This Laptop is the Ultimate Result

💻 This Laptop is the Ultimate Result

In this video, Short Circuit is reviewing the MSI CrossHair 18HX AI A2XW (yeah it’s a laptop). Unpopular opinion, we need to know who gives these laptops names. Like what are the things they consider before naming a laptop? However, let’s see what this laptop can do:

📝 Video Summary

• It is an 18 inch laptop
• It has an Intel core 9 Ultra 275Kx, that’s 24 cores.
• The GPU (graphics) we have the NVIDIA RTX 5070 laptop
• The charging brick is about 240w, however it can go up to allow charging with the Thunderbolt 4 port that is at the left hand side.
• It has a USBA port, lots of ventilation
• It has a HDMI port
• Ethernet port at the back
• Another USBA port at the back
• A barrel jack connector
• Headphone and Microphone jack

This laptop is a gaming laptop and it is super loaded.

Battery life:

• It gives a decent battery life of about 7 hours which is not so impressive however for a gaming laptop it is pretty cool.

Keyboard:

• They have transparent WASD keys (really good for controls in gaming)
• The arrow keys and WASD keys light up when powered up [RGB lightning]

Display: They partnered up with NVIDIA so expect really great results.

• They have cool graphics of 1600p and 570 nits at peak brightness.

MSI lets you into their control center and you are able to customize a whole lot of things. In the video, he customized the fan noise, he increased it and it was almost as if the laptop was in “turbo mode.” This is cool especially when playing Call of Duty. However when you go turbo mode some features in the laptop begin to compensate, some kind of lag happens, this is because the content creator made use of a DLSS resolution in the video, coupled with turbo mode.

Speakers: They are actually not the strongest performing speakers, but at the same time, they are not entirely bad enough. It is fair.

Webcam: In case you are doing that interview, it has a dedicated switch to hide the webcam, a built-in microphone which is actually good. You are all set up for that Zoom meeting.

💡 My Thoughts

It was a pretty short video and honestly it's a fair laptop, a good deal. It was designed with the aim of entertainment and productivity in mind, and it does justice to those areas, though the video focused mainly on the gaming aspect. A cool thing about the laptop is that it has about 6 pipes to dissipate heat, lots of ventilators and you can adjust the fan noise. Depending on what you are doing and where you are at, you can hit the turbo mode. Another cool feature is the ability to hide your webcam. This is cool because let’s say you are in a meeting using Google Meet as the platform venue, you don’t have to use the "camera icon” to hide your face on camera, you can simply click on a button and that is a really subtle but cool feature.

💬 Final Thoughts

If you are looking for a laptop that you can do two things: have fun and work, I recommend the MSI laptop for you. The content creator explains the components that make up this laptop, from the internal to the external part. He also explains the pros and cons of certain features included in the laptop.

👉 Over to you, would you purchase this?