The ROG Zephyrus G14 is a mainstay among our recommendations for best gaming laptop, and after last year’s significant redesign, I wasn’t expecting any serious changes this year. And there weren’t. And yet, the small tweaks make this already spectacular laptop that much better.

From a laptop with a screen that grows to a 1-kilogram ultraportable to the world's most powerful 14-inch workstation, these are the laptops that grabbed our attention at CES.

To say that CES was a PC show this year is an understatement. We spent time with dozens of laptops in Las Vegas, and these are our favorites across nine key categories.

CES 2025 brought an avalanche of groundbreaking tech announcements, from Nvidia's cutting-edge RTX 5000 Blackwell GPUs and DLSS 4 to Lenovo’s powerful gaming handhelds and next-gen OLED monitors. We also saw futuristic concepts like Razer's climate-controlled gaming chair and Sony's immersive entertainment experience,