What’s inside the box is arguably more interesting. The Vision X AI ships with Troubled Chipzilla’s latest Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S processors. You can pick from the Ultra 9 285K or Ultra 7 265K, and a selection of RTX 50-series cards, from the RTX 5070 Ti all the way to the RTX 5090. MSI’s using its usual suspects: Shadow, Ventus, or Gaming flavours. The RTX 5090 claims to push 3,400 TFLOPS of FP4 performance. Arrow Lake's NPU manages 13 TOPS of INT8, enough to keep MSI’s marketing buzzwords flowing.

The AI interface monitors CPU and GPU temps, clock speeds and fan RPM in real time, while letting users interact with large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Meta and Claude via the built-in mic and speaker. It even has a local model for basic chat and image generation, dodging the cloud for those who care.

If AI babble isn’t your thing, the 13-inch screen can double as a secondary monitor for YouTube or OBS, though its chunky bezels make it look like a throwback to early tablets. The rest of the system is much sleeker. MSI’s Project Zero Z890 motherboard hides cables round the back and a 360mm AIO cooler keeps things chilly. Glacier Armor heatsinks reportedly slash VRM and SSD temps by 25 per cent while Silent Storm Cooling AI allegedly runs at 17.7 dB(A) when quiet.

Front I/O includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, plus separate mic and headphone jacks. Round the back, you get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, 5GbE, S/PDIF and two audio outs. Power options are either an 850W or 1200W Gold Certified PSU, with wireless handled by Intel Killer WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.

The Vision X AI is already on shelves in select stores. The top-tier version will set you back between $5,000 and $7,500 depending on how generous your retailer feels. Still, that may not be totally mad given how much it costs to snag an RTX 5090 by itself.