MSI Wants to Prove It Can Do Business Laptops, Too

MSI makes a whole lot of laptops. Most of those are slotted into the gaming category. The company is trying again to break into the same business and workspace class as many of its contemporaries in the notebook space. The redesigned Prestige series includes four new laptop designs with a regular, gray aesthetic and an ultraportable form factor.

The Prestige 16 contains Intel’s new Core Ultra X9 388H packed with a 2.8K, 120Hz OLED display. The other laptops on offer are all Prestige Flip 2-in-1s with flipover touchscreens. The 14-inch model will only go up to an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H chip, so it will still have Intel’s 12Xe3 GPU cores for more creative tasks. The best part is the 2-in-1 designs all support a Nano Pen stylus that slots into a shallow magnetic groove on the laptop’s rear panel.

The Prestige 2-in-1 models include a stylus that fits into the laptop chassis. © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo

The Prestige 14 Flip starts at a promised $1,300 and comes packed with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The Prestige 16 will go for $1,400 and the Prestige 16 Flip with the better CPU will demand $1,630. Of course, those prices all depend on the skyrocketing price of memory, specifically RAM. The added stylus support on these 2-in-1s combined with a relatively reasonable price point could make these laptops enticing. We still don’t know how future pricing will play out.

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The MSI Raider 18 HX sports an RGB light bar that looks like it’s eating into the palm rest. © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo

Those business-centric laptops could prove MSI has more in it than yet another gaming device. Still, the company wouldn’t be caught dead without a massive gaming rig at CES 2026. That’s why it’s packing in the Raider 16 Max HX with a promised 300W of total system power. That’s an upgrade from the mere 240W of last year, which means it could support a total of 175W of TGP (total graphics power) from the RTX 50-series graphics card. Unlike the HyperX Omen Max that promises the same total wattage, this laptop will sport several configurations with Intel Core Ultra, Intel Core i9, and AMD processors, as well as an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU.

And yet, MSI has not released pricing or availability for its gaming devices just yet. In any other year, that would merely be annoying. In 2026, a lack of pricing details is set to make us more concerned than anything.

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