00:00A ton of new laptops got announced at CES 2026, and I'm sharing the coolest, wackiest, and most
00:04exciting models that my team and I got to try out. All right, first up, Lenovo is giving us
00:09a better look into what a real production rollable laptop could look like. The ThinkPad
00:14Rollable XZ Concept transforms from 13.3 inches to 16 inches vertically and actually rolls up
00:19and over to the top of the display to its back side. You activate the rolling just by sliding
00:23your finger on the top edge of the display, which feels very satisfying. There's also an
00:28external touchscreen, world-facing, which may seem a little bit weird at first, that covers
00:32the top third of the lid from the outside. It comes complete with interactive widgets for
00:36your AI assistant, sticky notes, weather, and a lot more. One of my favorite parts of this
00:41new design, though, is that when fully extended out, you can actually see the internals of
00:45the laptop hinge, including the cables that make this magic happen. I think if you're
00:49someone who works with a lot of large documents, this extra screen real estate can be really
00:53useful, and personally, I think I would use this all the time for two apps stacked on top
00:56of each other. This is a pretty cool concept, and Lenovo says we're actually not that far
01:00off from being able to configure a ThinkPad with this rollable option sometime in the future.
01:04My bet is on two years or less from this being a reality, but let me know what you guys think.
01:09The new Stealth 16 AI Plus is the stealthiest stealth series gaming laptop MSI has ever made,
01:16and MSI pretty much pioneered the whole gaming laptop performance without actually looking out
01:23of place in a boardroom or office setting, and there's a lot of great design upgrades that they've
01:28made, so let me take you through those. So MSI has definitely gone minimalist here, especially on the
01:33back lid, and when you open this up, you tell me, what does this remind you of, right? Kind of like a
01:38MacBook, and that's not a bad thing. You have the large trackpad, you've got your large speakers on the
01:44side here, very small bezels at the top, a very premium gaming laptop, and that's what I'm saying.
01:49You're getting the gaming level performance. With styling, that feels more like a premium high-end
01:55ultrabook. The other thing, it's small, but it actually goes a long way. Come over here,
02:00and check this out. Okay, so the edges are a lot more rounded off, and as soon as I started typing
02:04on this, I noticed that instantly because it's not digging into my racism, so it's a lot more
02:09comfortable, especially for prolonged typing or gaming sessions. Inside, we find up to an Intel Core
02:15Ultra 9 processor with the NVIDIA RTX 5090. Pricing is going to start around $2,400, and I think this
02:22redesign is going to be a big hit in 2026. Don't call it a comeback. Actually, you know what? Maybe
02:29you should, because Dell is giving one of the best apologies to fans of the XPS lineup with the new
02:34Dell XPS 14. Believe it or not, they're actually backtracking on the whole premium name nonsense from
02:40last year, and addressing two of the most controversial design quirks that we hated.
02:45Finally, they brought back a physical function row instead of the touch bar from before that,
02:50along with an improved touchpad that now has a visible border around it, which seems like a
02:54no-brainer to me. Inside, you'll find the latest Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, an amazingly
03:00vibrant tandem OLED display that can scale all the way down to 1 hertz, and a redesigned 70-watt-hour
03:06battery that promises up to 27 hours of juice with its 2K LCD display option. Other positives include
03:12an even thinner and lighter design at just 14.6 millimeters and around three pounds, which is
03:17shaving off about half a pound. Even with that, Dell gives you a 14-inch laptop in the size of a 13-inch
03:23system, making this one of the best Ultrabooks that you can buy in 2026. But if you're after raw
03:30performance, the new Alienware 16 Area 51 brings a number of minor upgrades, but they really do add
03:36up. It finally has an OLED panel, which looks stunning, along with lower input lag, which went
03:41from 3 milliseconds down to 0.2. Even though its design remains mostly unchanged, this is still one
03:47of the most unique-looking gaming laptops that we've ever tested. It features tons of ports and should
03:52deliver really strong gaming performance since it will pack up to an RTX 5090 laptop GPU. Pricing is
03:58expected to be announced closer to launch, which should be Q1 of this year. Now, if I had to pick
04:03one laptop that actually blew me away from this year's show, it's got to be the Lenovo Legion Pro
04:08Rollable Concept. It looks like your typical thick-boy gaming laptop at first with a 240-hertz 16-inch
04:14OLED display, but with a click of a button, it extends its display horizontally up to 24 inches with a 24-by-9
04:22aspect ratio or, if you want, a slightly narrower 21-by-9. But I'm definitely going to be maxing that baby out
04:29every single time. I didn't get to demo any gameplay here, but this would definitely be a big step up for
04:35playing your immersive and cinematic titles on the go without needing to bring an external monitor. And besides
04:41gaming, this should also be a beast for productivity and multitasking, letting you run two programs or even three
04:46side-by-side with plenty of screen real estate. And can you imagine bringing this thing to a Starbucks,
04:51unrolling it, and watching the person next to you's jaw drop in confusion? Like, what is this black magic?
04:57Unsurprisingly, this is still a concept, and pricing and availability hasn't been announced yet, but this
05:01is a laptop that's looking to shake things up, and I can't wait to test it more. So CES has been a pretty
05:08exciting year for laptop redesigns and is giving us a glimpse into some of the form factors that we could
05:13see over the next few years. Personally, if I'm getting a new laptop this year, I'd probably want
05:17a specced out MSI Stealth 60 for its balance of performance and inconspicuous styling. But man,
05:22if Lenovo can actually deliver on that Legion Pro rollable and make it thinner and not actually
05:27cost an arm and a leg, that would be insane. But let me know what you guys think about these new
05:32laptops. You can find us everywhere at Tom's Guide, and you can follow me to see what other cool and
05:36wacky tech I'm reviewing. And until the next one, I'll catch you later.
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06:02you
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