MSI’s Bravo 15 is another aggressively priced AMD Ryzen gaming laptop

MSI Bravo 15 laptop — (Image credit: MSI)

Laptops built around AMD's mobile Ryzen 4000 series continue to trickle into the marketplace, the latest of which is MSI's Bravo 15. Like the others that have materialized so far, the Bravo 15 is aggressively priced, in the realm of gaming laptops.

There are several configurations available, the least expensive of which is priced at $929. That model pairs a Ryzen 5 4600H CPU with a Radeon RX 5500M GPU. It also features 8GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB NVMe SSD. A modest setup at a comparatively modest price.

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It's another relatively affordable lineup. The situation reminds me a little bit of when, years ago, Gateway (remember them?) launched the P-7811 FX, reviewed in the October 2008 issue of Maximum PC. It punched above its weight class, in terms of pricing, and that's what we are seeing with the latest Ryzen laptops (see our review of the Asus TUF A15).

The only question is, can AMD keep up with demand? System builder XMG recently lamented a "serious CPU shortage from AMD in Q3 2020," which speaks to the demand for these systems.

As for the Bravo 15, some models are currently in stock now, and others are available to preorder.

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).