It wasn't difficult to find a common thread among the new Windows laptops showcased at CES 2025. Beyond your expected next-generation refreshes, tech's biggest trade show was all about getting more people to buy into the idea of AI-powered PCs this year.

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.

There was a glut of fresh laptops at CES 2025, powered by a new generation of CPUs and GPUs. But only the best new notebooks made this list.

CES is filled with wild and wacky curios, to be sure, but there are also plenty of good old-fashioned laptops. Every year the big chipmakers announce new products and the big computer manufacturers unveil new laptops that take advantage of updated CPUs and GPUs.

HP starts the year strong by giving its EliteBook series an AI boost alongside the new OmniStudio X, which could dominate the all-in-one space.

If you were scouring the CES 2025 announcements for the best business laptop, look no further than the HP EliteBook Ultra G1i. In our review of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite-powered HP EliteBook Ultra G1q last year one of our few concerns with the EliteBook Ultra was the potential software incompatibility due to the ARM-based Qualcomm chip.