Costco Wholesale has for its
Members: MSI Prestige 16 AI+ Copilot+ Laptop (C3MTG-227US) on sale for $1799.99 - $400 manufacturer's savings =
$1399.99. Shipping is $14.99.
- Note: Non-Members may purchase but are subject to a 5% surcharge. This is an online only price; warehouse availability and pricing may vary.
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Suryasis for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- Intel Core Ultra X7 358H (16-core / 16-thread, up to 4.8 GHz boost, 18MB L3 cache; Intel AI Boost NPU, 50 TOPS) Processor
- 16" 2880x1800 OLED Touchscreen, 100% DCI-P3, 120Hz Display
- 32GB LPDDR5X 8533 MT/s Memory
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Storage
- Intel Arc B390 integrated graphics (12 Xe-cores)
- Wi-Fi 7 + Bluetooth 6.0
- 1080p IR webcam with privacy shutter, 3-microphone array
- Backlit keyboard with fingerprint reader; action touchpad
- Ports:
- 2x Thunderbolt 4 / USB-C (Power Delivery 3.0, DisplayPort 2.1)
- 2x USB-A 3.2
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x 3.5mm headphone/microphone combo jack
- Windows 11 Home operating system
- 81 Whr 4-cell battery w/ 65W USB-C power adapter
- 14.08" x 10.01" x 0.55" (3.53 lb)
Includes: Technical support, 90-day return policy, 2-year warranty
Top Comments
The most hyped things about the Panther Lake Lineup is the integrated graphics and efficiency. However, it is very misleading and confusing for the end users.
Intel has released around 10 Pathner Lake H Series CPUs as of now but among them only 4 SKUs (Ultra X9 388H, Ultra X9 378H, Ultra X7 368H, Ultra X7 358H) have this B390 Graphics (12 Xe Cores) and one (Core Ultra 5 338H) has Arc B370 Graphics (10 Xe Cores).
All the rest of the Processors just have 4 Xe Cores, unlike older series, where the GPU Core count decreases gradually. As a result, Those CPU's integrated Graphics Performance, say the Core Ultra 7 356H of your example, has poor iGPU performance than older Arc 140V and 130V in Lunar Lake Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 5 and even slower than Arc 140T in Core Ultra 7 255H (Arrow Lake) as those are having 8 or 7 Xe Cores.
Now regarding CPU performance, Intel never promised higher performance over Arrow Lake. So, you will get similar raw performance for that processor as from 255H or AMD's Ryzen AI 9 365/ 370/465/470. However, due to better efficiency, the battery life is better across the board.
So, unless you are getting oneof those Processors with 12 Core B390M or 10 Core B370M Graphics, don't pay a lot of money over last generation Arrow Lake Processors. I would always get a Core Ultra 7 255H based or Ryzen AI 9 HX 470/370 or AI 9 365/465 based laptop by paying a lot extra over Non X sereis Panther Lake 300 series Chips. They will give you more or less same CPU performance, better iGPU performance and slightly less battery life.
1. Screen is great and plenty bright for me. I don't think I've ever had it above 50%, but I also never use it outside. Didn't think I would ever use the touchscreen but I've made several dashboards I used during impromtu presentations where it was nice to be able to tap the screen to go to a new figure.
2. Battery life has been great. If I was doing basic development, emails, etc. I could probably get full work-day battery life if I kept the brightness down lower.
3. Touchpad is awful; I hate it so much. It's enormous (not bad) but the palm rejection is terrible (very bad). It goes right to the bottom edge where you want to rest your palm as well.
Even with the terrible touchpad would definitely buy again at the $1400 price point. I just carry a wireless mouse in my bag and use that as much as possible.
I just recently finished an XPS with the same chip, and im working on a x9 thinkpad as i type this also same chip.
And a bunch of intel b390 handheld stuff coming.
In the end, you can see im pretty hyped about intels return to being good
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For those that can wait would note that the Nvidia RTX spark chip is scheduled for release this fall and will be a generational leap over this sort of laptop.
Nvidia's "generational leap" claim is directly in reference to AMD Halo Strix and Intel's Arrow Lake, not this laptop's Panther Lake package.
RTX Spark laptops are rumored to launch with a starting price of $2,000 for the lowest bin variant that won't have the "generational leap" you're talking about.
The lowest model of the N1x will probably start at $3,000 and is slated to be 80w on just the GPU alone; of course it's going to perform better if you're pushing more power through it.
The lower versions are 45W GPU based on leaks.
This entire laptop has a TDP of 65W and has gaming performance on par with an RTX 4050 @ 25W on the iGPU.
Also, RTX Spark is ARM not x86, and it's being designed as a professional workload chip rather than a gaming one. We have no idea how the compatibility layer is going to work before release, and you'll likely be locked out of multi-player games that use anti-cheat.
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