The MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo laptop is one of the best 13-inch laptops we’ve reviewed this year. The Ukiyoe Edition takes everything we love about the Prestige 13 AI+ Evo to a whole different level and right now it’s on sale at Best Buy.
For a limited time, you can get the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Ukiyoe Edition for just $1,499 at Best Buy. That’s $500 off a laptop that Managing Editor of Computing Jason England said looks and feels like a work of art.
This Ukiyoe Edition of the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ is part of the company’s Artisan Collection. It’s a stunning collaboration with Japanese lacquerware company OKADAYA that pays tribute to Katsushika Hokusai’s world famous “Great Wave off Kanagawa.”
While you may think it’s a simple paint job on the laptop’s lid, it’s much more than that. Instead it’s crafted with 8 layers of lacquer painting with each layer added on by hand. We’re talking authentic traditional handcrafted lacquerware on each of these layers using pure gold leaf powder to make the waves, MSI logo, and artist’s signature pop.
In our MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Ukiyoe Edition hands-on, we were wowed by the laptop’s design. We loved MSI’s subtle details like golden text on the ports, the piano gloss finish atop the keyboard, and the fact that there will only be 1,000 of these made (laser engraved with a unique number to let you know which one you got).
On the hardware front, this laptop packs a 13.3-inch OLED (2880 x 1800) screen, Core Ultra 7-258V CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. That’s enough horsepower for just about anything you need to do. Make sure to check out our MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo review for our full thoughts on this Editor’s Choice machine.
