From a laptop with a screen that grows to a 1-kilogram ultraportable to the world's most powerful 14-inch workstation, these are the laptops that grabbed our attention at CES.

While Dell wasn’t at CES proper, the company unveiled its latest Alienware laptops during the big event. The company has brought back its old Area-51 branding for the upcoming 16- and 18-inch gaming laptops to celebrate nearly 30 years of Alienware.

A seriously innovative Lenovo ThinkBook with a rollable screen, and a storming gaming laptop from Razer were the best of the best at CES 2025.

The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 laptop sports a unique expandable display that could enable some serious on-the-go multitasking — if you’re willing to cough up $3,500 for one.

Acer is also at CES 2025 with a slew of new laptops, desktops and other gadgets to show off, and AI continues to be a big talking point. Most notably, the company is refreshing some of its flagship Aspire and Swift Go laptops with updated x86 processors, including the (relatively) new AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPUs and Intel Core Ultra 200H chips.

Razer’s Blade 16 sheds some bulk for 2025, unveiling a slimmer profile at CES without compromising gaming capabilities.

CES 2025, which wrapped up on Friday, marked the first year I found more laptops than ever that hit this Holy Grail metric — and they did so without making the sacrifices often considered necessary to achieve a light form factor.