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Lots of gaming laptops spell for maximum capacity pinch maximum RGB showiness, but point goes harder than MSI’s Titan. The institution announced its Titan 18 HX laptop astatine CES 2025. It’s an 18-inch behemoth pinch an illuminated touchpad, Intel’s Core Arrow Lake processor, and Nvidia’s caller RTX 50-series GPU for a starting worth of astir $5,000.
But is that really outrageous enough?
It’d beryllium overmuch wilder to too merchandise a afloat unhinged Titan adorned pinch dragon designs and runes inspired by Norse mythology. And that’s precisely what MSI is doing pinch its Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth. It has nan innards of nan modular Titan, complete pinch a caller dedicated powerfulness conduit cooler conscionable for its PCIe Gen5 SSD to maximize proscription speeds, and it adds a monolithic etching of a hand-drawn dragon caput to its lid arsenic bully arsenic a 3D-printed dragon coin nether coagulated incorrect nan thenar rest. Now we’re talking.
According to MSI, those Norse runes connected nan lid mean “Dragon Edition.”
We’re still awaiting pricing information, but spec-wise, this constituent is roaring. It packs an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX CPU, Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU pinch 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, 1 slot of Gen5 NVMe M.2 storage, and 3 different slots of Gen4 SSD storage.
It has an 18-inch 4K Mini LED aboveground tin of 3840 x 2400 (16:10) solution astatine 120Hz refresh, a six-speaker audio setup (two of which are woofers), Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, Cherry mechanical keyboard switches pinch per-key RGB illumination, a 99.9Wh battery, and a powerfulness adapter tin of delivering 400-freaking-watts.
For I/O, you get 2 Thunderbolt 5 USB-C ports, 3 USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, HDMI 2.1, gigabit ethernet, and a full-size SD insubstantial slot. This afloat fire-breathing magnesium alloy package weighs successful astatine a hefty 3.6 kg / 7.94 lbs, but it’s someway not arsenic dense arsenic Alienware’s alloy anchor of a caller 18-inch Area-51 laptop.
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The inlaid dragon medallion has immoderate bully point activity incorrect it.
MSI has done Dragon Edition laptops before, but compared to erstwhile incarnations, nan caller Titan Dragon Edition looks much fierce and really small garish — conscionable look astatine this aged thing. And existent worshippers of Bahamut aliases Baal (or return your pick) whitethorn beryllium tin to get their draconic Titans successful an accessory bundle pinch a matching mouse, keychain, and colorful array pad erstwhile it launches successful March.
A glimpse astatine what immoderate of MSI’s Dragon Edition bundle accessories whitethorn look like.
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