Gaming laptops are very popular among those who want a portable gaming PC, and there are countless options available to suit your specific needs. If you want the absolute best hardware that money can buy, you can easily spend thousands of dollars on a premium gaming laptop. However, not everyone is willing to throw down a mortgage payment (or two) on a gaming laptop and can get by with something much less powerful.
Thankfully, the under $1,000 gaming laptop field is rife with competition and is now joined by the new MSI Katana 15. Our Katana 15 review unit just barely squeaks by the cutoff at $999 (as configured). Still, it manages to cram in a lot of bang for the buck with an Intel Raptor Lake processor, Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 discrete graphics card, 16GB of RAM and a generous 1TB SSD.
