As one of the few slimline 18-inch gaming laptops on the market, the MSI Stealth 18 AI has a lot going for it. It’s sleek, relatively lightweight (in this category at least), and packs the specs to take on both day-to-day content creation and evening gaming jobs. It’s got some stiff competition in the Razer Blade 18, a machine that packs a better build quality at a similar price (but you’ll need to drop the 4K display to get there), and doesn’t quite reach the heights of the far more premium MSI Titan 18 HX and MSI Raider 18 HX.
This is a niche machine - it’s not going to work out for most, but with a fantastic display at the helm and plenty of AI future-proofing it could be perfectly tuned for some. I spent three weeks testing the RTX 4080 version of the MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio, putting it up next to the best gaming laptops on the market to see how it fares.
