Close Menu
Technology Mag

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.

    What's Hot

    Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets

    September 17, 2025

    All the news from Meta Connect 2025

    September 17, 2025

    Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld

    September 17, 2025
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    Subscribe
    Technology Mag
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube
    • Home
    • News
    • Business
    • Games
    • Gear
    • Reviews
    • Science
    • Security
    • Trending
    • Press Release
    Technology Mag
    Home » This MSI Gaming Laptop Doesn’t Need AI to Be Great for Work or Play
    Games

    This MSI Gaming Laptop Doesn’t Need AI to Be Great for Work or Play

    News RoomBy News RoomSeptember 26, 20243 Mins Read
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Reddit WhatsApp Email

    I was able to max out at 120 frames per second while playing Doom Eternal on Ultra settings, and even got around 70 fps in Starfield on Medium. Starfield dropped down to a still-playable 50 fps on Ultra, though I got it up to 80 fps on Ultra by enabling frame generation. I’m not a fan of this feature as it can sometimes lead to some weird smoothing effects—to my mind, it hits the same nerve as motion smoothing on TVs—but your mileage may vary.

    In terms of battery life, your best bet is to keep your charger nearby for gaming sessions. The nearly 100-watt-hour battery is massive, but so is the power draw. It lasted around three hours of heavy gaming, and closer to six to seven hours with more typical use.

    These limitations make the MSI Stealth 18 best suited to being a workhorse laptop you can play games on at the end of the day. Running media editing apps like DaVinci Resolve and Blender was smooth, and I rarely noticed performance problems while working on it. Most gaming laptops would run similarly with comparable GPUs, but the new Meteor Lake CPU gives you a bit of future-proofing. Companies like Blackmagic are working on adding support for NPUs generally, so if there’s an area where Intel’s NPU is likely to be used in the future, it’s likely media creation first.

    There might be better laptops purely for gaming—the Razer Blade 18, for example, trades a lower-resolution screen for a whopping 300-Hz refresh rate. But if you’d rather have one powerful laptop for work and play, the Stealth 18 is a solid investment.

    All the Right Extras

    The design of the Stealth 18 feels a little bit more gam3r than I like, but I can live with it for all the extra little touches MSI has put in this thing. For starters, it comes with a NumPad. I don’t care what anyone else says, NumPads are great, and I appreciate that there’s a powerful gaming laptop with one. It’s most handy while doing various video editing tasks, less for gaming, but if you’re like me, you’ll appreciate its presence.

    The rest of the keyboard is similarly delightful. The font on the keys looks strikingly similar to the font Sony inexplicably used for both PlayStation and Spider-Man branding back in the aughts. The chiclet-style keys are flat, with no dimples, but they’re raised enough to feel easy to distinguish while typing, though my most common mistake was hitting the new and largely unnecessary Copilot key, which takes up room near the space bar. The trackpad is super smooth. It could be a bit bigger, but I only wished this while connected to a second monitor.

    Photograph: Eric Ravenscraft

    There’s an Ethernet port, HDMI port, and the proprietary charging port on the rear of the device, which is an incredibly convenient location for plugging the laptop into a desk workstation. It’s not quite as convenient as a laptop docking station, but it’s less cluttered than cables sticking out the sides. I’m also a fan of the dedicated fingerprint sensor, which makes it easier to sign in to Windows and unlock password managers.

    Overall, the MSI Stealth 18 is a powerhouse, even without the NPU. At $3,300 for the RTX 4080 model, you can save a few hundred dollars compared to comparably-specced (minus the refresh rate) laptops like the Razer Blade 18. Just make sure to keep your wall charger handy.

    Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Email
    Previous ArticleLG smart TVs have started displaying ads when idle
    Next Article Moment’s SuperCage smartphone rig has more ports and more power for filmmakers

    Related Posts

    Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here’s What They Mean

    September 16, 2025

    ‘Hades II’ Is Coming to Nintendo Switch This Month

    September 15, 2025

    Nintendo Drops Surprise Trailer for New ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’

    September 14, 2025

    Nvidia’s GeForce Now Update Feels Like Someone Put an RTX 5080 in My MacBook

    September 12, 2025

    ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

    September 12, 2025

    How ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

    September 11, 2025
    Our Picks

    All the news from Meta Connect 2025

    September 17, 2025

    Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld

    September 17, 2025

    The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

    September 17, 2025

    Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives

    September 17, 2025
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Instagram
    • YouTube
    • Vimeo
    Don't Miss
    News

    Microsoft Paint is getting its own Photoshop-like project files

    By News RoomSeptember 17, 2025

    Microsoft has been steadily improving its Paint app for Windows 11 in recent years with…

    WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, Crispr Breakthroughs, and More

    September 17, 2025

    ‘Ask Gemini’ AI will tell you what you missed during a Google Meet call

    September 17, 2025

    Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

    September 17, 2025
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of use
    • Advertise
    • Contact
    © 2025 Technology Mag. All Rights Reserved.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.