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Alienware stomped into CES 2026 with a bunch of new gaming laptops with new flagship Area-51 gaming laptops in 18-inch and 16-inch variants, a new 16X Aurora, and more.

Starting with Alienware's new Area-51 18 and 16 gaming laptops, they both feature upgraded designs with updated capabilities, both using the "Alienware 30" design language to celebrate the company's 30th anniversary. This new design includes Fluid Contours, Pillowed Palm Rests, and a Zero Hinge design.

Dell has tweaked the thermal design of the new Alienware Area-51 18+16 gaming laptops, with the latest cryo-chamber technology that's capable of up to 35% improved airflow, 15% improvement in acoustics, additional copper-based thermal modules in the form of heatpipes and a vapor chamber, as well as up to 20% higher volume on the bigger Area-51 18 gaming laptop.

ASUS has unveiled its new ROG Zephyrus G16 and G14 gaming laptops at CES 2026, powered by Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" CPUs.

The new ROG Zephyrus G16 (GU606) and ROG Zephyrus G14 (GU405) gaming laptops sport the new Intel Panther Lake CPUs with up to 16 cores and up to 50 TOPS from the NPU for local and in-game AI workloads.

ASUS lets you configure the smaller ROG Zephyrus G14 with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, while the bigger G16 laptop can be tweaked up to the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. Max GPU TGPs have also been increased by up to 23% through manual mode, from 120W to 130W on the G14, and 130W to 160W on the G16.

AMD has officially launched its new Ryzen AI 400 series CPUs ready to power the next wave of AI desktops and laptops, with the flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 processor leading the charge.

AMD announced its new Ryzen AI 400 series processors will be available starting in Q1 2026 from partners including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, GIGABYTE, MSI, and more. Inside, they all feature AMD Zen 5 cores, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, XDNA 2-based NPUs, ROCm support, and they're Copilot+ PC ready.

The flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 processor rolls out with 12 cores and 24 threads of Zen 5 processing power that boosts at up to 5.2GHz, it has 36MB of cache, 60 TOPS from the NPU for AI workloads, 16 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU power, and memory speed support of up to 8533MT/s.

MSI has revealed its all-new Prestige series laptops, redesigned and tweaked, powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 3 series "Panther Lake" CPUs.

The new MSI Prestige 16 and 14 laptops feature an all-new design language that has smoother, more rounded contours and refined craftsmanship that makes it feel premium both inside and out. The bigger Prestige 16 weighs only 1.59kg, while the Prestige 14 weighs just 1.32kg marking a 22% reduction in weight from the previous-gen Prestige 14, impressive.

MSI says that its new Prestige series laptops are ready with next-gen graphics and AI performance from the new Intel Panther Lake processors, with the Prestige series packing a high-capacity 81Wh battery that the company says is good for over 30 hours of 1080p video playback, providing true multi-day usage.

LG has just unveiled its latest 2026 LG gram laptops, debuting with a new ultra-light Aerominum material, with the introduction of the new LG gram Pro 17 and LG gram Pro 16 laptops.

The new 2026 LG gram laptops evolution as an ultra-portable laptop is boosted with the use of Aerominum, a composition developed in-house by LG. This new innovative material reduces the laptop's weight while reinforcing its structural strength.

This results in a chassis built for life on the move, with LG promising its new 2026 LG gram laptops are scratch resistant, meeting military-grade standards and ensuring long-lasting resilience for everyday use. Aerominum's aeroplate structure and refined atelier brushing deliver a sleek metallic finish, increasing the aesthetics without adding additional weight.

HP will be unveiling its upgraded HyperX OMEN MAX 16, OMEN 16, and OMEN 15 gaming laptops at CES 2026, powered by Intel Panther Lake and AMD Ryzen AI CPUs, with OLED panels across the new gaming laptops.

In a new article from Windows Latest, HP's upcoming HyperX OMEN MAX 16 gaming laptop will have an option for up to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB GDDR7 memory and one of Intel's next-gen Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" CPUs.

HP will include up to 64GB of DDR5-6400 memory, and up to 2TB of Gen5 SSD storage for the OMEN MAX 16 gaming laptop. The flagship HyperX OMEN MAX 16 gaming laptop has a 16-inch 2.5K @ 240Hz OLED panel option, too.

ASUS will be unveiling its new ProArt GoPro Edition laptop at CES 2026, where it will be officially unveiled during its CES 2026 livestream.

The company unleashed some new teaser material and the name of the laptop "ProArt GoPro Edition creator laptop" with a reveal penciled in for January 6 at 9am PST as part of ASUS's huge CES 2026 event. ASUS has already announced a partnership with GoPro, with the new teaser tying into the company's bigger ProArt and GoPro partnership, which is centered on a Windows app dubbed "StoryCube".

ASUS explains that its new StoryCube app integrates GoPro Cloud and supports 360 media, including previews of native .360 files that are stored locally on-device, or online. It also adds in some AI-based organization, with files grouped by activity, time, device, and GPS-based location metadata from GoPro cameras. ASUS also says that its new StoryCube app will be a front end for importing clips into editing software after selection.

Eurocom has just announced it has launched its new Raptor X18 mobile supercomputer laptop, with some of the most powerful specs you can imagine in a laptop... and a price that can scale up to and over $15,000.

The new Eurocom Raptor X18 laptop features an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor with 24C/24T of CPU power, with the flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 memory, up to 256GB of DDR5 RAM, and up to 32TB of NVMe SSDs in RAID 0/1/5, and more.

Eurocom explains on its website for the Raptor X18 that it "supports the most advanced and demanding use cases in AI & Machine Learning in Finance, ECommerce, Security, Automotive, Engineering, Forensic, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality and other industries. Perfect for AI computing, Edge Computing, Server on-the-go and Engineering on-the-go deployment. Perfect for gaming too".

Thunderobot will unveil its new flagship ZERO Air gaming laptop at CES 2026 in just over two weeks' time, powered by Intel's next-gen Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" CPU.

In a new teaser video posted this week, Thunderobot's 2026 flagship "AI gaming" laptop will feature an Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processor in its new 16-inch ZERO Air gaming laptop. The trailer teases that Thunderobot's upcoming ZERO Air will be one of the first portable devices powered by the new Panther Lake CPUs from Intel, combined with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Laptop GPUs.

Thunderobot's CES 2026 teaser describes the upcoming ZERO Air gaming laptop: "A machine? Not anymore. This is the awakening of a new era in gaming AI". Personally, I'm absolutely not a fan of putting "AI" on anything near gaming, but CES 2026 is going to be absolutely full of it... Thunderobot won't be the only ones, they'll be one of many with "something AI".

Lenovo will have something truly special to show off at CES 2026, with its Legion Pro Rollable laptop teased, which will feature a 16:9 OLED panel that rolls out into a huge 21:9 ultrawide OLED panel for gaming, media, and everything in between. Check it out:

In a new report from the folks at Windows Latest, the new Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable features a horizontally expanding screen -- from both the left and right -- turning the 16:9 OLED panel into a 21:9 ultrawide OLED panel. This happens by expanding the OLED panel from both sides, slowly expanding into a 21:9 aspect ratio display.

Inside, Lenovo's new Legion Legion Pro Rollable will sport an Intel Core Ultra CPU -- hopefully a new Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" processor that Intel is launching at CES 2026 as well -- Windows 11 with its usual AI crap will be included, as well as a dedicated Copilot+ key.

A MacBook Pro owner reportedly got their six-year-old laptop with an Intel CPU (this was pre-Apple days) replaced with a new MacBook Pro 14-inch M5 under an AppleCare+ plan.

Wccftech noticed that GeneralZilla on Reddit explained: "Today I took my 2019 15' IMBP (Intel MacBook Pro) in due to a battery service warning. I've been paying the monthly subscription for Apple care since the original warranty lapsed. This was going to be my second battery replacement so I was already familiar with the process but I was told that the store could not service my laptop and to call an Apple care specialist about more information regarding the denial of service."

The Redditor then describes an hour of "getting bounced around and escalated" until one of the Apple reps offered to replace the MacBook Pro with "equal machinery", but the only options were the current laptops on Apple's site.

Samsung's new Galaxy Book6 laptop has just had its first leak, teasing it'll be the first laptop powered with Intel's new Arc B390 integrated GPU based on the new Xe3 architecture.

The new Samsung Galaxy Book6 laptop should be released in 2026 once Intel officially launches its next-gen Panther Lake CPUs at CES 2026 in January, with the Galaxy Book6 powered by the new Core Ultra X7 358H processor. This isn't the flagship Panther Lake silicon, as it has up to 4.78GHz CPU clock speeds compared to the X9 388H with up to 5.1GHz CPU clocks.

However, the integrated graphics on the X7 358H chip is the new Arc B390 GPU which is listed on the Geekbench with 96 compute units, which works out to 12 Xe3 GPU cores. The results on Geekbench show the Intel Arc B390 having a 2.5GHz GPU clock speed, making it 450MHz higher than the Arc 140V GPU that clocks at 2.05GHz inside of "Lunar Lake", and 150MHz faster than the Arc 140T at 2.35GHz on the Core Ultra 9 285H "Arrow Lake" chip.

Apple is preparing to abandon its mini-LED technology that has been used in its MacBook Pro laptops for many generations for the primo OLED technology.

The news comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a known Apple insider with an impeccable track record when it comes to knowing what is happening behind the scenes at the Cupertino company. Gurman writes that Apple will be abandoning mini-LED display technology for OLED with the M6 generation of MacBook Pros, and that this generation of MacBook Pros will also come with a redesign.

However, Gurman states this redesign and OLED adoption will be exclusive to the M6 Pro and M6 Max MacBook Pro models, meaning the standard M6 laptops won't have an OLED display. The Bloomberg reporter writes that there is still some uncertainty around when the OLED displays for these laptops will be ready, as Samsung Display is handling the manufacturing of the panels, along with the required components that are necessary for completion. Any delays on Samsung's end may result in the OLED MacBook Pro being pushed back.

If you haven't heard about the return of the optical drive to the world of PCs, you have now - Fujitsu has some new notebooks coming out that boast such drives.

As Fudzilla reports (via VideoCardz), this is happening over in Japan, where there's currently a resurgence in the popularity of optical drives which is tied in with support for Windows 10 ending (as we've seen in other recent media reports, such as Tom's Hardware).

Whether there's an element of exaggeration in the apparently booming sales of DVD drives in Japan - caused by people wanting to keep playing their physical media discs after upgrading to a new Windows 11 PC - it's difficult to say for sure. But clearly there's enough of a need for Fujitsu to produce notebooks that have both DVD and Blu-ray drives on board.

A Redditor has shunt modded his RTX 4090 gaming laptop and unlocked 19% more performance, bringing its performance closer to a much more expensive RTX 5090 gaming laptop.

In a new post on Reddit, "u/thatavidreadertrue" shunt modded the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU inside of his ASUS Zephyrus M16 GU604VY gaming laptop, stacking a 1m Ohm resistor on top of the existing 5m Ohm resistor, lowering the resistance to around 0.83m Ohm. This tricked the laptop GPU into thinking it was consuming 6x less power, which is why the power draw reading displayed 40-45W, compared to its actual power draw of closer to 240W, which is 1.6x more power than the reading.

Increased power always means more heat being generated, with the user repasting the old liquid metal on the GPU using Honeywell PTM 7950, a phase-change thermal interface material (TIM) which is known for excellent performance. The user also upgraded the VRM thermal pads with the Upisren UX Pro Ultra.

Apple's new M5 MacBook Pro is now in the wild, with SSD benchmarks showing the new M5-powered MacBook Pro is up to 211% faster than the SSD inside the M4-powered MacBook Pro.

In another round of benchmarks from YouTuber "Max Tech" we have a comparison between the new M5 MacBook Pro and previous-gen M4 MacBook Pro, and the SSD read and write speeds of each. The new M5 MacBook Pro was benched in Blackmagic with read speeds of up to 6.3GB/sec (6323MB/sec) versus the M4 MacBook Pro with only 2.0GB/sec (2031MB/sec), an improvement of 211% which is bloody impressive.

The write speeds were also impressive, with the new M5 MacBook Pro capable of 6.0GB/sec (6068MB/sec) writes versus the M4 MacBook Pro with 3.2GB/sec (3293MB/sec) on the Blackmagic speed test by Max Tech.

Dell's new Pro Max 16 laptop is in the wild, packing NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU and 128GB of CAMM2 memory, check it out:

The folks over at Notebookcheck have gone hands-on with the new Dell Pro Max 16 laptop, putting it through its paces in a wide variety of benchmarks. The new Dell Pro Max 16 laptop is an interesting beast as it has the much more powerful RTX PRO 5000 GPU inside, alongside its 128GB of CAMM2 memory.

There's 24GB of GDDR7 memory on the RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU, which Dell has installed through its DGF (Dell Graphics Form Factor) module, meaning that it is replaceable, allowing for direct GPU upgrades along the way. Notebookcheck's benchmarks show that in professional benchmarks, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU is quite strong, comparing it to the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 GPU.

Apple's MacBook Pro with the M6 chip could pack an OLED display that's a touchscreen.

This is the latest assertion on the MacBook Pro M6 from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, one of the more reliable sources for Apple leaks - and it originates from the usual people who didn't want to be named.

You may recall that Apple has famously declared itself as dead-against the idea of touchscreen laptops in the past, broadly arguing that a touch-enabled display simply isn't necessary (and represents bad ergonomics, for starters).

Apple just announced a refresh of its MacBook Pro line-up, with the new models featuring the latest M5 chip. But not every owner of Apple's latest MacBook Pro will get a charger in the box, as the company has decided to leave it out for a selection of its customers.

Apple unveiled the new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip yesterday via a press release, and the new model is largely unchanged from the previous generation, besides the new and improved M5 chip. Reports indicate the new M5 chip uses the same fabrication process as the M4, sporting 10 GPU cores and 10 CPU cores, along with a 16-core neural engine. Apple touts the M5 chip as having the "world's fastest CPU core" with up to 20 percent faster multithreaded performance compared to the previous gen M4 chip.

As for the GPU, Apple states the M5 chip will offer 1.6x faster graphics performance in pro apps and 1.6x higher frame rates in games compared to the previous generation. Moreover, Apple states the M5 MacBook Pro will perform 1.8x faster in "AI video-enhancing performance" in Topaz Video, along with 1.7x faster 3D rendering in Blender, and 1.2x faster build performance during code compiling in Xcode.

Apple has revealed its new MacBook Pro 14‑inch laptop which has the M5 chip under the hood.

The rumor mill was insistent that this would happen this week, and now we've witnessed the arrival of this next-gen MacBook, or the first of these machines which is the baseline offering.

Revealing the new laptop via a simple press release - yes, this is a relatively lowkey refresh - Apple boasted about improved performance (naturally), particularly when it comes to accelerating AI workloads (no surprises there, either).