MSI announces the 'most powerful gaming laptop on the planet' in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX

The PC gaming industry is now essentially a repeating cycle of product announcements generating an excitable 'ooh' followed immediately by a sigh of recognition: this isn't for me. Case in point is my reaction upon hearing about the "most powerful gaming laptop on the planet"—'ooh!'—followed by the immediate dual recognition that this will be very expensive and probably very loud and scarcely worth unplugging from the mains—'oh, yeah'.

It is undeniably impressive, however, that MSI is packing...