CES is one of the best events on the calendar if you’re a tech fan, and this year was one of the more exciting ones. We saw new CPUs, GPUs, and a ton of other interesting products that, as a tech enthusiast, are pretty exciting. We saw pretty much everything at CES 2025, and these are some of the best pieces of tech that the event had to offer us. Even better, pretty much all of them will be available later this year!
MSI Titan 18HX
This gaming laptop stands out in more ways than one
Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 was finally unveiled at CES, and the MSI Titan 18X brings the power of this behemoth inside the form-factor of an 18-inch laptop. The newest entry to the Titan series lives up to its name by combining the high-end Blackwell GPU with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and 96GB of memory, enough to crush even the most graphically-intensive game with ease.
The screen is just as impressive, with a QHD+ (3840×2400) mini-LED panel capable of displaying your favorite titles at a refresh rate of 120Hz. As if the killer specs aren’t enough, MSI has outfitted the Titan 18HX with a hand-drawn likeness of a dragon on the lid, with another 3D-printed dragon resting on the palmrest, right below the cherry mechanical keyboard. While the MSI Titan 18HX is bound to cost a fortune, it has the horsepower and looks you’d expect in a top-of-the-line gaming machine. — Ayush Pande, Senior PC Hardware Author
Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS
Gaming handhelds just got a lot more interesting
As the successor to the largely experimental Lenovo Legion Go, the S variant of Lenovo’s handheld improves upon its older sibling’s capabilities in a number of ways. At 730 grams, it weighs lighter than the original Legion Go, while offering a beefier 55.5Whr battery. Processor-wise, it supports AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme or Ryzen Z2 Go, while the max memory has been dialed up to 32GB.
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However, the real star of the show is the SteamOS edition of the handheld. In our review of the Lenovo Legion Go, lead technical editor Adam Conway found the device rife with software issues, with certain games outright unplayable even after a lot of troubleshooting. Considering how Windows 11 just isn’t up to the mark for gaming handhelds, the support for SteamOS makes the Legion Go S a promising contender to the throne of the best portable gaming system of 2025. — Ayush Pande, Senior PC Hardware Author
Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i
A stunning laptop with a cool trick up its sleeve
Lenovo always knows how to bring the heat to CES, and this year’s edition is no different. Among the big announcements is the brand-new Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i, and this thing is absolutely gorgeous. Coming in a blue colorway, the lid of the laptop is covered in glass that reflects light with a cool 3D-looking effect, and it’s bound to turn some heads when you pull it out in public.
But the shell isn’t the only thing that makes this a special laptop. It’s also the world’s first laptop with a webcam under the display, which allows it to also be the first laptop every with a 98% screen-to-body ratio. That means this should be a smaller laptop than most 14-inch laptops, and it just makes the screen feel much more immersive. Plus, there are some impressive webcam specs here with a 32MP sensor and an AI-based processing model that should ensure you look great even if the webcam is hidden under the screen.
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Rounded out with high-end specs all around, the Lenovo Yoga slim 9i is definitely one of the most exciting laptops we’re looking forward to in the year ahead. — João Carrasqueira, Lead Windows Editor
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable
Another crazy concept that’s super cool
Each and every year, Lenovo brings one insane concept to life at CES with the ThinkBook Plus series, and this year, that concept is a rollable display. We’ve seen rollable screens here and there in concepts, but Lenovo is making a real product out of it with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable.
In essence, this is a fairly standard laptop at first glance. You get a 14-inch display at the top and a keyboard and touchpad at the bottom. But when you press the appropriate button on the keyboard, that 14-inch display starts growing taller, until it eventually becomes a 16.7-inch panel that’s oriented vertically. It’s kind of surreal to see this in a real product, and that’s something Lenovo makes us say each and every year.
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Of course, it’s also just a high-end laptop with Intel Lunar Lake processors, an OLED screen, 5MP webcam, and other great specs. We’re certainly interested to see how it fares in real life. — João Carrasqueira, Lead Windows Editor
Omen 32x Smart Gaming Monitor
A monitor with Google TV (and more)
CES 2025 was full of cool display technology, with OLED everywhere we looked. But all of those displays have one thing in common–they’re useless without a computer attached. HP’s Omen 32x Smart Gaming Monitor doesn’t because it’s the first gaming monitor from HP that uses Google TV as an inbuilt operating system.
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The 31.5-inch 4K IPS panel with 144Hz refresh rate matches up with other premium gaming monitors and can play or stream games or content from your favorite services without turning your PC on. Plus, it can mirror your Android device on-screen or use it in desktop mode to get work done, and it’s got a killer feature that lets you stream your gameplay directly to livestreaming sites like Twitch. — Joe Rice-Jones, Senior PC Hardware Author
Ventiva’s ICE9-cooled laptop
Is this the end of cooling fans in laptops?
Concept laptops are always the most intriguing aspect of CES, and the Ventiva ICE9 has all the markings of a groundbreaking laptop. Rather than relying on mechanical fans (and generating noise) to keep the device cool, this proof-of-concept laptop features the company’s Ionic Cooling Engine, which works on the principle of electrohydrodynamic flow of ions.
In simple terms, the ICE9 creates an electric field, which removes Nitrogen, Oxygen, and other elements from the surrounding air molecules, resulting in the formation of positively charged ions. While they’re repelled by the positively-charged wire component of ICE9, these ions bump in neutral air molecules, creating enough airflow to keep the laptop nice and cool. If this concept device gains more traction, we may be in for another renaissance of thin and light ultraportable laptops. — Ayush Pande, Senior PC Hardware Author
Asus Zenbook A14
The lightest Copilot+ PC yet
The Asus Zenbook lineup already offers some of the best laptops on the market, but now the company is introducing a brand-new option that’s lighter than ever. The Asus Zenbook A14 is the first Zenbook A-series laptop and the first Zenbook with Snapdragon X series chips, which is already very exciting. It comes with up to a Snapdragon X Elite, and it’s the lightest Copilot+ PC yet, weighing under 1kg, or 2.18 pounds.
In addition to the efficient chipset, it comes packing a 14-inch Full HD display, a 1080p webcam, and other high-end specs, plus a nice supply of ports including USB4, USB Type-A, and HDMI, and a large 70Whr battery. That’s a very compelling combination for a laptop that’s so light.
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Oh, and yes, the design is clearly inspired by the MacBook Air. Considering it has a larger display and is much lighter, though, there’s still a lot to love here. — João Carrasqueira, Lead Windows Editor
Asus ROG Flow Z13
The gaming tablet redefined
Asus has been making a gaming Windows tablet for some time now, it’s a bit of a strange product, but thanks to AMD, it’s making a lot more sense. The new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor is a unique beast that packs both a CPU and powerful GPU inside, including a unified memory architecture, much like how Apple’s unified memory works on Apple Silicon Macs. Essentially, there’s no need for a discrete GPU in here anymore, and the tablet is looking to be better for it.
You get 40 Compute Units based on RDNA 3.5 for some stunning graphics performance, and the unified memory system means you can get up to 128GB of RAM, with the ability to allocate up to a whopping 96GB to the GPU. That should offer great performance for gaming and creative workflows, while generally using less power than having a dedicated GPU that would be comparable. The tablet looks fantastic in other ways, too, including a 2.5K ROG Nebula display with a smooth 180Hz refresh rate.
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We haven’t had the chance to fully test it yet, but this could be the best iteration of Asus’ gaming tablet yet, so we’re looking forward to it. — João Carrasqueira, Lead Windows Editor
Gunnar Venture
Color-shifting glasses
Staring at a screen all day isn’t the best thing for your eye health, so it’s blindingly obvious that blue light glasses of any tint are awesome as a preventative measure. But even Transitions can only change between two different tints and are slower to react when fading back to clear.
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Gunnar Venture uses a variation on LCD technology to give you adjustable tint between clear and sunglasses-level dark, so you can keep the same pair of glasses on when you leave the house. Watching the lenses change tint as you swipe the side of the glasses is fantastic and might just end up being my new fidget toy. — Joe Rice-Jones, Senior PC Hardware Author
Acer Nitro Blaze 11
The biggest gaming handheld you’ve ever seen
The meteoric popularity of PC gaming handhelds has caused almost every PC manufacturer to release small-screen devices, but Acer has bigger aspirations. The upcoming Acer Nitro Blaze 11 dials up the tablet-with-removable-controllers recipe up to 11, with a 10.95-inch, WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600) IPS display with 144Hz refresh rate and up to 500 nits of brightness.
It’s a whopper of a PC handheld, beating the 2013 Razer Edge by nearly an inch of screen real estate. The AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS chip that powers it is fairly comparable to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, although with a more generous power envelope of 28W. Is that too much screen for the processor? Probably, but it’s awesome to see a company testing out a handheld with a display size other than the more common 7-inch. — Joe Rice-Jones, Senior PC Hardware Author
Dell Pro Premium
Horrible naming aside
Dell may have introduced one of the most confusing naming schemes ever at CES 2025, but at the very least we got some great-looking laptops out of it, and the Dell Pro Premium models are the highlight of this year. This is a business laptop that looks the part, but the highlight here is that it’s the first business laptop ever to use “tandem OLED” technology, meaning two OLED panels are layered on top of each other to provide even more brightness and contrast.
Otherwise, it’s a sleek laptop with high-end specs, including Intel Lunar Lake processors, up to 1TB of storage, and a wide array of ports. It also supports 5G connectivity, which not every premium business laptop can say. In fact, there are almost no Lunar Lake laptops with 5G right now, so that’s a big deal.
This laptop is actually available to buy right now, but the tandem OLED panel that makes it so special doesn’t seem to be available yet. — João Carrasqueira, Lead Windows Editor
Dell Pro 14 Premium
The Dell Pro 14 Premium is the successor of the Latitude 9000 series, and it packs high-end specs, including an optional tandem OLED display and Intel Lunar Lake processors. It’s also available with 5G connectivity.
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
The best laptop processor for gaming
AMD has long touted its 3D V-Cache as a defining feature behind why its CPUs are the best for gaming, and to be honest, they’re right. While not all games make use of the 3D V-Cache as much as others might, the games that do benefit massively from it. Titles like Counter-Strike and Valorant will see incredible frame consistency for example, and AMD is finally bringing that 3D V-Cache technology to laptops in the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D comes with 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads, can boost up to 5.4 GHz under the right conditions, has 144 MB of 3D V-Cache, and has a TDP of 54 W. That V-Cache is larger than many desktop CPUs and will be a big upgrade for games that use it if you’re gaming on the go. We’re really excited to see how it performs in laptops, and it’s going to be a big boost for gamers looking to get the most out of their laptop. — Adam Conway, Lead Technical Editor
Qualcomm Snapdragon X
Budget laptops are getting good
Qualcomm has been unrelenting with its processor launches in the past seven months, and it’s bringing the heat to AMD and Intel. With the new base tier Snapdragon X chip, the company is poised to revolutionzie budget-priced laptops with a major uplift in performance and efficiency.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon X is targetting laptops in the $600 price range, and compared to the processor you’d usually get in a laptop at that price, it’s better by every metric — CPU performance, GPU performance, and battery life. While premium laptops have been seeing a lot of competition with Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Ryzen AI 300, Qualcomm is the only one bringing great efficiency to cheaper laptops, and on top of that, a powerful NPU that can support Copilot+. You can’t get that at this price with any other processor right now.
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It may not be the most exciting for the avid tech fans that want the absolute best money can buy, but for the bulk of the market, this processor is huge news. — João Carrasqueira, Lead Windows Editor
OnePlus 13
The best Android phone right now
The OnePlus 13 is the latest and greatest from OnePlus, and it’s one of the best phones you can buy at the moment. It has Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite SoC, a beautiful design, magnetic wireless charging, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. The battery comes in at 6,000 mAh and the screen is incredibly bright with a 120Hz refresh rate. It starts at $899, arguably making it an iPhone killer and a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra killer before it even launches.
Because of all of this, the OnePlus 13 earns itself a place on our best of CES 2025 awards list. It’s a fantastic all-around smartphone package and one of the best Android smartphones you can get at the moment. — Adam Conway, Lead Technical Editor
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The OnePlus 13 packs all the specs you could want from a flagship Android phone in 2025, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, an advanced camera setup, and more.
The best of CES 2025
There’s been so much great tech on offer at this year’s CES, and all of these products will make their way into the hands of consumers at one point or another. From great cooling solutions to fantastic GPUs to an incredible smartphone from OnePlus, this show has had it all. My personal favorite is the Legion Go S, powered by SteamOS, as it marks the first gaming handheld not made by Valve with an alternative to Windows. Be sure to check out all of our CES coverage to get up to date on all of the other incredible tech that launched at the show, too.
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source: https://www.xda-developers.com/best-of-ces-2025/
