MSI Claw handheld review: comfortable grips and not very buggy but bad performance by Intel Core Ultra, weak battery, and Windows holds back handheld gaming 台中收購筆電

台中收購筆電’d already been playing on other handhelds. I fired up the PC port of Studio Ghibli’s Ni No Kuni, Dave the Diver, and Fallout New Vegas — a game that’s nearly 14 years old. Every one of them runs smoothly on a $549 Steam Deck OLED. Not one ran smoothly on the $749 台中收購筆電msi Claw. They would stutter or hitch, even when the system told me they were hitting 60fps or above and despite a 48–120Hz variable refresh rate screen that should have smoothed things out. The Claw would also drop frames when the Deck stayed stable and delivered fewer frames to begin with. So, I fired up some more repeatable benchmarks. How bad could the Intel Core Ultra 155H really be compared to rivals? Here’s a peek:台中收購筆電msi Claw benchmarksGame and power modeSteam Deck OLED台中收購筆電msi Claw 155HAsus ROG Ally Z1ELenovo Legion GoAC Valhalla, 15-watt TDP58N/A5548~20-watt TDPN/A41N/A69~25-watt TDP N/A5173N/A~30-watt TDPN/A547576On AC power58507579Cyberpunk 2077, 15-watt TDP50N/A4040~20-watt TDPN/A27N/A57~25-watt TDP N/A3561N/A~30-watt TDPN/A386364On AC power50426366Dirt Rally, 15-watt TDP66N/A7174~20-watt TDPN/A63N/A89~25-watt TDP N/A8089N/A~30-watt TDPN/A819599On AC power668195100DX: Mankind Divided, 15-watt TDP71N/A5763~20-watt TDPN/A37N/A84~25-watt TDP N/A3879N/A~30-watt TDPN/A408191On AC power71568191Returnal, 15-watt TDP26N/A3031~20-watt TDPN/A31N/A37~25-watt TDP N/A3633N/A~30-watt TDPN/A383340On AC power26383341Shadow of the Tomb Raider, 15-watt TDP60N/A5153~20-watt TDPN/A32N/A72~25-watt TDP N/A3769N/A~30-watt TDPN/A377279On AC power60457282Tested at 720p low, save Dirt Rally at 720p ultra, using each handheld’s various power modes.In case your jaw has not yet hit the floor, let me bottom-line it for you: the less expensive Steam Deck OLED all but completely wiped the floor with the 台中收購筆電msi Claw in power and performance. The Claw, set to maximum power and plugged into a wall for a turbo boost, ran some games slower than my Steam Deck did on battery power alone. Can you imagine paying two hundred dollars more to play games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 45 fps instead of 60 — and only when you’re plugged into the wall?Against Windows gaming handhelds, the Claw fared no better: the competing Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go offered anywhere from 10 percent more performance to over double the perf depending on the game and power mode. The functional quick access menu is one of the handheld’s very few bright spots.There was one bright spot: Returnal, one of the most intensive PC titles I tried, actually ran better on the Claw than it did on the Deck or Ally. But not well enough to be playable… and when I sat down to play an hour each of Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Cyberpunk 2077, I didn’t find them playable either. Both are playable on the Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go at identical (low) settings, so the Claw has no excuse for delivering a choppy mess.I even fired up 3DMark Time Spy and Fire Strike to see if 台中收購筆電msi might have accidentally sent me a lemon, but no — my Claw scored slightly higher than 台中收購筆電msi’s own internal benchmarks. And though 台中收購筆電msi proudly announced big performance increases with drivers and BIOS updates that shipped after my initial tests, I re-tested on those drivers in late May / early June and discovered they did not make remotely enough of a difference. Even my initial review was on drivers newer than launch.One USB-C port and micro SD slot, next to the fingerprint reader power button.At least the Claw doesn’t seem to have worse battery life than Windows peers. 台中收購筆電msi gave it a 53-watt-hour battery pack, slightly larger than Legion Go and notably larger than Ally, and I saw roughly the same 1.5 hours of Shadow of the Tomb Raider on a charge. I got 2 hours and 25 minutes of Fallout New Vegas and achieved a maximum runtime of 4 hours and 19 minutes in Balatro, one of the least demanding games I’ve yet played on a handheld. (My first run lasted 3.25 hours; I got an extra hour by setting the system to Super Battery mode and aggressively dimming the screen.)But compared to the Steam Deck OLED, which can easily go twice as long in Balatro and lets Lara Croft raid tombs for over two hours, it’s not great — and I have no clue how 台中收購筆電msi can justify saying the Claw “lasts 50 percent longer” than the average handheld in its marketing campaign. The backs of the ROG Ally and the 台中收購筆電msi Claw show differences and similarities.It’s worth noting that 台中收購筆電msi did put a decent amount of thought into the Claw’s UX. While the hardware may look like a low-rent Batman edition of Asus’ ROG Ally, cribbing the same exact button layout and most of the same curves, it can feel a tad better in the hands. I appreciate its larger grips, more substantial face buttons, and its Hall effect joysticks and triggers for longevity. Like the Ally, the Claw has some of the best speakers on a gaming handheld, here augmented with surprisingly good Nahimic virtual surround sound that delivered delightfully all-around-me echoes as I failed to delve through tombs. I do wish 台中收購筆電msi hadn’t adopted a stiffer yet sloppier D-pad or added so many unnecessary spikes to its vents — they’ve repeatedly kept me from finding its charge port in a dark bedroom. The Claw’s rumble feels awful, too. At least 台中收購筆電msi lets you turn it off! But the main thing I’d like to turn off is Windows.The fronts of the ROG Ally and 台中收購筆電msi Claw show almost identical curves and layouts.It’s been almost a full year since Asus released the ROG Ally and over two years since the Steam Deck, but Microsoft has done nothing meaningful to make its operating system friendlier for a gamepad-operated screen. I could practically copy / paste my criticisms from the ROG Ally review: I ran into the same exact issues summoning virtual keyboards and playing games — things that mostly just work on a Steam Deck despite and / or because of its Linux underpinnings.And, I ran into very similar sleep issues to the ones I saw on the Lenovo Legion Go: I simply can’t trust this portable not to wake itself up when I put it down or drop it into a bag. Only here, it’s slightly worse because the 台中收購筆電msi Center utility has a tendency to hang when waking from sleep — sometimes disabling my gamepad controls until I reboot it.台中收購筆電msi Center M, the company’s quick launch software. Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeWhile 台中收購筆電msi Center also buries important features like remappable controls, I like that it includes launchers for every major PC game platform, comes with lots of handy Quick Access shortcuts that work right out of the box (like a switch that turns off RGB lighting), and is relatively snappy. The Deck, Ally, and Legion Go all had buggier, more sluggish interfaces at launch. Today, though, all of them are far more full-featured, and all let you natively install updates — though as of this review, Claw still expected you to navigate to 台中收購筆電msi’s website and download important bits manually or wait for Windows Update to deliver the goods. (The company added native 台中收購筆電msi Center updates weeks after we published this story.)The 台中收購筆電msi Claw vs. the Steam Deck. They’re roughly the same thickness, though the Deck’s joysticks are taller and there’s more grip underneath.The 台中收購筆電msi Claw isn’t the worst handheld gaming PC I’ve ever touched. Years ago, I played with some that didn’t even deserve a review, handhelds so poorly thought out and narrowly marketed I didn’t feel the need to warn you. But stores like Best Buy actually carry the 台中收購筆電msi Claw — and in the current crop of competing handhelds, it’s the worst buy of them all.Photography by Sean Hollister / The VergeCorrection, May 20th: An earlier version of this review stated that we used “the” updated graphics driver that was supposed to improve framerates, but a newer update was been brought to our attention that may improve framerates further.Update, June 8th: We have now tested updates that came out in late May, but they did not make enough of a difference. Also added that 台中收購筆電msi now offers driver updates through 台中收購筆電msi Center.See More: EntertainmentGamingNewsPC GamingTechMore in this streamSee allThere’s some news coming about a new handheld…Jay PetersMar 31Com

記者蘇晟彥／專訪

在今年COMPUTEX（台北國際電腦展）後，全世界颳起的AI浪潮襲捲到台灣，各種AI相關應用、產品紛紛出爐，讓台灣成為國際矚目的「AI焦點」。其中，「AI PC」這個概念正式走入消費者的面前，被稱作AI PC元年的2024，許多人儘管聽過，但仍然對於這個新名詞一知半解。對此，微星科技筆電事業部全球業務暨行銷副總經理陳禮群說，「微星2022年已經發現AI將會對整個市場產生重大變革，早一步領先同業開始投入」，憑藉著這股觀察力，讓微星在AI PC元年就成為許多廠商開發技術首發合作的夥伴，更端出多款AI PC持續成為消費者信賴品牌。

▼陳禮群在專訪時強調，「微星已經做好準備，提供給消費者最多元的AI PC選項」。（圖／品牌提供）

到底什麼叫做AI PC？陳禮群這樣解釋，如果要用比較精確定義來說，「有NPU或是獨立顯卡的機種，我們就會稱作它 『AI PC』」如同以往消費者所之，在筆電中CPU是負責處理電腦的程式、顯卡則是負責圖形運算，這幾年冒出了一個叫做NPU （Neural-network Processing Unit）的名詞，在中文上會稱它為「神經處理單元」。NPU在AI應用扮演重要角色，如果需要大量生成式的應用，就會使用到NPU，通常算力越強就代表這台AI PC的效能越強，越能更快速的將需要的資料給生成出來。

「其實說穿了，所謂AI就是以前所說自動化的程式」

陳禮群回憶到，微星在2018、20年的時候，就開始陸陸續續推出一些像是遊戲優化、創作生產相關的應用程式，只是當時「AI」這個名詞並未被大量使用。他指出，其實像是當時微星有很多For Gamer的電競筆電，當你打遊戲打開時，就會自動針對電腦的效能，將可用的效能自動開啟、用不到的東西讓程式關掉，這些其實就是所謂AI的前身，而這些程式會誕生的前提，就是微星想要給消費者一個最舒適、最優質的使用體驗。

憑藉著這股「消費者至上」的想法，微星開始注意到「自動化」將會是未來市場的趨勢，在2022年就決定大量投入到相關的研究開發，當時更提出了一個「奇異點」（Singularity）的概念，他們知道當時這個「自動化」的程式，一定會像工業革命時的蒸汽機一樣，讓科技產生一個非常大的躍進，消費者的使用習慣將會大大改變。果不其然，微星領先的同業幾乎4、5年的時間好好的鑽研這項技術，從2022年率先喊出「Meta Ready」，而在2024 COMPUTEX上，AI的概念真的被大量提出，應證了微星洞察先機的優勢。

這次，微星又憑藉著對於消費者的瞭解，以及對於市場的敏銳度，再度在AI的議題上領先著。

▼微星從2018年就已經領先同業在AI方面開始佈局。

除了敏銳的洞察力外，陳禮群也點出微星之所以受到青睞的原因，他說，「不管是消費者或是合作夥伴，都非常看重我們可以立即到達市場這件事」，每當有新技術、新硬體，微星能因為有著自家工廠，能最快速的將這些功能應用在生產鏈中，成為第一個生產、第一個到達市面，這些都是讓Intel、NVIDIA這些顯卡大廠如此信賴的原因。

在持續提升品牌影響力的同時，微星也不忘提升消費者服務體驗的初衷，在AI資訊爆炸的年代，開始思考怎樣的AI應用能幫助到他們提升工作效率，卻又不會讓機敏資料洩漏，陳禮群笑著說，「當初AI開始出現的時候，就有人大膽預言未來將會出現許多『咒語師』，必須學會對AI下達各種咒語指令」但這些畢竟是他們的專長，最重要的是必須要讓消費者能夠輕易使用，因此圍繞在「安全性」、「易用性」及「效能性」三大原則，台中收購筆電msi AI Chat、台中收購筆電msi AI Artist 等等的AI應用程式也順應而生。

在台中收購筆電msi提供的眾多AI功能中，有許多都是不需要連接網路就可以執行，這些功能打破以往在雲端運行，回到地端確保消費者的隱私、資料能更安全的被保護，透過自動生成文本、自動問答、找尋檔案等等，實現私人AI助理的可能，讓工作時間大幅縮短，能多出更多自由時間享受生活。

▼從商務、創作者到遊戲，微星提供最多元的AI 筆電選項。

而在今年IFA（柏林消費電子展）上，微星一共推出了八款符合微軟Copilot+ PC定義的新一世代AI 筆電，分別是四款搭載Intel Lunar Lake處理器的Prestige 13 AI+ Evo、Prestige 14 AI+ Evo、Prestige 16 AI+ Evo、Summit 13 AI+ Evo和搭載AMD Strix Point處理器的Stealth A16 AI+、Prestige A16 AI+、Summit A16 AI+、Creator A16 AI+，不管是針對影音創作、圖像編輯，又或者是商業的專業人士，都一定能找到一款符合自身需求的筆電。

陳禮群也點出，根據IDC 、Canalys、Gartner等等研究機構的資料顯示，AI PC在市場上的占比越來越重，在2027年將會達到40%的驚人比例，未來將會是AI PC的天下，從另外一面看，今年開始陸陸續續推出的AI PC，更加應證「AI PC元年」的大門已經被打開。他也向許多對於AI PC抱持著觀望態度的消費者解釋，其實AI PC並不是一個為了去銷售筆電而誕生的新名詞，只要電腦有著GPU、NPU，能夠自動去生成一些資料，就能稱得上「AI PC」，所以其實很多人現在就已經在使用AI PC，用著很多程式來加速工作效率，只是自己渾然不知。

最後他很堅定地說，「微星已經做好準備，我們已經規劃出全方位的選擇提供給消費者」，不管是Gaming、Content Creation、Business & Productivity，一定能找到一款符合自身需求的AI PC。

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