The MSI Creator M16 A12UEV-468 is a great laptop that is aimed at creative professionals but can also be used by both creative professionals and gamers. It’s a great laptop, but because it only refreshes at 60Hz, it’s better for creative work than gaming.
The colour of the brand-new MSI Creator 16 laptop is all black. It looks like the MSI GF66 11th Generation Gaming Laptops from this year. It is just plain black and has a matte finish. In the past, MSI’s last-generation Creator 15 and Creator 17 models had a silver brushed finish on the aluminium.
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]But starting this year, MSI wanted their m16 laptops to be able to be used both for making content and for business. The dark, stealthy look of this laptop and the shiny black MSI dragon logo make it look better. MSI’s perfect way to bridge the gap between sleek business looks and a lot of raw power was to take the sleek looks from the GF66 and Sword Series laptops and give them a much more edgy and stealthy look.
The body is made of plastic all the way through. It’s heavy, which says a lot about how well it’s made. The build is very rigid, and the body doesn’t bend at all. The base of the laptop is also well-balanced, so you can open the lid with just one hand. The laptop deck is also very sturdy, so you won’t have any trouble putting your arm down while you type.
The M16’s 1TB SSD does a good job of moving files quickly. It can copy a 25GB multimedia file at a rate of 1653.52 Mbps in 16 seconds, which is much faster than the average premium laptop, which takes 1:24. Comparatively, the Asus ZenBook 14 gets 950 Mbps, the Razer Blade 15 averages 890.2 Mbps, and the Dell XPS 15 with a 512GB SSD came in last with an average of 825.6 Mbps.
For graphics, the MSI Creator M16 A12UEV-468 has an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU with 6GB of VRAM. With this, Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve won’t cause any stuttering when you’re editing videos. Even though this laptop is made for making content, it can still run AAA games smoothly.
For example, Borderlands 2 runs very well, with animation-style graphics that run very smoothly at an average of 62 frames per second on a 60Hz display, but it would run better on, say, a 120Hz display.
Lastly, MSI’s M16 Creator laptops use the same three-cell 53Wh battery that was used last year. Since the laptop runs Windows 11 Home, it’s expected to last about 2 hours. However, tests with a mix of tasks, such as web browsing and watching videos, showed that at 50% screen brightness, you can expect it to last around 3–4 hours. This should be fine for day-to-day use, but heavier tasks, like those that use the GPU a lot, will drastically cut the battery life to less than two hours.