Asus, Lenovo, Acer, and Other Manufacturers Offer the Best Laptops at CES 2025
At CES 2025, Intel launched a new generation of AcerCore Ultra CPUs, AMD revealed multiple Ryzen and Radeon releases, and Nvidia unveiled its next-generation RTX 50 desktop and laptop GPUs. Many laptops with this new technology were unveiled at the expo, and we've tracked down as many as we could.
These are the greatest laptops we've seen so far, from the Asus Zenbook A14, which weighs more than one kilogram and is semi-ceramic, to Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus, which has a rollable and extensible OLED display. (We also compiled a list of the top CES trends overall.)
Asus ZenBook A14
Asus claims that the new ZenBook A14 is the world's lightest Copilot Plus PC, weighing a little under 2.2 pounds. The ZenBook A14 weighs half a pound less than Apple's MacBook Air and has a bigger display than the Air's 13.6-inch screen. Whether it's the lightest Copilot Plus PC or not, that's an amazingly light 14-inch laptop. And it's light without being fragile because of its aluminum chassis, which is made of aluminum and ceramic.
The Snapdragon X-powered ZenBook A14 also has an extraordinarily long battery life—Asus claims it may last up to 32 hours on one charge. That's an incredible battery life, especially given the OLED display.
The ZenBook A14 received this year's Best of CES Award for Best Laptop.
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Generation 6 Rollable
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable does a touch of magic. It can be carried as a 14-inch laptop and transformed into a nearly 17-inch laptop in a matter of seconds once placed down. The rollable display is what makes having a smaller laptop for travel with a screen that can stretch vertically to 16.7 inches when you want to sit down and work so effective.
With a single button push or wave of the hand, the OLED display rises upward, sliding out from beneath the keyboard to provide greater vertical space. It results in an unusually tall display, yet it allows you to multitask and view more lines of a spreadsheet. The laptop is powered by an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPU with up to 32GB of memory.
It is extraordinarily tiny, measuring only 0.8 inches thick, despite the fact that a portion of the display must be able to roll beneath the keyboard when not completely extended. At 3.7 pounds, it's somewhat heavier than the usual 14-inch laptop—but comparable to a 16-inch model.
Lenovo ThinkPad X9
Lenovo unveiled the new premium ThinkPad X9 series with a redesigned design that includes a grooved bottom panel (for better cooling or to be easier to grip—or both!—it is unclear) and an "engine hub" to improve cooling for the laptop's components while keeping the rest of the notebook compact. This hub also provides simple access to the battery and SSD for maintenance or repair.
The ThinkPad X9 is offered in two display sizes: 14 inches and 15.3 inches. Both are OLED displays powered by Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs. Premium features include an 8-megapixel camera and a tactile touchpad. The ThinkPad X9 14 is lightweight at 2.7 pounds, while the ThinkPad X9 15 weighs 3.2 pounds.
Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i 14 Gen-10
The Yoga Slim 9i 14 Gen 10 is nearly all screen. Lenovo claims to have a 98% screen-to-body ratio. All sides of the display have almost minimal bezels, and there is no camera notch at the top. So, where's the camera? Hidden behind the exhibit. Although we've seen under-the-display cameras on phones and tablets previously, the Yoga Slim 9i 14 is the first laptop to use one.
The display itself is a 4K, 120Hz PureSight Pro OLED panel that supports 100% sRGB, P3, and AdobeRGB. The laptop has an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. Lenovo predicts that the 75-watt-hour battery will last 17 hours, which is reasonable for a laptop with a high-resolution OLED display. It's also rather light for a 14-inch size, just 2.6 pounds.
Acer Aspire Vero 16
Acer
The Aspire Vero 16 is the successor to the 15.6-inch Vero from a few years earlier. The new 16-inch Vero features a chassis constructed of more than 70% post-consumer recycled plastic and a bio-based substance derived from oyster shells. According to Acer, it is the first laptop to employ oyster shells in its construction, although it looks similar to the original Vero, with a distinctive style, a rough surface, and small yellow and gray-blue specks.
The Aspire Vero 16 chassis isn't only about sustainability and unique design. It is MIL-STD-810H rated for ruggedness and is quite portable given its size, weighing a little under 4 pounds, according to Acer. Acer also claims the chassis is simple to repair, in an effort to extend its life and delay its disposal in a landfill. And with Intel's newest Core Ultra 200H series CPUs, it should last a long time.
HP ZBook Ultra G1A
HP describes the ZBook Ultra G1a as "the world's most powerful 14-inch mobile workstation." It appears basic, but within lies a new AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro processor with up to 16 desktop-class CPU cores and discrete-like integrated graphics, as well as unified memory up to 128GB, with the GPU accessing 96GB of that memory—quite impressive for something so compact and light.
Alienware Area 51
Dell and its gaming spinoff Alienware did not attend Las Vegas this year, but the launch of new gaming laptops coincided with the Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU reveal. Alienware is relaunching the Area-51 range with 16- and 18-inch laptops using next-generation Nvidia graphics and up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor. The bodies are anodized metal and have a liquid teal color-shifting iridescent gloss. The rear exhaust ledge is transparent and features "lighting animations that imitate the unpredictable motions of the Aurora Borealis." The bottoms have Gorilla Glass panes, which are a real display for the latest Nvidia and Intel technology introduced at the conference.
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