MSI is hoping that you aren’t yet tired of hearing about “AI” in consumer PCs, as the company’s lineup of high-end laptops and monitors at the German trade show IFA is jam-packed with artificial alleged-intelligence.
Most of it includes the usual bumps up to the latest processors, but a few products caught my eye — like a wacky desktop PC with a huge built-in screen for its dedicated AI-powered chatbot.
The MSI MEG Vision X AI is a desktop PC that’s truly thicc. It’s filled with the latest parts, of course, built around either an AMD Ryzen 9000 or Intel Arrow Lake CPU, with your choice of Nvidia or AMD graphics card. But none of that is what’s giving this desktop PC its bulk.
Nope. The bulk comes from its vertical touchscreen that takes up nearly the entire front fascia of the machine.
Screens hard-mounted to desktop cases aren’t a …