MSI’s Titan 18 HX is getting a facelift with its new limited Dragon Edition Norse Myth gaming laptop. Announced at CES 2025, the new laptop is quite a significant upgrade over its predecessor, not just in design but horsepower as well, packing in NVIDIA’s new 50-Series GPU, an illuminated touchpad, Intel’s Core Arrow Lake processor and a striking design and artwork inspired by Norse Mythology. You can get your hands on this beast if you have a few thousand bucks lying around.
Since its a limited edition powerhouse, MSI spared no expense in the laptop’s flashy design. The Titan Dragon Edition features a striking hand-drawn dragon etched into the lid along with a 3D-printed dragon coin under glass within the palm rest – quite extravagant. It also features a new dedicated heat pipe cooler just for its PCIe Gen5 SSD, boosting its transfer speeds.
Spec-wise, it packs an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX CPU, NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, one slot of Gen5 NVMe M.2 storage, and three extra slots of Gen4 SSD storage. As for the display, it boasts an 18-inch 4K Mini LED screen capable of 3840 x 2400 (16:10) resolution at a 120Hz refresh rate as well as a six-speaker audio setup (two woofers included), Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, Cherry mechanical keyboard switches with per-key RGB illumination, a 99.9Wh battery and a power adapter delivering 400 watts. Yes, 400.
Weighing a heavy 3.6 kg, the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition is definitely not as heavy as Alienware’s new 18-inch Area-51 laptop but it’s still formidable. As for I/O, you get two Thunderbolt 5 USB-C ports, three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, HDMI 2.1, gigabit ethernet, and a full-size SD card slot.
While the exact pricing has yet to be confirmed by MSI, estimates put the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth at around a whopping $5,000. Given its limited edition nature, this isn’t entirely surprising.
