Promo €749 Light and equipped with a GeForce RTX 4060, this MSI Thin A15 gaming laptop PC sees its price drop to less than €750 this Saturday (+€70 in FNAC prize pool)

Our opinion on the MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR

Easy to transport for a gaming laptop MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR thin and light is suitable for recent games thanks to its high-end GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing NVIDIA Ada Lovelace graphics card. This GPU accelerates multimedia processing like the AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS Hexa Core Rembrandt Refresh processor and the 16 GB of efficient RAM but also the fast 512 GB SSD storage which increases responsiveness. This dark Windows 11 laptop designed for playing and creating also features a 15.6-inch IPS Full HD anti-glare screen which improves fluidity in games thanks to its 144Hz frequency, a backlit keyboard and even connectivity. Wi-Fi 6E.

Features of the MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR

The MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR faces the competition

The MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR is currently in promotion at Darty and positions itself as one of the cheapest in its category to be so light while offering such a recent and powerful processor, with Windows included.

If this MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR does not meet all your criteria, you will find in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.

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Chassis, connectors, screen of the MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR

Cooled by Cooler Boost technology, this versatile, gamer- and creative-oriented laptop has a relatively sober look for a gamer model whose codes it adopts through its dark Cosmos Gray design with angular lines and connectors positioned partly at the back.

This creative gaming laptop PC offers good connectivity with its USB-C, its Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E ax wireless modules to communicate and connect remotely, its useful HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or a monitor for example, its Ethernet and audio ports or its 3 USBs including 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) guaranteeing transfers up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if peripherals USB 3.0 are connected to it.

When you need to better discern the keys, you can activate the backlighting of the chiclet keyboard.
On the other hand, we notice the absence of a numeric keypad although this functionality is standard from 15 inches to easily enter numbers.

Gamers will appreciate the screen's 144Hz refresh rate since it provides better overall fluidity, including in games, than the standard 60Hz.
The Full HD screen is suitable for videos due to its 16:9 format and benefits from significant viewing angles, both horizontally and vertically.
As it is anti-reflective, the screen ensures better visibility in a bright environment (e.g. outdoors) than a shiny panel.

Performance, autonomy of the MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR

The MSI Thin A15 B7VF-253FR is aimed at those looking for a thin and light versatile laptop that performs well in gaming and creation.

You can play recent games on this gaming laptop PC since it features the dedicated high-end GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing graphics card with NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture.
Be careful, however: some concessions are necessary for the most demanding titles in 3D resources since the TDP of the GeForce RTX 4060 is below average here, which limits performance.

Gamers will be delighted with the performance of the GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing.
And creative people too because it provides graphic acceleration of processing under software using it, such as the Adobe suite, Vegas or VSDC.

In fact, the GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing is activated/deactivated automatically and in real time by Optimus technology. She is called upon to carry out graphics processing deemed too heavy for the Radeon 660M.

Whether with the Radeon 660M or the GeForce RTX 4060 you can obviously watch photos and videos. The Radeon 660M, whose performance is much lower, is favored as much as possible by Optimus because it consumes little energy, which promotes autonomy.
In this area while waiting for more concrete tests, count on around 5 hours of battery operation in light use.

It's the AMD processor Ryzen 5 7535HS Hexa Core Rembrandt Refresh which houses the Radeon 660M within it. It comes with 16 GB of RAM to provide solid general performance that will satisfy a maximum of users.

The GeForce RTX 4060 is well supported in games by this core which will also interest creators since the Ryzen 5 7535HS provides faster processing than a Quad Core. We clearly feel the difference in work requiring CPU and RAM resources using multi-cores, such as video editing, photo editing or 3D rendering.

MSI offers a 512 GB SSD for storage, like many models on the market.
However, if additional space is needed, an external storage module can be used. In this case, favoring a USB 3.0/USB-C device represents an interesting option for obtaining fast transfers.

In practice, the SSD contributes greatly to the good responsiveness and fluidity of the laptop.
On a daily basis this translates in particular into a rapid arrival on the online game cards, as well as the launches of games/software, processing, starts/stops.

Finally, ensure that this thin and light versatile gaming laptop, as easy to transport as an Ultrabook and geared towards creation, heats up and makes itself heard when pushed hard (e.g. games, treatments).
A ventilated support can be used in addition to limit the temperatures of this mobile computer (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).