Tag: MSI

MSI isn’t the first manufacturer that many PC builders think of when it comes to making SSDs, but the company has been selling them for six years already. MSI …

The graphics card world has been plagued by stories of 12-pin power connectors burning and melting in recent years. But, MSI is addressing it with a new group of …

MSI has unveiled the technologies and components that will comprise the thermal coolers adorning its next-gen graphics cards, motherboards and other PC components. They include new engineering techniques, new …

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, MSI told its R&D team to go out and build the fastest Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card on the market… no expense …

MSI has used Computex 2026 to unveil a broad range of new PC components spanning motherboards, cases, power supplies and cooling solutions, alongside a 40th anniversary collection under its …

The High Performance Laptops Best Laptop Group Test is unique in Australia as it’s based upon reviews that take over 100 hours to produce and which actually cite Australian …

Every month, we perform a group test to determine the Best Portable Laptop. This used to involve updating our in-depth laptop reviews with the latest pricing to gauge the …

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 fresh air …

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 …

High Performance Laptops publishes several, on-going, laptop group tests but our quest to determine Australia’s Best Business Laptop operates a little differently and has significantly evolved over time. The …

We should probably start by setting something straight… a big 18-inch laptop is not really designed to sit on your lap – it’s more of a desktop replacement PC. …

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 …

There are some impressive new laptops on the horizon, but MSI is one of few manufacturers that has actually got one to market. The MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI …

End of financial year sales are the perfect time to pick-up a new laptop. What’s more, the bargains are even better in 2025 as the sales coincide with the …

MSI has launched a broad range of new laptops at the 2025 Computer Show in Taipei. It includes an amazing new, laquered Prestige model, Stealth models and a reworked …

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 …

New Lineup Redefines Performance for Gamers, Creators, and Professionals MSI has announced its new RTX 50 Series laptops at its MSIology: Dragonforged Dominance Launch Event. MSI says the new …

MSI has entered Australia’s electric vehicle (EV) market with a range of charging solutions designed to bridge the gap between growing EV adoption and the slow rollout of charging …

In our exhaustive, monthly group tests, we update the price, availability and value scores from High Performance Laptops’ definitive laptop reviews, to determine the ranking of various groups of …

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’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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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’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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …