MSI's spangly MEG Vision X AI desktop PC is just the ticket for anyone wanting to recreate that Scotty scene in Star Trek IV

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A photo of an MSI MEG Vision X AI desktop gaming PC on display at CES 2025

The OEM desktop PC market is a tough one to stand out in and erstwhile PC mega manufacturer MSI has been trying for years with all kinds of designs, to little success. But at CES 2025, it showcased what it claims to be the ultimate desktop PC—sorry, Ultimate AI Gaming Desktop—in the form of the MEG Vision X AI, replete with countless AI features and a huge, voice-activated touchscreen.

I first saw this model in October of last year duringMSI’s Shenzhen factory tour.Other than now sporting one of Nvidia’s newRTX 50-seriesgraphics cards, theoverall design and specshaven’t changed. You get anIntel Core Ultra 9 285Kin all variants, but the exact model of GPU, amount of RAM, and storage will depend on how much cash you want to hand over.

I’ve not seen any prices yet but given that MSI’s top-end desktop PCs are all extremely expensive, you can be certain that this one will be too. To help you part from your hard-earned money, the feature that will certainly grab your attention is the 13.3-inch IPS touchscreen on the front panel.

Its specs aren’t super high-end—1080p resolution, 60 Hz refresh rate—but it looks better in real life than it does in pictures. I found it very easy to use, being fast and responsive to touch. Not that MSI really wants you to be poking it for everything because the screen’s big party piece is voice control.

Thanks to its built-in microphone and speakers, as well as MSI’s ubiquitous AI software, one should be able to yell all kinds of commands at it and get the desired response. I wasn’t able to test it when I used it (the feature wasn’t available at the time and I was far more interested in playing around with its Arrow Lake chip) but if it works properly, then it could be kinda neat.

“Show me GPU temperatures,” for example. “What’s the weather like tomorrow? How do I make transparent aluminum?”

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A photo of an MSI MEG Vision X AI desktop gaming PC on display at MSI Shenzhen factory

Yes, indeed. Forget the RTX 50-series GPU and all its AI-powered wizardry. Forget the Core Ultra 9 285K (which won’t be hard). Now you can have a pre-built desktop gaming PC that you can fully relivethatScotty scenein Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The MEG Vision X AI is anything but quaint, though.

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Still, the designisrather nice and the quality is genuinely top-notch. And I kinda like the idea of yelling at a computer to do things. Wait, I already do that. I guess the difference is that theMSI MEG Vision X AImight actually do something rather than mine all just sitting there pretending to ignore me.

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