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The Best of CES 2017 Awards
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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!
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Derek Kessler is Special Projects Manager for Mobile Nations. He's been writing about tech since 2009, has far more phones than is considered humane, still carries a torch for Palm, and got a Tesla because it was the biggest gadget he could find. You can follow him on Twitter at @derekakessler.
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Vegas calling
CES 2017 Day Three: How many pixels do you really need?
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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.
Face off
Dell somehow made a Windows Holographic VR headset that looks cool
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Acer, HP, Dell, and more dip their toes in the VR waters.
13 inches and 980 grams
LG's updated Gram laptops are absurdly light
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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.
Such boom
Dell's XPS 27 all-in-one has 10 speakers for some reason
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The Dell XPS 27 All-in-One PC has an enormous chin for good reason: there are a bunch of speakers in there.
4K? Pshaw
Dell's new 8K monitor is simply jaw-dropping
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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.
You don't have to buy the whole farm
Dell Canvas: it's like a Surface Studio, but without the computer
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Dell doesn't think you need to make a whole computer to dramatically change the user experience.
Infinity Edge in your hand
The XPS 13 2-in-1 is the Dell convertible we've always wanted
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Ever looked at the beautiful Dell XPS 13 and thought that it might make a great convertible?
Chroma everywhere and for all
Razer's interactive projector fills your room with your games
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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.
Project Valerie
Razer just made a laptop with three — THREE! — 17-inch 4K displays. 😱
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Because why not?
Intel and Google's big day
CES 2017 Day Two: New laptops, new phones, and old ideas made new
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The big announcements day ahead of the actual CES show brought some things we expected, and plenty of pleasant surprises.
Great design from Palo Alto
HP's CES 2017 releases are truly gorgeous PCs
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HP's newest releases are hands-down beautiful, which still feels weird to say. But they are.
Join me on a quest
Samsung finally makes gaming laptops: this is the Notebook Odyssey
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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.
So thin, so light
Samsung's updated Notebook 9 is the new lightest 13-inch laptop
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Samsung has updated their Notebook 9 Ultrabook, continuing with their ridiculously thin and light ways.
Qualcomm, Intel, and Alexa walk into a bar…
CES 2017 Day One: Processors, convertibles, and clamshells galore
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CES proper is still a few days away, but that wasn't enough to hold back the flood of news.
More like portable desktop replacement
Acer's insane 21-inch curved-screen Predator 21X laptop has a price: $8,999
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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.
Take five is better than ever
The updated Lenovo ThinkPad X1 packs Kaby Lake chips and zero bloatware
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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.
Look and shoot
Lenovo's clever hack to bring VR to every game
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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!
Kaby Lake in a Surface clone
Lenovo's Miix 720 is the Surface Pro update you've been waiting for
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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.
Alexa, what's a clone?
Lenovo's take on the Amazon Echo is a pretty little thing
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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.