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LAB NOTES GUY COCKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Tech Trends from CES
Beyond the products and into the future of the PC platform itself
THIS MONTH, I was lucky enough to head out to Las Vegas for this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. You can read my full report on page 32, where I pick out the best products. As I mentioned in my editor’s intro, there were many more great products than I could cover in the 35 I was able to pick for inclusion in the ten-page feature.
But here, I want to talk about the general trends I spotted at the show and why I think this year was one of the best for PC fans. There was a mountain of RTX 4000-series powered laptops on show from the likes of Lenovo, Acer, and particularly, Asus. While, at the time of writing, prices are being kept under wraps (although $3,000-$4,000 seems likely for top-end 4090 models), the slimness of some of these models, in particular, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, means they combine portability, and power in a way we’ve not seen before. And seeing one RTX 4090 machine power a triplescreen racing rig made me want to ditch my desktop, cost be damned.