The coolest laptops of CES 2025

The caller CPUs, GPUs, and laptops announced astatine CES this week group the reside for Windows computers successful the twelvemonth to travel — and truthful far, 2025 is looking beautiful promising. There are a bunch of caller notebooks I’m excited to trial retired erstwhile they travel around, galore of which are gaming-focused since the motorboat of Nvidia’s RTX 50-series cards is ushering successful an onslaught of graphics-heavy refreshes and upgrades.

There are galore caller laptops coming from Dell, Alienware, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer. Many whitethorn conscionable boil down to spot bumps and flimsy refreshes, but location are immoderate that are betting large connected caller ideas, thinness, earthy power, and over-the-top accouterments. Here are the ones I’m astir excited for.

I’ve already written and said a batch astir Lenovo’s concept-turned-buyable-product that is the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6. It’s the coolest laptop we saw. It’s our outright champion successful show for CES 2025. And it’s besides imaginable erstwhile it comes clip to reappraisal 1 later successful the twelvemonth that the challenges of Lenovo trying to graft package functionality for its rollable show onto Windows whitethorn beryllium a span excessively far.

But the measurement that Lenovo fto america grip it for illustration a normal laptop (closing it pinch its lid still extended, packing it into a tight backpack) shows committedness that this mightiness not conscionable beryllium a vulnerable beta trial of a merchandise coming to market.

Hearing the ThinkBook’s motors occurrence up and seeing its surface turn and shrink is an acquisition you conscionable don’t get anyplace other correct now. It mightiness go different niche for illustration Lenovo’s dual-screen Yoga Book 9i aliases Asus’ copycat ZenBook Duo, but it’s a caller effort to do thing unique. We’ll person to spot if Lenovo sticks the landing.

Apple learned the difficult measurement pinch the MacBook Pro years agone that prioritizing thinness complete everything other results successful excessively galore sacrifices. But Asus is present pinch a very bladed laptop that’s an incredibly ray 2.18 pounds and is utilizing it to erstwhile again travel astatine the MacBook Air. (The sanction itself is simply a dormant giveaway if you conscionable squint.)

I’m not going to kid myself and deliberation this is really going to beryllium a “MacBook Air killer,” particularly pinch an Arm-based Snapdragon X processor that has less cores than ones already released, but it mightiness still beryllium a slick laptop that’s truthful ray it feels for illustration it hardly adds thing to your backpack. And fixed the coagulated artillery life we’ve seen connected moreover much powerful Snapdragon chips, it’s imaginable the lower-power processor successful the A14 will make it a artillery champ.

Razer’s look pinch its high-end Blade laptops has ever boiled down to looking and emotion a small for illustration a MacBook Pro — but for Windows and gaming alternatively of conscionable contented creation (though it tin do that, too). The caller Razer Blade 16 is looking to trim the fat from the last-gen model, going backmost to a thinner chassis that still offers plentifulness of ports and high-end specs for illustration RTX 50-series GPU options, a beautiful OLED display, and a move to AMD CPUs (a first for the Blade 16). Razer’s agleam greenish logo connected the lid will ever beryllium polarizing, but I’m intrigued to spot if this caller configuration tin activity retired for some graphics-demanding games and imaginative workflows.

There are a batch of laptop ray shows astatine CES, but thing is rather arsenic showy arsenic Asus’ redesigned Strix Scar gaming laptops. The Strix statement has ever been big, pinch beefed-up gaming specs and tons of RGB, but for 2025, it’s getting a caller 360-degree wraparound ray strip. And successful its astir “but wait, there’s more” consciousness of showmanship, it also has Asus’ programmable AniMe dot-matrix show from older Zephyrus models.

This mightiness beryllium the gaming laptop I’m astir excited to effort retired because successful summation to seeing what its RTX 50-series GPUs tin do successful the latest AAA games, I wonderment really galore hours of my clip I tin suffer to putting dumb worldly connected the Strix’s lid.

Just. Look. At. This. Thing.

MSI’s constricted Titan Dragon Edition is specified an outlandish creation, but I find it difficult not to respect its ridiculousness. The ludicrous gaming laptop has a elephantine dragon creation and a 3D-printed dragon medallion nether solid successful its thenar remainder that’s dressed up pinch Norse runes each around.

But I’ll beryllium honest: I’m listing it present arsenic benignant of a reddish herring. While MSI will apt waste retired of the fewer Dragon Editions it’s making for its loyal fans, it will also have a regular Titan A18 HX AI laptop matching its aforesaid chaotic specs successful a dragon-free design. And move 1 measurement down to MSI’s Raider, and you get most of the specs of the Titan successful a somewhat much accepted gaming laptop. That whitethorn beryllium the existent 1 to trial and get a much palatable sensation of MSI’s boisterous designs.

Honorable mention: Asus’ perfume laptop

I know, I know. It’s a China-only release, and it wasn’t caller for CES. But I sewage to spot Asus’ Aidol 14 Air Fragrance Edition and its collaboration version pinch Anna Sui astatine the show, and it was conscionable truthful dang charming. It isn’t conscionable a dressed-up roseate golden aliases lavender laptop made to pander to definite demographics, it really seems for illustration a well-specced and thought-out product. Asus took 1 of its Vivobooks and built a magnetic diffuser puck into its lid, designed to dispense an oil-based fragrance arsenic the laptop runs and warms the basal oil. Yes, Asus is hoping to waste group basal lipid packs each 30 to 90 days, but reps from the institution were upfront that you tin conscionable usage your ain oils.

Is it wholly unnecessary? Yes. But you cognize what? It’s besides nosy and smells great.