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.įor a 'creator' laptop to truly compete against the latest MacBook Pros, it needs to be powerful, well built, well designed, and efficient-that's a pretty high bar.Īs it turns out, the MSI Creator Z17 ticks most of those boxes. The trackpad was 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. 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. You may remember the MSI Creator 17 (no Z) from our review earlier this year. In other words: a jack of all trades, master of all. Our first chance to test this theory comes in the form of 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 build quality. In theory, this new architecture should give 12th-Gen Intel laptops a boost in both performance and battery life, potentially giving Apple's latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros a bit of competition for creators' hard-earned money. Would that indicate that OS updates have complicated the driver functions? Also not smart enough to know the answer to that.Excellent design, powerful hardware, and solid display make the MSI Creator Z17 a compelling MacBook Pro alternative for creatives who don't want to jump on the Apple Silicon bandwagon.Įver since Intel debuted its 12th-Gen Alder Lake CPUs with a hybrid E (Efficiency) core + P (Performance) core architecture, we've been itching to get our hands on one. The MacBook Pro is running 10.15.7 and the Mac Pro is running 10.14.6. Would that indicate that RAM is important to how a mouse functions within Layout? Not smart enough to know the answer to that. The Mac Pro has 64gb of RAM and the MacBook Pro has 16gb RAM. What I just discovered yesterday was that my Mac Pro doesn’t have the same issues with the mouse scrolling and Layout seems to handle itself better with the Elecom mouse then the MacBook Pro. I have posted numerous times about the slowdown issues with Layout mainly in scrolling on the mouse. I was on a 2019 MacBook Pro and due to graphics complications, I have had to downgrade to my older 2013 Mac Pro. My presumption is that the driver is still working because the mouse works, but I have had to move over to Steermouse to do any key mapping.Īdditionally, I have recently had to move to another computer in my studio. Just recently the upgrade I had to do to 10.15.7 completely rendered the Elecom UI unusable. I have had numerous problems with Elecom’s compatibility with macOS.
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