MSI refreshes its gaming laptops—flagships to mainstream models—with the latest high-end components, headlined by 18-inchers in its Crosshair, Stealth, Vector, Raider, and Titan lines.

But you’ll notice some similar specs are present in cheaper MSI laptops, like the new Raider 18 HX.

Alienware is bringing back the gaming brand that made it a household name among gamers in the 1990s and early 2000s with the relaunch of the Area 51 gaming PC and Area 51 gaming laptops at CES 2025. The resurrected line was last seen with the Alienware Area 51m gaming laptop,

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang started with an announcement the next-generation Nvidia desktop GPUs, before moving on to the mobile version of the RTX 5070, showing off a laptop with an RTX 5070 inside that he says will be available for $1,299, starting when the new GPUs become available in March.

Here are the best laptops from the show that I can’t wait to get in for full review in the coming months. As I write this on a MacBook Pro, I keep staring annoyingly into the black void of its notch.