Beaten and retained by Taitra’s security guards, I am brought back to the MSI stand from where I came from, the laptop that I had tried in mind given to MSI while the members of the North American public relations team are looking at me in a stony silence. I raise my head and meet their eyes, one by one.
“It belongs to a museum!” I scream on the clamor and the din of the 2025 Showfloor calculation.
One of the representatives I have known for years is screaming to be heard: “John, what is that, guy? Have you lost your mind?”
“It belongs to a museum!”
Ok, so this scene did not play anything yesterday when I put my eyes on the MSI Prestige 13+ AI Ukiyo-e Edition laptop, but that could well have. Everything I needed was a way to escape through the wrapped crowd of the MSI stand, which all looked with me which is undoubtedly the most beautiful laptop that we have ever seen.
The MSI Prestige 13+ AI is already one of the best MSI laptops put in recent years, but that exposed to Computex was something completely different. Splashed on the lid is a reproduction by hand of The big wave off Kanagawa By the Japanese artist and engraver Hokusai, a master of the Ukiyo-e art style who dominated Japan from the 17th to the 19th century.
I am not also in Japanese art and culture like many of my friends, some of whom speak various of Japanese degrees as second language and who all have almost all the manga that have been published in the United States (as well as many they had to pay more to order directly in Japanese stores), but I like Ukiyo-e.
I grew up in New York and spent a lot of time going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art throughout my childhood, and put it has a fairly impressive collection of Ukiyo-e printing, including an original impression of The big wave, Produced for the first time in 1831.
Something on the scenes of the bourgeois market, manor intrigues and picturesque personal moments with friends and lovers who define the Ukiyo-e style resonates with me to this day.
But it was always the representations of vulnerable humanity in the presence of unassailable natural forces that spoke to me most strongly. And no work of art captures this as well as The Great WaveWith its unstoppable water water on a pair of fishing boats, whose owners are not found. The only proof of their existence is the boats left behind, without pilot and at the mercy of nature.
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The Prestige 13+ AI Ukiyo-e edition reproduces this masterful scene thanks to the work of Okadaya, a Japanese company renowned for its work on the fine chinaware and pottery.
Similar to the way Ukiyo-e prints were made in steps and diapers during the day, the Okadaya process for creation The Great Wave On the Prestige 13+, an AI cover involves applying eight thin layers of hand -of -hand lacquer, gradually building the coloring and texture of the scene before polishing it with a smooth and resilient finish.
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The process is not limited to the cover either. The keyboard keys were also accelerated to a polished and piano type finish with keystands of gold color to match the MSI logo inside the device and on the cover, as well as the ports of the ports of the device.
While the works of art on the device fly the show (and by show, I mean Caltex, like the price of the Prestige 13+ ai Ukiyo-e won the price of the best choice of computex this year), the underlying laptop is always impressive also, with an Intel Lunar PCIe screen, a SSD 32 GB storage, an exhibition 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and a passage of 3.3.
As an artisanal collection product, the new laptop will have a limited series of 1,000 units, each obtaining their production number with laser at the bottom of the device. Given the house that went to these laptops, you can imagine that they will not be cheap, and I would not be surprised if the majority of them have already been bought before they even made their debut during this year.
However, even if it is not possible to have one yourself (unless you get very Fortunately), perhaps one of the buyers could do his good deed for the year and donate one of these masterpieces to a museum somewhere so that we can all enjoy the art that has gone to this device.
After seeing it closely and held it myself, I can tell you that he would not be in his place among the most beautiful Ukiyo-e impressions exposed to the Met, and it is something that I would fortunately take time to go see every time I am there.
