すぐ購入

Design and Gaming

このプロファイルは、プロとして色を扱うデザイナーや、ゲームや映画向けです。Design and Gamingは、ディスプレイパネルの性能を最大限に引き出し、WebおよびHDTVのsRGB IEC61966-2-1規格（D65ホワイトポイント）で可能な限り正確な色を再現します。

$9.90 今すぐ購入

Health-Guard

Health-Guardは有害なパルス幅変調（PWM）を除去し、目や体に影響を与える有害なブルーライトを低減します。各パネルに合わせてカスタム調整されているため、知覚的に正確な色を保ちます。Health-Guardは紙をシミュレートするため、目への負担が大幅に軽減されます。

$9.90 今すぐ購入

3つのプロファイルをすべて33%割引で入手

$19.90 今すぐ購入

2 reasons NOT to buy the MSI Stealth 15M

1. Battery life

The laptop comes with a mid-sized unit of 52Wh. It lasts for 6 hours and 40 minutes of Web browsing, 5 hours and 31 minutes of video playback, and 55 minutes of gaming, which isn’t as good as we expected. One of its main competitors, the ASUS TUF Dash F15, while having a larger battery, delivers much better battery life.

As with all of our battery tests, we have the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.

2. Cooling

The cooling solution in this laptop consists of a total of six heat pipes. The CPU and GPU get two each, then there is one more which cools down the VRMs. The last one isn’t connected to any heat sink and cools down the graphics memory, which can get pretty hot during heavy gaming sessions.

Max CPU load

As for the CPU and GPU stress tests, both of them quickly reached temperatures of more than 90°C. Even after 15 minutes of testing, the temperature stayed the same, while the clock speeds decreased.

Intel Core i7-11375H (35W TDP)	0:02 – 0:10 sec	0:15 – 0:30 sec	10:00 – 15:00 min
MSI Stealth 15M	3.53 GHz (B+7%) @ 94°C @ 42W	3.44 GHz (B+4%) @ 94°C @ 39W	3.35 GHz (B+2%) @ 94°C @ 37W

Real-life gaming

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 2 min)	GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 30 min)	GPU frequency/ Core temp (Max Fan)
MSI Stealth 15M	907 MHz @ 61°C @ 40W	865 MHz @ 65°C @ 40W	1024 MHz @ 53°C @ 40W

While MSI advertises a 65W TDP, we found the RTX 3060 to work at only 40W, even after 30 minutes of testing. Also, the clock speeds fell down below 1.0GHz. You can manually overclock it via the Dragon Center app, but even then the TDP stays the same. At least the temperatures are really low.

Gaming comfort

The notebook had a maximum outside temperature of 50.6°C, located in the center top portion of the keyboard. The laptop also gets quite noisy, while its GPU is running at around 50-60°C, which is really weird. Furthermore, the noise from the fans is a bit rattly, unless you max them out.