MSI Thin A15 (B7Ux / B7Vx) - Specs

    • Innolux N156HRA-EA1 (CMN1521)
    • Color accuracy  3.9  3.1
    • HDD/SSD
    • up to 4000GB SSD
    • M.2 Slot
    • 1x 2280 M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4  See photo
    • RAM
    • up to 64GB
    • OS
    • Windows 11 Home, Windows 11 Pro, No OS, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, DOS
    • Battery
    • 52.4Wh, 3-cell, 52.4Wh
    • Body material
    • Plastic / Polycarbonate
    • Dimensions
    • 359 x 254 x 21.7 mm (14.13" x 10.00" x 0.85")
    • Weight
    • 1.86 kg (4.1 lbs)
    • Ports and connectivity
    • 3x USB Type-A
    • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
    • 1x USB Type-C
    • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort
    • HDMI
    • 2.1 (8K@60Hz / 4K@120Hz)
    • Card reader
    • Ethernet LAN
    • 10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
    • Wi-Fi
    • 802.11ax
    • Bluetooth
    • 5.3
    • Audio jack
    • 1x Headphone Jack + 1x Microphone Jack
    • Features
    • Fingerprint reader
    • optional
    • Web camera
    • HD
    • Backlit keyboard
    • optional
    • Microphone
    • Speakers
    • 2x 2W Stereo Speakers, DTS Audio, Hi-Res Audio
    • Optical drive
    • Security Lock slot
    • Kensington Lock

    All MSI Thin A15 (B7Ux / B7Vx) configurations

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    Office Work

    Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

    Design and Gaming

    This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

    Health-Guard

    Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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    CPU performance

    Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the MSI Thin A15 (B7Ux / B7Vx) series.

    Here, we evaluate the CPU's performance using a real-world 3D rendering task, assessing its ability to handle complex computations and rendering workloads efficiently.

    Results are from the Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core test (higher is better)

    GPU performance

    Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the MSI Thin A15 (B7Ux / B7Vx) series.

    MSI Thin A15 (B7Ux / B7Vx) in-depth review

    The MSI Thin A15 makes a clear promise right in its name: it aims to deliver a gaming experience in a portable, lightweight package. To achieve this slim profile without melting its components, MSI has made a drastic and defining decision: to severely limit the power of its graphics card. The result is a laptop with an RTX 4060 that, in many cases, performs worse than cheaper machines equipped with an RTX 4050. This is the central paradox of the Thin A15. It's a machine that boasts phenomenal cooling and excellent stability, but at what cost to performance? Is its quiet, cool operation eno[...]

    Pros

    • Excellent thermal management keeps the system very cool
    • Lightweight and highly portable for a gaming laptop
    • PWM-free display with a great low-glare finish is easy on the eyes
    • Good CPU performance for the price
    • Two user-accessible RAM slots for easy upgrades
    • Great performance stability with no thermal throttling

    Cons

    • Severely power-limited GPU (45W) results in subpar performance
    • Display has very poor color coverage
    • Poor battery life
    • Only a single M.2 slot for storage
    • Rattling trackpad and no keyboard backlight on some models

    How to open MSI Thin A15 B7V – disassembly and upgrade options

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    Games you can play on this laptop series

    Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
    HIGH PERF
    HIGH QLT
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 (Laptop, 45W) 751 FPS PLAY VIDEO 397 FPS PLAY VIDEO