MSI Modern 15 - Nuclear Review

[@EtaCarinaeSC]

This notebook is unhinged!

[@tuqchino2691]

unhinged notebook fr

[@BagusGede-f1o]

If only every laptop review is as in depth and detailed as this KZbin channel consumer will have a nicer experience when buying a new laptop

[@BagusGede-f1o]

Because the state of new consumer windows laptop, that's why I bought used M1 MacBook with 16GB of ram instead😢

[@gamerguildhd3529]

my man doing god's work here by pointing out whats e-waste on day 1

[@besher532]

it only took me 2 seconds to love this video, one of the funniest intros I have seen in a while

[@delta_cosmic]

I swear MSI'S quality control makes Razer's quality control look good.

[@fishappy0_962]

funny enough apple and razer of all companies don't have hinge issues like these.

[@mangles1044]

Razer’s quality control was always good. It’s just the price problem

[@fishappy0_962]

@@mangles1044 hmm, I thought everyones complaining about the bad build quality etc

[@mangles1044]

@@fishappy0_962 Well people compared the razer blade to a macbook pro so the build quality would be on par with the macbook pro which is good (As long as you don't let it slip off your table lol)

[@catlover2413]

@@mangles1044 Razer laptops have a problem with overheating and so do their chargers. I will never buy a razer laptop even if they were the last laptop brand on Earth.

[@JCC_IT]

This is the first channel I've seen that really inspects laptops hinges as part of their reviews - with how often they break its great to see someone take the time and put in the effort to check them!

[@RyzesTechZone]

"Where should we exhaust all the hot air this CPU is making?" "Right into the display that can be knocked over with a stiff breeze." absolutely wild

[@twopercentgaming4630]

Competently reviewing "modern" nuggets and throwing shade at every cut-corner, is what I'm here for. Please never stop.

[@justsomething0]

Why the hell doesnt this channel have like a million subs? These are the best laptop reviews I seen so far. No bs just straight to the point.

[@ys_gamer3194]

I only started to learn about laptops 4 weeks ago to buy my self one, and this channel just made my awareness of how to get a good laptop go from 2 to 6 Literally the best laptop reviews on youtube, with time and a larger sample of nuclear reviews this will be a better channel than Jarrod's tech where i started to learn

[@NuclearNotebook]

Jarrod will always be the GOAT for gaming laptops

[@ys_gamer3194]

@@NuclearNotebook sure, but people going for budget laptops cant afford to have a terrible design that will break later, this is the only channel where you give actual good information about the build quality and how long it might last. Keep going.

[@fishappy0_962]

I just ended up not putting up with the bad design bs and went with a workstation laptop anyways, zbook fury g8 rtx a4000 used and the precision 7760 rtx a5000 used.

[@lostskull7467]

After watching your videos so far, I kinda wish someone (presumably with a large budget) would buy several units of each of these models you're reviewing so we can get a more in depth perspective on how consistent the out of the box defects are. Other than that, great reviews! Love how you to into motherboard details way deeper than I think anyone else does in a review.

[@ControversialOpinion]

"Guys, I found a solution to our weak hinges breaking!"

[@narenchris711]

I'm at least glad that the hinges opens up to 180 degree or table flat, so then the hinge freely fall, there are somthing to hold the hinge. Imagine if the hinges stop only for 145 degress or lower, the hinges would just slam mid-air and relying on the hinge mounts to stop it, and probably breaking it in the process

[@CantankerousDave]

The funny thing is that the floppy hinge is almost certainly the result of all the MSI laptops with cracked upper halves due to the hinges always being notoriously too tight. (Like mine, a ge62vr.) They loosened the hinges *too* much.

[@NuclearNotebook]

100%! Trade one problem for another...

[@yasu_red]

MSI's laptop designs are top notch, truly.

[@Resentone]

stellar build quality by msi yet again

[@Cobalt_Capacitor]

Yikes, didn't realize the AMD Ryzen 5 7530U only sported Vega 7 graphics. Thought it would be the RX 700m series. What a blow to iGPU performance.

[@yasu_red]

The naming in AMD's 7000 series and up is awful, the "30" in "7530u" means it's a Zen 3 CPU, not Zen 4 like the 7000 series naming makes most people (understandably) think.

[@StaticVapour590]

I would happily watch your reviews about more of "business oriented" laptops like elitebooks/probooks..

[@nalesnikwiciu]

They are always well made and there is nothing to mock about them. Unlike MSIs 😂

[@SaltedCoffee400]

I got one of these for granny a few years ago, on sale it was bit under 300 usd. My only complaint it came without windows, and with the drives from msi website couldnt make the audio work. Same with windows own. I had grab some rando realtek drivers to get it to work

[@isharadhanushan2002]

Please do a review on 2024 Lenovo LOQ budget gaming laptop.

[@SkittleLauncher]

Had a few of these come through the workshop with busted hinges. Same ol' story, MSI can't seem to get hinges right on both their old and new models. But maybe that's intentional.

[@loilock]

I love your review style. It's in depth and to the point. I'm wondering if you're planning on reviewing a laptop from Framework?

[@Max_Mustermann]

My old Dell Latitude D420 has a similar "feature" regarding hinges. Although that laptop is around 18 years old and the hinges only became loose over time. On the plus side, the display can now be opened with one hand.

[@houdini-o2r]

Continue this budget laptop reviews man The hinge info you give saved me from purchasing shit. Thanks again :)

[@retired-s5h]

I almost bought this one last year, then I saw your review on one of MSI's laptop.

[@random007nadir]

I got 4 MSI i5 based Modern 14s for the business i work for about two years ago. On paper the specs were very good. There must be a lot of variations of the Modern. Construction is aluminum film pressed over a plastic frame, and nice feeling, but super flexible. Great backlit keyboard, very light. No problem with the hinges, but the screen is so flimsy and slim, carrying in a normal carry bag caused the keyboard to grind horizontal wear lines into the LCD surface. The webcam is under the display, so it points up your nose. I wouldn't buy again, just too flimsy..

[@fernandoz6329]

Beautiful analysis, love every bit of data.

[@Techforlife280]

Review the M1 MacBook Air I want to hear what you think about it.

[@Multihunter95bg]

Amazing, please do a review on the old GS66 Stealth.

[@Marauder-q2v]

Will you do any higher end laptops? personally im looking at an vivobook with lunarlake or zenbook... but i've only heard horrors about the hinges (its glued onto the lid of the laptop) but that was for 12th.

[@eda2000-r8h]

Yeh, my friend bought a msi mordern 14 2 year ago, and he alway complain about how hot it get when doing light work load that almost burn his hand, but well, the hinge is not as bad as this one, and the screen is better, but still, the way it exhaust heat make the screen like a dust magnet

[@carlitops]

Funny cuz the previous version of that modern 15 actually has modern design. It has slimmer bezels, metal body, consistent logo(lol), and seemingly better hinge (not ergo lift). What a shame that they downgraded the design of their modern series to appear cheaper than their more expensive laptops.

[@830g5]

what'd i expect from msi

[@jorishcatacutan2513]

Sure! Here's a polished version of your sentence: "I'm planning to buy this, but I've already seen it. Could you suggest an alternative brand for it? Thank you!"

[@shocknaw]

This hurts to watch, how do you make a hinge that bad??

[@NuclearNotebook]

Decades of practice for these guys...

[@shocknaw]

@@NuclearNotebook still can’t make a hinge that doesn’t click

[@justmrak2690]

I was just looking at this laptop but your rewiew turned me away from it. What would you say are good entry level laptops? Im only looking for one for uni to do some light work and minimal gaming while in-between my classes (stuff like the binding of isaac which anything could run and other games like this, the heavy games are gonna be kept at home)

[@HuskyMoment]

Have you looked into keyboard stability at all? Some of the ROGs have keyboards with such poor key stability that you can have keystrokes be completely eaten even though the key felt like it actuated. I know a number of other systems have similar issues but it's something nobody tests for - registration issues on the keyboard near the edges of keycaps. Good video btw

[@NuclearNotebook]

Yeah that's one of the things I'm trying to work out how to quantify in a repeatable manner. I do write a huge portion of these scripts on whatever laptop they're about so any anomalies with the keyboards tend to get picked up as subjective opinions along the way.

[@lorenzocl6002]

Do properly built laptops even exist? Can't find a decent one without spending my entire salary on it

[@NuclearNotebook]

At this end of the market it seems to be "what's the least bad"

[@zigalanimations382]

Thinkpads. Change my mind.

[@linkfreeman1998]

​@@zigalanimations382old one maybe. Newer ones still asks for a small fortune.

[@oggilein1]

Japan has the Panasonic Let's Note series which by the looks of things are still built like they were 20 years ago. my 2021 model CF-SV1 with 16GB of ram and i7-1165G7 hilariously retains the VGA, RJ45, and Optical drive (though they did give it bluray capabilities) you really could confuse it with a model from 10 or 20 years ago if it wasnt for those cpu stickers, but the build quality has stayed high over those 20 years so I can't complain. it's no wonder they sometimes rebrand these models as toughbooks overseas, which they did with mine as I've seen a few toughbook SV1 go up for sale

[@thiernob.6273]

I will suggest you a framework laptop Reparability by design 💻

[@pieterpauwelbeelaerts5995]

perspective from a poor music composer on the negative points: 1) hinges: luxury problem, the laptop needs to be given extra care 2) poor display: all laptops have poor displays compared to macbook pro's, the one I actually need for audiovisual work. Since I wouldn't do much graphical photography or video editing work the srgb color problem is luxury. At the same time a high contrast ratio and big display is interesting for making music scores. 2b) bad speakers. No problem. I only rely on beyerdynamic headphones for hearing music and recordings, and if the internal soundcard is a problem I will use a 10 year old external one. 3) noisy trackpad and shoppily assembled: I need to use the laptop gently 4) poor battery life: no problem, 3 hours is adequate and I have some old powerstation with USB C PD support 5) becomes really hot and loud under load: now this is a real problem, certainly when doing recordings!! But I hope I can set the CPU to 15 percent limit when recording, this keeps my old laptop from being a dragon, and no problem since recording isn't a cpu demanding task. But this loudness isn't a luxury problem if I want to use it in music production with samples. Though this laptop has the specs, in theory, to make samples like eastwest composercloud work (hopefully), because it has a ryzen 5 processor and 16 gigabytes of RAM. Other laptops in this price category (350 euros) only have 8 gigabytes of RAM or a processor like I3 or even pentium ones, which are only good for office and web browsing.

[@gutibear]

Perfect review, thank you

[@ihate2signinyoutuify]

Wishing you made this 3 months ago 3 yr warranty and 96gb ram is only reason

[@davitdavid7165]

Seeing how msi has bad hinges all of the time makes me wonder if something like the titan is well built. Are they incapable of making a good hinge or do they just cut the price in there first

[@HugoLacchiaOfficial]

Do you think the Modern 15H with Ultra Core 7 / 9 would have the same hinge issue? 😅

[@mixman2007m]

Thank you for saving me from buying this laptop🙌

[@chronicle_4]

MSI laptop and hinge issue. The words that will be synonymous till the end of time

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

I want see him try to roast the framework, I hope it pleases him.

[@robinrai4973]

it's a shame those hinges don't use that metal plate the keyboard does

[@MrJacksonOldd]

About the speakers...surely they're not THAT bad...right? The HP OmniBook X exists.

[@MrJacksonOldd]

Anyways it would be cool if you eventually reviewed higher end laptops too (like Lenovo Yoga, MSI Prestige, HP Omnibook 7/X (Pavilion Plus/Envy) etc.)

[@Marauder-q2v]

@@MrJacksonOlddskip the yoga though. Everyone knows the hinges are hot garbage.

[@Gurbetci1Genc]

Hey dude, I saw this laptop on amazon for 329 €, I thought it could be really cheap for this price, what do you think?

[@username-vk4dv]

that intro got me loling

[@jonastas6387]

But you havent considered its price.

[@thiernob.6273]

My first and last MSI laptop I had was in 2017 and of course the hinge broke do not waste your money on this bullshot I will highly suggest a framework laptop

[@saurabhkulkarni8854]

at least it has type c PD, that's a rarity.

[@matthewleblanc2451]

Weird niche question? 😂 Do you think this would have any issues running Citra? Trying to find something to stream my 3ds using artic base? If anyone knows what I'm asking plz help lol 😭

[@iiisaac1312]

Anyone try filling in the gaps around the hinge mount threads with something like JB Weld to improve the durability of these cheap laptops?

[@thefriendlycar2nist836]

MSI wins again, they truly never miss.

[@Nunels]

does the usb-c has video output? i have a 2k 100hz monitor so the hdmi 2.1 is noth enough

[@FerralVideo]

*clicks video *first two seconds Yep, MSI hinges strike again.

[@rgbseaaa]

can you review the acer aspire 7 with the ryzen 7

[@xTrivago911x]

What's with MSJ making the worst hinges known to mankind? At that point I'd rather use a tablet with a detachable keyboard. Hell... imagine if the DS had a hinge so floppy even it's tiny display was enough to make it flop the moment you moved. Would've been an absolute flop of a failure, yet it's "fine" here, at least according to MSI.

[@RanenPo]

38wh battery is really darn low - with Zen4 power efficiency imagine if they put in a modest 60wh battery or something and this would hit 8 hours of real-world use no problem, but noooooo the bean counters just had to cheap out with an anemic battery...

[@racing_mntage1584]

Let's gooo!!!!

[@superb7319]

5:41 Its W*hr not W/hr.

[@BlankBlask]

Only the logo is modern 😂😂😂

[@darkannox]

can you do hp victus 15 with i5-12450h and rtx 4050?

[@maaz8966]

On site it shows its Nvme SSD is it right

[@alexisr.2088]

Classic MSI hinge moment

[@geno8079]

can it charge in the type c port?

[@geno8079]

I'm still gonna order it lol

[@unionofslavstanrepublics2317]

I'm first somehow? Nice. Also, **wonderful** hinges on this budget MSI laptop, as expected.

[@chweng19851]

I haven't even go in 5 second of ur video and I am already laughing. Thank you and thanks MSI 😂

[@hungvominh2490]

And this probably isn't even the worst one from your potato selection.

[@pham3383]

msi keeps shine with the most horrendus build quality of any laptop of any price ranges

[@Bassemreefat]

pls do lenovo loq 15

[@zawchs]

Cant even believe why mfs still buying msi, i mean apart from the price that is somewhat affordable, what even drives ppl to buy msi man?

[@jamesbrendan5170]

most people don't really know stuff about laptops, that's why MSI laptops are still purchased by people.

[@pieterpauwelbeelaerts5995]

the possibility to have a ryzen 5 under 350 euro's AND 16 gigabytes of RAM, which makes me guess it is possible to compose music on this laptop while others don't provide this functionality, with I3 or Pentium processors, or 8GB of RAM where 3GB or so is eaten away by a ryzen processor's IGPU...

[@tuanphvng]

"just a little nap" ahh hinge

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

The intro lmao

[@warrenmcclure7819]

So I think MSI or another company should hire you since you know what youre talking about lol

[@buff9267]

that wallpaper. yikes. MSI trying to be non gaming is quite something.

[@4535G]

MSI Unhinged 15

[@assadnewar8576]

Me whos been using a modern laptop for nearly 2 years: :|

[@technews9909]

Can you upgrade the ram ?

[@XenonG]

In my experience, MSI QA and quality as a whole has been going downhill since 2004.

[@kirishima638]

‘Plastic laptop’ loses all interest

[@CommanderBeefDev]

until you put linux o it its garbage

[@GamingWithTristanTroxell]

lets correct your bs rq. the hinge is fine and doesnt just fall over with the wind or knocking it over. the battery profile can be adjusted for up to 9 hours of battery life. that damn keyboard sucks. and if you need better speakers download fx sound and fix it yourself

[@sudo451]

The hinge clearly isnt fine. Maybe you can reach 9 hours if you cut your performance low enough, but then why even bother with a laptop like this? EQ can't fix terrible hardware speakers.

[@GamingWithTristanTroxell]

@@sudo451 dude my daily driver changes all the time currently its a probook 450 g4 speakers are terrible everything else is fine but if you tune the speakers its fine. the one i used before this was a hacked together acer c720 chromebook running windows that hinge is fine

[@paneledp]

​@@GamingWithTristanTroxell sure you can tune it to how you like it but thats subjective, bad audio drivers that cannot produce certain low or high frequency are simply a fact of physical properties of the speaker itself and doesn't change that they're still bad speakers

[@Mbabbb399]

I have a lenovo legion slim 7i ryzen 7 and a 3060 for fun and an m1 max 16in mbp, couldn't ask for a better combo. As for a budget gaming laptop, I would highly recommend a used legion over this garbage.

[@zigalanimations382]

msi laptops are very well knows for being huge pieces of shit. thank you for spreading awareness on how bad these laptops are. i would be curious to see you review a thinkpad T480 or P50 for a slight change :D

[@mortal_engine]

No ethernet port, RAM soldered. That's enough bullshit.

[@arthurmixed3323]

whoo boy... MSI has not changed one bit. I'm glad my advice to all my friends to never buy an MSI no matter how good the deal is too still stand

[@pieterpauwelbeelaerts5995]

Does this apply to custom build desktop motherboards as well?

[@arthurmixed3323]

@@pieterpauwelbeelaerts5995 MSI motherboards, I've had neutral experience with. Just, NEVER dragon center, NEVER Nahimic. Warranty wise, I've only ever bought through a distributor.

[@BunnyMv_1]

109 views in 12 mins, bro fell off😢

[@Jack-os6wz]

Hahaha hahaha I laughed so hard. Omg good one. So original

[@user-bt4gw5dh7r]

asus strix