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 to the world's most powerful 14-inch workstation, 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.

A seriously innovative Lenovo ThinkBook with a rollable screen, and a storming gaming laptop from Razer were the best of the best at CES 2025.

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.