MSI is marking its 40th anniversary with the Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition — a gaming laptop priced at $7,000 that packs an Nvidia RTX 5090 with 24 GB of GDDR7 and an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor. It's one of the most expensive gaming laptops announced this year, and MSI is throwing in a free code for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight if you buy directly from them.
The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition ships with 96 GB of DDR5 RAM and a generous SSD storage configuration — both likely contributors to that eye-watering price tag. The display is an 18-inch MiniLED panel running at a maximum resolution of 3840×2400 with a 120 Hz refresh rate. That refresh rate is decent, though arguably underwhelming for a machine at this price point.
MSI isn't alone in going big for a milestone anniversary. Asus' ROG sub-brand celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this year with an aluminium-and-faux-copper motherboard, plus anniversary editions of the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 and a China-exclusive DRAM kit. Anniversary hardware tends to lean into premium aesthetics and limited-run appeal rather than pure value — which is fine, but it does mean these products are aimed at a very narrow audience.
The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition is hard to recommend to anyone outside of dedicated MSI enthusiasts or buyers with genuinely deep pockets. At $7,000, it sits in a bracket where the dragon-themed design work will need to do a lot of heavy lifting to justify the cost over comparably specced machines.
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