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MSI is announcing a revamped Prestige business laptop line for CES 2026 with thinner designs, OLED displays, 2-in-1 options, bigger trackpads, and Intel’s new Panther Lake chips. The Prestige 14 AI Plus and Prestige 16 AI Plus are the flagship clamshells of the line, and there are also 2-in-1 versions on offer called the Prestige Flip. Each of them, Flip or non-Flip, comes standard with a 1920 x 1200 OLED display, while the 16-inch models can also be configured with a higher-res 2880 x 1800 / 120Hz OLED.
The Flip versions also include an MSI Nano Pen stylus that’s stored in a charging slot on the laptop’s underside. The tiny stylus has a tiny battery, so it only lasts about an hour, but MSI claims only 15 seconds of charging yields 45 minutes of use. And it’s got a mic, but it’s only for talking to Copilot. Yikes.
1/13I got a brief in-person glimpse of the new Prestige laptops during an early preview, and I was fairly impressed.
The Prestige 14 Flip will start at $1,299 and is set to launch late January with preorders beginning January 6th. The standard clamshell Prestige 14 will not come to the US. Prestige 16 models are expected in March, with the standard model starting at $1,399 and the Flip version starting at $1,549.
1/8The Prestige 13 weighs just 1.98 pounds / 889 grams. It’s an absolute featherweight.
The smaller and super light Prestige 13 has the same new futuristic MSI logo on its lid as its bigger siblings, but it’s otherwise still using the last-gen design. More importantly, its biggest change is a 2880 x 1800 OLED display and Intel Panther Lake chip options. Pricing and availability for the Prestige 13 aren’t finalized.
Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
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