MSI Titan and Cyborg 17 Notebooks at the Tevatron, Arriving at the Superconductor Convention Center, at CERN/LHC

Most of the gaming laptops on the market go for maximum performance, butMSI’s Titan is the hardest laptop to use. The company announced a new laptop at the show. It has an 18-inch screen with an illuminated touchpad and a starting price of around $5,000.

It is roaring but we are still waiting for pricing information. The system has an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX platform with up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, 24 gigabyte of VRAM, and a single slot of Gen5 M.2 storage.

The laptop weighs in at 7.94 pounds and has a 99.9Wh battery inside it, which is the largest capacity allowed on a plane. For ports, it’s got two Thunderbolt 5 / USB-C, three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI 2.1, gigabit ethernet, and an SD card slot.

MSI has done Dragon Edition laptops before, but compared to previous incarnations, the new Titan Dragon Edition looks more fierce and actually less garish — just look at this old thing. When theTitan accessory bundle is available in March, you will be able to get your draconic Titans in an accessory bundle with a mouse, keychain, and colorful desk pad.

The Cyborg 17’s new top deck allows you to look into it from above, as the design of the 12 and 15 models are similar to last year’s. It’s even worse because of its weird mix of Venom symbiote-style webbing / tribal tattoo line art. It has CPU options up to the Intel Core Ultra 7 240H or AMD Ryzen 7 260 and RTX 50-series GPUs.

For the year of 2025,MSI offers the Stealth in 16-inch and 18-inch configurations with a range of GPUs from the RTX 5070 Ti to the 5090 The 18-inch model has both a 4K 120Hz screen and a QHD 300Hz model, as well as either an Intel Ultra 9 275HX or anAMD Ryzen 9 HX 370. The 16-inch Stealth only comes with a chip called the Ryzen HX 370.

The Vector A18 has an 18-inch 2560 x 1600 (16:10) 240Hz IPS display, the choice of RTX 5070 Ti / 5080 GPUs, AMD CPU configurations, 99.9Wh battery, and a plethora of ports like its pricier counterparts (but with slower Thunderbolt 4 instead of Thunderbolt 5). The Vector 16 HX AI and Vector 17 HX AI models may have slightly smaller screens, but they still support 2560 x 1600 resolution and 240Hz. Each of them has new Intel Arrow Lake CPU options, but the 17-inch has more configurations that go up to the RTX 5090 GPU.

If you prefer a more subtle gray look than the garish colors on the other side of the per-key RGB keyboard, themsi Vector line is a good choice.

Here’s the rundown of what MSI is offering for its gaming laptops in 2025, starting from the top. MSI hasn’t sent us pricing and availability yet, so we won’t update this post until we have it.

Lastly, MSI is also updating its economy-class Crosshair and Pulse series gaming laptops, which top out at configurations with just the Nvidia RTX 5070. The cheapest laptop fromMSI is the Crosshair.

With the jump to RTX 50-series GPUs,MSI is attempting to hit all of the people who prioritize specs. The machine is riding the train hard. Adding the word “ai” to its name, even its latest Claw handheld, and giving it a chatbot dedicated to controlling your computer is just some of the thingsMSI’s laptops will ship with. Considering some Windows settings are buried in legacy menu structures that still look like they’re from the XP era, the thought of asking your computer to adjust those settings for you sounds a teeny-tiny bit appealing. I fear it wont work as it should because Windows will make it impossible for it to work.