MSI Katana 15 B13VEK is €177 cheaper today, 18% below the other.
Over the 2 days of the last 90 both were for sale, the MSI Katana 15 B13VEK was the cheaper one on 2 of 2 days, by €171 to €171, and the two stayed close enough that either price is fair.
The RAM is the only difference this site has found between them.
Price history: the lowest price we saw each week
We have not watched Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-52 and MSI Katana 15 B13VEK for long enough to draw their price lines yet. We record every price change we see, so this graph grows week by week.
What differs between them
No shop states these. We looked them up ourselves, and we say when.
| Fact | Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-52 | MSI Katana 15 B13VEK |
|---|---|---|
| Linux support | Linux runs on this laptop, with something not working. “Nitro ANV15-52 (BIOS v1.31) – NVMe timeouts after power profile change on Linux”community.acer.com, checked 16 October 2026. | Linux runs on this laptop, with something not working. “Entered weird keysequence for advanced bios to disable a feature that causes install to brick. SHIFT + CTRL + ALT and tap F2 a few times. Disable Intel VMD (volume management device) technology.”forum.qubes-os.org, checked 24 October 2026. |
| Soldered RAM | The RAM can be upgraded. “Da RAM (2x 8 GB DDR4) und SSD (1 TB M.2) nicht verlötet sind, lassen sich Arbeits- und Massenspeicher auf Wunsch zudem upgraden.”notebookcheck.com, checked 16 October 2026. | nobody has published this yet |
| Screen quality | Reviewers rate this screen poorly. “The most significant compromise is the display’s visual quality. With very poor color coverage at just 54% sRGB, the screen is dull and washed out, making it completely unsuitable for any creative work and providing a lackluster viewing experience for anything other than gaming.”laptopmedia.com, checked 16 October 2026. | Reviewers rate this screen poorly. “It would have been impossible to recommend with a price of £1,500 thanks to the sub-par display and wretched battery life but, at £1,200, the failings are a little easier to swallow.”notebookcheck.net, checked 24 October 2026. |
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