MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

MSI’s 2-in-1 Prestige 14 Flip AI+ laptop tries to provide a metric ton of utility. It includes a built-in stylus that slots into the bottom of the chassis, the OLED touchscreen folds backwards to become a tablet, and it packs in Intel Panther Lake’s capable integrated GPU to push real-time graphics. Despite all of that, the overall experience just didn’t come together in a way it should have. The stylus ended up the worst casualty of MSI’s new design. It’s built in such a way that you can’t easily slot it in without it getting loose. The stylus is also likely too thin for any artist and even a scribbler who just wants to jot down notes will find issues with its enclosure. Build quality is this laptops’ Achilles’ heel. The mechanical trackpad is designed in such a way that you can’t click it nearest to the keyboard. My hand would constantly interact with the gesture controls when I didn’t want to, dimming the screen constantly during every lengthy typing session. And as a laptop for creative tasks, the OLED screen is too dim and the resolution is too low. This 2-in-1 laptop packs a ton of utility, but its hampered by some all-too obvious flaws. I can still find many things that make