The range of MSI laptops has half a dozen gaming lines, which still go figure it out. In this hierarchy, Raider laptops occupy one of the leading roles. The average representative of the Rider series costs from 2 to 4K dollars and suggests analogies with sports cars. Their screens are always cool, battery life is above average (by the standards of gaming laptops), and functionality and upgrade options are at the level of the best representatives of the series. In addition, thanks to a neat RGB strip along the body and the same neat keyboard backlight, they look stylish and unusual.


The filling of the average model includes a 16-thread Intel Core i7 processor, a top-end graphics card of the GeForce RTX 2070/3070 caliber, 32 GB of RAM and a capacious SSD. Such power allows the user not only to play, but to quickly render 4K video, organize streams with special effects, superimpose an image from a good webcam on an image of a demanding game, or play voracious games like Cyberpunk 2077 or Metro Exodus in 4K with ray tracing and others. charms.

The gaming keyboard with individual RGB backlighting of each key was made by the masters of SteelSeries. And the excellent IPS panel delivers high contrast levels, ample brightness, and a 240Hz refresh rate. The only negative is that you have to put up with the noise level at peak loads. The cooling system successfully handles with the removal of heat from hellishly hot components, but it does not come without problems.