These are the sleekest MSI laptops I’ve ever seen

Jan 06, 2026 06:00 AM - 5 months ago 146370

Antonio G. Di Benedetto

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent complete 15 years successful the photography manufacture earlier joining The Verge arsenic a deals writer successful 2021.

MSI is announcing a revamped Prestige business laptop statement for CES 2026 pinch thinner designs, OLED displays, 2-in-1 options, bigger trackpads, and Intel’s caller Panther Lake chips. The Prestige 14 AI Plus and Prestige 16 AI Plus are the flagship clamshells of the line, and location are besides 2-in-1 versions connected connection called the Prestige Flip. Each of them, Flip aliases non-Flip, comes modular pinch a 1920 x 1200 OLED display, while the 16-inch models tin besides beryllium configured pinch a higher-res 2880 x 1800 / 120Hz OLED.

The Flip versions besides see an MSI Nano Pen stylus that’s stored successful a charging slot connected the laptop’s underside. The mini stylus has a mini battery, truthful it only lasts astir an hour, but MSI claims only 15 seconds of charging yields 45 minutes of use. And it’s sewage a mic, but it’s only for talking to Copilot. Yikes.

1/13I sewage a little in-person glimpse of the caller Prestige laptops during an early preview, and I was reasonably impressed.

The Prestige 14 Flip will commencement astatine $1,299 and is group to motorboat precocious January pinch preorders opening January 6th. The modular clamshell Prestige 14 will not travel to the US. Prestige 16 models are expected successful March, pinch the modular exemplary starting astatine $1,399 and the Flip type starting astatine $1,549.

1/8The Prestige 13 weighs conscionable 1.98 pounds / 889 grams. It’s an absolute featherweight.

The smaller and ace ray Prestige 13 has the aforesaid caller futuristic MSI logo connected its lid arsenic its bigger siblings, but it’s different still utilizing the last-gen design. More importantly, its biggest alteration is simply a 2880 x 1800 OLED show and Intel Panther Lake spot options. Pricing and readiness for the Prestige 13 aren’t finalized.

Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

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