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Thought so. Does the Z17 exhibit the same throttling when used on battery observed with older Windows laptops previously reviewed on DPR? I have been in the PC segment for years and my home desktop is ridiculously high spec, yet I went with an M1 Max MacBook Pro and I get awesome performance on batter and really long battery life. In the end though it is still an MSI and won’t likely last anywhere near as long as the MacBook, before breaking down and hitting end of life.

There are also expensive PCs made of good parts with good quality, but I am not sure this huge MSI is one of such machines. Glad to see that more and more manufacturers return to productive designs replacing the bottom bezel by real estate!. We didn’t have a single choice for 15 long years. What on earth did you people do pre-M-chips, less than two years ago? Did you just not use Intel Mac laptops because under any heavy load the battery would die too fast, or did you – shock, horror – carry around the power adaptor and – whisper it – plug in to the wall?

Or perhaps the fans were too loud for you? And let’s not even get in to how much they cost for the performance you got. The tools we can choose from are amazing these days. Just choose whichever is best for you, but don’t discount the others without evidence or reason. Some of the M-chip laptops are great, some are awful.

Not difficult. For sure. Is that progress? Awful keyboards? No headphone jack on phones and iPads? Apple has its fair share of considerable issues, which people tend to give them a free pass for, are counter to ease and pleasure of using the expensive devices, and they often backtrack on years later. It’s not falling back on battery life at all. No, you likely want all your laptop’s performance even on battery life and this thing cannot match the MacBook Pro in most areas of creative processing.

StoneJack – Nope. Easy to understand? Oh and a couple of iPod Shuffles. But thanks for the four word contribution. For me, Windows plus Intel and Nvidia are hands down the best choices in You can run software that M-chips either seriously struggle or are incompatible with, and you can get more powerful machines for a fraction of the cost of Macs. So yeah. Fuzzy: You are talking about the ideal – a fantasy – of laptop use.

The reality is, because they are a convenient “all in one” machine, plenty powerful, and many people’s only computer, they are often used at home, connected to a monitor, or taken to the office and back each weekday, and left plugged in to the wall in both cases. If you desperately need really long battery life and are willing to sacrifice other things for that as your priority, working for example in remote shooting situations like news, sports, wildlife photography etc, then yeah, go Mac.

But most people, for most use cases, would save a tonne of cash for a more powerful and versatile machine by going Windows this year. I watched a couple of videos on YouTube the other day – One about two professional animators creating a film using Unreal Engine 5, and another behind-the-scenes tour of a Japanese knife factory.

Guess what? Both using Windows. It works and people use it. Just because Marques Brownlee isn’t rocking the latest Windows laptop “drop” in his big ol’ heavy Peak Designs bag, doesn’t mean all Windows machines are useless. Anyway, whatever you say, market is thinking differently : Apple market share and shipments grew last quarter, but most PC makers’ share fell. For your information, I own both Macs and PC, which has prev. StoneJack: Take a look at power consumption for real world tasks, and then calculate the differences in yearly costs – or lifetime costs.

We talk about peanuts. If you buy more expensive laptop to save money on power, you will be really disappointed by how much money you wasted for almost nothing. Magnar, on contrary I am buying not very expensive notebooks, but with best price performance ratio. I could buy a very powerful notebook but with expensive GPU but that would burn battery very quickly and you know that top performance in such notebook will require power adaptor and it drops when on battery.

So why you would buy an expensive PC notebook if you have to use it stationary on power? On contrary, Mac will provide adequate performance with M1 and will not drop performance on battery at all. This thing looks hilarious inside. What a mess. I wonder if they all look different inside, like diy projects. That inside shot made me smile too. Whatever your allegiances are PC or Mac, Apple do make their innards as pretty as the outside.

Do you prefer one maker that don’t want you to open the machine and is proprietary with everything, or competitive choices from many makers? Except for this, compare in the same price range. I have seen lots of students struggejed with underpowered macs, caused by limited budgets and strong brand loyality, and have experienced cheap pc laptops running for more than fifteen years, also used a lot for controlling telescopes at minus twenty degrees Celsius.

Alder lake is highly inefficient for mobile, the only exception is xps 15 which uses firmware trick to underclock it when unplugged. All alder lake laptops suffer from worse battery life, the P and H series. Not loud. Next to silent in normal use. Normal fan whooshing sounds when rendering something like a Blender project, but then, try doing that on an M-chip Mac and see how long it takes in comparison. Battery life is fine when not under heavy loads.

Can easily get 5 or 6 hours out of it which is absolutely good enough. See my other posts about why battery life isn’t actually a big deal. You forgot to mention power, and price. Ryzen is much slower 8 cores vs 14 cores – go online and check any reviews and comparisons of the two , and not available still for many models Legion 5, for example. Nice try though. Thanks for the “warning” with zero evidence to back up those silly claims.

Everybody and his dog knows that Alder lake chips burn battery like no other, run hot and are no efficient. One advantage of the gamers is that RAM is easily upgraded – just open a nice cover provided, vs. So for many of us, and if willing to put up with the appearance and Windows itself which never moves the dial from its clumsy origins, sure, the gamer way is going to be financially much better.

I continue to use one of those, keep it going and hardware improved ssd, added memory, a few parts replaced for most of a decade in serious work. Right now, I’m typing on a modern iPad, Air 4 with their keyboard, and it is simply wonderful. If I were a photo professional, I don’t think I’d look for less than the very considerable advantages Apple has for the overall experience of using their OS and machines. StoneJack – Again. Hello MacBook Air M2 temps. My H runs about 30c cooler, absolutely maximum CPU temp.

Please stop saying things with zero evidence. You are correct RE: screen colour and webcam. Not portable, but an option. It is p, nits, Hz and is definitely one of the better Windows laptop screens out there. I think as all-round powerful laptops which can run anything, “gamer” ones like mine are definitely the way to go. It really is built well and the only small sacrifice is not having that top-level colour accurate screen.

I purposefully chose the white version as it has a blue backlit keyboard with no RGB at all. And yes, easy upgrades is a huge plus with Windows laptops. I have 1TB M. You’re right. If you’re only doing photo and video work and some Adobe suite stuff, Apple might be the best choice for simplicity and power balanced in a well-built unit obviously not the new base-spec M2 laptops though.

But you would spend much more for similar performance. What I want to open people up to, is the fact you can get incredibly powerful and incredibly good value Windows machines, which run more software, and run most things faster, than the Mac laptops. I looked at the M1 MacBook Pro 14 and 16 and could not justify the cost, vs the better price and performance on the Lenovo Legion. Plus, they simply won’t run some 3D software well at all, which I am very interested in learning.

The M1 Max is an all around better choice for a laptop. It also has higher build quality. People trying to cite the power of the mobile Nvidia chips ignore the fact that they do suck up a lot of power compared to the M1 Max. It does excellent with image editing and other productivity or art related tools.

Plus the operating system is just better than Windows overall. And why is this so? Or they make a living supporting Microsoft Products in some way. Yeah, that’s me! Then you realize that Microsoft’s products are not great and their overreach is even worse. If you’ve ever had a Microsoft patch cut off your client machines with a bad update, you tend to understand it is a clown show. Or had Microsoft push bad patches to your clients so that you get random complaints about the slowdown and locking up, then you know they’re not adequately vetting their updates.

You can put pilot groups in place, but you don’t always catch the issues until every machine has it. Oh and don’t get me started on the fact that they obsoleted processors with 16 cores for some random mythical feature set. Yeah, you can install it on any machine you want, but support is a different issue with a half-baked Mac Os Rip Off like Windows VIM is not the most user-friendly function and using that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when there are easier options out there.

But yes, you’re right, they will get stuck and end up with a prompt at the bottom, filled with gibberish. After that, review your file using less or more. It’s really not that difficult. I’m surprised they didn’t make it a convertible- having the screen fold around, to easily use it as a large drawing tablet would make the most of this advantage.

But this, the pen covering ports, and that messy interior makes me think they gathered together useful parts, but still need a more holistic vision of what they want to make. Making something that is more than the sum of it’s parts is what Apple’s best at. Buy any of them and it will get the work done. And no, nobody will have two or more and run them to the same task with a stopwatch in hand. These high end ones, well, they work. No kidding They all get the job done, but there are differences.

If you spend a bit of time unplugged, then performance hits on battery and battery life become crucial. Just one example. No need to spend silly money on a 16″ Max.

Also, agree about expensive laptops. Serious diminishing returns. Huge waste of money for the “top tier” ones which actually don’t perform much faster, if at all. If you spend a lot of time away from a desktop screen, then the 16″ model makes a lot of sense. Not always about speed. If you really want to test the video chops of these machines you would run PugetBench for Davinci Resolve. DR noise reduction is the real test. An incredibly ugly chunk of oversized metal as per most PC’s out there using the Windows platform.

So unappealing! It even has the audacity to have a good selection of ports and good cooling. I mean, what is wrong with the world? Deal breaker. Touchpad centered in the middle beneath the extended keyboard? Not for me – I have a 17″ LG Gram that I love except that it does the same thing with touchpad placement – it’s very awkward in use; mostly I deactivate it. My opinion is that a 17″ laptop touchpad should instead be centered beneath the letter keys.

Or better yet, dispense with the numerical keypad – I almost never use it. I have an external USB numerical keypad that works better when I need it. Or I can use a full external keyboard. And that is what the new Macs are good for, spot on. Photoshop and Final Cut. Good luck with any 3D apps like Unreal or Houdini. I have to laugh regarding jumping on the apple m1 bandwagon. I just upgraded to the M1 MacBook Pro. I am a graphic designer and photographer.

The fact that they have to name a laptop creator to get attention is a flag. Or just buy a computer that is more powerful and cheaper than your Mac but also not branded for “creatives”. Not hard, eh? Also your final sentence makes no sense, and anyone with an interest in computers knows of MSI, although they’re not a great brand. Loads of the parts inside your Taiwanese laptop will be made in China. I bought a Lenovo and it’s been good so far. Im sure some of is, but its the best I can do.

Upgradability is nice, and it’s actually not so hard to disassemble and reassemble it, it’s nothing like replacing the battery of Surface Pro 7 for example, which is a nightmare in comparison. As someone that’ll never use a macbook. But MS windows? Also extra thin laptops I think are always a compromise on Fixit and upgradablity.

My last 3 laptops have been MSI’s and they have all been incredibly easy to swap parts. With Macs you just use the tools – you don’t have to know the registry mess under the windows hood. Nowadays, you rarely have to mess with the registry. I have never visited the registry on my 1 year old XPS I am in the process of adding a 2nd SSD and doubling the memory. It has survived the upgrade to Win11 just fine.

Its usually those people who want to constantly tweak Windows behavior that spend time in the registry.

Stop trying to block things and just do your work. I am jumping in merely because this should be an essential part of the review consideration particularly when saying that it competes favorably with M1, making that false.

I am glad the machine works for you. Now which one is the “tool” that actually works? The M1 Macs run x86 code surprisingly well of all sorts. Even low level things like printer drivers which admittedly surprised me. But of course we have plenty of native Apple silicon tools and Apps now, particularly for both photography and video which is the context of this website.

I haven’t had to go into the registry on any of the windows systems i manage not even the exchange server. I mean I get that M1 users want to factor in battery life.. Heck you can get a plug in at starbucks, etc these days without a problem. So while the review should have had something in there, there are a ton of use cases where it really doesn’t matter. First it not just the battery life but the fact we are seeing the M1 still beating this chip particularly in the 16” configuration dpreview tested, that you can also have at 14” or a 16” config with 24 GPU cores and the MAX bandwidth chip.

But I want to be clear- I don’t mind dpreview finds this a good laptop for Windows owners or as you say- those who don’t need much of a battery. My objection is the general conclusion that this laptop puts a good fight to M1 where “steals Apple’s thunder” because it does not, and I point out why.

Even if there are many who wouldn’t be using mainly a laptop on battery and rely on its battery as a “built in backup UPS. Be that as it may – the Z17 has an operating system called ‘Windows’, doesn’t it? Thanks for the fallen fruit.

Yeah that picture almost shocked me. It looks like a DIY laptop from 20 years ago. All the rest is hidden. I could not see the memory, the chief HD, and the battery seems molded to the space available. I gave up to up grade the memory and the chief HD. Francis Sawyer – DPR is the only site that reviews computers from an image-editing perspecive. I would love it if they reviewed every single computer suitable for image editing – and wish they could add sections to their reviews dedicated to video-editing as well since everyone with a cell phone seems to be interested in uploading videos to YouTube these days.

DPR’s resources permitting, of course. But my experiences have been negative. I also love the idea that i never have to screw around with drivers. I despise that. At least I have worked long term with parallel use of both platforms for work, and can’t say that one is superior to the other. Some obviously have a hard time when reading such a message At least I don’t need to construct anecdotes about “others having constantly trouble” to support my view on the two platforms.

Unfortunately, they are not constructed anecdotes – and only the stubborn have something to object to personal experiences, especially when these personal experiences are clearly marked as such. Well, such claims don’t add much to statistics on user experience and satisfaction, neither for computers nor for cameras or other electronic consumer products.

Magnar, you seem to really have difficulty with people expressing opinions. You have yours and i have mine. We obviously have different experiences or weigh those experiences with different value systems.

Simonella: I don’t see a problem with different opinions or experiences, but I see a major problem with anecdotes, especially when used to support personal taste and brand bias. But when the anecdotes strongly point you in one direction, it feels very conclusive to me.

And i respect that. Not one size fits all. Simonella – One isn’t better than the other, and there are better and worse products on both sides. Windows can be a hassle, but for about 5 years the MacBook Pro pre M chip offerings were really subpar with pointless TouchBars, next to no ports, no MagSafe, and keyboard issues. If you are happy with your Mac, fine, but for me, they can’t run the software I want to try, or if they can, they run it very poorly compared with much cheaper Windows laptops.

So, pointless buying a Mac, for me. They will sink your machine. But then if you want all-day battery and a sleek design, then sure, go Mac. But it’ll cost much more than a Windows machine which is just as fast. Horrendous battery life. Serious performace hit when running just on battery This plagues all Intel based laptops and not just MSI.

Fit and finish resembles last generation Dell Latitudes. Writer still kept the straight face and said it will steal apple’s thunder. Clickbait, to say the least. RTX30XX yes, a reason for the socket. But it is faster and has the better monitor.

I have a socket everywhere and yes, my Ipad pro lasts a long time and I like to take it with me. One clear advantage of the MacBook Pro is the incomparable resale value.

Good luck selling MSI in 2 years. Completely depends on your use case. I’d be curious to see the performance benchmarks on battery power. And they mention battery life, but what is it? How bad? If battery life is your priority, get a Mac. Generally the powerful Windows laptops can hold on for about five hours. But do anything intense and you can easily cut that to one or two hours. How else will the people in the cafes know how much of a sick pro gamer I am? This is a great product.

Computers much like cameras are subject to continuous improvement more than an end state position. If like me you have invested in apple and some expensive software it makes no sense to change systems and workflows.

It allowed the m1 macbooks to performe excellent even for hours under heavy load and that even on battery. The performance leap was hardly comparable to any increase between any generation in the last 10 years or so.

It does change the fact that improvement is ecological with small or larger improvements over time. But the Intel emulation is not as good as Rosetta in macOS. Apple laptops are continually mistaking regular clicks for right-clicks because of this stupidity. Even worse, there’s no payoff: Apple inexplicably never made their vaunted Pencil work with their own computers’ trackpads.

I would expect Windows laptops with unavoidably large trackpads to suffer from the same problems The default Apple setting is to use two finger clicks for right click.

I’ve never heard of this “Apple laptops are continually mistaking regular clicks for right-clicks” problem. In fact the haptic technology in the apple trackpad is pretty incredible. My last Mack book pro I used for 9 years. I still have and use it occasionally.

I am confused about the conclusion in regards to video editing performance. According to your own chart, the Mac 16 is noticeably faster in 4 out of the 5 categories and is almost neck-n-neck in the fifth category. We are not even talking about performance penalty when running on battery. I know a lot of creatives who do editing when they are out of the office. This means they are running on battery. The only place that I see the MSI winning by a big margin is gaming.

Otherwise, it is not close at all. Well, you should be more confused about the title. THE key advantages of Apple silicon is its energy efficiency. SDPharm, you are right. A simple question mark at the end of the title would have fixed the problem. Because when it becomes a question, you wonder if it is true or not. I forgot to mention one other area that the PC has the advantage and that is 3D rendering.

Mac M1, even the most powerful one is no match for the Nvidia i graphics card when it comes to 3D rendering. I know first hand as we tried Maya on my son’s Mac Mini M1 and it was very slow.

The GPU in this machine is limited to 90w. It’s official range is 80 – w, but the laptop brands limit or boost them depending on the computer. So in this laptop it is on the lower end. I wouldn’t look at any of the performance charts, because this machine is a non-starter. Feed w to a Ti laptop and it will destroy the M-chips all day long.

I’m not sure what you meant by ‘destroy. Electric car range anxiety is bad enough Not trying to be too argumentative. I’m sure some folks would appreciate faster performance for certain tasks. But for me, as far as traveling and photography goes, I would rather trade the last bit of performance for much a longer battery life.

SDPharm — I am with you. As far as could tell the Nvidia graphic cards excel in gaming and 3D rendering vs. Mac M1s. Mac has no chance there. However, I do not do either of those things. For general photography and even video editing the equation goes the other way. Even if my Studio Max were slow which it is not I would take that for a little more speed and less of everything else. Well I’m not a fan of MSI and wouldn’t ever buy one for various reasons but there is one interesting thing to be seen in all of those benchmarks: Windows based high end Laptops offer a comparable performance for up to half the price, simply for the reason that you can expand them later while with Apple you have to buy their expensive memory and storage immediately.

So you can’t just buy less and expand later for quite cheap money, you need to buy more than you expect to need in a few years time right then and now. Which is a pity because for pure photo editing the SoC technology Apple is using is incredible fast. And they could make it work with expandable storage.

Not expandable RAM, though. Having the RAM on the same die as the processors has a lot to do with the performance improvements. Expandable SSD would make the machine thicker, which is a non-issue to a lot of people. As far as the connectors argument, it’s relative. Or better yet, just get a C to B cable for your peripheral and toss the A to B cable in the trash. Hopefully in the not distant future a lack of type A ports will finally be a non-issue. The latest external drives portables, at least , cameras, audio interfaces, etc.

The GPU in this MSI is not getting enough power, only 90w, when it’s capable of w or more, so actually the Windows laptops half the M1 Max laptop’s prices can be much more powerful for many tasks. This is not like the switch from serial and parallel port to USB in Today USB-A devices are so widespread and good enough for most tasks. It’s just that the C type connector is more convenient. Also almost everybody has a computer nowadays while at the end of the 90s many computer owners still had a certain level of skill and interest in the hardware.

There is just absolutely no way USB-A devices disappear as fast as the with switch back in the 90s and in business situations there is absolutely no excuse not to add an USB-A Port just for compatibility reasons. Nothing sucks more than being at a client and you can’t access the required data because you forgot your adapter.

This is just unprofessional for a device. Well it can’t get more power than that anyway. The big workstation notebooks have their thermal limit at about watts.

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Performance is essentially neck-and-neck with the equivalent MacBook Pro and far exceeds what we’ve seen from the 11th-Gen Intel and AMD Ryzen laptops we’ve tested. It’s not a perfect device. I’ve already griped about the high difficulty level of RAM upgrades, the mediocre battery life, gimmicky pen, and wonky factory calibrated display.

Taking into account that MSI is basically charging the same price as Apple for equivalent specs, and it drops the Creator Z17 down to 4 out of 5 stars. But if you were worried that nobody would seriously challenge Apple Silicon on the creative front for many years — as we were — it seems that those worries were misplaced. For users who value upgradability and gaming performance, it’s almost certainly the better buy.

This is a laptop first. This laptop is horrible when it comes to battery life. Don’t try making it sound better than it really is. It’s what many conveniently ignore. Sure, the performance is impressive. Now do it unplugged Thought so. Does the Z17 exhibit the same throttling when used on battery observed with older Windows laptops previously reviewed on DPR?

I have been in the PC segment for years and my home desktop is ridiculously high spec, yet I went with an M1 Max MacBook Pro and I get awesome performance on batter and really long battery life. In the end though it is still an MSI and won’t likely last anywhere near as long as the MacBook, before breaking down and hitting end of life.

There are also expensive PCs made of good parts with good quality, but I am not sure this huge MSI is one of such machines. Glad to see that more and more manufacturers return to productive designs replacing the bottom bezel by real estate!. We didn’t have a single choice for 15 long years.

What on earth did you people do pre-M-chips, less than two years ago? Did you just not use Intel Mac laptops because under any heavy load the battery would die too fast, or did you – shock, horror – carry around the power adaptor and – whisper it – plug in to the wall?

Or perhaps the fans were too loud for you? And let’s not even get in to how much they cost for the performance you got. The tools we can choose from are amazing these days. Just choose whichever is best for you, but don’t discount the others without evidence or reason. Some of the M-chip laptops are great, some are awful. Not difficult. For sure. Is that progress?

Awful keyboards? No headphone jack on phones and iPads? Apple has its fair share of considerable issues, which people tend to give them a free pass for, are counter to ease and pleasure of using the expensive devices, and they often backtrack on years later.

It’s not falling back on battery life at all. No, you likely want all your laptop’s performance even on battery life and this thing cannot match the MacBook Pro in most areas of creative processing.

StoneJack – Nope. Easy to understand? Oh and a couple of iPod Shuffles. But thanks for the four word contribution. For me, Windows plus Intel and Nvidia are hands down the best choices in You can run software that M-chips either seriously struggle or are incompatible with, and you can get more powerful machines for a fraction of the cost of Macs. So yeah. Fuzzy: You are talking about the ideal – a fantasy – of laptop use.

The reality is, because they are a convenient “all in one” machine, plenty powerful, and many people’s only computer, they are often used at home, connected to a monitor, or taken to the office and back each weekday, and left plugged in to the wall in both cases.

If you desperately need really long battery life and are willing to sacrifice other things for that as your priority, working for example in remote shooting situations like news, sports, wildlife photography etc, then yeah, go Mac.

But most people, for most use cases, would save a tonne of cash for a more powerful and versatile machine by going Windows this year. I watched a couple of videos on YouTube the other day – One about two professional animators creating a film using Unreal Engine 5, and another behind-the-scenes tour of a Japanese knife factory. Guess what? Both using Windows. It works and people use it. Just because Marques Brownlee isn’t rocking the latest Windows laptop “drop” in his big ol’ heavy Peak Designs bag, doesn’t mean all Windows machines are useless.

Anyway, whatever you say, market is thinking differently : Apple market share and shipments grew last quarter, but most PC makers’ share fell. For your information, I own both Macs and PC, which has prev. StoneJack: Take a look at power consumption for real world tasks, and then calculate the differences in yearly costs – or lifetime costs.

We talk about peanuts. If you buy more expensive laptop to save money on power, you will be really disappointed by how much money you wasted for almost nothing. Magnar, on contrary I am buying not very expensive notebooks, but with best price performance ratio. I could buy a very powerful notebook but with expensive GPU but that would burn battery very quickly and you know that top performance in such notebook will require power adaptor and it drops when on battery.

So why you would buy an expensive PC notebook if you have to use it stationary on power? On contrary, Mac will provide adequate performance with M1 and will not drop performance on battery at all.

This thing looks hilarious inside. What a mess. I wonder if they all look different inside, like diy projects. That inside shot made me smile too.

Whatever your allegiances are PC or Mac, Apple do make their innards as pretty as the outside. Do you prefer one maker that don’t want you to open the machine and is proprietary with everything, or competitive choices from many makers? Except for this, compare in the same price range. I have seen lots of students struggejed with underpowered macs, caused by limited budgets and strong brand loyality, and have experienced cheap pc laptops running for more than fifteen years, also used a lot for controlling telescopes at minus twenty degrees Celsius.

Alder lake is highly inefficient for mobile, the only exception is xps 15 which uses firmware trick to underclock it when unplugged. All alder lake laptops suffer from worse battery life, the P and H series. Not loud. Next to silent in normal use. Normal fan whooshing sounds when rendering something like a Blender project, but then, try doing that on an M-chip Mac and see how long it takes in comparison.

Battery life is fine when not under heavy loads. Can easily get 5 or 6 hours out of it which is absolutely good enough. See my other posts about why battery life isn’t actually a big deal. You forgot to mention power, and price. Ryzen is much slower 8 cores vs 14 cores – go online and check any reviews and comparisons of the two , and not available still for many models Legion 5, for example. Nice try though. Thanks for the “warning” with zero evidence to back up those silly claims. Everybody and his dog knows that Alder lake chips burn battery like no other, run hot and are no efficient.

One advantage of the gamers is that RAM is easily upgraded – just open a nice cover provided, vs. So for many of us, and if willing to put up with the appearance and Windows itself which never moves the dial from its clumsy origins, sure, the gamer way is going to be financially much better. I continue to use one of those, keep it going and hardware improved ssd, added memory, a few parts replaced for most of a decade in serious work.

Right now, I’m typing on a modern iPad, Air 4 with their keyboard, and it is simply wonderful. If I were a photo professional, I don’t think I’d look for less than the very considerable advantages Apple has for the overall experience of using their OS and machines.

StoneJack – Again. Hello MacBook Air M2 temps. My H runs about 30c cooler, absolutely maximum CPU temp. Please stop saying things with zero evidence. You are correct RE: screen colour and webcam. Not portable, but an option. It is p, nits, Hz and is definitely one of the better Windows laptop screens out there. I think as all-round powerful laptops which can run anything, “gamer” ones like mine are definitely the way to go.

It really is built well and the only small sacrifice is not having that top-level colour accurate screen. I purposefully chose the white version as it has a blue backlit keyboard with no RGB at all. And yes, easy upgrades is a huge plus with Windows laptops. I have 1TB M. You’re right. If you’re only doing photo and video work and some Adobe suite stuff, Apple might be the best choice for simplicity and power balanced in a well-built unit obviously not the new base-spec M2 laptops though.

But you would spend much more for similar performance. What I want to open people up to, is the fact you can get incredibly powerful and incredibly good value Windows machines, which run more software, and run most things faster, than the Mac laptops.

I looked at the M1 MacBook Pro 14 and 16 and could not justify the cost, vs the better price and performance on the Lenovo Legion. Plus, they simply won’t run some 3D software well at all, which I am very interested in learning. The M1 Max is an all around better choice for a laptop. It also has higher build quality.

People trying to cite the power of the mobile Nvidia chips ignore the fact that they do suck up a lot of power compared to the M1 Max. It does excellent with image editing and other productivity or art related tools.

Plus the operating system is just better than Windows overall. And why is this so? Or they make a living supporting Microsoft Products in some way. Yeah, that’s me! Then you realize that Microsoft’s products are not great and their overreach is even worse.

If you’ve ever had a Microsoft patch cut off your client machines with a bad update, you tend to understand it is a clown show. Or had Microsoft push bad patches to your clients so that you get random complaints about the slowdown and locking up, then you know they’re not adequately vetting their updates. You can put pilot groups in place, but you don’t always catch the issues until every machine has it.

Oh and don’t get me started on the fact that they obsoleted processors with 16 cores for some random mythical feature set. Yeah, you can install it on any machine you want, but support is a different issue with a half-baked Mac Os Rip Off like Windows VIM is not the most user-friendly function and using that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when there are easier options out there.

But yes, you’re right, they will get stuck and end up with a prompt at the bottom, filled with gibberish. After that, review your file using less or more. It’s really not that difficult. I’m surprised they didn’t make it a convertible- having the screen fold around, to easily use it as a large drawing tablet would make the most of this advantage.

But this, the pen covering ports, and that messy interior makes me think they gathered together useful parts, but still need a more holistic vision of what they want to make. Making something that is more than the sum of it’s parts is what Apple’s best at.

Buy any of them and it will get the work done. And no, nobody will have two or more and run them to the same task with a stopwatch in hand. These high end ones, well, they work. No kidding They all get the job done, but there are differences. If you spend a bit of time unplugged, then performance hits on battery and battery life become crucial.

Just one example. No need to spend silly money on a 16″ Max. Also, agree about expensive laptops. Serious diminishing returns. Huge waste of money for the “top tier” ones which actually don’t perform much faster, if at all. If you spend a lot of time away from a desktop screen, then the 16″ model makes a lot of sense. Not always about speed. If you really want to test the video chops of these machines you would run PugetBench for Davinci Resolve. DR noise reduction is the real test.

An incredibly ugly chunk of oversized metal as per most PC’s out there using the Windows platform. So unappealing! It even has the audacity to have a good selection of ports and good cooling. I mean, what is wrong with the world?

Deal breaker. Touchpad centered in the middle beneath the extended keyboard? Not for me – I have a 17″ LG Gram that I love except that it does the same thing with touchpad placement – it’s very awkward in use; mostly I deactivate it. My opinion is that a 17″ laptop touchpad should instead be centered beneath the letter keys. Or better yet, dispense with the numerical keypad – I almost never use it. I have an external USB numerical keypad that works better when I need it.

Or I can use a full external keyboard. And that is what the new Macs are good for, spot on. Photoshop and Final Cut. Good luck with any 3D apps like Unreal or Houdini. I have to laugh regarding jumping on the apple m1 bandwagon. I just upgraded to the M1 MacBook Pro. I am a graphic designer and photographer. The fact that they have to name a laptop creator to get attention is a flag.

Or just buy a computer that is more powerful and cheaper than your Mac but also not branded for “creatives”. Not hard, eh? Also your final sentence makes no sense, and anyone with an interest in computers knows of MSI, although they’re not a great brand.

Loads of the parts inside your Taiwanese laptop will be made in China. I bought a Lenovo and it’s been good so far. Im sure some of is, but its the best I can do. Upgradability is nice, and it’s actually not so hard to disassemble and reassemble it, it’s nothing like replacing the battery of Surface Pro 7 for example, which is a nightmare in comparison.

As someone that’ll never use a macbook. But MS windows? Also extra thin laptops I think are always a compromise on Fixit and upgradablity. My last 3 laptops have been MSI’s and they have all been incredibly easy to swap parts. With Macs you just use the tools – you don’t have to know the registry mess under the windows hood.

Nowadays, you rarely have to mess with the registry. I have never visited the registry on my 1 year old XPS I am in the process of adding a 2nd SSD and doubling the memory. It has survived the upgrade to Win11 just fine. Its usually those people who want to constantly tweak Windows behavior that spend time in the registry.

Stop trying to block things and just do your work. I am jumping in merely because this should be an essential part of the review consideration particularly when saying that it competes favorably with M1, making that false.

I am glad the machine works for you. Now which one is the “tool” that actually works? The M1 Macs run x86 code surprisingly well of all sorts. Even low level things like printer drivers which admittedly surprised me. But of course we have plenty of native Apple silicon tools and Apps now, particularly for both photography and video which is the context of this website. I haven’t had to go into the registry on any of the windows systems i manage not even the exchange server.

I mean I get that M1 users want to factor in battery life.. Heck you can get a plug in at starbucks, etc these days without a problem. So while the review should have had something in there, there are a ton of use cases where it really doesn’t matter. First it not just the battery life but the fact we are seeing the M1 still beating this chip particularly in the 16” configuration dpreview tested, that you can also have at 14” or a 16” config with 24 GPU cores and the MAX bandwidth chip.

But I want to be clear- I don’t mind dpreview finds this a good laptop for Windows owners or as you say- those who don’t need much of a battery. My objection is the general conclusion that this laptop puts a good fight to M1 where “steals Apple’s thunder” because it does not, and I point out why.

Even if there are many who wouldn’t be using mainly a laptop on battery and rely on its battery as a “built in backup UPS. Be that as it may – the Z17 has an operating system called ‘Windows’, doesn’t it? Thanks for the fallen fruit. Yeah that picture almost shocked me. It looks like a DIY laptop from 20 years ago. All the rest is hidden. I could not see the memory, the chief HD, and the battery seems molded to the space available.

I gave up to up grade the memory and the chief HD. Francis Sawyer – DPR is the only site that reviews computers from an image-editing perspecive.

I would love it if they reviewed every single computer suitable for image editing – and wish they could add sections to their reviews dedicated to video-editing as well since everyone with a cell phone seems to be interested in uploading videos to YouTube these days.

DPR’s resources permitting, of course. But my experiences have been negative. I also love the idea that i never have to screw around with drivers. I despise that. At least I have worked long term with parallel use of both platforms for work, and can’t say that one is superior to the other. Some obviously have a hard time when reading such a message At least I don’t need to construct anecdotes about “others having constantly trouble” to support my view on the two platforms.

Unfortunately, they are not constructed anecdotes – and only the stubborn have something to object to personal experiences, especially when these personal experiences are clearly marked as such. Well, such claims don’t add much to statistics on user experience and satisfaction, neither for computers nor for cameras or other electronic consumer products.

Magnar, you seem to really have difficulty with people expressing opinions. You have yours and i have mine. We obviously have different experiences or weigh those experiences with different value systems.

Simonella: I don’t see a problem with different opinions or experiences, but I see a major problem with anecdotes, especially when used to support personal taste and brand bias.

But when the anecdotes strongly point you in one direction, it feels very conclusive to me. And i respect that. Not one size fits all.

Simonella – One isn’t better than the other, and there are better and worse products on both sides. Windows can be a hassle, but for about 5 years the MacBook Pro pre M chip offerings were really subpar with pointless TouchBars, next to no ports, no MagSafe, and keyboard issues.

If you are happy with your Mac, fine, but for me, they can’t run the software I want to try, or if they can, they run it very poorly compared with much cheaper Windows laptops. So, pointless buying a Mac, for me. They will sink your machine. But then if you want all-day battery and a sleek design, then sure, go Mac.

But it’ll cost much more than a Windows machine which is just as fast. Horrendous battery life. Serious performace hit when running just on battery This plagues all Intel based laptops and not just MSI.

Fit and finish resembles last generation Dell Latitudes. Writer still kept the straight face and said it will steal apple’s thunder.

Clickbait, to say the least. RTX30XX yes, a reason for the socket. But it is faster and has the better monitor. I have a socket everywhere and yes, my Ipad pro lasts a long time and I like to take it with me. One clear advantage of the MacBook Pro is the incomparable resale value. Good luck selling MSI in 2 years. Completely depends on your use case. I’d be curious to see the performance benchmarks on battery power.

And they mention battery life, but what is it? How bad? If battery life is your priority, get a Mac. Generally the powerful Windows laptops can hold on for about five hours. But do anything intense and you can easily cut that to one or two hours.

How else will the people in the cafes know how much of a sick pro gamer I am? This is a great product. Computers much like cameras are subject to continuous improvement more than an end state position. If like me you have invested in apple and some expensive software it makes no sense to change systems and workflows. It allowed the m1 macbooks to performe excellent even for hours under heavy load and that even on battery. The performance leap was hardly comparable to any increase between any generation in the last 10 years or so.

It does change the fact that improvement is ecological with small or larger improvements over time. But the Intel emulation is not as good as Rosetta in macOS.

Apple laptops are continually mistaking regular clicks for right-clicks because of this stupidity. Even worse, there’s no payoff: Apple inexplicably never made their vaunted Pencil work with their own computers’ trackpads.

I would expect Windows laptops with unavoidably large trackpads to suffer from the same problems The default Apple setting is to use two finger clicks for right click. I’ve never heard of this “Apple laptops are continually mistaking regular clicks for right-clicks” problem. In fact the haptic technology in the apple trackpad is pretty incredible.

My last Mack book pro I used for 9 years. I still have and use it occasionally. I am confused about the conclusion in regards to video editing performance. According to your own chart, the Mac 16 is noticeably faster in 4 out of the 5 categories and is almost neck-n-neck in the fifth category. We are not even talking about performance penalty when running on battery.

I know a lot of creatives who do editing when they are out of the office. This means they are running on battery. The only place that I see the MSI winning by a big margin is gaming. Otherwise, it is not close at all.

Well, you should be more confused about the title. THE key advantages of Apple silicon is its energy efficiency. SDPharm, you are right. A simple question mark at the end of the title would have fixed the problem.

Because when it becomes a question, you wonder if it is true or not. I forgot to mention one other area that the PC has the advantage and that is 3D rendering. Mac M1, even the most powerful one is no match for the Nvidia i graphics card when it comes to 3D rendering. I know first hand as we tried Maya on my son’s Mac Mini M1 and it was very slow. The GPU in this machine is limited to 90w. It’s official range is 80 – w, but the laptop brands limit or boost them depending on the computer.

So in this laptop it is on the lower end. I wouldn’t look at any of the performance charts, because this machine is a non-starter. Feed w to a Ti laptop and it will destroy the M-chips all day long. I’m not sure what you meant by ‘destroy. Electric car range anxiety is bad enough Not trying to be too argumentative. I’m sure some folks would appreciate faster performance for certain tasks. But for me, as far as traveling and photography goes, I would rather trade the last bit of performance for much a longer battery life.

SDPharm — I am with you. As far as could tell the Nvidia graphic cards excel in gaming and 3D rendering vs. Mac M1s. Mac has no chance there.

However, I do not do either of those things. For general photography and even video editing the equation goes the other way. Even if my Studio Max were slow which it is not I would take that for a little more speed and less of everything else. Well I’m not a fan of MSI and wouldn’t ever buy one for various reasons but there is one interesting thing to be seen in all of those benchmarks: Windows based high end Laptops offer a comparable performance for up to half the price, simply for the reason that you can expand them later while with Apple you have to buy their expensive memory and storage immediately.

So you can’t just buy less and expand later for quite cheap money, you need to buy more than you expect to need in a few years time right then and now. Which is a pity because for pure photo editing the SoC technology Apple is using is incredible fast. And they could make it work with expandable storage. Not expandable RAM, though.

Having the RAM on the same die as the processors has a lot to do with the performance improvements. Expandable SSD would make the machine thicker, which is a non-issue to a lot of people. As far as the connectors argument, it’s relative. If you’ve taken multiple shots of a group, use the Photomerge Group Shot option to pick and choose the right shot of each person. For instructions, see Guided mode – Photomerge edits. Use the Text tool to add text to your photos.

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In theory, this new architecture should give 12th-Gen Intel laptops a boost in both performance and battery life, potentially giving Apple’s latest and inch MacBook Pros a bit of competition for creators’ hard-earned money. Our first chance to test this theory comes in the form adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free MSI’s Creator Z17 : a computer that’s targeted at creative types who want a PC laptop that doesn’t skimp on performance, design, or ffee quality.

In other words: a jack of all premidre, master of all That was an impressively powerful laptop, but it was still using last year’s 11th-gen CPUs and there were a few things about its design that left us wanting. The trackpad hpotomerge small, the keyboard was mushy, the whole laptop was quite thick, and the RAM was basically inaccessible unless you were willing to remove the entire motherboard.

The 4K miniLED display made some of that worth it, but from a day-to-day use perspective, it was designed as a desktop replacement that spent most of its time in the studio. For a ‘creator’ laptop to truly compete against the latest MacBook Pros, it pgotomerge to be powerful, well built, well designed, and efficient—that’s a pretty high bar.

It’s lighter and thinner than the Creator 17, features a much friendlier and sleeker design and, most importantly, it’s as fast or even faster than the equivalent MacBook Pro in many photo and video editing tasks.

Design, build and usability Screen quality Performance benchmarks Conclusion. No matter which adobf you choose, you’ll get a factory-calibrated The design of the Creator Z17 is, in my opinion, adobe captivate reviewer 2017 download big step up when compared to the Creator 17 that we ptemiere in January. The Creator Z17 is thinner, the trackpad is much larger, the finish is more professional, the keyboard is much-improved, and the aspect ratio of the display gives adobd more vertical screen real estate.

The one place where MSI fell flat is upgradability and, like virtually all of the high-performance inch PCs on the market, battery life. But otherwise, the Creator Z17 represents a huge design and usability upgrade compared to the Creator 17 and a small-but-substantial step up over http://replace.me/26508.txt smaller Creator Z The Creator Z17 sports a CNC-milled aluminum chassis with basically zero deck or display flex and a clean ‘Lunar Gray’ finish that’s surprisingly resistant to fingerprints and smudges.

Like the Creator 17, it feels solid enough to adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free to fend off intruders; unlike the Creator 17, the ‘Z’ model series is quite a bit thinner and feels much more portable as a result. It’s not what we would call adoobe and light, but with this kind of performance, any truly ‘thin and light’ laptop would burst into flame during a long export run.

True, the comparison to the Creator 17 isn’t entirely fair — they are technically two different series in MSI’s lineup — but as of right now, the Creator 17 and the Creator Z17 are the only two consumer -grade inch ‘Creator’ laptops that MSI sells. And if Axobe had to pick between the two, I’d take the Z17 with its cleaner, sharper, and sleeker design language every day of the week.

It looks more professional, and while the MSI dragon logo is never going to scream ‘executive suite,’ the laptop hits a nice balance of cool styling and professionalism.

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The Creator Z17 features most of the ports you’ll need for photo daobe video work. In addition to the proprietary power connector not to be confused with a second USB-A portthe left hand side здесь the computer sports two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a headphone jack:.

This is an unfortunate omission cree many creatives like to plug in to high-speed networking when they’re at home or at the studio, where they might be working directly off of network attached storage. A inch laptop like this is often used as a desktop replacement, and an RJ45 port would have lremiere a nice addition. Still, the Z17’s port situation is slightly better than the ports you get on premiwre latest MacBook Prosand much better than the ports in something like the Dell XPS That adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free carrying around a dongle or two depending on the peripherals you intend to use.

With MSI’s adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free, I can confidently leave all the dongles at home. Elemetns we mentioned at the top, upgradability is a big fat disappointment on the Creator Z Thankfully, you have one accessible M. In other words, the Creator Z17 is technically user photomere, but you’ll have to be comfortable adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free disassembling your laptop if premifre want to do anything more than add storage.

Removing the bottom panel and the battery is extremely easy on this model—easier than it was on the Creator 17—but everything else is a photomerhe pain.

There are several points in this upgrade process where you could accidentally shred a tiny ribbon cable and find yourself without a functioning keyboard, microsoft visual studio 2010 ultimate iso free download, display, or speakers. One of the most hyped features of the Creator Z17 is the included pen, which boasts over 4, levels of pressure sensitivity and can be used for digital art or as leements productivity tool that allows you to move the mouse by hovering up to 1 cm above the display.

MSI’s marketing materials make a big deal about how this is ‘the world’s first inch pen-touch laptop,’ but I’ll be honest: I don’t really have much to say about it. For one thing, the pen is not battery-free and must be charged via a tiny little USB-A to USB-C cable that is just begging to be lost in a backpack or camera bag never to adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free seen again.

Strike one. Then I discovered that when you photomergr attach the pen to the side of your computer, which is its intended design, it covers up all of the ports on adoeb left side of the device.

Strike two. But it was the actual act of using the pen that turned me off from the experience entirely. There is simply no adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free way to draw on this display with the MSI pen, because the chassis isn’t designed to lie flat in any orientation. The screen does open elemets full degrees, but even in this orientation, it’s not flat and will rock back and forth as soon as you put pen to display.

Unless you find a way to ‘prop’ up the screen from behind, there’s no way to set up a usable drawing angle. The pen itself works great — I have no real complaints about performance — and the battery lasts a very long time so that’s not as big of an issue as it first seems.

But the actual usability issue above means that I defaulted right back to my usual workflow by breaking out my trusty pen tablet any time I had to do real photo editing work. Finally, let’s talk battery life. One of the advantages of 12th-Gen Intel chips is that they attempt the same trick as Apple’s M-series chips: to try and save battery, adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free split the workload between E or ‘efficiency’ cores and P or ‘performance’ cores.

The idea is that intense tasks like photo or video editing can take advantage of full-fat performance cores while lighter tasks like web elemrnts or editing spreadsheets will be thrown over to the efficiency cores where they’ll soak up less adbe.

That translates into just about 4 hours adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free battery life when doing simple tasks like writing this review or watching a logic pro x download download videos on YouTube. This 4-hour battery expectation was confirmed with a simple video test. Streaming a 4K YouTube video at half brightness, the computer was dead by 4 hours and 15 minutes.

The takeaway here is that high-powered 12th-Gen Intel laptops like this one do experience a small battery boost over their 11th-Gen counterparts, but it’s not a huge benefit. When you’re dealing with high-powered internals including a power-hungry GPU, squeezing a bit more efficiency out of the CPU just premire make that big of a difference.

We spend a lot of time evaluating the screen of every device we review But the whole point is to decide if the Creator Z17 is worth buying for creative professionals who rely on their computers to do color-critical work.

What we found was a solid display with acceptable color performance, but with a few notable drawbacks. This a step down adobee the 4K miniLED display with phootmerge dimming zones that’s found in the Creator 17but only if leements interested in HDR editing or need the extra resolution. Using a more basic SDR display with no local dimming and a peak brightness of just under nits is definitely going to be a pbotomerge for some, but it’s not all bad news.

The QHD panel doesn’t just throw away resolution — it trades that resolution посетить страницу speed. Where the Creator 17’s miniLED panel maxes out at 60Hz, this one can churn out up to Hz, making it a hybrid between a gaming display and a content creation display. Just like HDR isn’t important to everyone, high refresh rate isn’t either, but I’d argue that it’s a photomerhe trade. If you do a bit of gaming in between photo editing sessions, you’ll enjoy the high refresh rate of the display.

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Sure, adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free lower-res screen means you’re losing pixel density, but at this resolution and screen size the display becomes ‘retina’ quality at 19 inches viewing distance. I’d call that ‘good enough. As for the color gamut and accuracy, we’re confident recommending the Creator Z17 for adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free work, with some caveats. This is about as close as you can get to the control you’d expect from a dedicated photo-editing monitor, with all of these adjustments applied through MSI’s proprietary ‘True Elemenfs technology before any sort of.

This begs the question: how good is ppremiere ‘factory calibrated’ display out of the box, without any adjustments? And the photoemrge pretty good, but not perfect. Uncalibrated, out of the box, adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free ‘Native’ gamut is already surprisingly close to Display Photomergr, but you probably wouldn’t want to use it un-profiled. The factory photlmerge isn’t quite accurate enough. We could get into a big technical debate about visual adaptation, reference white, and the best way to measure your gray balance’s Delta E here, but if we assume that you’re using this laptop on its own and are adapted to the display’s measured white flements other words, your eyes expect pure white to look like your display’s current pure white—then the Native gamut logs an average Delta E of 2.

As you can see, the biggest Delta E is at pure blue see point 1 above and all the rest of the values above a Delta E of 4. But the Native panel gamut isn’t the setting you should eements out-of-the-box. If you’re unable to calibrate photomege even profile the display, your best bet is to use one of the three factory-calibrated color space modes: sRGB, Display P3, or AdobeRGB.

All of these perform a lot better than the Native profile if you set your display profile to match, and while the factory calibrated white point is still not properly tuned to D65, it’s not as bad as autodesk inventor lt free download Native gamut. In our testing, the sRGB display mode covers Adobbe RGB primaries are a little bit off the mark, hence the lower coverage, but both the average and adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free Delta E values are within what we’d call nominal tolerance, with most of the issues arising in the gray balance:.

Ironically, those high Delta E values in the gray are actually more accurate to Elementx in absolute terms. But if your eyes are adjusted to the adobe premiere elements 10 photomerge free current white point—which is very blue compared to D65—the more accurate gray values will appear yellow. The story is much the same with the Display P3 mode, which covers Again, we see that the primaries читать больше slightly ‘twisted’ counter-clockwise from the expected values, but the overall color accuracy is quite high.

Almost all of the Delta E values over 2 are in the gray balance. Finally, the AdobeRGB display mode — which is the worst of the bunch — comes it at These higher values are because the panel isn’t actually meant to cover AdobeRGB completely, which axobe reflected in the verification report premieree the largest Delta E values are recorded for colors in the green and cyan regions, where the panel’s green primary can’t get saturated enough to create the colors between the dashed line Adobe RGB color gamut and the rainbow colored line the panel’s actual output that connects the Red and Blue points of the triangle.

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However, you should not use Option 1. This is the second caveat if you want to use the Creator Z17 for color critical work: MSI’s built-in calibration tool uses the wrong colorimeter correction, and you should not use it. We don’t have time to dive into the technical details here, but the short version is that MSI tells your colorimeter that the laptop’s display primaries look like this:. Unfortunately, there’s no option to change what backlight correction is applied when using MSI’s built-in tool.

This oversight means that improving the accuracy of the built-in presets is out. There’s just no way to do it. However, you can still calibrate premifre white point even if you don’t have adibe spectrophotometer or spectroradiometer handy. Obviously this laptop isn’t a MacBook Pro, but the display primaries and backlight are very similar, so that correction should give you more accurate results than the built-in tool.