From a laptop with a screen that grows to a 1-kilogram ultraportable with more than 30 hours of battery life, these are the laptops that grabbed our attention at CES.

There are many new laptops coming from Dell, Alienware, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer. Many may just boil down to chip bumps and slight refreshes, but there are some that are betting big on new ideas, thinness, raw power, and over-the-top accouterments. Here are the ones I’m most excited for.

The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 has more than just the latest RTX 50 series GPUs going for it, with a gorgeous and user-upgradeable design.

While Dell wasn’t at CES proper, the company unveiled its latest Alienware laptops during the big event. The company has brought back its old Area-51 branding for the upcoming 16- and 18-inch gaming laptops to celebrate nearly 30 years of Alienware.

ASUS brought in a numebr of newe items from the ROG series to CES 2025, as they revealed multiple gaming laptops and more

At CES 2025, Shokz introduced its OpenFit 2 air conduction earbuds, each having a woofer and tweeter for better sound compared to its predecessor. They also now have buttons for finer control. JLab's Epic Lux Lab Edition Wireless Headphones are the company's first set of adaptive active noise cancellation headphones.