![]() The fastest panel you'll get on a budget gaming laptop is 165Hz, and the difference between 144Hz and 165Hz is slight to imperceptible. The best thing it has going for it is the 144Hz refresh rate, which is faster than the standard 60Hz rate. The Cyborg 15's display marks the system as decidedly entry-level. Dull display, weak speakers, grainy webcam The touchpad feels a bit undersized but suffices for navigating Windows with a smooth, matte surface and firm click response. To be fair, while you can find one- or four-zone RGB lighting on budget gaming laptops, a single color at this price isn't unusual. The keyboard offers three-level backlighting, but you had better like the icy blue color because there's no option to change to another color. The four arrow keys are all full-size, which is always preferable to half-height keys. The keys feel quick with shallow travel, but some gamers might prefer deeper travel with a more satisfying response. ![]() Other than the translucent keys, the keyboard is the standard fare. ![]() Combined with the funky font on the keys, the translucent keys give the Cyborg 15's look a bit of an edge. The entire keys for the WASD keys and power button are translucent, and portions of the arrow keys and spacebar get this treatment. On the keyboard, the WASD keys, four arrow keys, spacebar and power button allow an icy blue to shine through. Ten keys on the keyboard, the display hinges and the bottom panel are made from translucent plastic. The defining characteristic of the Cyborg 15's design is its translucent accents. The whir from the Cyborg 15's single fan never got too loud, and the rear half of the laptop became warm after playing for a while but never got so hot that it was uncomfortable. The Cyborg 15 barely cleared the five-hour mark on our online streaming battery drain test, which was the shortest runtime of this group by more than an hour. ![]() You might think its lower-wattage GPU might allow for a longer battery life, but that wasn't the case. But it's not all bad news: Even in last place, it still averaged a playable 75 fps on Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 1080p at the Highest settings. And it can't be ignored that it finished dead last on The Riftbreaker GPU and Shadow of the Tomb Raider tests - and by a considerable margin on each test. It managed to squeak past the Lenovo LOQ 82XT on our Guardians of the Galaxy benchmark, averaging 100 frames per second at 1080p with quality settings on High. The MSI Cyborg 15 starts at £1,249 in the UK and AU$2,199 in Australia. As you'll see in the next section, the Cyborg 15's lower-wattage GPU landed it near or at the back of the pack on our lab tests. The HP Victus 16 has an RTX 4050 at 120 watts, and the Lenovo LOQ 82XT has an RTX 4050 at 95 watts. It has a TGP of only 45 watts, which is just a fraction of the 140-watt RTX 4050 you get with the Acer Nitro 16 or Acer Predator Helios Neo 16. That's a fine lineup for the money, but the RTX 4050 has lower total graphics power than competing laptops with the same GPU. Our test system is available for $1,000 at Costco and $869 at Amazon and features a Core i7-13620H processor, 16GB of RAM, RTX 4050 graphics and a 512GB SSD. MSI sells a variety of configurations of the Cyborg 15, offering a mix of 12th- and 13th-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 graphics but only one display option: a 15.6-inch, 16:9 display with a 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate. 1 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 1, 2 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, 1 x HDMI, 1 x Ethernet, 1 x combo audio
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