MSI Prestige Ukiyo edition laptop deal: $500 off the rare AI laptop at Best Buy for 1 day only

SAVE $500: The Best Buy drop for Nov. 6 is the Ukiyoe edition of the 13-inch MSI Prestige AI laptop, on sale for $1,499.99 in the Best Buy app. MSI is only releasing 700 units of this piece of art, so this is a rare chance to find it in stock at all (let alone on sale).

The most beautiful laptop you've ever seen doesn't stop at an OLED display or a chic aluminum chassis. It has one of the world's most recognizable paintings — The Great Wave off Kanagawa — laser-engraved into the back. Only 700 units of the Ukiyoe edition of the 13-inch MSI Prestige AI laptop will be released in the U.S., and one of your chances to secure one is through Best Buy Drops. On Nov. 6 only, you can save $500 and score it for $1,499.99.

Originally live at 11 a.m. ET, the MSI Prestige Ukiyoe edition laptop is $500 off until the day's inventory runs out. You'll only see that price through the Best Buy mobile app, as that's the only spot that Drops show up. Then you can add it to your cart and check out like usual, as long as the status bar says there are still some left.

But aside from Best Buy's personal stock, you're doubly working against the clock here. Many items featured as a daily Best Buy drop will likely be available for purchase or on sale at another time, but the Ukiyo Prestige laptop is incredibly scarce. That's because MSI isn't exactly mass-producing these. Each unit's artwork incorporates maki-e: a Japanese laquering technique involving sprinkled powder onto wet lacquer. The rarity of each is sealed through a unique laser-engraved serial number, and MSI says that no restock is planned.

Even with such detail packed into the lid, the 13-inch Prestige is still relatively thin and remarkably lightweight. At .67 inches, it's not as slim as the MacBook Air or the Asus Zenbook a14 (our favorite cheap Windows laptop of 2025). But considering it only weighs 2.18 pounds, it's definitely not clunky — that's noticeably lighter than the MacBook Air's 2.7 pounds and is an exact match for the aforementioned Zenbook.

Senior Shopping Reporter Haley Henschel just got the non-Ukiyoe version of this laptop in her hands for testing. She was immediately impressed with the 2.8K OLED screen and its apparent sturdy build, referring to it as a "well-specced ultraportable with good future proofing." Its 32 GB of RAM is quite generous, and it's outfitted with WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and a robust variety of ports.