MSI Titan The heart is not to faint – it has never been. It is an 18-inch beamoth, fitting in the “desktop replacement” category of gaming laptops. It is a particularly for PC gamers who not only want to top the top performance, but also some bling.
You have to work hard to find gaming laptops with many high-end features. With a mini-LED display, a mechanical keyboard, and an invisible haptic touchpad, there are no other 18-inch gaming laptops like it, and this means an attractive price.
big and beautiful
The MSI Titan is largely. It is 1.26 inches thick at its largest point and weighs about 8 pounds. You read that right. Eight full pounds. Gaming laptops are not known to be particularly portable, especially 18-inch screens, but MSI Titan HX Razer Blade is almost a full pound heavy compared to 18.
It is heavy and well designed, however, as you expect you in a laptop to the north of $ 5,000. This razor blade is not a single piece of mechanized aluminum like 18, but magnesium-aluminum alloys seem stronger. The MSI Titan HX uses a thermal shelf on the back, which leads to the laptop, but also provides a fruit for additional ventilation and ports. MSI keeps it significantly minimal with all-black interior and silver trim, especially compared to the older versions of this laptop. The invisible touchpad makes this feel even more modern. And yet, both razor blades 18 and Alienware 18 Area -51 My book has more intelligent designs.
Photograph: Luke Larsen
Photograph: Luke Larsen
Photograph: Luke Larsen
In the rear, you will find Power Jack, HDMI 2.1 port and Ethernet. Next to some large-scale vents, you will get three USB-A 3.2. Gen2 port with two Thunderbolt 5 ports, SD card slots and a headphone jack, along with the port. It is about every port that you can imagine, but Thunderbolt 5 ports are interesting part.
Intel sent me several Thunderbolt 5 accessories to showcase how many bandwidth the new imagination provides. I installed two 32-inch 4k 240-hurts OLED gaming monitors, all operated through a single USB-C cable. It is magical looking at the two high-rafresh-vet monitors together, despite the 240-hurrts fresh rates. In the past, Thunderbolt 4 ports were limited to two 4K monitors at 60 Hz.
Even if you do not have two expensive gaming monitors to connect, the MSI Titan 18 HX actually has a solid mini-LED display onboard. This can be 414 knots of brightness in SDR and double in HDR. This is not as good as OLED monitors out of there, but it is definitely bright enough to notice the difference in HDR. Color saturation is also great.
You want 4K resolution when it spreads on an 18 -inch screen, even if you do not always want to play games on that native resolution. It is incredibly sharp. This is actually the best screen that you can get on 18 inch laptops right now, as OLED is not yet common in this large screen size. MSI also offers an IPS version of this panel, as well as a low-resolution 2,560 x 1,600 240-HZ IPS option.
Unfortunately, the speaker and webcam are not in the form of premiums. The 1080p camera is noise, and the six-speaker audio system is of average. The speakers are almost irrelevant, given how loud the noise of the fan is, at least when it comes to gaming.
Its sleeve upwards
Photograph: Luke Larsen
The keyboard is unique and has a complete pleasure for type and game. It is a cherry MX low-profile mechanical keyboard that feels chunky and touch. This is the opposite of any laptop that I have typed in the sense that captures the spirit of a mechanical keyboard on your laptop. My only complaint is that many keys are not mechanical, such as arrow keys, number pads and function rows. Once you notice, it gets a little nervous.
