MSI Modern 14, AMD Ryzen 5-5500U, 14″(35cm) FHD IPS-Level Panel Laptop (8GB/256GB NVMe SSD/Windows 10 Home/Radeon Graphics/Carbon Grey/1.3Kg),… ₹ 39990

I am writing this review after 3 week uses. I purchased at the price segment ₹ 42,490. This is a good laptop at this price segment.

Firstly, I noticed that speaker is not that much loud, My redmi note 10 device is louder then MSI laptop speaker. I gave 4 rating out of 10. MSI should work on speaker quality.

The laptop is not a metalic body. It’s a combination of metal & plastic . The back portion of laptop is plastic body. Amazon didn’t mention any where it’s a metalic body or plastic body. Amazon should clearly mention. However, you can see in section of customer question

The laptop adaptor is from Chicony company. My friend’s have msi modern 14 of 4500u processor, he have msi original adaptor.
The adaptor got too heated for some interval when I charged. The laptop backup time is 5 hour for normal browsing like using Google Chrome & YouTube

The msi should give 512gb ssd instead of 256gb. If anyone want to replace 256gb ssd in the laptop. Then he/she have to pay 4000 more. Insted msi can take more 2000 and they can give 512gb ssd

The hindge is ok, not too much loose. So, you wouldn’t get any problem.

I am not a gamer so that much not experience about gaming.
The laptop has good processor (5500u with 6 core 12 thread) comparison to Intel 10210u. It can handle multiple task easily. You can edit video at 1080 pixel easily. If you have budget then update the ram with 8 gb more for good performance specially in video editing.

Pros:-

1. The laptop is light weight, it’s gray colour with mate finish looks beautiful
2. Backlight keyboard
3. Touch pad is good

its nice but first please visit the offline market to buy

Product good no issues and decent performance.but i received too old laptop which was manufactured 8 months ago.
No Fresh piece.this would be because i ordered in sale.got for 41500rs only.
Thank you

I got this to reduce back pain from carrying my 2.5kg HP Victus around the house. While I do have a few traditional PCs, laptops tend to be pretty handy for impromptu meetings and getting servers to shut down if the power goes out. What sold me on this laptop was the weight and supposed build quality – I’m replacing a lighter, thinner but much weaker iBall Pentium Laptop. Having bought it, there are a few issues you should be aware of.

1. Display is actually very poor. While it is IPS, it can’t be called that due to trademark issues. It’s a very cheap AUO panel, the same one as used in almost every 14″ laptop by every manufacturer. While MSI has done a decent job of ensuring gamma tracking between 40 and 70% brightness (and the brightness is ok for indoor use), the actual reproduction is washed out and lacks contrast – exactly as per it’s 45% NTSC spec. You’ll have to do a lot of jugglery in the AMD settings to get the panel to look right.

2. Won’t belabour the point about the speakers. They are forgettable at best.

3. It’s a noisy little beast. The fan whine is irritating and gets to you within a few minutes. I had a tough time finding the setting to make it semi-passive, and now it’s quiet if you’re just browsing or reading something. Unusually, you have to set it to ‘High Performance’ and then add a custom fan curve.

4. Windows 11 compulsory. Mine came with W10 20H2 and no upgrade path was offered within W10. I would have preferred to stay with W10, but maybe Linux will be worth looking at now. This is of course your personal preference.

5. Single-channel 1R8 memory, which is possibly the worst kind of memory to use on an APU. And to make sure you can’t do anything about it, they put a tamper sticker over one screw hole. I will probably upgrade it anyway, but given it’s MSI it’s probably better to stick with 1R8 as the motherboard might not be able to take 2Rx8 memory properly. BIOS allows you to basically do nothing at all about timings, I don’t see the point of a BIOS with so few options.

There’s a lot of good things, one of which is the R5500U APU. Even in 2022 it is no slouch, if MSI had paired it with the correct sort of memory it would have been close to perfect. The big issues are the fact that it’s basically ‘just’ a tuned-up 4600U, and some older quirks are present – mostly the IF clock being capped at 1.2GHz, which means memory performance is always out of whack with >2400MHz DDR4. For a daily grind laptop, this likely won’t matter much.

Loud fan aside, the cooling (on a new laptop, this will degrade) is excellent. After a few hours of large-screen gaming tests – never mind the fps, that was not the point – the CPU was in the 75C range. Officially the TGP is 15W, but I’ve seen 35W being drawn at max load. This is 15C better than my Victus 5800H managed out of the box, and is very impressive overall. Even when running in fully passive mode with a Youtube video, the area under the heatpipes is just mildly warm.

It is truly lightweight. While it is also quite chonky, exceeding 20mm through most of the depth, it is almost 100% metal shell and that reduces weight and is more rigid than plastic. This also allows more heat to conduct to the keyboard and trackpad area, so you can see why they emphasised cooling over noise. The weight means carrying it around is easy.

The hinge is a good compromise between stiffness and ease of adjustment. While I would have wished for a little stiffer between 120 and 180 because it tends to go flat if you carry it around with the lid open. The first few degrees also seem to be a little stiffer than usual and there’s no proper opening lip, so getting it open is a little more involved. It also moves around a bit when typing on the keyboard, but it’s not a lot.