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CES always brings a flood of new gadgets and laptops and insane tech that'll never see the light of day — and the 2017 edition of CES was no different. Here are our favorites!
Laptops that are thinner and longer lasting, displays with more pixels than we've ever seen, everything connected to the web in ways we can't yet comprehend. This is CES.
Acer, HP, Dell, and more dip their toes in the VR waters.
The first iteration of the LG Gram laptop series was rightly panned for its poor battery life. But now? They've fixed that and made it even lighter.
The Dell XPS 27 All-in-One PC has an enormous chin for good reason: there are a bunch of speakers in there.
What can I say? Dell's new 32-inch 8K display is the most gorgeous picture I've ever seen. Those 5K displays should be ashamed.
Dell doesn't think you need to make a whole computer to dramatically change the user experience.
Ever looked at the beautiful Dell XPS 13 and thought that it might make a great convertible?
Razer's opening up their Chroma RGB lighting tech to accessory makers. Oh, and they made a crazy full-room projector that makes your entire room your gaming canvas.
Because why not?
The big announcements day ahead of the actual CES show brought some things we expected, and plenty of pleasant surprises.
HP's newest releases are hands-down beautiful, which still feels weird to say. But they are.
Samsung is stepping up to the portable gaming PC in a big way with the new Notebook Odyssey. This purpose-built machine is Samsung's first proper gaming laptop, and it makes quite the statement in both the design and technology departments.
Samsung has updated their Notebook 9 Ultrabook, continuing with their ridiculously thin and light ways.
CES proper is still a few days away, but that wasn't enough to hold back the flood of news.
Let's refresh: a curved 21-inch ultrawide display, dual GTX 1080 GPUs, 64GB of RAM, four SSDs, and a mechanical keyboard… in a laptop.
Lenovo's new Miix 720 2-in-1 tablet features the latest in processors, an improved pen, and just about everything else you'd want in an updated Surface Pro.
Lenovo's CES 2017 announcements aren't just laptops galore: they've got their own take on an Amazon Echo —powered by Alexa, no less — and a next-generation home network storage device. Oh, and a slick compact keyboard for your smart TV.
The biggest hurdle facing VR right now is a lack of content, and Lenovo has a smart and rather clever way to fix that. Put on your headset, it's time to take every first person game into virtual reality!
Lenovo's updating their whole ThinkPad X1 line — the Carbon laptop, Yoga convertible, and Tablet… tablet — with new processors, fast LTE, Windows Hello authentication, and more.