LAPTOP ❘ £1,499 from Currys www.snipca.com/54680
MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo A2VM
Sweetness and light
The first thing that caught our attention with this laptop was how light it is. MSI quotes it as 990g, but it came up at 967g on our scales. Either way, you’ll barely notice it if you need to carry it around in a rucksack. MSI achieves this with a magnesium-aluminium chassis that’s as durable as it is light. It should stay looking smart well beyond the life of the one-year warranty.
Inside there’s an Intel Core Ultra 9 288V processor, which is more powerful than the Core Ultra 7 in our current favourite laptop – Asus Vivobook 16 Flip (£1,300 from www. snipca.com/54366,reviewed in Issue 708) – and, unsurprisingly, it performed better in our benchmark tests.