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MSI WS66 Mobile Workstation

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MSI has made some outstanding gaming laptops, and the latest WS66 is an ongoing exploration of the related mobile workstation market. There is a demand for high power laptops to avoid the inconvenience of lugging entire desktop systems around and the inevitable impact on reliability that doing that creates. Typically these systems tend to forego an extended battery life for better processor and video performance, confident that the user will have mains power available. Originally a 10th Gen CPU design, MSI engineers have revamped the WS66 to use the latest Intel 11th Gen Core i7, i9 or Xeon processors and combined the new platform with Nvidia Geforce RTX discrete graphics silicon. Is the WS66 a workstation a credible way to carry a proper workstation around, or is there an underlying problem with putting desktop computing technology in a laptop? (Image credit: Mark Pickavance) Price and availability MSI has three versions of the new WS66, one with the GeForce A5000 mobil...