These are the best gaming laptops we’ve seen at CES 2024

CES 2024 has been awash with beautiful new gaming laptops, with the likes of Acer, Asus, Gigabyte, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, and extra exhibiting off new fashions. Filled with beautiful shows, the most recent CPUs and GPUs from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia, and a large number of untamed and fantastic gaming extras, we’ve had hands-on time with dozens of them and these are those which have stood out to make use of probably the most up to now.

There’s no assure any of those new fashions from CES will make it onto our best gaming laptops checklist in the case of last overview time. However, there’s each likelihood these would be the fashions to go for once they begin hitting store cabinets, and our testing labs, over the following couple of months.

Acer Swift X 14

Among the many mass of recent Acer gaming laptops at CES, it was the Swift X14 that caught our eye probably the most. The mix of the compact 14-inch measurement, the slim construct – regardless of housing an RTX 4070, engaging steel end and beautiful 2.8K decision OLED display screen was actually compelling. It inevitably gained’t be a gaming monster however if you’d like a stability of portability, fashion and energy, it appears prefer it ought to ship the products.

Asus Zephyrus G16 and G14

We couldn’t not embody each new variants of Asus’ slim and trendy gaming laptop computer line, the Zephyrus G16 and G14. The bigger 16-inch G16 is an absolute marvel of engineering. It’s extremely skinny and lightweight – ust 1.85kg for a 16-inch gaming laptop computer is astonishing – but nonetheless homes an RTX 4090. You in fact get a stunning 2.5K decision OLED display screen and regardless of the slimness, the construct high quality is top-notch with a great-feeling keyboard and trackpad.

As for the G16’s little sibling, the 14-inch G14, it’s additionally slim and lightweight however is most of all only a fantastic-looking system. The white end on present at CES appears very good – even when our footage have barely finished it a disservice. Just like the Acer X14, it’ll home as much as an RTX 4070 and really makes use of an AMD Ryzen 8000 CPU fairly than Intel. Each laptops additionally characteristic a properly delicate lighting impact on the laptop computer lid, with a slash of shiny steel being dotted with lights. It appears nice in particular person.

Lenovo Legion Professional 7i

One other instance of simply how impressively slick-looking gaming laptops might be made nowadays, the Lenovo Legion Professional 7i is extremely slim and with a clear design. Positive, you get an RGB gentle strip on the entrance however we fairly like the best way it provides a comparatively delicate desk illumination – regardless that, sure, we might flip it off instantly to save lots of battery life –  and the RGB backlit keyboard is equally non-garish. There are some chunky-looking aspect cooling vents however then this factor does nonetheless pack in an RTX 4090 with a 175W peak energy score alongside an Intel Core i9-14900HX all powering its 16-inch 2,560 x 1,600, 240Hz show.

MSI Cyborg 14

Amongst its host of succesful and crowd pleasing gaming laptops, the one which stood out most to us was the Cyborg 14, as this laptop computer has a translucent chassis. Whereas MSI debuted the concept final yr, the up to date model has a barely tweaked design and continues to be darned cool. The translucency doesn’t actually allow you to see the main points of your machine’s insides nevertheless it provides a enjoyable glimpse at, particularly, the copper heatpipes and cooling followers. The laptop computer is in any other case a modest-tier system with its 1,920 x 1,200 @144Hz 14-inch show, Intel Thirteenth-gen processor and solely as much as an RTX 4060 graphics card. However, that’s why it’s a $1,099 gaming laptop computer, not a $2K+ one.

Razer Blade 16

Simply have a look at it! That traditional glossy black Razer design is put to nice use once more with its newest 16-inch gaming laptop computer addition, and this time it comes with a ridiculously beautiful 240Hz 2560 x 1600 show. That show can be rated to the most recent top-spec VESA ClearMR 11000 customary. As an OLED panel it has inherently quick response time however VESA’s score means the panel has previous their rigourous checks to decided simply how good it’s. As you’d count on, as much as RTX 4090 graphics and Intel 14th gen processors are additionally inside.

Whereas we wait the month or two that it’ll take for a lot of of those laptops to be obtainable for buy, you’ll be able to take a look at our present picks for the best gaming laptop.