Tag: MSI
We’re particular fans of high-performing business laptops at High Performance Laptops. They’re very well built, lightweight, have long battery lives and the good ones excel at all computing tasks, …
At High Performance Laptops it took us a while to, ahem, get to grips with gaming handhelds. These portable gaming consoles are essentially mini touchscreen Windows PCs with built-in …
A few years ago, we ranked the coolest laptops of all time. However, new additions to it have been few and far between. MSI has been one breath of …
Introduction We were blown away by the recent 18-inch, AMD-powered, MSI Raider gaming laptop which decimated every benchmark we threw at it. But now, we have its even-bigger brother …
It’s not often that a laptop can steal the show at a major international exhibition, but that’s just what MSI did at Computex 2023 when – completely out of …
At High Performance Laptops, we’re particular fans of ultraportable laptops that are powerful enough to perform high-intensity workloads, fast enough to run the best-looking games (smoothly) and ergonomic enough …
With Windows 10 deprecation at our doorstep, many people will be wondering whether to buy a brand-new desktop or laptop. But… you don’t have to choose! In the immortal, …
One of our favourite laptops is back and it’s bigger and better than ever… literally. The latest MSI Raider has grown to 18-inches in size and is subsequently something …
MSI’s Katana range has been one of the more-popular lines of budget gaming laptops since it was introduced in 2021. The new, 2025 models have now landed and are …
We’ve been impressed with MSI’s Katana gaming laptops since they first appeared back in 2021. Since then, the Katana range has proven to be particularly popular owing to its …
We recently published our review of MSI’s latest Crosshair 16 HX AI gaming laptop and were so impressed with its combination of performance, features and value that it won …
Our laptop reviews use of an exhaustive scoring system that mathematically compares every new laptop with everything that’s come before it. However, price and availability change all the time …
When a gaming laptop is so powerful that it can be used for industrial applications, it will turn heads everywhere and that is what MSI’s S-Tier laptop, the Titan …
In the wide world of gaming laptops, MSI’s Raider range is legendary. Every model has won our prestigious Best Gaming Laptop Award and now MSI has tasked SMBtech and …
At CES 2025, in Las Vegas, MSI introduced its latest lineup of laptops featuring Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and cutting-edge processors from Intel and AMD. The announcement …
MSI’s Sword range has always aimed to hit the popular sweet spot of providing affordable, wallet-friendly gaming laptops that are well built and offer performance where you need it …
Some time ago, many creators, designers, digital artists and engineers realised that the most powerful laptops on the market were gaming laptops. However, a tricked-out gaming laptop was not …
The MSI Prestige 14 Ai Evo C1MG is the latest addition to MSI’s business ultraportable lineup. Although it has grown larger than its predecessors, this laptop maintains the series’ …
When designers and creators realised that gaming laptops – with their powerful discreet graphics – were perfect for design tasks and rendering, laptop makers like MSI started catering for …
I’ve been a huge fan of MSI Prestige laptops in the past. These ultraportable gems can come with discreet graphics chips for gaming and arrive in colours like show-stopping …
MSI’s Sword range of budget gaming laptops has been a perennial favourite since it first appeared. It’s typically offered all the important features, design elements and performance levels that …
MSI has teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment to offer gamers access to the new expansion for Diablo IV, Vessel of Hatred. As part of this collaboration, MSI customers who …
MSI will participate in PAX Australia 2024, held from October 11 to October 13 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia, showcasing its latest gaming products for attendees …
MSI’s Vector series is its premium gaming line that eschews eye-melting RGB bling and ostentatious decorations for an office-friendly chassis that can suit all occasions. We’ve been greatly impressed …
The focus on Ai-powered computing has grown significantly in 2024, marking a shift in personal computing. As Ai integrates into more aspects of everyday life, including search queries, digital …
MSI has launched a range of next-generation Ai+ laptops and handheld devices at IFA 2024 in Berlin. These new products include gaming and business productivity laptops powered by the …
MSI held a pop-up event at Sydney’s Macquarie Centre to show-off the company’s latest laptop technology (and The Claw!) and to celebrate 20 years of being in the laptop …
2024 is MSI’s 20th Anniversary of being in the laptop business. It’s currently conducting a world tour to celebrate the milestone and stopped in Sydneys Macquarie Centre to show …
Putting the Consumer Experience First! A Legacy Built on Understanding Users Renowned for its gaming and premium laptops, in 2024, MSI celebrates 20 years of excellence in the laptop …
MSI is once again launching a major End of Financial Year sale for its laptops. Many models from MSI’s gaming, Creator and business and productivity ranges are included with …
MSI has launched new Prestige and Summit-branded business and productivity laptops at Computex 2024. The unveiling took place alongside the launch of new gaming laptops and featured new devices …
MSI has announced the launch of several, next-gen Ai+ gaming (and business productivity) laptops, which feature the latest Intel and AMD processors, at Computex 2024. The laptops have over …
MSI showed-off its forthcoming range of Ai laptops at an event in Melbourne recently and High Performance Laptops was there to check it out. The event kicked-off with opening …
Handheld gaming devices are becoming increasingly popular and now MSI has entered the game with its “Grip and Go” The Claw. It’s a highly portable gaming console that’s based …
We publish several, on-going, monthly, laptop group tests here at High Performance Laptops. However, the Best Business Laptop feature has always had issues. In the past, we’ve focused upon …
Every month, we perform a group test to determine the Best Portable Laptop of the month. This normally involves updating our in-depth laptop reviews with the latest pricing to …
In our exhaustive, monthly group tests, we update the price, availability and value scores from our definitive laptop reviews, to determine the ranking of various groups of laptops. This …
High Performance Laptops’ reviews use of an exhaustive scoring system that mathematically compares every new laptop with everything that’s come before it. However, price and availability change all the …
Since we started High Performance Laptops, one of the consistently most popular laptops we’ve reviewed on the site has been MSI’s Raider. This is arguably MSI’s flagship laptop, offering …
MSI has launched it’s latest line of laptops with Ai-infused, 14th-generation Intel ‘Meteor Lake’ processors and one of the most desirable is the 14-inch Stealth 14 AI Studio. There …
Around 2019, the laptop industry realised that many designers were buying gaming laptops because their discrete, 3D graphics processors were great for rendering and design tasks and, subsequently, Creator …
The new MSI Raider is here and we’re a bit excited. It retains the gamers-first look of the previous model – rather than the older, please-everyone, gun-metal grey livery …
The kids are going back to school in a couple of weeks and that means there are some great laptop deals available – not just models for students and …
MSI has announced new Core Ultra laptops and a new, Core Ultra-powered handheld gaming device at CES. The new laptops feature Intel’s 14-th Gen HX processors with Neural Processing …
We’re closing in on the kids going back to school and – whether you’ve procreated or not – that means there are some killer laptop deals on the horizon. …
Laptops that can play games while hiding in an office are becoming increasingly popular and that’s what we’ve come to expect from MSI’s Vector range. Only recently we reviewed …
MSI’s Vector line is its lesser-known, gaming-laptop range. It eschews the glitzy RGB, pure-gamer bling of the company’s better-known Titan and (nowadays) Raider ranges, to deliver a top-tier gaming …
Only yesterday we reviewed the hugely desirable MSI Mercedes laptop. However, the MSI Stealth 16 Studio A13V is essentially the same laptop without the race trim. As such, while …
We were blown away when MSI announced its partnership with Mercedes-AMG motor sport at Computex, earlier this year. We were also impressed when we spent some time with the …
Times have changed. Once upon a time, not so long ago, laptops were anything but cool. They were boxy, heavy devices that were used by corporate schmucks, nerdy hackers …
PAX AUS, the massive Australian gaming Expo, is happening in Melbourne right now. High Performance Laptops was there to find out what was happening that was laptop related. Here’s …
MSI’s gaming laptops have been incredibly popular on our site. But, we were particularly intrigued when one seemed to show up in Diablo 4. MSI commissioned High Performance Laptops …
Nvidia’s graphics cards are packed full of features, features within features, codenames for those features within features and all kinds of other bells and whistles that quickly become opaque …
MSI’s twin, budget gaming laptops, the Sword and Katana, quickly became popular when they launched, owing to them lying in an entry-level sweet spot of price, performance, styling and …
MSI’s Katana gaming laptops sit in a popular sweet spot of features, design, value and power. The latest iterations feature Intel’s 12th and 13th-gen processors plus Nvidia’s 40-series GPUs. …
One of our favourite-ever laptops is finally back, but we barely recognised it. MSI’s Raiders have been the company’s de facto flagships for years in the face of its …
MSI arguably delivered the most impressive launch at Computex 2023, with the company’s May 30th, Day 1, event titled, MSIology: Luxury Gaming Experience. This announced a partnership with, none …
Computex doesn’t always throw up surprises, but MSI certainly bucked the trend on Day 1 of the Taiwanese trade show by launching the MSI Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Limited …
We’re at the Computex tech trade show in Taipei and were given a tour of the brand new and forthcoming laptops on MSI’s massive stand. We’ll be updating this …
MSI’s latest launch event, called MSIology: Luxury Gaming Experience, took place on May 30th and saw the announcement of a partnership with the Mercedes AMG racing team plus a …
We’ve seen a few MSI Titans in our time. They can be imperious and all-conquering or imperious with a few niggles to the point where many people consider the …
At its recent ‘new gaming laptops’ event, MSI revealed a new budget model that aimed to provide great design and great value to gamers of any budget. It would …
MSI held a large event called, ‘The Leap to Singularity’ to showcase the new MSI laptops for 2023. It included speeches from MSI’s Country Head, Jerry Lu, Intel Australia’s …
MSI held a launch to showcase all of its new gaming laptops for 2023. The event started off with introductions regarding the whole range of the new MSI laptops …
MSI’s Modern laptops are mid-range offerings that don’t excel at much but can offer great value as a general purpose, portable computer. The new, 13th Gen range has been …
We finally have our first 13th Gen Intel laptop in for review. It’s also the first with an Nvidia RTX 4000 series GPU. Much as we’re dying to see …
At the recent launch of the new MSI laptops, we heard about how the new models, across the entire range, were benefiting from 13th-Gen Intel processors and 40-series Nvidia …
MSI has unveiled its new laptops at CES 2023. They feature the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs and 13th-Gen Intel Core HX series CPUs. Eight of the …
We’ve seen all manner of amazing MSI gaming laptops come through our doors in recent months, but this is the one we’ve been waiting for most. It’s a Raider …
MSI has been knocking it out of the park with its high performance laptops this year. Models from its Raider and Stealth ranges have topped our Best Laptop ratings …
To say we’re fans of the MSI Prestige range is an understatement. Never has a laptop provoked such a visceral reaction for both its looks and performance except, perhaps, …
We found the 17-inch MSI Stealth GS77 to be the almost-perfect High Performance Laptop: it’s thin, light, portable and very very powerful. Now, here’s the 15.6-inch version, the MSI …
MSI’s Modern laptops tend to be mid-range, general-productivity, ‘Lifestyle’ laptops that offer reasonable quality at a reasonable price. They tend not to excel at much, but they can also …
The Raider GE76 is has been our number one ranked laptop for a few months now. It’s both phenomenally fast and (… and this is a big deal) actually …
If your new (or old) MSI laptop has a washed out screen and videos look terrible with banding and blocky graphics, worry not… it’s a known issue with a …
MSI has announced its latest Intel HX series laptops (with 12th Gen Intel HX series processors at its latest MSIology launch event. Of particular note was the announcement of …
The MSI Crosshair 15 is one of MSI’s upper mid-range gaming laptops. This is an attractive proposition as the company’s top-tier models can get prohibitively expensive while this seeks …
MSI has impressed the pants off us recently thanks to its power-packed, svelte Stealth GS77 and MackBook-Killing Creator Z17. However, both have a thin chassis which causes thermal throttling …
Update: New MSI HX laptops with 240Hz HDR OLED screens revealed at MSIology June 2022 MSI has announced its new Summit, Prestige and Modern series business laptops with 12th …
We were impressed with our first look at MSI’s last MacBook Killer, the Creator Z16, a few months ago. However, before we got to test the real thing, we …
Not so long ago we raved about the fact that the MSI Stealth GS76 (with its 11th Gen Intel processor) had finally come close to breaking the law that …
Most people are fans of MSI’s GS Stealth series: it’s impressively thin, adorned in Ninja-black livery and is very powerful. However, the MSI Stealth 15M series – sometimes called …
The MSI Katana GF76 (12th Gen) is the first high performance laptop we’ve seen to wield a 12th generation Intel processor. Naturally we were particularly keen to see how …
MSI’s Summit series has always been aimed at “Business Elites” but we’ve always felt it’s come up short. Now here’s the latest MSI Summit Flip E16 and there are …
MSI has revealed its new line-up of laptops equipped with Intel’s latest 12th Gen H-series processors. The new laptops sport the Meta-ready logo with an aim to offer Metaverse-compatible …
Not long ago we reviewed the MSI Sword which hit a very popular sweet spot between budget and performance. It was part of MSI’s GF range which is nominally …
We’ve reviewed many iterations of the MSI GS76 Stealth over the years and always been left with the same impression – it’s a laptop that we want to love but fitting all those …
MSI has announced a collaboration with Fragment Design, a streetwear brand led by Hiroshi Fujiwara. It’s launched a Hiroshi Fujiwara Limited Edition version of the Creator Z16 that we first …
Despite the fact this is the fifth MSI GE-series Raider laptop we’ve seen this year, we were particularly keen to get our hands upon it. But first, for those …
MSI recently released a bunch of new laptops. Among them were the twin MSI Sword and MSI Katana designer laptops which were differentiated in a Luke Skywalker vs Darth …
We’re big fans of MSI’s limited edition laptops. The first we saw was the Dragonshield GE66 designed by the guy who designed the Death Star’s trench in Star Wars: …
It doesn’t take long to see what’s special about the MSI GE66 Raider, MSI’s 15.6-inch all-rounder. While the styling might not have the head-turning gaudiness of a Lambo, it’s …
The MSI Creator Z16 is an understated, designer-oriented laptop that looks good, has top components and is built like a tank. The chassis is made out of MacBook-like, single-pieces …
In some ways MSI is great for consumers – offering a crazy number of gaming laptops for every type of gamer there is means there’s something for everyone. But …
We recently took a look at MSI’s Sword and Katana notebooks and struggled to tell them apart. Now here’s the MSI Pulse GL66 – how different is it? NEW: …
UPDATE: We now have a full review of the MSI Sword laptop. Read below to understand how it differs to the MSI Katana. UPDATE 2: Check out our MSI …
MSI’s Summit range of laptops targets ‘Business Elites’ and seeks to marry high performance, style and portability together in order to create a desirable all-round-laptop. There’s even a reasonable graphics …
MSI’s Prestige 14 laptop sits atop a varied heap, offering portability and premium performance in a pulchritudinous package. We’ve tried-out two colour varieties; a sober, Carbon Grey sandblasted aluminium …
MSI makes, what can appear to be, a bewildering array of laptop variants. What’s more, those variants are all available in sub variants. The benefit of this is that …
