The Fusion of Performance and Luxury: The MSI AMG Motorsport Collaboration
This is pretty cool, look at this collaboration. MSI AMG Motorsport, official partner. Not the collaboration I would expect, but kind of a cool combination. Exciting! Speedy, like I want my laptop to be fast, and obviously, I want my AMG to be fast as well. I’m excited to see what this collaboration looks like.
Exploring Luxury Gaming with MSI AMG Motorsport Laptop
Steal 16 Mercedes AMG and we have some specifications as well. Selenite Gray, which by the way is a color option on an actual Mercedes AMG vehicle, so that’s pretty cool. I wonder if it’s the exact same paint chip. 16-inch UHD plus IPS OLED. Intel Core i9 13900 H, which is the chip you would want. It’s also got RTX in it, RTX 47d. 2 TB SSD.
Unboxing MSI AMG Motorsport Laptop
This is a premium spec sheet on a premium collaboration. I didn’t expect I thought it was a lift off, but it’s actually a hinge. Woah! Official partner. Look at the luxury gaming experience (Checkout: 8 Best OLED Gaming Monitor). Smells luxury.
Experience the ultimate blend of speed and sleek performance with the MSI gaming stealth series, created in collaboration with Mercedes AMG, for a blazing fast luxurious gaming experience.
When I think of a luxury gaming experience, I think of two things, two brands specifically. One is MSI, the other Mercedes. So finally, this exists. The well Mercedes AMG is renowned for its high-performance engine, which is hand-assembled and signed by the engineer in charge. This is a very cool thing actually, if you ever pop the hood on an AMG vehicle you see the signature of the manufacturer, and I’m talking not about the company but the individual craftsman who assembled it by hand.
Every engine is built by hand, from start to finish, each one by its own single master technician.
One man, one engine. One man, one engine. Talk about the stealth 16 AMG Motorsport, and here we have a little graphic, almost like a blueprint look. We have this sleeve that it is housed in, it’s actually fairly lightweight. I’m going to leave that shrouded for a moment as I lift out the other components. Ooh, we have a mouse mat with red stitching, which is reminiscent of the interior of an AMG Mercedes vehicle. MSI Dragon AMG Motorsport, this is your typical kind of mouse pad material with the deviated red stitching and then on the backside sticky surface so it does not slide around on the table.
Power cable, extension cable with MSI and Mercedes branding on the cable management velcro strap. W, they even got AMG on the power adapter. This is a 240W capable power adapter with the same cable tie as well. So here we have a certificate by the looks of it. Luxury gaming experience, unique AMG rhombus pattern represents the combination of performance and luxury. 16:10 screen ratio, 4K OLED display, thermal shared cooling system, aluminum-magnesium alloy reducing the weight enhancing the durability. Wow, these are almost like postcards. Look at this one, AMG racing vehicle, another version of a similar postcard, this is cool, added little touch. We also have a dual-drive swivel type USB 3.2 Type-C 128 GB thumb drive. Ooh, I like that, a little Type-A on one side, Type-C on the other, which is the perfect companion for your MSI AMG Motorsport laptop and it’s 128GB. This is a pretty legit amount of storage. This satisfying mechanical click, I have encountered actual fidget devices that are not as pleasing as this, don’t get me started. Sometimes you get items in these special editions which, let’s be honest, they’re probably going to sit on a shelf. Nothing wrong with that, little collectibles and things, but I like it when it can be both.
It can be functional and somewhat collectible, versatility. What we have here, a little accessory pouch, an accessory bag for whatever you please. It has a mesh portion here, it’s padded as well. If you do store your cables in here, they will be protected somewhat. This could be a toiletries bag when you travel, and you just want to rep MSI AMG Motorsport. This is pretty cool, I like that. I think this is our last item, and thank goodness it’s in here. I was worried for a moment, I was like you gave me the mouse pad, did you give me the mouse? And yes, they did give me the mouse. This is the M66 MSI gaming mouse, also in the selenite Gray. I guarantee that’s going to match, look at this kind of metallic matte finish. If you’ve ever seen this on an actual AMG vehicle, very pleasing. I mean, if you try to think of a color that you would connect to the Mercedes AMG brand, that would be it. We obviously have our AMG Motorsport branding, official partner. We have a carbon fiber weave look to our button with a braided cable, it also looks like it has RGB lighting around the ridge and obviously forward and back as well.
What a wonderful unboxing experience so far and we still haven’t even seen the special edition laptop itself. Here we are with the MSI AMG Motorsport Stealth 16. Now this is a 16-inch laptop based on the spec yet it seems small which is a good thing and it is fairly lightweight probably something to do with this magnesium construction. MSI AMG Motorsport on the lid. Ooh, look at this back panel, let me just get a peel going. Nice! We have this glossy back panel with some backlighting. I can see the word stealth. Nicely integrated grill. Everything does feel quite premium. AMG branding on the front reminding you of the interior of a luxury vehicle.
Let’s look around the outside first, over here on the left-hand side we have a full-size ethernet jack as well as a full-size HDMI port which this thing is so thin the ethernet jack itself had to kind of be bumped out a little bit and you can see that the HDMI port takes up pretty much the full thickness of the device. We’ve got micro SD card expansion, we’ve also got a type-c port. We go around to the right-hand side and we have a little LED indicator for the battery, a 3.5 mm headset jack. There is a thunderbolt connector, this doubles as a charge port, USB-A, and then our dedicated power port for utilizing the 240W power adapter.
Gaming
Once again, racing heritage, kind of carbon fiber looking, this does a good job of kind of taking the emphasis off of the front-facing camera. Does look like there’s a little switch then and obviously you can see it better if you do choose to close off that front-facing camera for privacy, you can do so with this satisfying mechanical slider. Not just any microfiber protective cloth, this one once again MSI AMG Motorsport branded and the keyboard here has been customized as well. AMG pattern on the space bar, oh, start engine button on the power switch, check this grill on the top. The AMG logo is hidden in there, an almost flush fingerprint unlock, oh, and over here as well. I think this is one more peel, MSI AMG Motorsport below the display on the bezel. We do have an OLED display here, 4K, there’s going to be a premium price tag here but obviously this is a premium laptop. Oh, satisfying thumpy keyboard, zero flex in the laptop, they figured out a way to fit in a number pad as well and a large trackpad.
The whole thing in this selenite gray, reminiscent as mentioned of an actual AMG vehicle. A little LED light fires up on the start engine button, we have the boot-up screen. This is one of these displays that has, I mean it goes completely flat with no resistance. I can already see the RGB backlight in action on the keyboard. AMG Motorsport inspired wallpaper here, it’s got a very race-inspired aesthetic. Here we are inside of MSI Center, so this is where you’re going to get your hardware monitoring, you can see the CPU usage, the GPU usage. You can also set up your profiles in here, a series of presets which can be toggled via one click. For example, your True Color will go to gaming mode, you’ll have the ability to record moments from in-game, the keyboard is capable of only highlighting certain keys that you choose to have highlighted. It will also disable the touchpad, assuming that you’re going to be using your gaming mouse.
So this is just a nice way of managing the behavior of the laptop depending on the usage scenario. Inside of the user scenario settings once again, you’ve got some specialized graphics in the menu. You can see AMG Motorsport, they’ve actually called their performance mode sport mode, the best system performance for multitasking and heavy-duty. By default, it’s in Smart Auto, kind of Auto switching between modes depending on your typical behaviors. You’ve also got Comfort, Silent, and Ecoy. Here’s our keyboard RGB setup, so we can do it per key basis, we can have a number of different illumination options. Right now it’s steady orange but like obviously color shift, multicolor breathe, tons of configurability for RGB backlighting on the keyboard.
Enemy ahead, so yes, this is an extreme XL cool and like distinctive-looking laptop, but it’s also a completely capable gamer. I’ve got it here at full resolution actually, 60 frames per second and high settings, and you can see like it’s perfectly fluid. Obviously, you can go in there and tweak your settings depending on how much fan noise or how much audio or whatever you want to prioritize for, but for such a thin laptop with such a high-resolution display, yeah, you’re still playing games. I mean, you still got an RTX 4070 in here, speakers (Bose Portable Home Speaker Review) are loud, they’re in your face, like they’re firing, they’re right there, they’re right where your ears are, you know. Like who is this for? Obviously, you can just get a typical standard gaming laptop or you can get something like this that’s just a little bit more unique. I think it does double duty as an executive laptop, slightly better, where you’ve got this more subdued selenite gray luxury feel to it. Like you show up to the meeting, no problem with this thing, and then play your games at lunchtime or something.
So there you have it, she’s a stealth baby, we good, still. Oh, not going to let you get an easy one on me. Triple kill, there we go. Oh, four kills, there we go, better. Too fast, too fast. Oh, he just jammed me off the side, you see that move? They’ll regret that score.
