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.

From a laptop with a screen that grows to a 1-kilogram ultraportable with more than 30 hours of battery life, these are the laptops that grabbed our attention at CES.

To say that CES was a PC show this year is an understatement. We spent time with dozens of laptops in Las Vegas, and these are our favorites across nine key categories.

The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 has more than just the latest RTX 50 series GPUs going for it, with a gorgeous and user-upgradeable design.

After a week on the show floor in Las Vegas, we still have a few companies and products that we haven't gotten a chance to tell you about...until now.

At CES 2025, Shokz introduced its OpenFit 2 air conduction earbuds, each having a woofer and tweeter for better sound compared to its predecessor. They also now have buttons for finer control. JLab's Epic Lux Lab Edition Wireless Headphones are the company's first set of adaptive active noise cancellation headphones.