If you’re looking for an additional monitor for your mobile workstation, but you feel like carrying a giant monitor around with you is too much of a hassle? Well, you’re not wrong.
Thankfully, there are many USB-C monitors on the market that you can carry with you and plug into any device you want. We’re reviewing one such monitor from MSI called the Pro MP 161 and it’s a interesting display to look at.
You can watch the MSI Pro MP 161 review below in English or continue reading the article.
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What’s in the box?
For starters, when you open the box, you get a USB-C cable, a mini HDMI to HDMI cable, a sleeve, and the monitor itself. Speaking of the monitor, you get 55% SRGB coverage. There’s 250 nits peak brightness. It runs off USB-C and miniHDMI and that’s all.
It’s a rather mediocre monitor with a mad panel finish on top, so it’s not like you’re getting the best for your money or the best editing or viewing experience possible. The viewing angles are also Respectable but not exactly the greatest, and you get 60 hertz refresh rate: So if you plan on gaming on this thing, it’s, well, if you’re happy with 60 FPS, they’re happy with 60 FPS.
Content creation and editing work is going to be a breeze as long as you’re not too concerned about the refresh rate or about the color accuracy. Now granted, this thing isn’t the most color accurate panel in the world, it uses a TN panel, but for its intended use case, which is just an additional monitor beside your laptop or your console or whatever it is that you’re taking on the go, this works just fine.
This panel does have a 4 millisecond response time, so as long as your PC or console or whatever it is that you’re using to power the monitor can push up to 60 frames per second, you can actually have a decent time gaming on it.
Build quality and user experience
However, The build quality will leave a few things to be desired. Now there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s pretty lightweight to carry. It’s pretty thin, and the included sleeve keeps it protected when you go go about with the monitor. Now you do get a small hinge here, a small kick stand of sorts that you can use to prop it up either in a Landscape or a vertical environment and that is great because this monitor shines when you’re using it as a secondary to an app.
So you could have your Slack messages on here, your feedly or your RSS feeds or anything that has vertical scrolling space. This monitor will do great for it, but that’s not all of its intended use case. You can use it for, like I said, video editing and photo editing as well, as long as you’re not too concerned about the color accuracy. In which case, you can just throw some of your tools, windows onto this and have your main screen view whatever it is that you’re working on.
Device compatibility
Another good factor about this monitor is that it supports a wide range of devices, so you can plug, of course, your PC, you can plug your consoles, which is Nintendo Switch, if you have the dock, and I don’t know why you would be carrying on the dock when you’re on the boat, but you can do it if you want. You can also plug in your camera to this via the mini HDMI port on board.
At the price point of ₹15,000 or about $200 in the US, this is a great addition to throw in your backpack if you like extra screens when you’re out and about. Now there are other solutions to this problem, and they all work in more or less the same way, but if you don’t want your laptop turning into a clampshell mounting device, well, this is the way to go. You do get 2 speakers on each end of the unit, but they’re tiny at best. They’re not very loud and see if you need speakers in a pinch, this will get the job done, so I recommend using your headphones as long as you can instead.
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