MSI Prestige 16 AI+: thinner 16-inch OLED, 17h45m battery

MSI has updated the Prestige 16 AI+, offering a thinner, lighter 16-inch business laptop in a configuration priced at £1,250 in the UK. The model ships with a 2,880 x 1,800 120Hz Samsung OLED, an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor, 32GB of soldered LPDDR5x RAM, a 1TB PCIe4 SSD and an 81Wh battery.

The chassis uses an all-metal build with a rounded profile. The machine measures 13.9 mm thick and weighs 1.59 kg (about 3.5 lb). The design retains MIL-STD-810H ratings for resistance to vibration, temperature change, humidity, dust and shock.

The Core Ultra 7 355 includes eight cores, split into four performance and four efficiency cores, Intel integrated graphics and a 49 TOPS neural processing unit. The test unit’s 1TB Phison PCIe4 SSD showed sequential read and write speeds near 4,761 MB/s and 2,808 MB/s.

External connectivity comprises two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI 2.1 output, two 5 Gbps USB-A ports and a 3.5 mm combo audio jack. The laptop drops the numeric keypad and the microSD slot that appeared on the previous model. Wireless is handled by an Intel Killer BE1775 modem supporting Wi‑Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0. Internal access permits swapping the M.2 2280 SSD and removing the battery; RAM and the wireless card are soldered and there is no bay for a second SSD.

The 16-inch OLED is VESA DisplayHDR True Black 600 certified and peaks at about 385 cd/m2 in SDR and 635 cd/m2 in HDR. Measured color volumes were 164.9% sRGB, 116.8% DCI-P3 and 113.6% Adobe RGB. When locked to common color profiles, average Delta E values ranged roughly between 0.6 and 1.3. MSI supplies presets including Display P3, Adobe RGB, sRGB, Movie, and eye-strain reduction modes. The panel has a glossy finish that can reflect sunlight.

Audio comes from two 2W woofers and two 2W full-range drivers mounted inside the case and firing downward. The laptop includes a three-stage white-backlit keyboard, a 160 x 100 mm Mylar mechanical touchpad with programmable swipe gestures called Action Functions, a 1080p/30fps webcam with Windows Hello IR support, and a fingerprint reader in the power button.

On synthetic tests, the Core Ultra 7 355 configuration scored 238 points in a Handbrake-based 4K multimedia benchmark. Geekbench 6 results were 2,715 (single-core), 11,422 (multi-core) and 23,606 (OpenCL GPU). In the SPECviewperf 3dsmax 3D modeling test the unit ran at about 18 fps. The system ran without observable thermal throttling, produced low fan noise and remained relatively cool during testing.

Battery runtime in a continuous VLC video loop at a display brightness set to 170 cd/m2 reached approximately 17 hours 45 minutes on the 81Wh cell. MSI’s international listings indicate a possible variant with an Intel Ultra X9 388H CPU and an Arc B390 GPU, but the company has not confirmed UK availability or pricing for that configuration.

The £1,250 configuration combines a color-accurate OLED display, upgraded audio and an 81Wh battery in a lighter chassis while limiting internal upgrade options and offering lower peak graphics performance compared with some higher-core or discrete-GPU alternatives.