WHAT Are THE PCMAG READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS?
PCMag’s Readers’ Choice Awards are annual, user-driven honors that spotlight the top brands in the PC hardware industry. Based on surveys from thousands of readers, the awards measure real-world satisfaction across key factors like overall satisfaction, reliability, cost, and support. By focusing on hands-on ownership experiences, they highlight the most trusted hardware powering today’s computing ecosystem.
Why is MSI Consistently Voted as One of the Most Trusted Tech Brands?
MSI is honored to receive the Readers’ Choice Awards for the 6th year in a row, signifying unwavering customer satisfaction, trusted performance, and a continued commitment to delivering industry-leading innovation year after year. MSI’s continued recognition reflects the confidence customers place in the brand and underscores the sustained commitment to engineering excellence, product quality, and meaningful innovation as a trusted leader in the global PC hardware industry.
What is an AI Laptop?
An AI laptop is a new generation of PC designed to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads directly on the device, enabling faster, more responsive experiences without relying solely on the cloud. Powered by dedicated AI hardware such as integrated neural processing units (NPUs), AI laptops can efficiently handle tasks like real-time content creation, intelligent performance optimization, voice and image processing, and on-device AI applications. For users, this translates to gaming and business laptops that adapt faster, improve productivity, boost in-game performance, and provide even more security features.
For gaming and high-performance users, MSI AI laptops take these capabilities even further by combining powerful hardware with new software to unlock AI-driven performance through smarter business laptops and more powerful gaming laptops. MSI AI Robot enables seamless natural language processing, providing system and application-wide control options for MSI laptops equipped with GeForce RTX GPUs, automatically optimizing for work and gaming efficiency and performance.
“This is our first year asking about AI laptops, and our readers overwhelmingly choose MSI machines with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). For anyone in need of a smart, powerful, portable Copilot+ PC, MSI is the way to go.”
-PCMag
“Oftentimes, one of the first, if not the first, laptops we see with a given chip is an MSI model. The company has built a reputation for incorporating new tech before almost anyone else, and that was especially true with the AI PC revolution. That’s because the first wave of AI PCs was enabled by robust NPUs in the latest chips. It stands to reason that readers would associate MSI with leading-edge AI in laptops.”
-PCMag Jon Burek (2026)
Which laptop has the most AI capabilities?
MSI scores the highest out of the competition with a 9.2, meaning in terms of AI capabilities, PCMag readers associate MSI with cutting-edge AI in laptops, gaming laptops and business laptops included.
Which AI laptop is the best overall?
For overall satisfaction and likelihood to recommend, MSI is ranked the highest by PCMag readers with a score of 9.4, beating the competition by a wide margin and signaling MSI as the go-to AI laptop.
Which AI laptop is the easiest to use?
For ease of use, MSI scores a 9.4, the highest among the competition, meaning readers find MSI’s AI laptops intuitive and easy to learn and understand.
What is the best budget AI laptop?
When it comes to cost and affordability, PCMag readers vote MSI as having the lowest cost for AI laptops, allowing users to run AI workloads without breaking the bank. For this category, MSI scores a 8.7, higher than the industry average of 8.2.
Which prebuilt gaming desktops do gamers prefer?
MSI scores the highest out of the competition with a 9.4, meaning in terms of overall satisfaction, PCMag readers associate MSI with the best performing, most reliable, and best value gaming desktops.
Which prebuilt gaming desktops provide the best value based on cost?
MSI scores the highest out of the competition with a 9.0. The results show that gamers consistently perceive MSI systems as offering premium gaming experiences without compromising on overall value.
Which prebuilt gaming desktops are the easiest to use?
For ease of use, MSI scores a 9.5, the highest among the competition, meaning readers find MSI’s gaming desktops intuitive and easy to learn and understand.
Which prebuilt gaming desktops have the best graphics performance?
MSI ranks at the top of the category with a 9.5 score, demonstrating that PCMag readers recognize MSI gaming desktops for their exceptional graphics performance. With powerful GPUs and optimized system design, MSI systems consistently deliver the high frame rates, visual fidelity, and smooth gameplay that gamers expect from a premium gaming desktop.
WHAT MAKES MSI MONITORS RANK #1 IN OVERALL SATISFACTION?
MSI dominates gaming monitors, but that's only part of the story. Productivity displays, and portable screens round out a lineup that serves every user and every setup — earning MSI a place at the very top of PCMag's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards for overall monitor satisfaction.
WHY ARE MSI MONITORS THE MOST RECOMMENDED MONITOR BRAND?
When a monitor truly delivers, owners tell others about it. MSI's monitors produce vivid colors, deep contrast, and sharp detail that leave a lasting impression — driving the highest “likelihood to recommend” score of any monitor brand in PCMag's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
WHY ARE MSI MONITORS RATED THE BEST VALUE BY CUSTOMERS?
MSI builds monitors that punch above their price point. From QD-OLED gaming displays to productivity and portable screens, every MSI monitor is engineered to deliver maximum performance at a price customers appreciate — reflected in a score of 9.3.
WHAT MAKES MSI MONITORS THE HIGHEST RATED FOR DISPLAY QUALITY?
MSI monitors are built around one core belief: display quality should never be compromised. QD-OLED technology brings true-to-life colors, deep blacks, and razor-sharp detail to every screen — qualities that readers noticed, awarding MSI a 9.4 score in display quality.
WHAT MAKES THE MSI GRAPHICS CARD HAVE HIGHEST OVERALL SATISFACTION?
PCMag senior analyst Michael Sexton, who tests dozens of GPUs per year, offers this analysis: “With the graphics card market running hot and graphics cards frequently selling out of stock, it’s difficult for any graphics card maker to pull ahead. MSI has been one of the premier graphics card vendors for years now, and its ability to stay competitive in a rapidly shifting market is impressive.”
-PCMag Michael Sexton
What makes the MSI Graphics Card the most reliable?
MSI consistently delivers high-performance hardware and superior cooling solutions. By utilizing military-grade capacitors and power components, reinforced PCBs, and sturdy metal backplates, MSI maintains rigorous quality control standards throughout the manufacturing process.
What makes the MSI Graphic Card perform at a high level?
One of MSI’s greatest competitive advantages is its advanced cooling technology—including the Twin Frozr, Tri Frozr, and Flow Frozr systems. By utilizing high-efficiency heat pipes, large heatsinks, and multi-fan arrays, these systems maintain low GPU temperatures. This thermal efficiency allows MSI cards to sustain higher boost clocks and prevent thermal throttling, ensuring peak performance even during extended, heavy gaming sessions.
What makes the MSI Graphics Card easy to use?
