
The laptop boasts exceptional performance, offering seamless gaming experiences courtesy of its RTX 5070 Ti graphics card and Intel Core i7 processor. It comes preloaded with a genuine Windows 11 OS, enabling immediate use upon startup. The 300Hz high-refresh display is outstanding, resulting in an excellent all-around user experience.


So much fun! Handles graphics very well with the NVidia 5050. The display is beautiful. Laptop super quiet. Completely silent during regular work and the airflow is done so well that the fans are still very quiet under load. Dont even notice them.


Has enough USB ports. All ports (HDMI, DisplayPort, USB A, MicroSD/SD card reader, headphone/mic combo) work in recent Linux distributions, tested 5.14.14 kernel. Most ports work in Android with the Samsung Galaxy S21.

I needed to clone an Intel 660P M.2 1TB to a Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2TB. Win10 Pro detected the drive, Easeus allowed me to clone the drive. 17 minutes later, the drive was cloned and I swapped it out. Its easy, it worked, dare I say plug and play?







The gaming capability on this MSI Raider 18 is awesome. The 4K and 2K visuals are honestly the best I have seen on a non-OLED screen. Everything looks sharp, bright, smooth, and extremely immersive. Performance is outstanding. With the Intel Core Ultra 9 and RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, loading times are drastically shorter, and the system feels almost overpowered for most gaming. For non-competitive gaming, I honestly think balanced power settings are more than enough. It runs incredibly well without needing to push everything to maximum performance mode. Daily work and administrator tasks are handled with extreme ease. Apps open quickly, multitasking is smooth, and there is basically no waiting for things to load unless Windows itself is the reason. The keyboard is responsive and comfortable, and the Windows Hello fingerprint and face support are a huge plus for convenience. Overall, this laptop makes both gaming and work easier because it removes the usual slowdowns, lag, and waiting around.

- Good performance overall - Good performance up-to 32B Large Language Models - Good performance at videogames, at par or better than my 7700S. - Fans are mostly off during regular use. - When gaming, fans are not very loud in comparison to my Framework 16 - Works mostly out-of-box with Linux


- Integrated GPU Mode (meaning when not gaming I can switch to integrated GPU mode which extends battery life and less of a resource hog). - I like the options of being able to turn on the cooler boost with shortcuts.



Having purchase a 10 port Wavlink's USB 3.0 port hub in the past, which I have been completely satisfied with, I began to research if they made a USB-C docking station for my father's new Dell XPS 15 laptop. I compared a few different brands, but ultimately decided that for the price, it's hard to beat this Wavlink USB-C docking station/hub. It has an incredible number of ports: 12 individual ports. More than most people will ever utilize! Here is a brief summary that I wrote up of all ports: 1. USB-C Power Delivery Port - Can ONLY be used for Power (not for USB-C input). Offers power delivery up to 100W with an external charger. 2. DisplayPort v1.2a (4K @ 30hz) 3. HDMI v1.4b (4K @ 30hz) 4. VGA port (2K @ 60hz) 5. USB 2.0 6. USB 2.0 7. USB 3.0 8. USB 3.0 9. RJ45 Ethernet Port (Gigabit Connection) 10. SD card reader 11. Micro SD/TransFlash (TF) card reader 12. 3.5mm Audio Jack (for Headphones/Speakers) What has been impressive is that this unit stays very cool, which is very important for someone like me, who uses this docking station near other devices that dissipate heat. I have used this to run two monitors which is excellent.

1) Fast initial boot and setup. 2) Solid build.