MSI Desires to Show It Can Do Enterprise Laptops, Too

MSI makes a complete lot of laptops. Most of these are slotted into the gaming class. The corporate is making an attempt once more to interrupt into the identical enterprise and workspace class as a lot of its contemporaries within the pocket book area. The redesigned Status collection consists of 4 new laptop computer designs with an everyday, grey aesthetic and an ultraportable kind issue.

The Status 16 accommodates Intel’s new Core Extremely X9 388H full of a 2.8K, 120Hz OLED show. The opposite laptops on supply are all Status Flip 2-in-1s with flipover touchscreens. The 14-inch mannequin will solely go as much as an Intel Core Extremely X7 358H chip, so it’s going to nonetheless have Intel’s 12Xe3 GPU cores for extra artistic duties. The perfect half is the 2-in-1 designs all assist a Nano Pen stylus that slots right into a shallow magnetic groove on the laptop computer’s rear panel.

The Status 14 Flip begins at a promised $1,300 and comes full of 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The Status 16 will go for $1,400 and the Status 16 Flip with the higher CPU will demand $1,630. After all, these costs all depend upon the skyrocketing price of memory, specifically RAM. The added stylus assist on these 2-in-1s mixed with a comparatively affordable worth level might make these laptops attractive. We nonetheless don’t understand how future pricing will play out.

These business-centric laptops might show MSI has extra in it than yet one more gaming gadget. Nonetheless, the corporate wouldn’t be caught useless with no large gaming rig at CES 2026. That’s why it’s packing within the Raider 16 Max HX with a promised 300W of complete system energy. That’s an improve from the mere 240W of final yr, which suggests it might assist a complete of 175W of TGP (complete graphics energy) from the RTX 50-series graphics card. In contrast to the HyperX Omen Max that guarantees the identical complete wattage, this laptop computer will sport a number of configurations with Intel Core Extremely, Intel Core i9, and AMD processors, in addition to an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU.

And but, MSI has not launched pricing or availability for its gaming units simply but. In some other yr, that will merely be annoying. In 2026, an absence of pricing particulars is ready to make us extra involved than something.

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