MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo A2VM
Specifications
Primary Camera: 2 MPix
Price comparison
Average of 3 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo A2VM
Source: PC World
The MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo is a thin-and-light 13-inch 2-in-1 with an attractive design and great battery life. These traits will appeal to shoppers who don’t need a high-performance PC but do want outstanding battery life that may allow use over multiple days without needing a charge. The Summit 13 AI+ Evo’s lackluster performance is certainly a downside and it makes the laptop harder to recommend, as 14-inch competitors often deliver a better balance of portability and performance. If battery life is your number one priority, though, the Summit 13 AI+ Evo should be on your list.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/27/2025
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Laptop Media
The MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo A2VM performs very well for a 2-in-1 laptop. Its dual-fan thermal system with two heat pipes cools the Core Ultra 7 258V respectably well, given the thin chassis. The CPU sustains a high 2.73 GHz / 3.19 GHz P and LP-E core clock in long loads. This leads to good overall snapiness. The iGPU also packs a punch, and it’s nitrocharged by the fast LPDDR5x-8533 MHz RAM. The build quality is mind-blowingly solid. The metal device and its dark finish have some weaknesses, like the non-fingeprint coating and, yes, you can’t open the lid with one hand. On the flip side, the keyboard is great for long hours of typing, and the touchpad amazes us with its smoothness and accuracy.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 02/27/2025
Source: Laptop Mag
There are plenty of reasons to recommend the Summit 13 AI+ Evo. It offers almost 17-hours of battery life, dependable performance, a bright display, a satisfying keyboard, sturdy hinges, and it comes with 2TB of storage space and a stylus for just $1,599. While we would be griping about that price if this were a consumer model, the inflated price tag is pretty common for business and professional laptops. And if you’re going to use the Summit 13 as your work laptop and work laptop only, it’s a strong contender. But if you want to use the Summit 13 AI+ Evo as your personal laptop that you sometimes use for work, we would advise against it.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/08/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Welt
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/29/2025
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Geeknetic
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/13/2025
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: High performance; great ergonomics; metal case; nice webcam; fast SSD storage; long battery life; slim size; light weight; excellent iGPU; good cooling system. Negative: Hard to upgrade; noisy under loads; expensive.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 02/27/2025
Comment
Intel Arc 140V: A pretty fast integrated graphics adapter that higher-end Intel Lunar Lake family processors employ. This is a direct successor to the Arc 8; it can drive three SUHD 4320p monitors simultaneously via HDMI 2.1, eDP 1.5 and DP 2.1. With the 140V, all 2023 and 2024 games are playable at 1080p on low graphics settings.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Core Ultra 7 258V: An upper mid-range Lunar Lake family processor. It sports 4 new Skymont E-cores and 4 new Lion Cove P-cores running at up to 3.7 GHz and 4.8 GHz respectively, along with the new Arc 140V iGPU and 32 GB of on-package LPDDR5x-8533 RAM. It essentially matches the Core Ultra 7 165U and Core i7-1360P in multi-thread performance and it eats up to 37 W when under short-term workloads.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.30":
There are hardly any tablets in this display size range anymore. For subnotebooks, on the other hand, it is the standard format.
The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small and therefore easily portable. The smaller display also has the advantage of requiring less power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is more strenuous on the eyes. High resolutions are more likely to be found in standard laptops.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.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.
78.33%: 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.
