MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (Meteor Lake) – Early Look Linux
I purchased this laptop on release day December 14th, and received it 2 days later. I have been using it almost exclusively since I got it. The long and the short of it is, its a fantastic laptop with almost zero driver support from Linux. This is typical with new machines. I understand that Linux Kernel 6.7 is “feature complete” for the MeteorLake series of processors, whatever that means. Over this past weekend the Linux Foundation released the GA version of 6.7. So hopefully within the next couple of weeks I will be able to check to see if the drivers now work or not.
In the meantime here is the description and a very early benchmark using WSL 2 to see how well Linux performs in that environment.
00:00 – Intro
02:16 – CPU
02:46 – Battery
03:24 – External Ports
05:28 – Memory
06:00 – Camera
06:49 – Display
07:15 – Weight
07:20 – What about Linux?
08:28 – My Testing with Linux
09:45 – Plans
09:51 – Benchmarks
14:35 – Wrap-up
Hardware
Mac Mini M1 – https://amzn.to/3NDQj9F
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme (Daily Driver Linux) – https://amzn.to/3PkSYpK
AMD Rysen Machine (Currently Unplugged)
Khadas VIM 3 – https://amzn.to/3NjJmt3
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano – https://amzn.to/3NcLpyZ
Odroid N2+
Raspberry Pi 4
Intel Nuc 10 – https://amzn.to/46e6l15
Intel Nuc 12 – https://amzn.to/3NCYxPj
Network
Aruba Instant On 1930 24-Port Gb Ethernet – https://amzn.to/46e6l15
Video Equipment
Panasonic GH6 Camera – https://amzn.to/3PoUKX1
Panasonic GH4 Camera
Blackmagic Design ATEM Extreme Pro ISO – https://amzn.to/3Pkma08
Blackmagic Design Hyperdeck Studio HD Mini – https://amzn.to/42JY5mt
Blackmagic Design Hyperdeck Shuttle – https://amzn.to/42Tdzoi
Blackmagic Design Cloud Pod – https://amzn.to/3qW14va
by DJ Ware
linux foundation
…the sound card is working … after installing the version 2.8.x of thesofproject sof-bin release, (git)
Please make a special video about Intel Gen 13's incompatibility with old Linux distributions.
Nice new computer, hope linux start catching up and you can run it fine. Another think there is a cool project call universal blue for immutable fedora distros, its totally game changing compared with what we have now on the linux desktop side.
Very unteredted in the Meteor Lake silicon. Apparently some of the new handheld game consoles have chosen to roll with thr Meteor Lake instead of the Ryzen Zen 4 silicon, so apparently the iGPU on the Meteor Lake is pretty good. Will be interesting to see what does better in ultrabooks (performance and battery life). Anyway, thanks for the great review.
Looks like a great machine.
Maybe not quite on topic…. my laptop has gone from what doesn't work to everything (in Linux) working in the year I have had it… actually it seemed to take about 3 months. What I wanted to ask though, is how Linux is handling the P and S cores on the newer Intel CPUs. I know (at least in the past) Intel supports the linux kernel pretty good but in the past, linux tended to treat all HW threads the same. Does the linux kernel actively manage what SW threads it puts on which HW threads in some intelligent way? Is that left for user space? Is it based on "niceness"? A combination of the two?
If have the asus zenbook with ULTRA 7 155H running with Arch Linux – just the snd card is not working – everthing else is with 6.6.10 fine …
This is very interesting and informative. I wish the would make a laptop with a large screen, more like a "luggable". As a developer screen real estate to get more code is important to me.
Since you're Linux user, wouldn't be better to buy laptop from Tuxedo, System76 or Starlabs?
Nice one 🙂