The Best Laptops That Wowed Us From Lenovo, Asus, Acer, HP and Dell at CES 2025
There were few surprises at this year’s big electronics show in Las Vegas, but we did get a good look at what laptop maker’s have coming in 2025, and here’s the best of it.
0:00 Intro
0:31 Lenovo Thinkbook Plus Gen 6 Rollable
1:06 Asus Zenbook A14
1:48 Acer 16-Inch Aspire Vero
2:16 Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i
2:56 Lenovo ThinkPad X9
3:28 HP ZBook Ultra G1a
4:05 Alieneware Area-51
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look at that bezel finish meme
no one cares about co pilot. Im not paying a cent for that service
I think the Thinkplus Gen 6 rollable laptop just looks unique but also weird since you need to extend the screen. It would be good to just get a bigger screen laptop
Ok Lenovo. You removed the iconic "red nipple" on ThinkPad for the sake of AI? Yeah guess I won’t buy your laptop this year
all of them have one thing in common, horrible keyboard repairability 😅
@cnet I am totally stoked for the AMD AI cpu/gpu this will be able to run most AI large language models with 128GB ram th
1:00 How ignorant are you??
🤣🤣🤣
I bet you browse websites on your phone in Portrait orientation like 99% of people right?
That rollable laptop would be AMAZING for browsing websites, coding apps, etc.
Alienware, I mean. Come on. Teal green and glass on the bottom that we will never see? How about the below average monitor you’ve put on your flagship M18 the last couple years? Tell me that has been upgraded?
It’s not the gpu that needs an upgrade the 16gb ram stuff has gotta go, I have a 2023 zephyrus that uses I kid you not 80% ram to idle. lol
I liked hp zbook ultra g1a its looks simple but powerful, nothing shiny, do any jobs
if I were to get back to windows I would pick a Lenovo any time of the day. they have solid quality and they look amazing.
I don’t understand the hype behind the Asus A14. Windows on Arm is not ready and the A14 is merely another thin laptop that is closer to an iPad than a computer
I’ll try one of them with Arch around Thanksgiving 2025 🙂
Missed MSI? they have some of the best
Msi where ?
E-waste for labor
Awesome
Lenovo will meet the same fate as Nissan by denying out-of-warranty claims, even when their faulty engineering causes hardware failures shortly after the warranty expires. They also fail to support their products with driver updates, leaving customers stuck with devices that are vulnerable to hackers and practically paperweights.
Imb is low quality
asus best
Now what’s the best normal affordable laptop shown at CES
Thinkpad without red trackpoint isn’t Thinkpad
4:05 "Alieneware"?
Laptops should be personal devices, right? None of the presented could be trully personalized with their mediocre windows OS. Having these ones is like wearing dull uniform from totalitarian regimes or schools, when you are a grown up person. All you can do with them is to change a background. That is all personalization possible. All the rest is actually outdated 30 years old interface with a little polished corners here and there.
Not much innovation here. I do not want a thinkbook that probably can not be repaired or customised, with a rollable screen that might melt over a couple years. I would rather see an X1 Extreme without a numerical keypad, with a 17 inch screen.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
All the Snapdragon hate is so strange. My M1 was a mess the first year. Windows apps were buggy and burned through battery. No gaming to speak of. The Adobe suite kept crashing like it was 2005.
The Snapdragon laptops issues were pretty identical to the first year of Apple M1.
Honestly, I didn’t expact fron Lenovo such unreasonable laptops for 2025 CES. Very sad.
Lenovo should have named that one "The Erector".
Grower not a shower 💀😂 0:40
Those laptop names 😅
I Love Lenovo!!! Rollable Tablet Version Must be Awesome!!! 👍🏻😎👍🏻
Asus R OG flow z13
Can’t wait for the refreshed ASUS ROG Floe X13 and X16!!
in the market for a 14 inch OLED under 2.5 lbs and $500 ( on sale) I’ll cross my fingers and wait it out
So they didn’t go to the ROG booth?