The CES event will be held again in Las Vegas this New Year 2022, but most major players in the IT industry have decided to stay safe in virtual events.
However, we were able to continue learning new computer models. Big names like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia have made spectacular announcements, and PC makers have followed suit with new products, many of which are yet to come.
Peripherals and displays were equally interesting. We also witnessed some very interesting reveals that had nothing to do with computers, such as a color-changing BMW chameleon.
Since you probably think it’s impossible to keep up with all the CES news, we’ve put together this article with our picks for the best of CES, the most exciting and innovative products we’ve seen.
CyberPowerPC Kinetic Foundation
We’ve seen plenty of PC cases over the years, but none have the wild vision of CyberPowerPC’s new Kinetic series. This futuristic case features a set of small, angled panels on its front that open and close automatically to manage airflow.
Between the geometric design, the sleek white and copper aesthetic, and the mechanics, it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. The company modestly calls its design “smart airflow,” but it’s a great way to stand out in the mid-tower ATX case arena. -Alaina Yee
Dell XPS 13 Plus
Dell’s XPS 13 is undoubtedly one of the best-known laptops thanks to its history of preparing what all laptops aspire to be. For example: before the first XPS 13 with InfinityEdge bezels arrived, all laptops were riding around with bezels as ridiculous as bell-bottomed corduroy pants.
Dell’s much-vaunted lineup hits the brass ring again with the new 14-core XPS 13 Plus, which offers a gorgeous, minimalist look with its integrated haptic trackpad. The trackpad is still in the center of the palm rest, but instead of using a conventional piano hinge design, it “clicks” similar to shaking your phone.
Dell isn’t shy about taking the internet slingshots and arrows either with the integration of, well, not a Touch Bar, but a Touch Bar for the striped function keys across the top. Sure, the tech press that previously called Apple’s Touch Bar “futuristic” and “smart” is now calling the XPS 13 Plus’ capacitive touchscreen function key a bad idea, but that’s the fancy press.
The Dell XPS 13 Plus makes another controversial two-handed design decision by ditching the beloved 3.5mm analog headphone jack. Dell said they removed the pin to save space (also the reason they removed the physical function keys), so you can cram in a lot more Equipment In.
Obviously everyone’s wondering if it’s worth losing the headphone jack and the physical F4 key, but we guess a lot of people would say they’re worth the sacrifice to get a 14-core CPU in a laptop which weighs less than a kilo. .
What we can say is that to win big you have to take risks, and the XPS 13 Plus jumps into the void like Dell did years ago when it basically forced everyone else laptop manufacturers to catch up. -Gordon Mahung
Alienware 34 QD-LED
We’ve seen OLED displays aimed at PC gamers before, but they’ve usually been repurposed TV panels with a few extra features (and, of course, the lucrative “gamer” branding).
Alienware seems to be the first to offer a display designed entirely for PC gaming. This massive 34-inch monitor is still small compared to previous models, as it falls into the popular 34-inch ultrawide category.
But it’s not short of bells and whistles. Along with the usual RGB lighting, G-Sync support, and the plethora of inputs expected of a high-end PC gaming monitor, the Alienware QD-OLED 34 combines quantum dot technology with perfect blacks and the vivid colors of OLED for a brighter panel overall, overcoming some of the inherent weaknesses of the technology.
It’s a common theme among new TVs at CES, so it’s great to see it (finally) being integrated into a PC monitor. Plus, it has a native 175Hz refresh rate (impressive for this size), a USB hub, and a host of other gamer perks.
In short, if there are bigger and more impressive OLED “monitors” at the show, this is the one that’s going to make me want to spend (a lot) of money in 2022. -Michael Crider
12th Generation Intel “Alder Lake” Laptop Processors
We wouldn’t be lying if we said the CES 2022 laptop processor show was an embarrassment of riches, with AMD first announcing Ryzen 6000 mobile processors using its impressive Zen 3+ cores, then Intel hitting back with its mobile processors. Alder Lake. 12th generation. What’s better? Well, the truth is, we don’t know yet.
Both lines offer some pretty spectacular feature sets, like the new RDNA 2-based GPU cores in AMD’s Ryzen 6000 processors, which deliver twice the performance of previous chips. Intel’s processors, meanwhile, are pushing core counts to unprecedented levels, with three-pound laptops boasting 14 cores.
So you can see our predicament when trying to pick the best laptop processor announcement at CES: everyone’s a winner! Without embargo, the prizes “Best of” nunca are distributed, lo that means that tenemos that elect a ganador y, with a fáser in the cabeza, declares the line of laptops Alder Lake of 12ª generation of Intel as the best CPU for laptops of the fair.
Offering a hybrid architecture with up to six performance cores alongside another 8 efficiency cores, a combination that should deliver a performance boost of over 40% over the already impressive 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake processors. , Intel’s 12th Gen chips will be very tough processors to top even AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 series in terms of raw performance. Gordon Mahung
Samsung Freestyle Portable Projector
Projectors might seem dated these days, given the ubiquity of fancy monitors and televisions. But given the circumstances of the world right now, the idea of mounting a big-screen viewing experience almost anywhere is perfect.
Whether you want to host al fresco movie nights or make the most of an ultra-cramped home, the Samsung Freestyle can do the job. It takes up the same space as a thermos, can be powered by a USB PD power bank, and even screws into standard E26 bulb sockets.
Nobody needs this projector, but I want one. (You can get all the info on the Samsung Freestyle on TechHive, our sister site.) -Alaina Yee
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus 3rd Generation
Do you know what’s better than a screen? Two screens. The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 caught the eye at this year’s CES due to this unusual feature. However, it is a very interesting hardware that facilitates multitasking.
The secondary screen, located to the right of the keyboard, measures 8 inches and has a resolution of 800 x 1280. The screen is made of glass and touch, and allows quick access to applications such as Microsoft Outlook or Edge. It’s a great productivity machine for professionals looking to get some serious work done, that’s for sure. -Ashley Biancuzzo
AMD Radeon RX 6500XT
More than three long years after Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 20 series launched the real-time ray tracing revolution, the first sub-$200 graphics card capable of handling such intense lighting effects, and it’s just released. AMD, not Nvidia.
The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a lowly $199 desktop GPU that looks more like a cheap successor to the popular Radeon RX 570 than a true ray-tracing powerhouse, but enabling the new Radeon Super Resolution feature from AMD (which will speed up performance on all your games) should help compensate for the lag.
The mere fact that a $199 graphics card exists in the midst of a severe GPU drought is to be applauded, and since AMD outfitted the 6500 XT with 4GB of RAM, it cannot be used to mine Ethereum. , the main cryptocurrency that contributes to increasing the cost of graphics cards.
Time will tell if you can pick one up for around the price, but I bet you’ll have a much better chance of finding a Radeon RX 6500 XT in stores than Nvidia’s just-announced $249 RTX 3050. . , whose juicy 8GB buffer puts it squarely in the crosshairs of miners.
The Radeon RX 6500 XT might be just what desperate PC gamers need in 2022. Fingers crossed. -Brad Chacos
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090Ti
In a world where gamers enjoy buying four-year-old used GPUs at their original price, Nvidia’s reveal of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (pronounced “tie”) was like a slap in the face for everyone. .
It’s also, frankly, the most gangster move ever, akin to casually drinking from a diamond-encrusted bottle of Evian while surrounded by masses of people dying of thirst.
However, if that offended you, you don’t understand the reason for the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
Replacing a card so lavish that most analysts said it should be discontinued (us included), the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti does two things: it offers those trying to skimp on the $200 million contracts of the NBA Super Max something to replace your old GeForce RTX 3090 with, and beef up AMD and – more importantly for Nvidia – Intel in a year where we’re likely to see a GPU catfight like never before.
So while the 3090 Ti might not be the best GPU at CES (that honor goes to the Radeon 6500 XT), it’s definitely the best BFGPU at CES. Gordon Mahung
L’oreal Colorsonic
Back when CES was something we visited in person, I was offered a fair amount of beauty tech. But unlike the “magic mirrors” of yesteryear, which featured cool technology but didn’t quite solve a widespread problem, L’Oreal’s Colorsonic piqued my curiosity in the same way innovations in PC cases and products for the smart home: it is a technology that aims to eliminate the usual inconveniences.
L’Oreal claims that this hair color wand simplifies the at-home coloring process by making it much less messy and ensuring even color application (the two biggest pain points for do-it-yourselfers).
Simply choose one of 40 shades, load the color kit cartridge and run the device through your hair to apply color. We’ll see how effective this product is for dark hair (which usually needs to be bleached first), but I’m intrigued. -Alaina Yee
Original article published on our sister site PCWorld.com.
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