If one thing was clear to me at CES 2026, it's that PC hardware has never looked better. The big laptop brands, including Lenovo, HP, Dell, and ASUS, showed off impressive new devices, all while carefully skirting around the issue of rising memory and storage prices.
The fresh crop of 2026 hardware, undoubtedly in the works long before AI firms bought up global DRAM supplies in order to build datacenters — which is now also occurring with the NAND chips that go into storage — struck a dissonant chord. Who's going to be able to afford this stuff when the storage and memory alone cost as much as an entire laptop?
