2024 was an eventful year for laptops. With the release of the first Snapdragon X Elite-powered notebooks, we finally got Windows 11 laptops that matched the performance and efficiency of the best MacBooks. And while laptops packing Qualcomm, Intel and AMD silicon didn’t exactly deliver an AI revolution, it’s clear that on-devive machine learning is here to stay. The state of laptops is many things, but boring isn’t one of them.
With CES 2025 only a couple days away, I’m preparing myself for the eventual torrent of new laptop announcements. Nothing is official yet, but I expect we’ll see the first laptops featuring the rumored Nvidia RTX 50-series mobile GPUs and next-gen CPUs from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. It’s hard to say if these machines will be substantially different from what’s currently available, but the prospect of stronger performance, longer battery life and perhaps unique form factors is exciting.
