Medion Sprchrgd 16 S1 Review: A Bright-OLED Lunar Lake Laptop

With its 16-inch display, the Medion Sprchrgd 16 S1 adopts a format that is increasingly replacing the old 15.6-inch standard. But what is inside? Can the OLED panel convince on picture quality? How long does the battery last? And does the "supercharged" name translate into genuine speed? Those are just a handful of the hundreds of checkpoints the Sprchrgd 16 S1, in the MD62745 configuration, faced in the published test. This review is based on that test, not on a hands-on trial of our own.

First impressions count, and the Medion is elegant, striking and understated all at once. The laptop skips the gimmicks and sets just a few clean accents: a glossy Medion logo on the lid, and on the palm rest the "Sprchrgd" series name — short for supercharged — with its "S" styled as a lightning bolt, a nod to the intended performance. Whether that promise holds up is answered below. Overall it feels made for the office: restrained, unfussy and consistently geared towards work.

Whether a favourite series delights on the train or photo editing lands precisely comes down to the display. The panel measures 16 inches (41 centimetres) across the diagonal and shows content at 2880 x 1800, for a very high pixel density of 212 ppi. The Medion covers the full sRGB colour space — the measurements confirm the advertised 100 per cent — and colour fidelity is strong, reproducing photos and videos almost true to life at 97.4 per cent, if in places a touch oversaturated. On maximum brightness the panel shines for HDR video, peaking at 1,092 nits, while non-HDR content reaches 400 nits. For comparison, the last MSI gaming laptop tested managed 291 nits. Around 400 nits is the rule of thumb for bright surroundings such as a sunny terrace, a mark the Medion meets in everyday use, with peak brightness far beyond it.

In daily use everything runs smoothly, thanks in part to Intel's upper-class Core Ultra 9 288V from the latest Lunar Lake range, backed by a very generous 32 gigabytes of memory. It comfortably earned very good marks in every speed test, even during demanding photo and video editing. Gaming, though, showed its limit: current titles are playable, but only at reduced detail — then again, this is no gaming laptop.

At full brightness the battery lasted almost 12.5 hours in testing, easily seeing you through a normal eight-hour working day. Afterwards it needs a fairly long breather at the socket — close to three hours — though the excellent runtime makes that easy to live with. The discreet look is matched by low noise: in everyday use the fans whisper at just 0.2 sone, barely audible, rising to 2.7 sone under full load, which still never grates, so you can work in the office or at university without disturbing anyone. Heat on the underside stays in check at 26 degrees Celsius above ambient, so it does not become uncomfortable on the lap.

The keyboard impresses with flat, backlit keys, a pleasant typing feel and a well-defined pressure point, and even the navigation keys are full size — not a given on every laptop. The touchpad offers a generous, responsive surface, with clicks working best at the lower corners. Connectivity is a strength: plug in and go, reading a camera, docking an SSD or sending a presentation to a second screen, all directly on the machine without a dock. For output to a large monitor there is an HDMI port and two USB-C connectors with DisplayPort, plus a headset jack, though there is no wired network (LAN) socket. External SSDs connect to the USB-C 4.0 or USB-C 3.2 port, and there is a USB 2.0 socket for printers. Wireless duties fall to fast Wi-Fi 7, with Bluetooth 5.4 for wireless speakers.

The Medion Sprchrgd 16 S1 OLED convinces with an elegant, restrained design, an extremely bright and colour-rich 16-inch OLED display, and strong everyday performance courtesy of the Intel Core Ultra 9 and 32 gigabytes of memory. In testing it delivered very high working speed for office tasks, though games ran only at reduced detail. The keyboard and generous touchpad are comfortable to use, battery life is a highlight at almost 12.5 hours — even if the charge time is correspondingly long — and fan noise and heat stayed pleasantly low, alongside versatile ports and fast Wi-Fi 7. In short, it is squarely a work machine rather than a gamer's, and on that brief — bright screen, quick chip, long battery and quiet running — it does almost everything an office or study user could ask. All told, the Sprchrgd 16 S1 OLED is a powerful, thoroughly practical everyday notebook.