msiKatana A15 AI 15.6” 165Hz QHD Gaming Laptop: Ryzen 9-8945HS, NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070, 32GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe SSD, Cooler Boost 5, Win 11: Black B8VG-450US

I am doing this review on my new laptop! This thing works great, it starts right up faster than any other laptop I've ever had. It runs all my games on full and doesn't crash. I had another msi laptop before that lasted seven years before it started to slow down a bit, and decided that I would get another msi. This thing is great it is not loud and is very easy to set up. I play a lot of video games and this is awesome.

I bought this laptop a little over a month ago, and I use it every day, and it works wonderfully. I bought it for a little over $1000 at the end of January 2025. I'm a student who mostly plays modded minecraft.It's heavy and thick, but I enjoy that about it, and it's not the heaviest laptop among my friends. People really enjoy the light-up keyboard and I get lots of compliments. The choice of function keys is wonderful and I use them a lot.A lot of reviews claim that the battery life maxes at two hours, and I have no idea where that number is coming from- I regularly use my laptop for 5 or 6 hours unplugged before it dies. The charging cable is very heavy itself, but it's not too much of a pain to take along for longer work days or when I know I'll be doing something power-intensive.A lot of the pre-installed apps are annoying or useless, but I overall appreciate them.The fans have never gotten so loud that it was jarring to people around me, though I've certainly noticed them whirring while playing games in private.Ultimately, it's a great laptop that was very much worth the money for me. It's a gaming laptop with great memory, great graphics, and great storage. The battery lasts as long as I need it to, and it has a lovely shape and appearance. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a gaming laptop.

I felt like I did plenty of research going into this computer purchase, compared benchmarks and hardware to ensure I was making a choice in product that would last 3-5 years. Let me tell you, this laptop isn’t it for my application.I needed a laptop to be mobile and edit content, primarily graphic design and 1-5 minute video editing. This includes using the entire Adobe suite with either one or multiple programs (not all at once). I found my experience with this laptop to be subpar at best. Right away I was leery of the AMD processor, I much prefer Intel. I cannot prove that this CPU was the root cause of all my issues, but I have a feeling it was a contributor. I was very disappointed with the lack of reliability, and it seemed every time I needed to use the laptop, there was some issue. And then of course if I gave it a little time it would finally come around, just enough for me to question if I could “make it work” in the long run. It got to the point where I started documenting the issues 2 days in and noted weird things I was finding since this laptop just didn’t feel right. Below were several of the things I noticed in just over a week of owning and using daily. Keep in mind I came from a M3 Pro MacBook Pro prior to this.Delivered: 9/20/24Issues with laptop:Google chrome opens first search with bold text every time, super annoying. Incognito mode does same thing so doesn’t seem to be an account setting/issueInitially opened using Yahoo as search engine with brand new Google Chrome download. Could have been an issue with previous extensions that I had, since I had logged into google first before searching anything9/23Laptop was at 10% and went into power saver, keyboard dimmed and brightness went down. Plugged it in for an hour, go to turn it on, black screen. Plugged into other outlet (neither outlet is switched) and it finally fired up 10 minutes later.9/25Got home and opened laptop, won’t connect to home WiFi, which it’s been connected to for almost a week and has remembered. Turned WiFi off and on again, and now says No Wi-Fi Networks found. Need external WiFi adapter to use internet now.9/26Plugged in hard drive (offline) to work on project, computer won’t read hard drive. Previously Norton wanted to run a scan every time I plugged in, so not sure if that’s why it’s not recognizing the drive but I wasn’t able to do work off the SSD until I had WiFi again9/26Was editing a project with computer, closed lid for 15 minutes, came back and screen is black. Won’t turn on or restart… 20 minutes later it turns on after deciding it wanted to be shut down, and tabs are now all closed and unsaved work lost… not cool.9/28Finally used Adobe Premiere Pro for the first time on this device, playback is CHOPPY, it will play forward when previewing, then chop back a few frames, then play forward, they chop back a few frames. Not a clean simple playback to review my timeline and see how my project looks…Trackpad pinch to zoom doesn’t zoom-in on timeline in Premiere… throws off typical workflow, VERY annoying9/29Perfectly on que… blue screen of death “Recovery” while turning on… time to get a MacBook.Another odd thing: EVERY time the computer restarts MSI Center and Xbox re-pin themselves to the taskbarI also added quite a few add-ons to “try” making the laptop feel more like a Mac. I added things like 3 finger drag, spacebar preview, phone link, changed photoshop and Illustrator settings to allow pinch to zoom… and even with all of this to help my workflow feel more like a Mac, the clunky computer workflow and unreliability kept me feeling disconnected from my work.

Works great use it for work and a little gaming on the side. Does not feel cheap. Screen looks great.

Performance is fantastic. Battery Life is surprisingly low. I expect it would not be the best, but this thing just being at the home screen with base installed programs running needs to be charged after about 45 minutes. I just ran a stream on it to see how long it lasts with one browser open, and it was about 36 minutes.

Excelente, todo llegó en tiempo y forma, muy bien cubierto y la computadora trabaja muy bien hasta ahora supera expectativas

Love it