Tactile. It’s a word I find myself thinking of the second I pull a new piece of hardware out of its box. A sense of the tactile, the smooth, the svelte, and the well-made, is to me one of the most important things a piece of hardware can have, particularly when it comes to gaming laptops. After all, these are things designed to be carried, touched, and interacted with daily. The way these objects feel is, to me and I believe any future buyer, very important.
Which brings me to the latest range of MSI laptops
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I got a chance to have a hands-on with these new machines at a press event in good old London town this week, in which most of the new range was on display for my perusal. There they sat, lit up in neon and displayed proudly on pedestals, and I set about making my way around the room from machine to machine, dutifully nodding at the specs sheets.
RTX 40-series mobile GPUs, the expected mix of Meteor Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh Intel chips, and fairly substantial SSDs. All good on paper, no doubt.
But as I bounced from one laptop to the next, swishing touchpads, clicking keys, running my fingertips over the frames, and holding them in my hands, I couldn’t help but notice that none of them felt good.
Perhaps I’ve been spoiled recently.
My most recent laptop reviews have been of the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16, two very high-end gaming laptops, each with slight issues of their own, primarily that they both have far too powerful a GPU for their cooling systems to adequately provide for.
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I criticized the Scar 18 for feeling old-fashioned, despite its huge amounts of gaming power, thanks primarily to a clunky chassis and some overzealous cooling. But having spent some brief time with the new MSI Titan 18 HX, perhaps I judged too harshly.
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