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Heres why NVIDIA Studio Ready laptops from MSI offer creators the perfect balance between gaming and productivity
Its not just work and no play, these laptops make for fantastic gaming machines thanks to cutting-edge cooling tech and fast displays.
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Apr 24, 2023 11:53:14 IST
Studio-ready laptops are a different breed from gaming laptops. Where games simply require raw power from powerful CPUs and GPUs, Studio laptops are meant to be used in a professional setting where certain features like colour-accurate displays and reliability are non-negotiable. MSI understands these needs very well, and chose this need as the starting point of the design of their Studio-ready laptop lines.
MSI, though, goes a few steps further. These laptops not only offer a certain minimum guarantee of performance and features that creators would want, but also provide the perfect balance of performance and portability for new age consumers who happen to need no-compromise flexibility and adaptability. These laptops are thin, very light, and still manage to offer all-day battery life. And its not just work and no play, these laptops make for fantastic gaming machines thanks to cutting-edge cooling tech and fast displays.
Large trackpads ensure that you stay productive even without a mouse, and svelte design and per-key RGB lighting give you that visual oomph that helps you stand out among other creators.
What is a Studio laptop?
When it comes to specs, NVIDIA Studio-validated laptops will always have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU, at least 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD storage, fast CPUs, and high-resolution, colour-accurate monitors. NVIDIA GeForce RTX support is especially important as it lets creators take advantage of NVIDIA Broadcast a suite of AI accelerated streaming tools and compatibility with creator programs like OBS, Unity, DaVinci Resolve and Blender that take full-advantage of the advanced RT cores in NVIDIAs GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs.
In addition, these laptops use NVIDIA Studio Drivers. Studio drivers undergo extensive testing with various hardware configurations and creative applications to virtually guarantee performance and uptime.
The idea is that creators get all the power and features they need for no-limits creativity. It wont be the laptop thats holding them back.
What do content creators get?
MSIs latest Studio-ready laptop include the Creator Z16 and Z17 HX Studio, CreatorPro Z16 and Z17 HX Studio, Stealth 14, 16 and 17, and the Prestige 16 Studio. These laptops are all, and without exception, incredibly thin and very well built. Their powerful hardware is cooled by cutting edge tech like CoolerBoost 5 and Vapour Chambers, and they all boast of TruePixel 16:10 displays designed specifically for creative professionals and picky gamers.
The Prestige 16 Studio is particularly impressive in this regard as it boasts of one of the few miniLED laptop displays in circulation today. It also happens to have a QHD+ resolution and CalMan certification for MSIs signature TruePixel colour accuracy. If you deal with HDR workflows, you really cant get a better laptop. The other laptops in the line boast of similarly great TruePixel colour accuracy, high pixel densities, 16:10 aspect ratios, and support for the various professional colour spaces AdobeRGB, DCI-P3, etc. that creators need to work in.
These laptops are powered by the latest 13
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Gen Intel CPUs, some of which can boost to 5.6 GHz on two cores for unmatched single-threaded performance in creative apps like Photoshop. Dual-channel DDR5 RAM gives you a 20% performance boost over previous gen, mitigating your performance bottlenecks and ensuring that creative apps can have a large, fast pool of memory to access.
The most important feature is of course the fact that all these laptops are powered by NVIDIAs GeForce RTX 40 series cards. Why does that matter? How about an 8
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