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.
WHY IS MSI THE BEST OVERALL MONITOR BRAND?
MSI earns loyalty across the board - not just in gaming. From ultrawide monitors to productivity panels, owners call their MSI display the best monitors they’ve ever owned, earning the highest overall satisfaction score in PCMag’s 2026 Reader Choices’ Awards.
WHY ARE MSI MONITORS THE EASIEST TO USE?
Great monitors get out of the way and let you focus. MSI’s displays are designed around the user - with intuitive controls and AI-powered features that adapt to how you work, play, or create. PCMag readers recognized that with the highest score in Ease of Use.
WHY ARE MSI MONITORS RATED THE BEST VALUE BY CUSTOMERS?
MSI monitors are built to deliver more than what you pay for. As PCMag’s Zackery Cuevas puts it, “while prices have skyrocketed for a number of reasons, MSI certainly proves its worth by delivering amazing features" - a sentiment echoed by real owners who ranked MSI #1 in Cost in PCMag’s 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards.
WHY DO MSI MONITOR OWNERS RECOMMEND MSI TO OTHERS?
When a monitor truly delivers, owners tell others about it. MSI earned the highest Likelihood to Recommend score among monitor brands - with user-first features like OLED panel protection, Less Blue Light that keep the experience great long after unboxing. “I’ve not had this monitor long, but it’s the best monitor I’ve owned so far,” says one respondent of their MSI display.
WHY IS MSI THE BEST OVERALL MOTHERBOARD BRAND?
PCMag readers voted MSI the #1 motherboard brand in 2026, recognizing MSI for delivering the best balance of exciting new features and competitive pricing — the hallmark of a brand built for DIYers.
WHY DO MSI MOTHERBOARD OWNERS RECOMMEND MSI TO OTHERS?
From flexible pricing to effortless setup, PCMag readers consistently recommend MSI motherboards. Builders praise the ability to find the perfect feature set at any budget, while tech enthusiasts highlight MSI's frequent BIOS updates and smart auto-detection of drivers and chipsets — making builds easier than ever.
WHY IS MSI THE BEST OVERALL GRAPHICS CARD BRAND?
In 2026, for the third consecutive year, MSI is the top brand for installable graphics cards, leading the market in quality, pricing, and performance.
WHY DO MSI GRAPHICS CARDS HAVE THE BEST PERFORMANCE?
