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I am Jan Akkerman welcome back to a scene at CES tradition it's our coolest laptops of the show chat show where we get the best stuff from CES line them all up and talk about laptops and tablets and hybrids I'm very excited this year to be joined by Xiomara blanco and josh goldman we got three people and a lot of laptops to talk about let's just jump right into it I think one of my favorite things I saw was a Chromebook and Chromebooks could be kind of boring sometimes this is the new Samsung Chromebook pro and or plus they have two versions of the pro and the plus and they actually look identical it's a kind of a higher-end version of a Chromebook because it's got a touchscreen in a metal body and a 360 degree hinge and the difference between the pro and the plus is one is an Intel processor one has an ARM processor which is interesting because you don't see that outside of a couple of Chromebooks in the laptop field and I like that it'll run Android apps from the Google Play Store because it's built around that and I feel like Chromebooks are kind of limited you know people feel like they're kind of the boring low-end laptop and people now making higher end ones and I think adding Android apps makes up for the fact that you can't you know run other stuff but I think price is pretty important with the category I don't know how much of these cookies this is like foreign change for the ARM version the Intel version might be a little bit more so you're getting up to kind of that premium price there I will show you one bonus you get here tilt it for me and then you click right here and you get a stylus and that works on the screen it works with Google keep and things like that so that's probably cooler Chromebook I've seen here been any other Chromebooks here they're a handful but I don't think anybody has liked this kind of set of features and I know that Xiomara really like this guy what is this yeah this is the Asus Zenbook a3 deluxe and i really like it i use a macbook air for work but this feels just like it it's super light it has three USB sea ports to which work as a thunderbolt ports and i just really like the way it looks I think it's super cool and sleek it's really got the aesthetics down oh sorry I got a little bit of a mic adjustment there yeah no it's great and then the other thing about it right is the the screen right it's got a 13 inch laptop with a 14 inch screen which sounds impossible but it's really not you and compares well with the ThinkPad right that's true that's trick that over there Lenovo always brings a ton of laptops here this is one of our favorites it's the ThinkPad x1 carbon is that it right two and a half pounds just over a half an inch thick mainly made for business but we like them so much so there's dr. stuff and use them just at the regular home laptop where some of the best ones rely and this one - has the almost no bezel on it so you get the full 14 inch display in a tiny 13-inch like yes 13 line does the same thing with the thin bezel um and then we it also Windows hello it seems to be big this year right windows hello at the IR cameras that I did right so very secure and this has mobile broadband - if you are traveling around very cool a little bit bigger in the in the hybrid space you usually don't see a big hybrid like this with a 15-inch screen it's the HP spectre x360 15 inch Edition and when you go like this you know it gives you a nice kind of portable almost TV screen quality to it and the difference between this one and last year's I'll fold it down to a tablet shape for you is they actually made it a little bit thicker than the previous version of this and that's because I added a much bigger battery and I feel like you know people are struggling to make the you know racing to make the thinnest laptops possible but I will trade a little bit of that for some better features some better battery life and I think that's it that that's a smart trade-off here and you don't see too many 15-inch hybrid so I always like big cool stuff like this yeah integrated graphics in this one or there is there is an option where you can get in a video GPU but not like a super cambree one I think it might go up to a nine a nine forty but if you want something a little better with graphics this is my little dark horse favorite laptop of the show this is a it's not an alienware it's a dell inspiron it's the Inspiron 15 7000 and they had one of these last year two that had an NVIDIA 960 GPU in it for like 800 bucks and that was a really good deal well now they've updated it it's got a little bit of kind of gamer reef later but it's got some like red highlights and cool vents and stuff and it's got the the backlit red keys and they've got the Nvidia 1050 carnot which is in videos new card you know it's it's a mainstream budget graphics heart but it's perfectly fine for regular games on this guy $7.99 it's tough to get more gaming laptop for 800 bucks than this right and Acer has a similar model also scoring the 1050 and about the same price Lenovo has their new Legion that's the same thing and Samsung has the Odyssey that also does the same thing they're all like seven eight nine hundred dollars with that ten fifty or the ten fifty TI but that's not enough because iam re want to tell you this gigantic gaming laptop here that's a little bit more expensive just a little bit starting at $9,000 this can be all yours if you've ever wanted a gaming laptop that's more of a computer than a laptop unless you want this heavy thing on your lap it weighs about 20 pounds it's a pretty incredible machine like I'm not going to pull out my back or anything but it's huge and it's got a curved screen 21 inches a trackpad that you can take off and use as a number pad v cooling fans I mean I could list the specs but I'd be here all day and the big mechanical keyboard like the kind you only see I like standalone desktop keyboards which is just crazy yeah this thing is massive so you're taking that on the plane on the way home right yeah it's coming home with me for sure you might need the extra leg room seat for that I'm I'm just gonna say is this the one that has two power supplies yes it does have two power supplies because I plugged in I had to hunt around backstage to find two outlets next to each other to plug it in and this is actually actually coming out you know this is a row almost ready to release product and they'll be selling this in stores if you have $9,000 and really want a really cool gaming laptop a little bit further out is this guy one of the cool concept pieces here at the show razor always brings a couple of cool concept pcs prototypes this year this is one of the most popular things here it's called project Valarie and it's a 17 inch gaming laptop based on one of their you know current models but the lid is really thick because inside there are two extra screens and and and in the final version you'd press a button or use a software command and the extra screens would come out from either side and arrange themselves and then you have a triple screen laptop which I know I've never seen before don't remember ever seeing a triple screen laptop it's probably why they're crowded around it out there on the floor sure they have it under glass and like you can't get close to this thing because everyone's always always crowding around trying to look at it and it's got an Nvidia 1080 card in it which is the desktop / laptop you know pretty much top of the line right now and those are I think three 17-inch UHD displays so that's a lot of pixels and I actually play battlefield one on there for a little bit you know it ran perfectly fine they mention a likelihood of December coming out or like a lot of these concepts pieces you never know what's actually going to happen but they do have it up and running which which I appreciate in a concept piece and they have as a mirror to that they have project Ariana which is the big in-room projector that then it sends you know game images and lighting effects all around you and we talk about all this big expensive stuff I want to whip out one last little thing here I have in my pocket to give you something a little more budget minded this is the Lenovo 500 multimedia controller and it's also from that Xiomara and I were talking about what do you do if you have a computer in your living room and you want to control it it's hooked up to your TV like what do you do right now I mean I have a Bluetooth keyboard that's about this big and it's fine but if I could use that instead why not a little it's almost like a blackberry --is-- style keyboard and you can see it's got it's got the the QWERTY keyboard but there's no touchpad and that's because if you just run your fingers over the keys without pressing them down that's the touchpad and I tried it out one finger work two finger for scrolling worked if you tap once like this that's a left click if you tap with two fingers that's a right click and you know what I was dubious I tried it out like this actually works kind of good and this is I think a cooler solution than the giant laptop with the touchpad attached I keep in my lap when I'm trying to like you know get the stuff on my on my home theater PC I have hooked up to the TV and I think it's going to be like 55 bucks yes I'd buy that Yeah right cool well this is some of the coolest laptops and and tablets and big gaming machines and accessories we've seen here at the show and nice thing is most of these you'll be able to go out and and buy this here yeah I love how they range in practicality like this is practical for a completely different person then what this is practical for and we've gone from like four hundred dollars to nine thousand dollars to two who knows how well thank you Josh Goldman Thank You Xiomara Blythe thank you for watching our coolest laptops of the show at CES and then coming up at the top of the hour we're going to join Brian Tong live from the show floor with his backpack