MSI Prestige 14 Evo review: refinement over outright performance

MSI goes all refined and classy with the Prestige 14 Evo, although you may find more oomph elsewhere.

A silver MSI Prestige 14 Evo B13M laptop sitting on a patio rock
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Our Verdict

The MSI Prestige 14 Evo looks refined and dignified, reminding me a little of a fancier HP alternative, and offers a solid features package that makes it a really capable productivity laptop, including a suite of brilliant security features. The alarming phrase "Iris Xe Graphics" does dampen the excitement a little bit, but for photo-editing, hybrid working, general productivity or for students, this MSI model does the job and then some.

For

  • Looks classy
  • Great security tools
  • Relatively lightweight

Against

  • Integrated graphics only
  • Pedestrian 1920 x 1080 resolution

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The MSI Prestige 14 Evo bucks two trends for MSI laptops. The first is that unlike the bulky and sometimes a bit square-looking gaming laptops for which the brand is perhaps most famous, the Prestige 14 Evo looks sleek and refined, and wouldn't look out of place in a boardroom meeting or in a presentation at a university lecture. The second is that unlike MSI's usual emphasis on POWERRRR, what we have here is a neat-looking but reserved spec of 16GB RAM, 512GB storage and integrated Iris Xe graphics, with a Full HD screen and 720p webcam attached to the underpinnings. To specify, the model we got in for testing is the B13M variant, which has a newer processor than the A13M and is a little more expensive too.

So instead of aiming squarely at graphic-hungry gamers or processor-demanding creatives, the Prestige 14 Evo is very much a general productivity laptop, be it for office workers or students, aiming at the market for best laptops for students or best laptops for working from home with this model. 

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CPU:Up to 11th Gen. Intel® Core™ i7 U-Processor
GPU:Intel Iris Xe Graphics
Display:14" FHD (1920x1080), 100% sRGB
RAM:16GB LPDDR5
Storage:512GB NVMe SSD
Connectivity:1x USB-A 3.2, 2x Thunderbolt 4, 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack, 1x HDMI, 1x MicroSD
Wireless:Wi-Fi 6 AX201(2*2 ax), Bluetooth 5.1
Dimensions:314 x 227.5 x 17.9 mm
Weight:1.6kg
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MSI Prestige 14 Evo (B13M) benchmark scoring
PCMark 10:Total: 5,798Digital Content Creation: 6,517
Row 1 - Cell 0 Essentials: 10,471Productivity: 7,751
Cinebench R23:Multi-core: 6,942Single-core: 1,836
Geekbench 6:CPU Multi-core: 9,711CPU Single-core: 2,656
Row 4 - Cell 0 GPU OpenCL: 16,393Row 4 - Cell 2
Battery test (streaming video):13h10mRow 5 - Cell 2
The Verdict
7.8

out of 10

MSI Prestige 14 Evo B13M

The MSI Prestige 14 Evo looks refined and dignified, reminding me a little of a fancier HP alternative, and offers a solid features package that makes it a really capable productivity laptop, including a suite of brilliant security features. The alarming phrase "Iris Xe Graphics" does dampen the excitement a little bit, but for photo-editing, hybrid working, general productivity or for students, this MSI model does the job and then some.

Erlingur Einarsson
Tech Reviews Editor

Erlingur is the Tech Reviews Editor on Creative Bloq. Having worked on magazines devoted to Photoshop, films, history, and science for over 15 years, as well as working on Digital Camera World and Top Ten Reviews in more recent times, Erlingur has developed a passion for finding tech that helps people do their job, whatever it may be. He loves putting things to the test and seeing if they're all hyped up to be, to make sure people are getting what they're promised. Still can't get his wifi-only printer to connect to his computer. 

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