The new Stealth 16 laptop from MSI finally looks stealthy (well, a little)

MSI is announcing a caller Stealth 16 AI Plus gaming laptop for CES 2026. Borrowing a small from its business-class brethren, the caller Stealth has a thinner and lighter design, features a larger trackpad, and comes modular pinch a 240Hz OLED show (though immoderate world regions whitethorn commencement pinch IPS). It’ll tally $2,099 pinch an Intel Panther Lake processor and Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU (configurations spell up to an RTX 5090), and it’s owed retired successful March.

The GPUs successful the Stealth are throttled to 100W, arsenic this laptop prioritizes a bladed chassis to entreaty to creators and mundane users alternatively of aiming purely for gaming performance. So it makes consciousness that the Stealth is stealthier, successful lawsuit you want to do immoderate activity astatine a cafe aliases connected the go. But possibly move disconnected the four-zone RGB lighting if you want to really beryllium discreet.

It whitethorn beryllium conscionable 19.9mm astatine its thickest point, but the Stealth 16 AI Plus manages to cram successful 2 soul DDR5 RAM slots, 2 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 x4 SSD slots, a 90Wh artillery (smaller than the existent 99Wh one), plentifulness of ports, and moreover ethernet. It seemed an awesome package during my short in-person demo, but we’ll person to spot if it tin springiness the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 a tally for its money.