Raider 18 HX (Intel) Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETAhead of CES, gaming laptop company MSI announced its 2025 lineup, which includes over 10 18-inch laptops to round out its catalog of heavy-hitting, high-performance devices. While other manufacturers are focusing on thin and light ultraportables, MSI showed off an arsenal of imposing devices, including the Titan 18 HX AI Dragon Edition, an aptly-named 18-inch gaming rig inscribed with Norse runes and a dragon’s eye. Also: ZDNET joins CNET Group to award the Best of CES, and you can submit your entry nowWhat’s noteworthy are all the new AMD processors on board MSI’s gaming lineup, with most laptops featuring both an Intel and AMD configuration. The Intel laptops sport a refresh of Intel’s “Raptor Lake” H and Intel “Arrow Lake” HX/H series processors with the previously-mentioned Titan 18 HX AI, Raider 18 HX AI, Stealth 18 HX AI, and Vector 18 HX AI models. On the AMD side, the Raider comes with the AMD Ryzen 9, and the Stealth with the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series. Besides the laptop lineup, MSI showed off its spicy gaming handheld, the Claw 8 AI+, and a handful of non-gaming devices aimed at enterprise and productivity consumers. Here’s a closer look at the king-sized laptops MSI just announced. Titan 18 HX AI (Dragon Edition) More