If You Want To Get A Reasonably Priced, Slim, Lightweight, And Powerful Laptop And You Are Not Interested In Apple Macbooks, MSI Is An Attractive Choice For You. Join Us In Reviewing The MSI Modern 15 Laptop.

In such a situation, the most welcome are laptops that can offer a practical and complete experience at the lowest possible price. Perhaps we can consider Apple MacBook Air M1 at the top of the most valuable laptops. Still, the general nature of this laptop and the Mac ecosystem leads at least a wide range of Iranian users to Windows laptops.

MSI has just launched the Modern 15 series in the Iranian market. With its slim all-metal body and powerful hardware, this laptop, along with products such as the Zenbook 14 and Surface Pro 7, is a competitor to Apple’s Windows MacBooks. MSI sells the Modern series to content creators just like the Prestige series; So you can expect a display with accurate colors, fast performance, and a slim and light body. We can call the Modern series a more economical Prestige model.

It is Laptop Modern 15 with Shmarhmdl A10RBS to review its disposal. This model is powered by a 10th generation and six-core Core i7-10710U processor along with 8 GB of RAM, 512 GB of NMVe SSD, and separate GeForce MX350 graphics with 2 GB of memory. With such hardware, Modern 15 seems to be able to provide a good experience. To find out how the device works in the real world, check out the MSI Modern 15 laptop with Zomit.

Design and build quality Modern 15

Among the 15-inch laptops, the MSI Modern 15 is one of the lightest and slimmest models; At least among the laptops with a separate graphics card, it is one of the weakest. This device weighs 1.6 kg, and its thickness in the thinnest part of the body reaches 16.9 mm. Undoubtedly, more delicate and lighter laptops can find in the same price range; But few models can be seen that use separate GPU and such features.

Thanks to the narrow bezels around the display, MSI engineers have fit the 15.6-inch collection of the Modern 15 into a 14-inch laptop-sized body. The body of the device is made entirely of metal with polished texture, and the cover of the body is such that the fingerprints and grease of the left hand on it are not visible. MSI sells the modern 15 laptops in both black and gray.

Excellent build quality with military standard

Two small hinges on either side of the device hold the screen. These hinges can control the monitor at any angle between zero and 180 degrees. Modern 15 hinges also pass the “Open Laptop with One Hand” test. One of the design weaknesses is the not-so-stable stability of the hinges; Which means that if you shake the device a little, the display will not stay in place, and its angle will increase.

Not harmful to know that the Modern 15 laptop carries the military standard MIL-STD 810G. Thanks to this standard, Modern 15 is resistant to changes in air pressure, shock and impact, body vibration, changes in temperature and humidity, and the spraying of a series of solid particles such as salt, sand; Of course, MSI does not guarantee the proper operation of the laptop under these conditions; Therefore, we suggest that you look to the military standard only to prevent sudden and accidental events, and never expose your computer to such situations.

Modern 15 also satisfies you in terms of build quality and body strength; The machine has a strong structure, the lower half of the device shows good resistance to compression, and the upper half torsion and pressure.

Modern keyboard, trackpad, and port set 15

The modern island laptop keyboard 15 offers a delightful typing experience. The keys have a standard arrangement and a reasonable distance from each other. The 1.5 mm depth of motion of the keys conveys an excellent feeling to the user; on the other hand, a 15% increase in their level compared to the previous generation helps to better position the finger; So that in a short time, you can get used to typing with the keys. MSI says the LED lights under the keys, with their horizontal arrangement, now have twice as much exposure; A theme that doubles the fun of typing with the device in dark environments.

The Taiwanese also have several efficient keys for the modern 15; The F5 key allows you to mute the microphones, the F7 vital changes the operating profile of the device between Super Battery, Silent, Balanced, and High-Performance modes, the F8 necessary changes the background light of the keys to zero to 3 levels, and the F12 key to rotate the image when displaying Provides content to others in 180-degree mode. Another positive point about the keys is the ability to lock the Fn mode to access the secondary function of the F1-12 row keys without having to hold down the Fn key.

Measuring 65 x 105 mm, the modern 15-inch trackpad is not as expansive as the one on Apple MacBooks; But in most applications, it meets your needs. This trackpad performs very well in tracking finger movements and supports all Windows gestures, thanks to Microsoft Precision drivers; For example, touching the trackpad with your finger will prompt the Windows search box and swipe left and right to switch between apps.

Diverse and practical portals

Modern 15 laptop offers a wide variety of ports; On the right edge of the device, you will have access to two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and a microSD card slot; On the left edge, you’ll find a headphone/microphone jack, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port with DisplayPort signal support, an HDMI port, and a DC power adapter input. Instead of microSD, MSI should have considered the more widely used SD port for photographers and supported Thunderbolt’s functional, forward-looking connection on the Type-C port.

Modern display and speaker 15

A laptop whose target audience is users, such as a designer and photographer, should have an efficient display. Knowing this, MSI gives many maneuvers around the capabilities and accuracy of color display in a modern laptop. MSI says the current 15.6-inch display 15 offers complete coverage of the sRGB‌ color space and can provide the user with six color modes: sRGB, Designer, Office, Movie, Anti-Blue, and Gamer depending on the need.

According to Zomit reviews, the modern 15 laptop screen uses an IPS LCD panel with 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, made by Chi Mei, a subsidiary of the Innoux Group. This screen gives you a pixel density display of 141 pixels per inch, which seems quite enough for a collection with a diameter of 15.6 inches. The modern 15-touch screen has a matte finish and offers a 60Hz refresh rate.

* All the numbers mentioned in the table above have been obtained in the laboratory.

Modern Laptop 15, with a maximum brightness of 211.1 nits in terms of brightness and contrast, does not appear at the level of competitors; But the accuracy of displaying colors on the screen takes it away from powerful products such as the MacBook Pro M1. Among the devices we’ve reviewed at Zumite so far, only the Surface Book 3 has better sRGB color rendering accuracy. As a weakness for the modern laptop 15, we can mention the lack of support for the more expansive DCI P3 color space.

As mentioned earlier, the MSI Ultrabook provides you with six color profiles through the Creator Center software, which, according to Zomit reviews, had the most accurate performance, called sRGB, and even surpassed the Designer profile. The Modern Laptop displays 15 colors with a balanced temperature, but it tends to be a little cold in the Gamer profile.

MSI‌ says that the modern 15 laptop stereo speakers, like the one we experienced on the Katana GF66, produce 24-bit Hi-Res sound at a sampling rate of 192 MHz, delivering 7.1-channel surround sound through Nahimic Audio technology. . These speakers perform well in making medium and high-frequency sounds. Still, at low frequencies, they are not very shocking. We consider the volume of a laptop to be sufficient for a small room.

Hardware, Performance and Battery Modern 15

MSI sells the modern 15 laptops with different Intel Comet Lake 10th generation processors and integrated graphics configurations. We had one of the most potent current 15 configurations with a Core i7-10710U hexagon processor, Nvidia MX350 graphics, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and 512GB of NVMe memory for review.

Although the Core i7-10710U chip supports DDR4 RAMs up to 1333 MHz (DDR4-2666), the Taiwanese have considered the 1600 MHz DDR4-3200 RAM module for the Modern 15. The MSI Ultrabook has two RAM slots and two M2 slots that you can use to upgrade 64GB of RAM and SSD memory.

The Core i7-10710U chip uses six cores / 12 threads with a base frequency of 1.10 GHz and turbo frequencies of 4.7 and 3.9 GHz in single and multi-core processes. Intel announces the thermal design power of the chip at a base frequency of up to 15 watts, But companies can increase their power consumption up to 25 watts at will.

Ultrabooks typically use integrated graphics at the heart of the chip; The Taiwanese, meanwhile, also sell the modern 15 laptops with Nvidia’s MX350 graphics. The pictures are used in both 15- and 25-watt versions of laptops. According to Zomit, MSI has used the 25-watt version of the MX350 in the Modern 15 laptop, which gives the user more than 55% more FP32 frequency and computing power.

While Windows offers various profiles by default, including Best Performance, Better Performance, and Best Battery Life, to manage power consumption on laptops, the Modern 15 provides other scenarios in the form of Creative Center software, independent of Windows. There are four options: Super Battery, Silent, Balanced and High Performance.

MSI sets the power consumption settings of the Modern 15 laptop to Balanced by default; But to maximize the device’s processing power, we implemented the benchmarks in High-Performance mode. The following steps also showed the difference between the modern performance 15 in Balanced and High-Performance ways. All the results in the table below are obtained when the laptops are plugged in.

* All benchmarks mentioned in this table have been implemented.

As expected, the Modern 15 shows its best performance when plugged in and set to MSI’s High-Performance profile; Under such circumstances, the MSI‌ Ultrabook outperforms an expensive product such as the Surface Book 3 with a Core i7-1065G7 processor in CPU-centric and multi-threaded CineBench processors and approaches the Helios 300 laptop with a more costly C7 i7-10H processor. But like other Windows ultrabooks, it fails to reach the performance level of the MacBook Pro with the M1 chip.

The MX350 GPU does not provide extraordinary processing power; According to our reviews, this processor is 15 to 22% weaker than the MacBook Pro M1 GPU; But it can handle everyday use and occasionally running games with reasonable frame rates and moderate graphics settings.

* All benchmarks mentioned in this table have been implemented.

The MSI Ultrabook, like most Windows laptops, detaches from the power outlet to provide adequate charging. Zomit studies show that the modern 15 performs about 20% weaker than the plug-in state when disconnected from the power outlet, about 20% in everyday applications, and 35% in heavy CPU-based processing.

To evaluate the modern 15 in continuous and long processing loads, we ran the CPU performance stability test. In this test, the CineBench R23 multidisciplinary benchmark is run continuously for 30 minutes, during which various system parameters such as frequency, power consumption, and processor temperature are monitored. We performed the performance stability test with the Balanced and High-Performance energy profiles in two modes connected to the power outlet and the battery on a Modern 15 laptop.

MSI says the modern Ultrabook uses 15 proprietary Cooler Boost 3 technologies with two fans and three heat pipes to cool parts.

By connecting the laptop to power and adjusting the power profile to the High-Performance option, the modern 15-second performance stability test allocates more than 40 watts to the processor, bringing the frequency of all cores to about 3.10 GHz. Still, after that, the processor frequency remained stable at 2.70 GHz and the power consumption at 28 watts. With the High-Performance energy profile and when connected to the power supply, the CPU temperature was always in the range of 95 degrees Celsius, and this temperature caused the body to heat up.

If you set the power profile to Balanced while plugged in or unplug the device in either Balanced and High-Performance modes, the behavior of the modern 15 laptops will be very similar. In each of these scenarios, the frequency remains stable at 2.0 GHz, and the power consumption remains at 15 watts; Of course, in the Balanced profile and the power-on mode, in the initial seconds, there was a jump to a frequency of 2.60 GHz and power consumption of 25 watts.

On the Balanced energy profile, when the modern 15 laptops plugin, the temperature of the modern 15 laptops gradually rises to 70 degrees celsius. Still, when the device is disconnected from the power, the processor temperature stabilizes in the range of 65 degrees Celsius. In general, if you use a modern laptop 15 on the default Balanced energy profile, you will not see the body overheat.

Unfortunately, we did not manage to monitor the GPU power consumption when performing the graphics performance stability test, so we do not provide a graph in this section, But we can say that the MX350 graphics work in both Plugged Unplugged modes with a frequency of about 1450 MHz.

An ultrabook can’t expect to perform brilliantly in professional and heavy-duty graphics applications, and Modern 15 is no exception; The slim, lightweight MSI laptop confirms what we’re saying by recording 322 seconds in BMW model rendering with Blender software and 475 seconds in converting 90-second 4K HDR video to 1080p with hardware encoding. Aside from professional uses, the Modern 15 can run several games with mediocre graphics and decent frame rates.

* All benchmarks mentioned in this table have been implemented.

The modern Zomit 15-case MSI Ultrabook uses 512GB of Kingston NVMe SSD memory. This memory shows satisfactory performance with reading and writes speeds of 1741 and 935 MB / s, respectively; But it is not among the fastest in the market. Fortunately, the Modern 15 makes it possible to upgrade to faster memory thanks to two M.2 slots.

The modern 15 laptop relies on a 52-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery and charges it with a 65-watt adapter. MSI says the Modern 15 Ultrabook can accompany the user for up to 9 hours on a single charge. Taiwanese claim that the modern 15 mobile charger is 38% lighter and 19% smaller than the regular model.

* All benchmarks mentioned in this table have been implemented.

Proper battery life

To evaluate the charging of the MSI laptop, we set its energy profile to High Performance, disconnected all wireless connections, and set the display brightness to 200 nits (87% brightness slider). The Modern 15 Ultrabook lasted 5 hours and 8 minutes on the PCMark ten battery test, which measures charging in uninterrupted everyday and office use, which is a satisfactory result. The Taiwanese Ultrabook was able to play standard HD video continuously for 8 hours and 20 minutes until the charge ran out.

Conclusion

Modern laptop 15 in the price range below 30 million tomans, is one of the most efficient Windows ultrabooks. Slim all-metal body, 15.6-inch IPS display with high-precision colors, 6-core Core i7-10710U processor with very stable performance, separate MX350 graphics for occasional gaming, and excellent charging in everyday use are the first and most essential features. SI Modern 15 counts.

Creative Center software allows you to change the performance level of the laptop in different scenarios; With this software, you can achieve the best level of performance of a modern 15 processor or turn it into a completely silent device with a long charge. The MSI Slim Ultrabook also offers a variety of efficient ports.

In addition to the positive features of the Modern 15, this device also has weaknesses, such as the lack of a Thunderbolt port, lower brightness and contrast of the screen compared to some competitors, and the use of the previous generation processor.

Positive points

• Stable and outstanding daily performance
• RAM and memory with easy upgradeability
• Lightweight and slim metal body
• Excellent screen color accuracy
• Various portals
• Good charging

Cons

• Screen brightness, more diminutive than competitors
• Use of the previous generation processor
• Lack of Thunderbolt port