My years as a laptop reviewer have been punctuated by CES. Though the first time I attended, I was focused more on gaming desktops and components, I’ve been laser-focused on laptops since 2020. (What a weird year that was, covering CES remotely with my colleagues.) I’ve gone hands-on with and reviewed a gamut of laptops announced at CES, from tiny 13-inch productivity machines to massive gaming laptops and even dual-screen convertibles.
Every year, a new trend or twist on laptop design is usually carried into the following year. CES 2025 was an amalgamation of all those years I spent holding and typing away on prototypes. (The only thing missing this time was actually being able to see gaming benchmarks.) It was a treat to see dozens upon dozens of laptops that debuted at CES a few years ago return to the show floor, further refined thanks to chip architecture and power efficiency advances.
