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18WENKU Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptop of 2025

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Gear of the Year

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Check out more of the year's best tech in our 18WENKU Hardware Awards 2025 coverage.

I've spent an awful lot of time testing, using, and benchmarking gaming laptops this year, and we've had a bumper crop, too. With Nvidia releasing a whole new generation of graphics chips (and you can bet I've been testing a ton of those as well...), the best gaming laptop manufacturers have been hard at work either respinning their old machines to make way for the new GPU silicon, or completely redesigning their laptop chassis for a new year.

If you'd have told me that an MSI gaming laptop would be a nominee in our best gaming laptop of the year listing, I would have thought you were struggling with reality. Mind, if you'd also told me you could bag an RTX 50-series notebook for the same price as a 64 GB DDR5 kit, I'd probably have the same reaction. And yet, both have come to pass. The MSI Vector 16 HX AI is at least deserving of its fate, as an endearingly anachronistic, but impressively affordable gaming machine.

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