The Best Of CES 2017

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Best Of CES 2017: Laptops

The annual Consumer Electronics Show – CES – is typically chock full of bleeding-edge technology. Numerous companies take advantage of CES as the backdrop to launch or announce new products, and this year's CES 2017 was no exception. But for every killer piece of technology shown off at CES, there are a dozens of chintzy unmentionables that fill the millions of square feet that comprise the show's multiple venues. The Las Vegas Convention center and virtually all of the surrounding upscale hotels and resorts are packed to gills with CES-related tech products every year.

It can be tough to discern what’s HOT and what’s NOT coming out of CES, so we’ve decided to save you the trouble and point out some the best products we saw in our travels. Whether you’re most interested in notebooks, desktops, components, or entertainment accessories, we’ve got you covered. Take a look...

Laptops - Ultralights and Gaming

Prior to this year's CES show, a number of manufacturer's pre-announced new laptops, some based on Intel's Kaby Lake refresh, while a few gaming machines were empowered by NVIDIA's Mobile GeForce 10 launch. As a result, at that show, there weren't as many machines that were completely new to us, except a couple of holdouts from the likes of Dell, Lenovo and surprise entrant Samsung. The top two machines come from well established lineage however, Lenovo's venerable business class ThinkPad line and Dell's recently on-fire XPS premium consumer line-up.

For the past three years, Dell has rolled out a new version of its XPS 13 or 15 inch machines for CES and this year the company once again did not disappoint. Though we thought we saw it all with Dell's recent Kaby Lake and Rose Gold refresh of the machine early in the month of December, it turns out the team from Round Rock, TX had one more trick up its sleeve, a new, thinner and dramatically more flexible XPS 13 2-in-1 that we got some quality hands-on time with at the show.