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Best MSI laptops
Every non-discontinued MSI in our database, ranked by our hand-scored average across the six categories. Not by what MSI pushes, and not by commission.
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- MSI Stealth 16 AI+ B3W (Core Ultra 9 386H, 2026)
The Panther Lake refresh of the Stealth 16 AI+ at CES 2026: 1.9 kg, 16 mm thin, RTX 5080, 240 Hz QHD+ OLED and a 90 Wh battery MSI rates at over 12 hours, but RAM is soldered LPDDR5X and Linux on this brand new platform is not verified.
€ 1.860 7.2/10 Linux unverified - MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio A1V (2024)
A 1.99 kg creator-leaning Stealth with a 4K 120 Hz MiniLED, a big 99.9 Wh battery, and about 6 hours unplugged.
€ 2.999 7.2/10 Linux, minor tweaks - MSI Creator 16 AI Studio A1VIG (2024)
A 1.99 kg 16 inch creator laptop with a 4K MiniLED 120Hz panel, a 105W RTX 4090, 64GB of slotted RAM and a 99.9Wh battery, but it is expensive and the 4090 is power-limited so it loses to fatter chassis.
€ 3.719 7.2/10 Linux, minor tweaks - MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo B1M
A 1.5 kg 16-inch with a 99 Wh battery that actually delivers around 11 hours, from about 1049 dollars.
€ 1.199 7.0/10 Linux, minor tweaks - MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XW (2025)
A 2.61 kg Arrow Lake HX gaming 16 with an RTX 5070 Ti, slotted DDR5, two M.2 slots and a 240 Hz QHD+ IPS, and the 90 Wh battery actually does about 7 hours in light tasks.
€ 1.953 7.0/10 Linux unverified - MSI Stealth A16 AI+ A3XW (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 2025)
A 2.1 kg Strix Point slim 16 with a 240 Hz QHD+ OLED, an RTX 5080 and a 99.9 Wh battery in a sub-20 mm chassis, but RAM is soldered LPDDR5X, the thin shell throttles under sustained load and Linux on this exact SKU is not verified.
€ 2.789 7.0/10 Linux unverified - MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XW (2025)
A 2.5 kg Arrow Lake HX 16 with a 115W RTX 5070 and a 240 Hz QHD+ IPS panel at around 1500 dollars, but the RTX 5070 only has 8 GB of VRAM and the CPU tops 100 degrees under sustained load.
€ 1.394 6.8/10 Linux unverified - MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo (A2VMT, Core Ultra 7 258V)
A 1.0 kg Lunar Lake convertible with a 2.8K OLED and a 12-hour battery, dragged to minor-tweaks by the same IPU6 webcam every recent Intel thin-and-light has.
€ 1.799 6.8/10 Linux, minor tweaks - MSI Raider 18 HX AI A2XW (2025)
An 18 inch 3.54 kg desktop replacement with a 4K MiniLED 120 Hz panel, RTX 5080, 64 GB of slotted DDR5 and a 99.9 Wh battery that still lasts under 3 hours under any real load.
€ 3.440 6.8/10 Linux unverified - MSI CreatorPro X18 HX A14V (Core i9-14900HX, RTX 5000 Ada)
MSI's 18-inch creator-workstation: i9-14900HX, RTX 5000 Ada 16GB, 128GB DDR5 across four SO-DIMM slots, and the only 4K 120Hz MiniLED panel in this tier.
€ 5.799 6.8/10 Linux, minor tweaks - MSI Katana 15 (B13V, 2024)
The cheap RTX 4060 laptop, and it is cheap everywhere: 250-nit FHD panel, plastic chassis, 53 Wh battery good for about 3 hours.
€ 1.199 5.5/10 Linux, minor tweaks - MSI Cyborg 15 B2RW (2025)
The cheapest RTX 5050 laptop and it shows: 1080p 250-nit panel, plastic translucent chassis, 53 Wh battery good for about 5 hours of light work.
€ 929 5.3/10 Linux, minor tweaks
