Last week at CES 2026, AI-capable Copilot+ PCs were all over the convention show floor, with many PC makers promoting their so-called “AI PCs” with NPUs and other cutting-edge features. AI PCs have been hyped since 2024 as the next evolution of home computing, but it appears consumers aren’t buying into the new technology. That’s according to Dell’s sentiment at CES 2026, where an executive confirmed that the company would shift its focus away from AI PCs and re-center itself on the areas consumers care about: “We’re getting back to our roots with a renewed focus on consumer and gaming.” In other words, very few users seem to be buying new computers solely for the ability to run AI models and features locally. Dell might just be the first of many makers who are catching on to the lack of consumer interest in AI PCs. This goes hand in hand with Dell’s other refocusing efforts after listening to its consumers: the bringing back of its XPS line. Going forward, Dell will continue to sell computers with Copilot+ PC branding to comply with its partnership agreement with Microsoft, but the company’s marketing efforts won’t emphasize AI. It’s unclear how this shift will affect the pricing and availability of Dell PCs, as current market conditions and AI-driven RAM shortages are expected to drive up the costs of PCs by up to 20 percent. Read...

CES 2026 is in full swing and I’ve been surrounded by PC hardware all week. Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are proud of their new platforms. PC manufacturers have unveiled lots of impressive new laptops, and I even saw fanless air-cooling technology for handhelds. But one thing I haven’t seen is pricing—from anyone I’ve talked to. “Have you announced pricing on this yet?” is a question I kept asking, and so far I haven’t gotten any answers. So, I stopped asking. CES often isn’t a place where you hear about pricing, but things are especially chaotic for the PC industry this year. Skyrocketing RAM prices are confusing the entire industry RAM prices are skyrocketing. Some stores are even selling it at “market price,” like it’s lobster or something. Rising memory prices also mean that SSD prices are up, although less dramatically. Research firm IDC expects PC prices to increase by 20 percent in 2026. Foundry There’s a lot of uncertainty in the air and no one wants to announce prices because of it. For one thing, it’s unclear how expensive RAM is going to be in the months ahead. But also, I feel like no manufacturer wants to go first—if you announce a price, your competitor can use that to undercut you. PC manufacturers are figuring out how to spread price increases across their hardware lineup, too. When I talk to people about pricing, they all shrug and say the RAM situation is chaotic. No one knows exactly how it will affect PC prices. The tariff story no one wants to talk about The PC industry suffered through quite the mess last year. PC manufacturers announced a lot of pricing prior to the unveiling of the tariffs—and then they had to walk it all back. In early 2025, I had one PC manufacturer tell me, point blank, that a laptop’s MSRP had gone up by $200 due to tariffs. After that, everyone was extremely quiet. Many PCs arrived with higher than expected prices. In 2025, I reviewed a lot of budget laptops that felt like they had a few too many corners cut for their retail prices. PC manufacturers moved manufacturing between countries to minimize the impact of tariffs. Pexels / Edit by Foundry This week, the US Supreme Court is expected to rule on tariffs. It’s unclear what the ruling will be and what its effects will be. Who wants to announce pricing before the dust settles on that? Here’s another story that people rarely talk about when it comes to PC pricing: the US dollar had a big decline in 2025, falling 9 percent against other major currencies. If you’re setting PC hardware prices in dollars and those dollars are falling against other currencies, that’s a big factor. These PCs weren’t designed for this chaotic RAM market It takes a significant amount of time to design and manufacture a PC or any other kind of hardware device. Truth is, the hardware being shown off by PC manufacturers at CES 2026 was designed for a different world—one where RAM and SSD prices remained stable. In an alternate world where RAM prices were knowingly headed for the moon, Microsoft may have spent the last few years optimizing Windows 11 to work well with 8GB of RAM rather than setting 16GB as the de facto standard with its Copilot+ PC requirements. We’d probably see fewer premium laptops with 32GB of RAM, which is often unnecessary for many workloads but desirable for manufacturers who want to include it as a flex to sell higher-spec models. Asus Zenbook A16 at CES 2026Matt Smith / Foundry We might’ve also seen more user-upgradeable RAM on laptops. This is a feature that’s often confined to business laptops, some gaming laptops, and tinkerer-friendly hardware like the Framework laptops. Instead, 2025 saw a lot of laptops with non-user-upgradeable RAM. Intel integrated RAM into Lunar Lake’s SoC design, and many laptop manufacturers stuck with soldered RAM that wasn’t user-upgradeable. The future of PCs may be operating systems that are more efficient with RAM, more hardware that gives users the ability to easily upgrade, and—unfortunately—higher prices all around. Do MSRPs mean anything in 2026? The fixed “manufacturer suggested retail price” may not make sense anymore in 2026. It already didn’t make much sense in 2025. RAM is just the latest chaotic element here. The forces of supply and demand are at work in the component market, and the industry is buying up so much memory for AI data centers that consumers and the PC industry are no longer the priority. That’s why Crucial stopped selling RAM to consumers and focused on data centers instead. Nor Gal / Shutterstock.com The idea that a PC manufacturer could set a fixed price for hardware when manufacturing and import costs are in such flux may be outdated now. For example, Microsoft keeps raising Xbox hardware prices. Instead of an MSRP that drops, as in previous hardware generations, we’re now seeing MSRPs that increase over time for a wide variety of reasons that all keep driving costs up. Companies like CyberPowerPC have raised prices in response to RAM costs going up, too. There’s still value to be found Hardware prices are going up. While that sucks, it’s not a reason to avoid purchasing a machine you really love. People often talk about investing in quality items that really matter, like a good pair of shoes or a mattress. I’d say the same for laptops and PCs: if you use it a lot, you should prioritize your PC and get something you’re really happy with. If you’re looking for value, it’s still out there. Despite the fact that RAM prices are up, there are still lots of great deals you can find on laptops and pre-built desktop PCs. The same will likely be true for next-generation hardware… if you can wait. I’m thankful there’s still a PC industry making awesome products, even if some manufacturers like Crucial are pulling out of it. At least Nvidia still makes consumer GPUs, even if they just had software advances like a new version of DLSS to unveil this year. I look forward to hearing more about the pricing on these machines and peripherals in the months ahead. I’m just not hearing much about it on the ground at CES 2026. Further reading: The best of CES 2026 and what blew us away Read...

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When it comes to gaming gear, Razer is a household name—and the Huntsman Mini is a keyboard you have to try. Now on sale for just $69 (was $130), this is a new all-time low price for this model on Amazon. If you’re in the market for a wired tenkeyless board that’s designed for gamers, you can’t go wrong with this one at this price. View this Amazon deal With this incredible 47% discount, the Razer Huntsman Mini is a keyboard that deserves your attention, especially if you’re a gamer who needs to free up more desk space. The compact 60% form factor eliminates the function row and number pad, lopping off a good chunk and freeing up valuable desk space for more mouse movement. The Huntsman Mini uses Linear Optical Switch technology that ensures fast and quiet keystrokes, and this type of switch is perfect for gaming, offering instant response without delay. This keyboard has an aluminum frame that’ll survive daily abuse, while the doubleshot PBT keycaps were built for durability. Also, it’ll be a while before those labels wear off. The Huntsman Mini comes with onboard memory that allows you to designate and switch between 5 different profiles, choose between preset RGB lighting effects, and so on. The keyboard comes with a detachable USB-C cable that conveniently disconnects when not in use—like when you want to pack it up for travel. Note, however, that this isn’t a wireless keyboard! It has no battery and draws power via USB. Getting the Razer Huntsman Mini for $69 is an absolutely fantastic deal, so hurry up and get your order in! Save a whopping 47% on Razer`s compact tenkeyless gaming keyboardBuy now at Amazon Read...

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Samsung has dabbled in the smart speaker space before, but the company’s all-new Music Studio 5 and Music Studio 7 Wi-Fi speakers pose serious competition for the likes of Amazon, Apple, Bose, and Sonos—at least at the higher-end of the market. Unveiled this week at CES and planned for a March release, both models present a distinctively modern, “dot-faced” industrial design by noted French artist Erwan Bouroullec, along with some equally interesting features destined to set them apart from the pack. (Don’t get too excited about all the colors shown in the photo above, however; they’re just trial balloons. Initial shipments will be in black or white only.) Alexa, are you in there? While it probably won’t be there at launch—and voice assistants in general warrant  just a single mention in Samsung’s press release—I’ve been told the Music Studio 5 (model LS50H) and Music Studio 7 (model LS70H) will support Alexa+, the generative-AI-powered digital assistant that Amazon promises is more capable and more conversational than the original Alexa. Alexa Plus also provides advanced smart home control options and new capabilities, such as automatically ordering food it knows you’ll like from Uber Eats, or standing in a virtual line for concert tickets from TicketMaster while you do something less tedious.   Not an Alexa fan? The new speakers will also answer to voice commands spoken to Google Assistant, as well as Samsung’s own Bixby, which is optimized for interaction with other Samsung products. Spotify Tap and Spotify Connect The Music Studio series also works with Spotify Tap, which leverages Spotify Connect over Wi-Fi, so you can jump-start a favorite playlist with just a touch on the speaker cabinet—no need to pull out your phone. The spiffier Music Studio 7 is adept at delivering the new, lossless rendering of Spotify Premium music content, streaming FLAC files at up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz resolution, as well as other content at resolutions up to 24-bit/96kHz. A CES booth tender also told me that Music Studio buyers who adopt Alexa as their voice assistant will get Amazon Music as their default music-streaming service, while those who choose Google Assistant will get YouTube Music as their default. As for other services—Tidal, Qobuz, and what have you—I’m told they’ll be able to use those services’ respective apps, Apple’s AirPlay, or—ugh—a Bluetooth connection.   For those who don’t mind wires, the Music Studio 5 is equipped with a Toslink digital audio input, while the beefier Music Studio 7 boasts an HDMI port as well. I presume that will be HDMI ARC, but no one at the booth could answer my question for sure. I know for certain that up to five Music Studio speakers can be synchronized with recent Samsung TVs via Bluetooth, thanks to the company’s Q Symphony surround-sound processing. This will mix those speakers’ output with the TV’s built-in speakers. Q Symphony will also let you mix and match some Music Studio speakers with a Samsung soundbar and/or wall-hanging Music Frame speakers. Q Symphony smarts will tonally balance the bunch. Multi-room audio options Another option, for whole-home audio devotees, will be to stream music—the same or different tracks—to as many as 10 Music Studio speakers at once, including grouped speakers. Samsung’s SmartThings app will manage that trick. Unfortunately, it won’t be possible to configure two speakers as a stereo pair, as both the Music Studio 5 and Music Studio 7 output two channels on their own. With its sculpted dome and sloped back, the smaller Studio 5 ($249) offers a more distinctive look than its core competition: the $219 Sonos One, Gen 2 and the $199 Bose Home Speaker 300. The Studio 5 packs two high-performance left/right front tweeters beneath a 4.2- inch woofer (Samsung’s people insisted on calling it a “subwoofer”). An integrated wave guide and dynamic bass control contributed to the bigger and better-than-expected performance I heard in the challenging environment of Samsung’s CES exhibit space, but I’ll reserve final judgement for a full listening session in private. The Music Studio 7 ($499) is an all-in-one,  3.1.1-channel, spatial-audio speaker featuring Samsung’s own signal-steering methodology (not Dolby Atmos). Its tweeters fire separate channel information from the front, left, and right sides, as well as the top the boxy, perforated metal wrapped enclosure, while a 5-inch front-firing, rear-ported) “sub” delivers all the non-directional low-frequency information. Samsung enhances the four-direction throw and clarity of the channels with what it calls Pattern Control Technology and AI Dynamic Bass Control. Samsung is clearly appealing to the same “I only have room for one box” music/smart home buffs who are also considering the rest of the spatial audio-adept, smart-speaker competition: the $479 Sonos Era 300, the $299 Apple HomePod, and the $220 Amazon Echo Studio. I can’t wait to hear what these puppies can do in the real world. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart speakers. Read...

If you thought Micro RGB would be the only new TV tech proliferating throughout TV lineups in 2026, think again. Dolby Vision 2 is also coming to many new TVs this year. Hisense announced its intention to support the technology in 2025, with Philips and TCL joining the party at CES this week. First unveiled in September 2025, Dolby Vision 2 promises to alleviate some of the flaws in the original proprietary protocol; namely, Dolby Vision’s overly dark scenes, which will be corrected with an AI-powered feature Dolby calls Precision Black. AI will also redeem the original protocol’s unrealistic sports and video game rendering, via Dolby Vision 2’s Sports and Gaming Optimization, which promises to deliver both malleable white point and motion info. Motion artifact reduction, meanwhile, will be handled by an Authentic Motion element of the protocol, but that feature will be limited to an advanced version called Dolby Vision 2 Max and will likely be found only on higher-end TV models. Additionally, Dolby Vision 2 will adjust the entire color and contrast scheme according to ambient lighting conditions, though obviously this will only work on TVs with ambient light sensors. What’s all this about metadata? Well, Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HDR10+ are relatively small streams of data that piggyback on the actual picture data stream and tell a TV that understands them how to render the content. This can be as granular as frame by frame (in the case of HDR10+ and Dolby Vision 1 and 2), or all at once up front, as with HDR10. Caveats Dolby Vision 2 will only deliver its benefits with content that was created with it. (the movie studio Canal+ was among the first to announce support for it). There was a bit of a brand-war noise at the onset of this piggyback metadata technology, but it was so easy (and free) for content creators and publishers to implement all the protocols, that it became a tempest in a teapot. Hopefully, it will be the same this time around. That said, Samsung will undoubtedly stick with the royalty-free HDR10/HDR10+, as it has in the past. Meanwhile, both LG and Sony have been mum about implementing the new tech; however, if Dolby Vision 2 lives up to the hype and catches buyer’s attention, both industry giants are sure to follow at some point. Sadly, Dolby Vision 2 won’t be an upgrade for existing TVs that support Dolby Vision, as the tech requires new hardware. For now, that means new TVs equipped with a MediaTek Pentonic 800 with MiraVision Pro PQ Engine chipset. Read...

For many people, a video doorbell isn’t just part of their home security system, it is the system. With a camera at the front door and an app on their phone, they jump to the conclusion that they’ll capture faces on the sidewalk, license plates at the curb, and anybody cutting across the lawn. Most doorbell cameras deliver far more modest real-world performances. They have a tight field of view that sees what’s directly in front of their lens; they’re built to frame a visitor’s face standing in front of the door, not the entire space around the door. That leaves blind spots that can surprise new owners: areas right at the threshold, where packages disappear from view; blurry depictions of passersby on the sidewalk or people walking up the driveway, because they’re outside the camera’s field of view; and side-to-side movement close to the door that slips past the edges of the frame. Doorbells still provide real awareness. But what they show is shaped by factors such as lens geometry, aspect ratio, motion-detection tech, and other factors–including AI in some cases. Let’s look at how those design choices define what your doorbell can realistically see–and what it can’t. Field of view Video doorbells that can deliver a head-to-toe view of visitors, such as the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus shown here, can also capture packages left on your porch.Michael Brown/Foundry Field of view–measured in degrees–describes the width of the viewing cone that spreads outward from the camera’s lens. This is the slice of the real world the lens can actually see. But field of view isn’t a single number. It’s split into two parts: horizontal field of view, which determines how much the camera sees from left to right, and vertical field of view, which measures how area it can capture between the ground and the sky. Most doorbells emphasize horizontal coverage. Specs commonly tout 130- to 160 degrees side-to-side, which helps pick up people moving along sidewalks, walkways, or driveways before they reach the door. That width provides useful context, especially on wide porches or corner lots where activity doesn’t always come straight in. Vertical coverage is often shortchanged. Many cameras capture much less than 90 degrees top-to-bottom, creating a wide but shallow image. Faces and torsos are centered neatly in frame, but the ground just below the lens is cut off. Packages placed against the wall vanish. Small kids or pets drop out of view as they get closer. Perspective compounds this. The nearer something is to the lens, the easier it falls outside that narrow vertical cone. So when deliveries disappear from recordings, the culprit is vertical cropping built into the lens design itself. Aspect ratios The Vivint Doorbell Camera Pro (Gen 2) delivers a 1:1 aspect ratio that can show packages left on your porch and visitors from head to toe.Michael Brown/Foundry Aspect ratio is simply the proportion between the width and height of the video image. It works alongside field of view to determine the final shape of what you see on screen. A camera can have a wide lens, but if the image format squeezes that view into a short, horizontal rectangle, the result is still an incomplete picture. Many early doorbells—and plenty of budget models today—use wide, landscape-leaning formats, including true 16:9 or similar ratios. That wide framing is good for seeing activity across sidewalks, driveways, or a front yard, but the tradeoff is vertical space. These formats crop the lower part of the scene, which often means the ground right in front of the door—where delivery packages tend to land—never makes it into the frame. Newer doorbells have shifted toward taller ratios like 4:3, 3:4, or even square, 1:1 formats, which devote more pixels to vertical coverage instead of the more horizontal spread. This enables true head-to-toe views, letting you see visitors’ faces, what they’re holding, and the area at their feet in a single frame. Resolution and digital zoom The higher the resolution your video doorbell can capture (i.e., the more pixels), the better the video will look when you zoom in to the max. The Nest Video Doorbell (wired, 3rd Gen) captures 2048 x 2048 pixels. Resolution is where marketing often overpromises and reality narrows the claim. Entry-level doorbells usually capture video in 1080p (about 2 megapixels). That’s fine when someone is standing right at the door but faces soften quickly past six to eight feet. Step up to 2K (roughly 3 to 4 megapixels) and you get noticeably cleaner facial detail at a distance. 4K (around 8 megapixels) can reveal finer features—sometimes even license plate characters—but only when lighting is good and the subject is already inside the camera’s view. Because doorbells use fixed lenses, there’s no optical zoom. When you zoom in on a doorbell image, the camera isn’t actually getting closer to the subject. It’s just enlarging a smaller portion of the image by cutting away the surrounding pixels. This is where the extra pixels in a higher-resolution camera really come into play. Higher resolution means more usable detail after zooming. When you crop into a 1080p image, details break down quickly into visible blocks. With 2K or 4K footage, there are more pixels to work with, so faces and other fine details hold together longer as you zoom. Motion detection Being able to set multiple motion detection zones lets you fine-tune the areas you want to monitor for motion. Higher-end models, like the Ring Battery Plus shown here, let you customize alerts based on how frequently motion is detected and what types of motion are detected.Michael Brown/Foundry Early video doorbells relied almost entirely on passive infrared sensors. PIR works by looking for rapid changes in heat combined with movement. It’s simple and power-efficient, but blunt. Wind-whipped bushes, passing cars, or a patch of morning sun warming the driveway can all trip the sensor and fire off an alert. Newer models layer in video-based detection. The camera feed itself is analyzed, locally on the device or in the cloud, to identify human shapes and movement patterns. Trained recognition models can also flag vehicles and pets instead of labeling everything as generic motion. That technology is what enables alerts like “Person detected,” resulting in fewer nuisance notifications and more meaningful alerts. But there are tradeoffs. Video analysis takes longer than raw heat sensing, so alerts can be slightly delayed. Detection depends on lighting and clear angles; backlighting or heavy shadows can throw it off. And small or partly hidden figures may simply be missed. Pre-roll video When a clip seems to start a few seconds before motion triggers, you’re seeing pre-roll video at work. Most doorbells don’t record continuously. Instead, they run a lightweight recording loop that stores a rolling buffer in small onboard memory—either local flash or a battery cache. Once motion is detected, the system saves that buffered footage along with the full recording, making it appear as though the camera was already rolling. On many doorbells, that pre-roll footage runs at reduced quality. It may be black and white, lower resolution, and lack audio. That downshift is deliberate. Continuous, full-quality recording would drain a battery doorbell in hours, rather than weeks. Pre-roll is the compromise—brief, low-power snapshots that provide just enough lead-in to show a person stepping into view before the main clip takes over. Night vision Night vision is a critical feature for a video doorbell, since you won’t want to keep your porch light on all night.Martin Williams/Foundry Most doorbells rely on standard infrared night vision. Small IR LEDs bathe the scene in light–invisible to the human eye–that reflects back to the doorbell’s sensor, producing a black-and-white image. Most IR systems can illuminate roughly 15 to 30 feet from the camera. That’s enough for the porch area, but not down the walkway or into the yard. IR has quirks, though. Objects close to the lens can wash out into a white glare. Fog, rain, or reflective surfaces scatter the light and create haze or sparkles that degrade clarity. That can result in an image that looks fuzzy or blown out right when you need it to be sharp. Color night vision tackles after-dark video differently. Video doorbells with this feature use sensors that are more sensitive to ambient light, preserving color. They might also include an LED spotlight that switches on in response to motion, lighting the scene when there isn’t enough ambient light. Spotlights can tip off prowlers–which might prompt them to beat a retreat–but they can also annoy your neighbors if they fire up at 2 a.m. Camera linking and multi-view triggering While video doorbell surveillance effectively ends at your porch, some Ring and Eufy systems support camera linking, where motion detected by one camera can triggers other cameras to begin recording at the same time. In this scenario, a doorbell alert might activate a side-yard or driveway camera, picking up an intruder as they move elsewhere on your property. This can fill gaps left by the doorbell’s narrow coverage and builds better movement timelines. But this isn’t the same as tracking, where you can follow a person’s movement without interruption from point to point. Most systems cap the number of linked devices; Ring, for example, allows up to three of its devices to be linked this way. Eufy and some other security cameras offer a feature that stitches the recordings from several cameras together, so that you get something close to an end-to-end recording of the path they followed around your home. Set reasonable expectations when you buy a video doorbell Video doorbells are effective security tools, but only inside the boundaries set by their lenses, sensors, and detection systems. Buying smarter starts with understanding what actually shapes the image. Look beyond headline resolution and focus on aspect ratio and vertical field of view. Think about how much zoom detail you can realistically get. Pay attention to how well alerts filter people from noise. Good security doesn’t come from expecting one camera to see everything. It comes from matching the right hardware to your space and building coverage around each device’s limits instead of assuming a doorbell alone can handle the whole job. This story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best security cameras and video doorbells. Read...

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MSI showed off a bunch of intriguing hardware for professionals at this year’s CES, with a wide range of miniature AI PCs, and an utterly gorgeous OLED monitor. Whether you’re looking to get your boss to fund a new upgrade for work or it’s time to overhaul the home office, the kit MSI has on show at CES 2026 could be what you’re looking for. Key takeaways Mini AI PCs: MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG (Intel Panther Lake) and Cubi NUC TWG (Intel N Series) Compact power desktops: Pro Max DP80 AI+ and Pro Max DP150 AI+ with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series + Nvidia RTX options Top-tier local AI machine: AI Edge PC based on AMD Strix Halo with 128GB memory New pro monitors: PRO MAX 271UPXW12G (QD-OLED + anti-glare) and PRO MAX 271QPHW E14 (1440p/144Hz + glare reduction) MSI Cubi NUC mini PCs: tiny footprints, big AI performance Mini PCs continue to trend upward in offices and creator setups. MSI is leaning into that with its latest Cubi NUC systems, which offer impressive performance in a tiny footprint. Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG: Intel Panther Lake and 180 TOPS CPU: Up to Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 Graphics: Intel Arc AI performance: Up to 180 TOPS total (up from 120 TOPS last generation) Built around Intel’s next-generation Panther Lake mobile CPUs, the Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG targets users who want strong multitasking and better performance-per-watt in a small form factor.Ready for anything, the Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG has up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU with Intel Arc graphics, and an incredible 180 TOPS total AI performance – that’s a significant improvement over the 120 TOPS the last generation could manage, and perfect for accelerating the latest local AI workloads. Cubi NUC TWG: efficient “always-on” systems for servers and frontline use Want to go even leaner and lighter? The Cubi NUC TWG demands even less from the outlet but still offers strong performance thanks to Intel’s next-generation Core Processor N Series. Designed to be turned on and left on, these little systems are fantastic as expansive NAS servers, or as a media server for quick-streaming across the network. They’re also excellent options for real-edge systems for powering digital signage, or for running kiosks and small workstations for frontline employees. MSI Pro Max AI+ PCs: compact desktops with real GPU muscle Foundry / Adam Patrick Murray If you’re looking for faster rendering or better performance in CUDA-accelerated professional workloads, MSI’s compact Pro Max DP80 AI+ PCs give you access to an AMD Ryzen AI 300 series CPU and Nvidia RTX graphics in a compact form factor. Discover the new PRO MaX SERIES Pro Max DP80 AI+: Small but serious CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 300 series GPU: Nvidia RTX graphics Chassis size: Compact 8-liter design Pro Max DP150 AI+: Bigger and badder GPU: Up to RTX 5070 VRAM: 12GB, useful for many AI and creator workloads Memory: Up to 64GB DDR5 for strong multitasking performance The Pro Max DP150 AI+ PC can fit up to an RTX 5070 for enhanced graphic performance – the 12GB of VRAM isn’t half bad for running large language models, either – and it can come with up to 64GB of DDR5 memory for excellent multi-tasking performance. MSI AI Edge PC: one of MSI’s most powerful micro workstations for 2026 Foundry / Adam Patrick Murray CPU: AMD AI Max+ 395 Cores/threads: 16 cores / 32 threads GPU: Integrated Radeon 8060S NPU: XDNA2 Memory: 128GB high-speed system memory One of MSI’s most powerful 2026 micro working machines is the AI Edge PC, built around AMD’s excellent Strix Halo platform. It combines the cutting-edge AI Max+ 395 CPU with 16 cores and 32 threads, with an integrated Radeon 8060S GPU and XDNA2 NPU. Most importantly, it packs 128GB of high-speed system memory, making this miniature machine a fantastically-powerful all-in-one AI PC. MSI PRO MAX monitors: QD-OLED clarity and comfortable for long work sessions Foundry / Adam Patrick Murray Whatever you’re working on and however much power you need, you can always make it look better with an MSI PRO MAX monitor. MSI PRO MAX 271UPXW12G: QD-OLED, anti-glare, low reflection QD-OLED panel Anti-glare, low-reflection surface (AGLR) Reduced eye strain via better diffusion of ambient light Strong fit for photo and video editing DarkArmor Film for enhanced black levels and panel protection The PRO MAX 271UPXW12G uses a QD-OLED panel, delivering incredible color, contrast, and brightness. This is a super-accurate display that – with its anti-glare, low-reflection surface (AGLR) – helps reduce eye strain by better diffusing ambient light, making it perfect for photo and video editing over long sessions. DarkArmor Film adds panel protection with 3H scratch resistance, delivering 2.5x greater scratch resistance, and enhances pure blacks by 40% for better contrast. There’s App Store-based firmware control for macOS, while the M-Color preset mode keeps colors perfectly in sync with Mac computers, making this monitor a fantastic fit for any worker on any platform, on any system. Make your work look and feel better than ever before with a new MSI QD-OLED display. MSI PRO MAX 271QPHW E14: Affordable 1440p, 144Hz display Size: 27-inch Resolution: 1440p Refresh rate: 144Hz Panel feature: Circular Polarizer technology to soften transmission and reduce glare The MSI PRO MAX 271QPHW E14 is another capable option. An affordable, business-friendly 1440p display that’s also game-ready with a 144Hz refresh rate, this 27-inch monitor uses Circular Polarizer panel technology to soften light transmission, reducing reflection and glare for a more comfortable viewing experience. Discover the new PRO MaX SERIES Final thoughts MSI’s CES 2026 professional line-up is focused on three things: compact power, local AI acceleration, and better display quality for long working sessions. From ultra-efficient always-on mini PCs, to GPU-powered compact desktops, to a flagship AI Edge PC with 128GB memory, MSI is building a full ecosystem for modern working – and making sure it all looks great with new PRO MAX QD-OLED displays. Read...