MSI Shows Off Stylish New Laptops And A Sleek New Handheld At CES 2026

MSI Shows Off Stylish New Laptops And A Sleek New Handheld At CES 2026
Of course, not to be left out, MSI’s at CES 2026 with a pile of premium products. In this post, we’re taking a short look at the three lines of laptops that MSI brought to the show as well as a new version of the Claw gaming handheld that resolves one of our biggest complaints about the original Claw 8 AI+.

We’re fans of MSI’s Prestige

MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG Boasts Intel Panther Lake In A Half-Liter Form Factor

MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG Boasts Intel Panther Lake In A Half-Liter Form Factor
MSI is joining the modern NUC race and showing off one of the first Intel Panther Lake mini PCs of its kind at CES 2026. Meet the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG, the latest in MSI’s Cubi NUC AI+ series, which you can outfit with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H. That’s is one of the highest-end Core Ultra Series 3 offerings, flaunting 16 cores and a

Lenovo X1 Carbon AI Laptops Debut Space Frame Design For Better Cooling And Repairs

Lenovo X1 Carbon AI Laptops Debut Space Frame Design For Better Cooling And Repairs
Lenovo is refreshing its ThinkPad X1 laptops with some exciting new hardware upgrades, not the least of which is the debut of what it calls a Space Frame design to facilitate better cooling and to make swapping out components a lot easier. This is brand new and a key differentiator from the previous generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon we reviewed.

The Screen That Grows: Hands-on With the Lenovo ThinkPad XD Rollable Concept

The Screen That Grows: Hands-on With the Lenovo ThinkPad XD Rollable Concept
One of the wildest laptop concepts to debut at CES this year comes by way of Lenovo. While it’s just a concept at the moment, the Lenovo ThinkPad Rollable XD already seems fairly refined and it incorporates a number of intriguing design elements that not only give the machine a distinctive look, but also make better use of all the screen real

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist With Motorized Display Follows You Around

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist With Motorized Display Follows You Around
After many years attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one thing we’ve learned is that not every concept device shown off at the annual event in Las Vegas becomes a shipping product. One that most definitely will, however, is Lenovo’s innovative ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop with a motorized display that we first saw at CES

Lenovo Debuts Tiny Panther Lake-Powered Yoga Mini PC At CES 2026

Lenovo Debuts Tiny Panther Lake-Powered Yoga Mini PC At CES 2026
The old adage that good things come in small packages rings true with one of Lenovo’s CES 2026 debuts, the Yoga Mini i. This device’s diminutive size belies just how much hardware horsepower the company has managed to pack into its small chassis, including Intel’s latest Panther Lake processors, making it an excellent option for those in need

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Benchmarked Across GeForce RTX 50, 40 And 30 GPUs

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Benchmarked Across GeForce RTX 50, 40 And 30 GPUs
If you haven’t caught up on the latest CES coverage, NVIDIA announced and released the latest version of DLSS late last night, or early this morning if you’re in most of the rest of the world. DLSS 4.5 brings along major updates to frame generation and super resolution, including support for 6x Multi-Frame Generation as well as Dynamic Frame

8BitDo Ultimate 3E Modular Xbox Controller Can Swap Buttons And Joysticks On The Fly

8BitDo Ultimate 3E Modular Xbox Controller Can Swap Buttons And Joysticks On The Fly
8BitDo is releasing an evolved version of its Ultimate 3 controller this summer, and it’s aimed squarely at the high-end gamepad market—meet the 8BitDo Ultimate 3E. The Ultimate 3E builds upon the foundation of the Ultimate 3 with two additional bumpers, swappable D-Pad, and even swappable face buttons. Like Ultimate 3, Ultimate 3E also has

Micron’s New 3610 SSD With G9 QLC Aims To Bring Gen5 Storage To Everyone

Micron's New 3610 SSD With G9 QLC Aims To Bring Gen5 Storage To Everyone
Micron’s out at the Consumer Electronics Show shouting, ‘You get a Gen5 SSD, you get Gen5 SSD, you get a Gen5 SSD!’. Okay, maybe not quite literally, but it did use the annual tech showcase as a launchpad for its new Micron 3610 NVMe solid state drive family, which it’s billing as the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 Q9 QLC SSDs for client computing.

The

Phison’s New E37T Brings Gen5 SSD Speeds To Thin Laptops And Gaming Handhelds

Phison’s New E37T Brings Gen5 SSD Speeds To Thin Laptops And Gaming Handhelds
There’s a whole lot of uncertainty in the consumer DRAM and storage space with AI pushing demand for NAND flash memory chips to unprecedented levels, but one thing is for certain—the accompanying parts are in place for whenever the market settles down. Driving that point home is Phison’s new PS5037-E37T controller designed to give mainstream

Samsung Zero-Crease OLED Display At CES Is Likely Headed To The iPhone Fold

Samsung Zero-Crease OLED Display At CES Is Likely Headed To The iPhone Fold
As tech enthusiasts gather at CES 2026, a groundbreaking but brief (more on that in a quick second) showcase from Samsung Display has likely revealed the future of Apple’s most anticipated hardware: the iPhone Fold.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Display at CES�

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— Max Jambor (@MaxJmb) January 6, 2026 Early eyes-on

Astronomers Spot A Giant Cosmic Furnace So Hot It Defies Every Model We Have

Astronomers Spot A Giant Cosmic Furnace So Hot It Defies Every Model We Have
A team of astronomers have uncovered an unusually hot 12 billion year-old gas cluster that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early growth of the universe.

Peering back to about 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, an international group of researchers has identified a baby galaxy cluster, cataloged as SPT2349-56, that’s

NVIDIA Brings GeForce NOW To Linux And Fire TV With RTX 5080‑Class Cloud Gaming

NVIDIA Brings GeForce NOW To Linux And Fire TV With RTX 5080‑Class Cloud Gaming
It took a minute, but NVIDIA has finally answered the call to deliver a native Linux app for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service (timely too, with recent Steam’s survey data showing Linux on the rise for gaming). Same goes for select Amazon Fire TV Stick devices, both of which can tap into the service’s GeForce RTX 5080-class pods to stream

ASUS ROG Blitzes CES 2026 With A Cool Hologram Desktop PC And Killer Gaming Hardware

ASUS ROG Blitzes CES 2026 With A Cool Hologram Desktop PC And Killer Gaming Hardware
We already reported on the serious slick ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses yesterday, but ASUS didn’t come to CES 2026 with just one big reveal. The company’s Republic of Gamers brand rolled out updated Zephyrus laptops with more GPU headroom, a bold new take on the dual-screen Zephyrus Duo, a Kojima Productions–themed Flow Z13 that looks like a

Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra Pairs Panther Lake With RTX 50 To Challenge MacBook Pro

Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra Pairs Panther Lake With RTX 50 To Challenge MacBook Pro
Samsung is making quick work of deploying Intel’s newly launched Core Ultra Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Panther Lake, which underpin its latest generation Galaxy Book6 laptop lineup. Announced at CES, the new Galaxy Book6 laptops draw inevitable design language comparisons Apple’s MacBook Pro, though internally, these are very

PNY Debuts Slim 2-Slot RTX 5080, 5070 Ti & 5070 GPUs For SFF Gaming PCs

PNY Debuts Slim 2-Slot RTX 5080, 5070 Ti & 5070 GPUs For SFF Gaming PCs
PNY put the GeForce RTX 50 series on a diet with a new lineup of slim models designed for small form factor (SFF) gaming PCs, or anyone who simply wants a more compact GPU. The new cards span the GeForce RTX 5070, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, and GeForce RTX 5080, each of which are packaged in a dual-slot configuration.

These are true 2-slot cards,

Dell Unveils A Bodacious 52-Inch Curved UltraSharp IPS Black 6K Monitor At CES

Dell Unveils A Bodacious 52-Inch Curved UltraSharp IPS Black 6K Monitor At CES
If the mission is to go big or go home, someone tell Dell not to stay up waiting. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Dell unveiled a big and bold 52-inch ultrawide display with a curved IPS Black panel, 6K resolution, and built in Thunderbolt hub. Yeah, it’s like that.

For the intended audience—financial traders, data scientists,

NVIDIA GeForce Gaming Software Gets Glorious Upgrades At CES 2026

NVIDIA GeForce Gaming Software Gets Glorious Upgrades At CES 2026
NVIDIA’s consumer graphics presentation at CES 2025 was more interesting than many, although we’ll spoil the surprise up-front: there wasn’t any new hardware. If you’re holding onto hype about new GeForce GPUs, well, you might as well return to hibernation. Or keep playing ARC Raiders, or Chaos Zero Nightmare, or Helldivers 2, or Warframe,