MSI PS63 (15.6-inch, 2019) Series

Excellent battery life ; Tiny power adapter ; Quiet ; Nice design

Underpowered for its price ; Bloatware ; No Thunderbolt 3/DisplayPort ; Dubious product placing

The MSI PS63 Modern has a fantastic battery life and is a great performer overall. Depending on whether you prioritise battery life or raw performance it may or may not be on your short list. Just don’t lose sight that it delivers a compromised...

Sleek design. Capable performance. Crisp keyboard feel.

Screen could be brighter. No Thunderbolt 3 port.

Bottom Line: MSI continues to bolster its business-friendly Prestige line with the PS63 Modern, a svelte 15.6-inch notebook that falls just short of the top rung of desktop replacements.

Gorgeous gray/blue design; Slim and lightweight; Snappy keyboard; Solid overall performance; Compact charger ; Dim display; No Thunderbolt 3; Battery life could be better ; The MSI PS63 Modern offers discrete graphics in a portable chassis, but its...

Dim display; No Thunderbolt 3; Battery life could be better ; The MSI PS63 Modern offers discrete graphics in a portable chassis, but its 15.6-inch,1080p display is dim.

The MSI PS63 Modern offers discrete graphics in a portable chassis, but its 15.6-inch,1080p display is dim.

Display ; Keyboard ; Weight

Performance ; Speakers

Fantastic battery life ; Slim, attractive design ; Solid performance

Other Core i7 chips are quicker ; Middling screen quality ; Soft keyboard

The low-power Core i7 chip delivers fantastic battery life and solid mainstream performance, and MSI provides good ergonomics and design throughout. Other machines have more power, though, and screen quality is only average – both of which restrict the...

Powerful components ; Colour accuracy and battery life ; Much cheaper than a MacBook Pro

Screen isn’t 4K (but there's a 4K HDMI-out so you can hook it up to a 4K monitor)

On paper, the MSI PS63 Modern certainly looks impressive. A powerful, premium laptop with the latest Whiskey Lake processor, it claims 100% sRGB colour accuracy and an impressive 16-hour battery life – and it's a grand cheaper than Apple's MacBook Pro....

Intel Core-7-8565U processor @ 1.8GHz , although 9th Gen is now available ; Onboard GeForce GTX 1050 (with MaxQ and 4GB of GDDR5 ram) ; 512GB SSD ; 16GB DDR4-2666 ram ; 15.6-inch FHD IPS panel ; Light-weight at 1.6 kg ; Thin – only 15.9mm

Better graphics card would have been better ; No LAN port

Base on performance alone, the MSI PS63 Modern 8RC falls a little short in my opinion, and didn’t quite meet my expectations. One of the main reasons is because, it uses a Geforce GTX 1050 (with MaxQ), which isn’t the fastest graphics card for the...