The Coolest Laptops Of Ces 2025

The caller CPUs, GPUs, and laptops announced astatine CES this week group nan reside for Windows computers successful nan twelvemonth to recreation — and truthful far, 2025 is looking beautiful promising. There are a bunch of caller notebooks I’m excited to proceedings retired erstwhile they recreation around, galore of which are gaming-focused since nan 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 ample connected caller ideas, thinness, earthy power, and over-the-top accouterments. Here are nan ones I’m astir excited for.

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

But nan 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 susceptible beta proceedings of a merchandise coming to market.

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

Apple learned nan difficult measurement pinch nan MacBook Pro years agone that prioritizing thinness complete everything different results successful excessively galore sacrifices. But Asus is coming pinch a very bladed laptop that’s an incredibly ray 2.18 pounds and is utilizing it to erstwhile again recreation astatine nan MacBook Air. (The punishment 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,” peculiarly pinch an Arm-based Snapdragon X processor that has little cores than ones already released, but it mightiness still beryllium a slick laptop that’s truthful ray it feels for illustration it hardly adds point to your backpack. And fixed nan coagulated artillery life we’ve seen connected moreover overmuch powerful Snapdragon chips, it’s imaginable nan lower-power processor successful nan 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 mini 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 nan fat from nan 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 nan Blade 16). Razer’s agleam greenish logo connected nan lid will ever beryllium polarizing, but I’m intrigued to spot if this caller configuration tin activity retired for immoderate graphics-demanding games and imaginative workflows.

There are a batch of laptop ray shows astatine CES, but point is alternatively arsenic showy arsenic Asus’ redesigned Strix Scar gaming laptops. The Strix connection 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 besides has Asus’ programmable AniMe dot-matrix show from older Zephyrus models.

This mightiness beryllium nan gaming laptop I’m astir excited to effort retired because successful summation to seeing what its RTX 50-series GPUs tin do successful nan latest AAA games, I wonderment really galore hours of my clip I tin suffer to putting dumb worldly connected nan 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 coagulated successful its thenar remainder that’s dressed up pinch Norse runes each around.

But I’ll beryllium honest: I’m listing it coming arsenic benignant of a reddish herring. While MSI will apt discarded retired of nan less Dragon Editions it’s making for its loyal fans, it will besides person 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 astir of nan specs of nan Titan successful a somewhat overmuch accepted gaming laptop. That whitethorn beryllium nan existent 1 to proceedings and get a overmuch 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 type pinch Anna Sui astatine nan show, and it was conscionable truthful dang charming. It isn’t conscionable a dressed-up roseate aureate 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 nan laptop runs and warms nan basal oil. Yes, Asus is hoping to discarded group basal lipid packs each 30 to 90 days, but reps from nan institution were upfront that you tin conscionable usage your ain oils.

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