Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 Review

Design and Keyboard

• More generic design
• Excellent port selection
• Comfortable keyboard and trackpad

Medion hasn’t reinvented the wheel of affordable gaming laptop design with the Erazer Deputy 15 P1, owing to a generic black shell, with a glossy metal lid and plastic underside. The build quality is generally okay, although the chassis can flex at the corners under some pressure. With somewhat larger bezels around the screen, this laptop can feel a bit dated in some expects.

Nonetheless, it is quite thin for a gaming laptop at just 25.8mm, meaning it claws back some of its modernity. A 2.25kg weight is okay for a larger-screen gaming option like this one, and owing to its thinner chassis, it is approaching what you might call portable.

One area where I’m quite pleased with the Erazer Deputy 15 P1 is with its port selection. They’re neatly spread across the back, left and right sides of the unit. On the back you’ve got full-size Ethernet, a DC port for power, HDMI and even Mini DisplayPort, which I don’t think I’ve seen on a laptop in years.

The left side is more modern, with two USB-A ports (although one is a USB 3.2 Gen 2 and the other a USB 2.0) and a headphone jack, with the right side adding a further USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 port and a USB-C port.

Opening the lid reveals a near-full-size keyboard layout, complete with arrow keys, a squished-up number pad, navigation cluster and a function row. The keyboard itself feels decently tactile to type on with a good amount of travel, while it is RGB-backlit, and the WASD keys are transparent, too.

As for the trackpad, it’s of a reasonable size, although narrower than you may expect for a laptop of its size. The surface used is smooth enough, and I found its tracking accurate and responsive.

Display and Sound

• Decently bright screen with okay black level and contrast
• Washed out colours
• Tinnier speakers

It’s usually on the front of the screen where more budget and mid-range gaming laptops can cheap out against their more expensive counterparts. On the face of it, the Erazer Deputy 15 P1 has simply stuck with a tried-and-tested combo of a 15.6-inch Full HD resolution 144Hz IPS panel for a reasonable amount of detail and decently zippy motion.

The display is a bit of a tale of two halves. On one hand, with a peak brightness of 333.5 nits, it’s perfectly okay for indoor and outdoor use and meets our usual target, while its 0.19 and 1510:1 contrast ratio provide decent depth and dynamic range for displayed content.

However, both its 7500K colour temperature and sub-par colour accuracy leave images on the bluer side, and colours feel quite washed out. For reference, it managed just 65% of the mainstream sRGB colour space, while 48% in both the DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB spaces means this screen isn’t being used for any more colour-sensitive work in a hurry.

The speakers here are generally fine for casual listening, with okay depth and clarity, although they are lacking in low end, leading to a tinnier sound. You’re much better off utilising the headphone jack for more serious listening.

Performance

• Powerful core for 1080p gaming
• Solid performance
• Generous SSD and RAM combo

The Erazer Deputy 15 P1 features quite a potent core for 1080p gaming, with my top model pairing an Intel Core Ultra 9 270H processor with an RTX 5070 GPU.

The Core Ultra 9 270H is a 14-core (split asymmetrically between six Performance cores and eight Efficiency cores) and 20-thread chip that’s one of the beefier options in Intel’s Arrow Lake-H line of laptop processors, designed as more efficient alternatives to the -HX-suffixed chips and their all-out power.

In Geekbench 6 and Cinebench R23, the processor’s single-core performance is strong compared to the flagship Core Ultra 9 285H found in laptops such as the MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (2025) and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, which you’ll find in other gaming and productivity-focused laptops.

As has been Intel’s downfall on some chips though, it’s in the multi-threaded workloads where this processor isn’t quite as potent as its rivals. It’s still good, don’t get me wrong, but other options may serve you better if you want the maximum performance from your CPU.

With this in mind, the combo of the Core Ultra 9 275H and the RTX 5070 for 1080p gaming is an immense one, providing high frame rates at native 1080p resolution in the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 and Returnal with 101.81fps and 95fps, respectively. At 172fps, Rainbow Six Extraction proved no trouble.

Adding DLSS in Cyberpunk 2077 put it up to 110.40fps, and also took the gruelling RT: Ultra preset from 39.01fps without it to 61.63fps with it, making the game rather playable even at tough settings.

Being a 50-series laptop also means this Erazer Deputy 15 P1 can benefit from Nvidia’s clever multi-frame-gen tech with the 5070 that’s present. With this, it adds up to three ‘fake frames’ for every ‘real’ frame rendered to increase your FPS to play well with high-refresh-rate screens. The results are reliant upon there being a high enough base frame rate to prevent displayed images from being choppy or there being horrible latency.

For whatever reason, running this test on RT: Ultra didn’t yield any real return, but on the Ultra preset used otherwise and the maximum 4x frame gen, Cyberpunk 2077 went all the way up to 251.16fps.

My sample of the Erazer Deputy 15 P1 came with a solid 32GB of RAM plus a very generous 2TB SSD at this mid-range price. It’s also a decently brisk SSD in my testing, with reads and writes of 5990.48 MB/s and 5679.78 MB/s, respectively.

Software

• Quite a clean Windows 11 install
• Medion Control Center is handy for controlling system functions
• Not enough AI horsepower to be a Copilot+ PC

The Erazer Deputy 15 P1 comes running Windows 11 and has one of the cleaner installs for it, only coming with McAfee antivirus built-in as some additional third-party software.

There is also only one piece of Medion’s own software, with the Medion Control Center app allowing for convenient access to controlling settings such as the backlighting of the keyboard and light bar on the front, as well as for toggling settings such as the laptop’s power mode and such. It’s a handy catch-all app.

As much as there is a Copilot key on this laptop for waking Microsoft’s AI assistant, this laptop isn’t powerful enough on the AI front to become one of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs with its extra AI gubbins.

Battery Life

• Lasted for 4 hours 7 minutes in the battery test
• Capable of lasting for half a working day

The battery capacity of the Erazer Deputy 15 P1 is quite small for a laptop with some more powerful components inside, sitting at just 51.6Wh. As a result, the quoted runtime of this laptop is just four and a half hours, meaning you’ll need to be very close to the mains for a lot of the day.

In putting the brightness to the requisite 150 nits and running the PCMark 10 Modern Office battery test, this Medion laptop lasted for four hours and seven minutes – marginally below the quoted figure. This is okay for a gaming laptop, if quite unremarkable, as the larger-screened Asus TUF Gaming A18 managed over 10 hours in the same test.

On the plus side, there is at least a decently brisk 180W charger to pair with the Erazer Deputy 15 P1 that took 32 minutes to get it back to 50 percent and 80 minutes to get it fully charged.

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