MSI Katana 17 Series

MSI Katana 17 B13VFK

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Average Score: 76% - good

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How to open MSI Katana 17 (B12V) - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2023

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How to open MSI Katana 17 (B12V) - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2023

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76% Geek Review: MSI Katana 17 Gaming Laptop
Source: Geek Culture
A great pick for gaming, but not so much for everything else. The MSI Katana 17 shows great promise at becoming one of the sharpest blades on the market, but ultimately falls short of its potential with an underwhelming display performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/03/2023
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 70% performance: 70% workmanship: 85%

76% Geek Review: MSI Katana 17 Gaming Laptop
Source: Geek Culture
A great pick for gaming, but not so much for everything else. The MSI Katana 17 shows great promise at becoming one of the sharpest blades on the market, but ultimately falls short of its potential with an underwhelming display performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/03/2023
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 70% performance: 70% workmanship: 85%

MSI Katana 17 B12VFK

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[REVIEW] MSI Katana 17 (B12V) - MSI is fighting for the budget crown
Source: Laptop Media
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/13/2023

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MSI Katana 17 (B12V) review – affordable notebook with a MUX switch
Source: Laptop Media
As a gaming notebook in 2023, the Katana 17 (B12V) is fairly competitively priced. It offers wide configuration options based on capable GPUs from NVIDIA’s RTX 4000 roster. It’s worth mentioning that its RTX 4060 didn’t manage to fill its 105W TGP limit, but it ran pretty close with 85W detected by GPU-Z during full load. For all performance-based tests, we used the Extreme Performance preset through the MSI Center. Interestingly, there is a function that allows the use of a battery-saving display mode, which runs the screen at 60Hz. As a result, the device offers 6 hours and 30 minutes of Web browsing, or 5 hours and 30 minutes of video playback – about 50% better than the MSI Sword 17 (A12V), which lacks this function. MSI Katana 17 (B12V)’s IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and good contrast. Unfortunately, it covers only 51% of the sRGB color gamut, and has slow pixel response times, despite the 144Hz refresh rate. On the bright side, the panel doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/26/2023

How to open MSI Katana 17 (B12V) - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2023

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MSI Katana 17 B13VGK

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BEST Price for an RTX 4070 Laptop with 32GB of RAM! MSI Katana 17 B13V
Source: Ben G Kaiser
In this video, I'm going to go through a complete review of the performance, screen, user experience, and best use case of the MSI Katana 17 B13V. This laptop is packed with performance and at currently (as of the recording of this video) priced at $1,299. For an RTX 4070, i7-13620H CPU, and 32GB of RAM that is an incredible price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/20/2023

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Обзор игрового ноутбука MSI Katana 17 B13VGK-471RU: я — твой Клинок Фронтира
Source: 3DNews.ru RU→EN
Positive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; big screen; good cooling system; nice display. Negative: Average battery life; no Thunderbolt port.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/28/2023

Обзор ноутбука MSI Katana 17 B13VGK-471RU: обновленная модель известной игровой серии
Source: Ixbt RU→EN
Positive: Great display; big screen; excellent battery life; nice gaming performance. Negative: Mediocre connectivity.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/04/2023

MSI Katana 17 B12UDXK

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Average Score: 70% - average

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70% Recenzja MSI Katana 17. Duży i wydajny laptop nie musi kosztować fortuny
Source: Android.com.pl PL→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/28/2024
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 60%

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MSI: Micro-Star International (MSI) was founded in 1986 in Taiwan. MSI is especially known as a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards for PCs, but also offers computer accessories, complete systems, motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktop PCs, monitors and other components. However, the Microstar brand name in Germany belongs to the Medion company. MSI is known for its gaming products and has developed a wide range of gaming laptops and desktop PCs. The company is also active in workstations, servers and industrial automation. MSI has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.

NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost). 

NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost). 

With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU: Mid-range gaming laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA107 chip. Offers 2560 shaders and is offered in different TGP (power consumption) variants from 35 to 80 Watt with different clock speeds and therefore performance. Refresh of the RTX 3050 with 6GB, higher shader count but a reduced memory bandwidth of 96Bit.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Raptor Lake-H:

i7-13620H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 16 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.8 to 4.9 GHz and supports vPro.

Intel Alder Lake-P:

i7-12650H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 16 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.7 to 4.7 GHz and supports vPro.

i5-12450H: Alde Lake based mobile CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.5 to 4.4 GHz and supports vPro.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.6 kg:

With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.

2.759 kg:

76.03%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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