Bearing in mind that the MSI Crosshair 16 HX's RTX 4060 sits at the low end of Nvidia's current generation of portable GPUs, you might be wondering how it can justify a £1,600/$1,750 price tag. The answer is "with difficulty". There are a few reasons this gaming laptop might actually be worth considering at that price, not least the magic of a high-wattage GPU, but can it live up to the competition?
The MSI Crosshair 16 is not a subtle looking machine, at all. It's chunky and a little bit funky, with a cyberpunk-style engraved design on the back, chamfers around the keyboard, hatching above it, and translucent WASD keys that shine through showing the mechanism underneath. Those keys forgo the pudding top design of the others, and while they're not specifically unattractive, I would have appreciated a black legend on them since the white is a little difficult to see.
