5 laptop trends from CES 2022 you can’t ignore

CES 2022 is typically the single most important media event for the PC laptop industry. This year proved no different despite the sudden and unexpected shift to a largely virtually show (the major chipmakers all stayed remote, as did most laptop manufacturers).

In fact, 2022 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Windows laptops. New CPUs and GPUs from AMD, Nvidia, and Intel promise to send laptop performance to the moon—and that’s just the start.

Here’s 5 top laptop trends from CES 2022 that simply can’t be ignored. Expect to see some of these notebooks cracking our list of the best laptops sooner than later.

1. LAPTOPS GROW IN POWER (AND POWER CONSUMPTION)

The PC laptop world was focused on large, heavy, and expensive laptops at CES 2022. While AMD, Intel, and and , are appealing because they attempt to stuff ever-faster hardware into modest footprints (whether they’re successful remains to be seen).