If you’re looking for the most expensive laptops in the world, you’re either here for some Page 3 entertainment on gold-plated machines or you’re looking for laptops that really push the performance barriers.
Whatever the case is, this is the most comprehensive list of very expensive laptops in the world and the best available in 2021.
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Top 10 Most Expensive Laptops in the World!
1. MSI GT76
MSI has become one of the leading laptop manufacturing brands today, winning big mostly in the value-for-money parameter. They have reinvigorated the market with some of the most competitive and high-performance gaming laptops.
But with the latest GT76, MSI has outdone its best to deliver a machine that stands out, both inside and outside, and with its price tag!
The GT76 is an exceptional device with a massive 17.3 inches UHD top-of-the-line display delivering 120 Hz @4K resolutions. The IPS panel offers some fantastic visuals – deep, vibrant hues and excellent black reproduction.
This is not your standalone gaming laptop at all, instead, it’s a proper desktop replacement.
Check out the extended rear end with a bevy of heat outlets. It sits quite high for a laptop with heat outlets placed there too.
The display hinge is on the laptop body and not around it, which works more as a standalone display.
To cap it off, MSI has coolly added RGB to the keyboard and the underbody – an ode to its gaming heritage.
It comes with the 8 GB VR-enabled GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile and an intel i9-10900K with a base frequency of 3.7 GHz, which can be boosted up to 5.3 GHz.
The GT76 also comes packed with 64 GB of DDR4 SODIMM RAM other than the 8 TB SSD.
The laptop has multiple connection ports, including a Thunderbolt 3 Type-C port, Micro SD card reader, microphone jack, headphone jack, ethernet port.
It’s bundled with a pre-installed Windows 10 Professional. MSI also offers a one-year Microsoft 365 Personal with premium office applications and 1TB OneDrive cloud storage.
This is the latest from MSI, not only one of the most expensive laptops around but the most powerful as well, currently priced at around $4,300.
If you want the best gaming laptop worth the money, you should get this MSI GT76.
Technical Specifications
Display: UHD 4K | Refresh rates: 120 Hz@4K | CPU: Intel Core i9 – 10900K | Base clock speed: 3.7 GHz | Boost clock speed: 5.3 GHz | Graphics Card: Nvidia RTX 2080 Super Mobile 8 GB VR ready | RAM: 64 GB | Storage: 2TB SSD (Expandable) Bluetooth: 5.0 | Operating System: Windows 10 professional 64-bit
2. Alienware Area-51m R2
A subsidiary of DELL, Alienware was designed with the sole ambition of becoming the go-to gaming brand.
Just so, they have marketed this new Area 51m R2 as the most powerful gaming laptop in the world. But is it?
For starters, this is the most expensive Alienware laptop currently available, sharing all design elements with other previous-gen Area 51m laptops.
It sits high but tapers in towards the keyboard with a slight slant. The rear is dedicated for heat dissipation and to cramp in nearly the same top-of-the-line CPU-GPU configuration as the MSI GT76.
However, the R2 comes with a 17.3-inch FHD display with, wait for it, 360 Hz refresh rates!
The 3 ms response rates and 300 nits of brightness are commonplace, just as the 100% sRGB gamut. (Note that the new R2 with a 360 Hz display is yet to be made available by Dell USA. The currently available model offers up to 300 Hz refresh rates.)
You also get Tobii eye-tracking sensor technology to facilitate gaming and input commands.
The Alienware comes with a desktop-level Intel Core 9th gen I9-10900K 10-core processor, which is paired with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super with 8 GB of VRAM.
Note that the MSI GT76 comes with mobile grades equivalents of the same processor and GPU.
The laptop comes with 2 battery bricks together churning out 500 watts, much needed to run this laptop at full throttle.
As far as specs are concerned, this truly is the most powerful gaming laptop right now!
The new R2 will come with a 64 GB dual-channel DDR4 XMP RAM and 8 TB SSD storage. All equipment, from the processor to the GPU, can be further upgraded.
On the connectivity front, you get 2 USB 3.1 generation ports, Thunderbolt 3.0 Type-C port, USB 3.1, headset, and mic ports on the left and right.
On the back, you get a Display Port in the middle section while the heat is dissipated from the vents at the corners.
There’s an HDMI 2.0 port, a Mini DisplayPort 1.4, Ethernet IPV6, Alienware Graphics Amplifier Port, and Dual DC power input ports added in as well.
This is a beast of a laptop, a PC alternative. Alienware has just set a benchmark although we are not sure how many would buy this machine for its $7,500+ price tag!
This is one of the most expensive laptops ever, but deservedly so.
Technical Specifications
Display: IPS 1920 x 1080 pixels | Refresh rates: 360 Hz* | Weight: 10.4 pounds | CPU: Intel Core I9 – 10900k | Base clock speed: 3.7 GHz | Boost clock speed: 5.3 GHz | Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 2080 Super with Thermal Velocity boost | VRAM: 8 GB GDDR6 | RAM: 64 GB | Storage: 8 TB SSD | Operating System: Windows 10 Professional 64-bits
3. ASUS ROG Mothership
ASUS gaming subsidiary ROG frequently comes up with laptops having extreme performance and top-of-the-line hardware.
It’s not a surprise that ROG made an entry into the list of most expensive laptops in the world, and it did so with this behemoth – ROG Mothership.
Instead of having cooling elements under the keypad and a monitor sitting over it, the ROG Mothership is reverse designed.
The cooling and hardware equipment are installed within the monitor unit with detachable parts.
You can even take apart the keyboard, fold it into two, and it becomes a wireless keyboard, although you can still connect with a keyboard with its display unit using a Type-C cable.
You get the trackpad on the right, unlike the center position in most laptops with more ergonomic control of the mothership.
The keypad itself is designed for sporting individual key sockets with complete RGB lighting.
The basic design concept was to reverse the laptop dynamics so that heat can be dissipated through the display area, making it easier to place on laps.
And since such design causes zero airflow restrictions, you can expect a full-blown desktop-level performance output.
The ROG Mothership offers a massive 17.3 inches Full HD display with 3 ms response rates, 300-nits brightness, and the all-important 144 Hz native refresh rates.
It also features a 72% NTSC, 100% sRGB, 76% adobe RGB display with G-Sync and anti-glare coating.
For a 2-in-1 laptop, it does not hold back in the configurations at all.
The ROG Mothership comes with an Intel Core i9-9980 HK laptop processor churning out 2.4 GHz as base clock speeds that can be turbo boosted to 5.0 GHz.
ROG Mothership is the first mobile device launched by ASUS to offer greater than 1 GB bandwidth. It can transmit 250 MB per second of data to a real-world server.
Apart from the i9 processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 GPU with 8 GB of VRAM, you get 3 NVME SSDs in RAID 0 with additional cooling due to the reverse design of this laptop.
The combined speed of these SSDs is so fast that ASUS had to directly connect two of them to the CPU for an 8 Gb per second of data transfer speeds!
Also known as the GZ700 GX, ROG Mothership uses Gelid GC Extreme on both CPU and GPU for improved performance and optimal system temperatures.
To solve excessive heating generated by the components, ASUS has used a CNC-machined aluminum panel that separates the display from other heat-generating parts.
Each outer cover of this device is made of CNC machines aluminum blocks, contributing to an overall stiff laptop with no flexing problems. As obvious, the finish is impeccable.
On connectivity, every port is attached to the right or left side of this laptop screen area. You get a Type-C Thunderbolt 3.0 port, USB ports, usual microphone, and audio jacks, ethernet ports that are far easier to access than traditional laptop design.
This is a complete designing overhaul, a brave move by ASUS who are investing heavily in 2-in-1 and dual-screen laptops.
ROG Mothership may be a glimpse into the future, or it may be considered too futuristic for gamers. It looks great on paper though, just as the price tag, hovering around $6,500!
Technical Specifications
Display: IPS 1920 x 1080 pixels | Refresh rates: 144 Hz | Weight: 10.5 pounds | CPU: Intel Core i9 – 9980 HK | Base clock speed: 2.4 GHz | Turbo clock speed: 5.0 GHz | Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile | VRAM: 8 GB GDDR6 | RAM: 128 GB | Storage: 3 x 2.0 TB SSD | Operating System: Windows 10 Professional 64-bits
4. Acer Predator 21X
Back in 2017, (way back) Acer decided to create a desktop with an attached keyboard and call it a laptop.
We present you with the toughest, heaviest, performance gaming laptop in the world that shouldn’t be a laptop at all – the Acer Predator 21X.
21X stands for its 21-inch display. This laptop doesn’t feature a traditional full HD display but has an ultra-wide display module.
Crazy to imagine, but Acer did it anyway. It’s bright, has excellent viewing angles, vivid colors with a 120 Hz refresh rate, and G-Sync compatibility. Most importantly, it’s curved!
The laptop itself is powered by dual power bricks as it comes with not one, but 2 GTX 1080 GPUs in SLI with an Intel Core i7-7820 HK processor and 2 NVME SSDs in Raid 0.
Total storage offered on this device is 1 TB of SSD and 1 TB of HDD, which you can replace with an SSD. To complement the core performance, Acer had thrown in 64 GB RAM as well.
Till a few years ago, this was the absolute benchmark, and for those who own it now, it’s still a beast of a gaming laptop, right up there with the best.
Now, all that power will generate immense amounts of heat. Dissipating the heat generated by Acer Predator 21X is a breeze thanks to its five huge fans and nine thermal pipes. You also get 4 Dolby Audio speakers and 2 subwoofers.
The list of features won’t stop. You get a full mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting supported by cherry brown switches. You also get a wrist rest to get the standalone mechanical keyboard typing feeling.
There is no under-space bar trackpad; instead, for using it, you will have to take out to the Numpad box and reverse it to use the trackpad.
Predator 21 X also features a Tobii eye-tracking that allows the predator to adjust dynamic lighting and aiming depending upon where you are looking.
As more and more games support this eye-tracking feature, it will soon become an essential aspect of gaming.
Customization of this device is more comfortable than any other laptop or personal computer.
Unscrewing one screw on the top gives you access to the Hard drive and 2 RAM sticks. Removing 3 screws from the bottom gives you access to the SSDs and 2 other RAM sticks.
Other components on this laptop cannot be accessed without full disassembly of the entire model. Weighing in at 19.51 pounds, this is a desktop that can double up as a laptop.
Without a second thought, Predator 21X is the most expensive gaming laptop in the world that will cost you a little less than ten grand, around $9,500 to be precise.
Whether it’s worth it, well, it’s one-of-a-kind and nothing short of a tech marvel.
Tech Specs
Display: IPS 2560 x 1080 pixels, LED backlit | Refresh rates: 120 Hz | Weight: 19.51 pounds | CPU: Intel Core i7-7820 HK | Base clock speed: 2.9 GHz | Turbo clock speed: 3.9 GHz | Graphics Card: 2 x Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 | VRAM: 16 GB GDDR5 | RAM: 16 GB x 4, 64 GB | Storage: 2 x 512 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD | Battery: 6000 mAh | Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bits
Now, time for the most expensive laptops in terms of cosmetic enhancements, built for a fashion statement more than sheer performance. Some of these are still available in case you’re seriously up for it!
5. EGO for Bentley
Style and fashion statement is something for the wealthiest, and when it comes to working on a laptop, it should feature a fantastic look. The luxury carmaker Bentley launched a new notebook exclusively to complement its luxury cars.
Shaped as a handbag, this device features a leather exterior for that ultra-premium couture elegance. The manufacturers offered ten different shades to choose from. This device was priced at $20,000, equivalent to $25,000 in 2021!
Coming to the technical specification of this laptop, it sports a 64-bit Microsoft Vista Ultimate during its release in 2008, a top-of-the-line hardware component back then.
But it has been too long since Bentley came up with another such product. These days you can purchase a wide range of Bentley branded accessories.
6. Bling My Thing’s “Golden Age” MacBook Air
The website bling-my-thing is known for turning ordinary devices and equipment into timeless classics using 24-carat gold and crystals. Meet the device meant for those who don’t mind spending to bling their things.
Taking inspiration from Japanese patterns, this laptop sports over 12000 Swarovski crystals further coated with a thin layer of 24 karat gold.
All the designing and modifications have been performed on a 2008 model MacBook Air, bringing the device’s overall price to 20,000 GBP back then.
The developers of this timepiece claim worldwide shipping for an additional cost of $601. Whether you can still get this device – only 20 were made. This is the most expensive Apple laptop in the world. You might even end up watching this on an auction a few years from now!
7. MacBook Pro 24 Karat Gold
Gold is a standard statement of wealth. Enter Gold Genie, a celeb brand famed for adding their Midas touch to almost everything for select buyers.
This is a MacBook Pro completely encrusted in 24-carat gold. The Dubai and London based-company manufactured only 99 units to date and priced them at GBP 9,995 each.
Gold Genies also offers a number of other devices wrapped with 24-carat gold which is meticulous to design and outright luxurious to own.
8. Tulip E-GO Diamond
Tulip Ego is the contemporary design that established itself as a unique and different device as compared to others. Tulip E-Go Diamond features a bling look that is in-laid with sodium palladium white gold plates.
Furthermore, this jewelry box has thousands of 80-carat diamonds placed on the laptop.
The laptop can be retro-fitted with various other cases, options include fabrics, leather, wood, and other precious metals. Tulip E-Go also offers interchangeable covers to deal with the monotonous look of this device over extended usage.
The creators have carefully crafted a tulip out of square-cut ruby placed on the lid, taking this device’s price to beyond USD 355,000. Just what you wanted?
9. Luvaglio
British brand Luvaglio stunned the entire world by launching the world’s most expensive laptop, priced up to $1 million.
Featuring a 17-inch display with a Blu-ray drive, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity, along with an SSD storage of 128 GB, it is a sight to behold. The price is not for the performance of their laptops but the cosmetics.
Studded with precious elements, this device features a big precision-cut diamond for a start button!
It also comes with a gold-plated keyboard and custom-written characters. It is designed to allow varied customization and personalization so that each laptop is unique and timeless.
10. MJ’S Swarovski & Diamond
Diamonds are forever and it’s no wonder that the most expensive laptop ever has a lot of them. MJ’s Swarovski and Diamond laptops are priced well around the $3.5 million mark, most of which is just for the diamonds.
Just one look at it and you know what you are paying for. MJ is known for crafting such timepieces.
This French company has studded the top portion of a laptop with diamonds and Swarovski crystals. Forget necklaces and rings, get a diamond-studded laptop instead if you’re rich enough!
Conclusion
Money can get you anything from a fancy new car to an equally expensive laptop. There is no denying the fact that the most expensive laptops in this world are priced so high because of their cosmetic quality. Using precious elements is the easiest way to create expensive products. If not, just add the best possible CPU and GPUs inside!
FAQs
What is the most powerful laptop in 2021?
The most powerful laptop in 2021 could very well be the Eurocom SkyX4C. It runs on a 9th gen Intel 9900KS using an 8GB RTX 2080 DDR6 GPU. There’s 128GB of RAM to use, split across 4 channels, and a total storage capacity of 24GB.
What is the most expensive gaming laptop?
The most expensive gaming laptop currently available would be the Alienware Area-51m R2, priced at around $4,500. Other than an RTX 2080 Super and an Intel 9th gen 10900K processor, the newest version of the laptop comes with a 360 Hz, the highest refresh rate on any laptop yet.
What is the most expensive laptop in 2021?
The most expensive laptop in 2021 would be the MJ Swarovski and diamond laptop, priced at around $3.5 million, worth mostly because of the diamonds and Swarovski crystals alone.
