COMPANY NEWS: MSI caught everyone off guard when it announced a partnership with Mercedes-AMG Motorsport at Computex 2023. As part of this announcement, a Limited Edition, cross-promoted laptop was unveiled and is detailed below. The full launch event, including a tour of the event space, can be seen in the following video.
First on stage was MSI’s ‘Alex’ who introduced everyone to the show. This included an introduction to Jeans Huang – MSI’s co-founder – who was making a rare appearance.
This was followed by speeches from MSI’s notebook GM, Eric Kuo, and Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Head, Christoph Sagemüller, who then both combined to formally launch the partnership.
The New laptop was presented and talked about by MSI’s Notebook Division National Manager, Steven Yang before a catwalk-style fashion segment showed off the new laptop to the audience.
The main event concluded when Ophelia Yang, MSI’s SVP of Product Marketing, talked through the highlights of MSI’s 2023 range of laptops.
The new MSI Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport
The new, 16-inch laptop is relatively thin-and-light weighing just 1.88KG and being just-shy of 2cm thick.
It’s got a rigid plastic chassis and comes in Mercedes-AMG’s Selenite Grey livery. Both company’s logos adorn the lid and Mercedes-AMG’s ‘Rhombuses’ patterns can be found in various details.
It has a Steelseries RGB keyboard with number pad and the Power Button apes Mercedes-AMG’s cars with its red lettering on silver styling.
Inside will be a powerful 13th-Generation, Intel Core i9 processor and an Nvidia 40-series GPU. It features a 60Hz, UHD OLED screen, Full HD webcam (with privacy slide) and six speakers(!) – two, 2W regular units and four, 2W woofers.
Windows Hello log-in is supported by both the webcam and a the fingerprint reader. It also has a max-size, 99.9Wh battery. Read a detailed hands-on review, here.
