The MSI Raider A18 HX A9W gaming laptop is the best gaming laptop money can buy. Between the 9955HX3D and RTX 5090, it offers desktop-class performance that screams through 4K 120FPS gaming wherever ...

While many gaming laptops balance portability and power, MSI’s Raider 18 HX AI throws compromise out the window: This machine goes for power, top to bottom. Starting at $3,999 (as tested), this ...

While the Raider's angular, brutal aesthetic is initially somewhat charming, it soon wears thin. It's certainly speedy, but doesn't do enough to justify its price point—particularly when other laptops ...

The MSI Raider 18 HX AI is the very model of a “desktop replacement” laptop. It’s big, it’s not much to look at, and it has a mediocre touchpad that implies users are really expected to connect a ...

The MSI Raider A18 HX A9W pairs AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9955HX3D CPU with Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the combo delivers record-setting performance. 2025 is shaping up to ...

TL;DR: MSI's upcoming Raider 18 HX NRE gaming laptop is leaked to feature Intel's Core Ultra 9 285HX CPU with 24 cores and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. It will include 64GB RAM and an 18-inch ...

Two gaming laptops, both from MSI, both packing enough power to make Crysis cower in fear. But which should you choose? The MSI Raider 18 says, “Hey, I’m a tank that eats benchmarks for breakfast,” ...

Back in CES 2024, MSI shocked us with its handheld gaming console. Now, the company bombarded us with surprising information about its high-end laptops for CES 2025. If this is not yet enough to ...

Let me start off this review with something that became immediately obvious when I pulled this laptop from the box: The MSI Raider 18 HX AI is a hefty boi. A chungus. A honking, chonking, slab of a ...