Beef and restricted by Taitra's security guards, they take me back to the MSI cabin where I arrived, the laptop I had tried to spirit back to MSI, while members of the Public Relations team of North America look at me in stony silence. I lift my head and meet my eyes, one by one.
“It belongs to a museum!” Scream about the clamor and rumble of the Computex 2025 showlor.
One of the representatives that I have known for years shouts to be heard: “John, what the hell, man? Have you lost his head?”
“It belongs to a museum!”
Ok, that scene did not developed yesterday when I looked at the MSI prestige 13+ ai ukiyo-e edition laptop, but I could have done it. All I needed was a means of escape through the crowd full in the MSI stand, all of which they speech me in what is undoubtedly the most beautiful laptop than any of us has seen.
The MSI prestige 13+ AI is already one of the best laptops that MSI presented in recent years, but the one exhibited in Computex was something completely different. Dotted through the lid there is a reproduction of hand of the hand of Kanagawa's great wave By the Japanese artist and recorder Hokusai, a master of the art style of Ukiyo-e who dominated Japan from the seventeenth to nineteenth century.
I do not like Japanese art and culture like many of my friends, some of whom speak varying degrees of Japanese as a second language and all of which have almost all the sleeves that have been thrown in the United States (as well as many who have had to pay more to order directly from Japanese stores), but I love Ukiyo-e .. ..
I grew up in New York city and spent a lot The great wave, Produced for the first time in 1831.
Something about the scenes of the bourgeois market, the stately intrigues and the picturesque personal moments between friends and lovers who defined the Ukiyo-E style resonate with me until today.
But it was always the representations of vulnerable humanity in the presence of impregnable natural forces that spoke to me more strongly. And no art work that as well as The great waveWith its unstoppable water that crosses a couple of fishing ships, whose owners are not seen anywhere. The only proof of its existence is the remaining ships, without a pilot already mercy of nature.
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The prestige 13+ AI UKIYO-E edition reproduces this masterful scene thanks to Okadaya's work, a Japanese company recognized for its foil in fine chinware and ceramics.
Similar to how ukiyo-e impressions made in steps and layers in the past, the Okadaya process to create The great wave In the prestige cover of more than 13 years, it implies applying eight thin lacquer layers by hand, incremental building the color and texture of the scene before polishing it to a soft and resistant finish.
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The process is not limited only to the lid. The keyboard keys have also intensified in a polished piano key with golden keys labels so that they coincide with the MSI logo inside the device and on the lid, as well as the labels for the ports of the device.
While the work of art on the device steals the show (and by show, I refer to Computex, since the prestige 13+ AI UKIYO-E EDITION won the Best Choice Prize of Computex this year), the underlying portable computer remains impressive, with a 32GB 32GB SCID storage of 32GB of 32GB. show.
As an artisanal collection product, the new laptop will have a limited execution of 1,000 units, and each obtaining its production number at the bottom of the device. Given the workforce that has become these laptops, you can imagine that they will not be cheap, and I would not be surprised if most of them have already been bought before they even made their debut in this year's show.
Even so, even if it is not possible to own yourself (unless you get very Luckily), perhaps one of the buyers could do their good action for the year and donate one of these masterpieces to a museum somewhere so that we can all enjoy the art that has entered this device.
After having seen it closely and I held it myself, I can tell you that I would not be out of place among the best impressions of Ukiyo-E on exhibition in the MET, and it is something that I would happily take the time to see when I am there.
