MSI's $3,299 Prestige N16 Flip AI+ Puts Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip in a 2-in-1
MSI wants to sell you an AI workstation that fits in a backpack. The company opened pre-orders on October 7 for the Prestige N16 Flip AI+, a 16-inch 2-in-1 laptop built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X superchip, and priced it to undercut Microsoft: $3,299 for the base configuration, a full $400 less than a comparably equipped Surface Laptop Ultra. That number is the story. Everything else — the petaflop of AI performance, the 128GB of unified memory, the Tandem OLED screen — is Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform doing what Nvidia said it would do when Microsoft and its partners unveiled it at the October 7 Windows AI and Surface event in San Francisco. But MSI is the first OEM to put the chip in a convertible chassis and price it like it means to compete. ...