Tucked among the many CES 2023 reveals of health sensors that you pee on and pod PCs have been this yr’s laptop computer bulletins—and whereas they don’t seize headlines in fairly the identical manner, these upcoming releases nonetheless give {hardware} followers lots to be enthusiastic about.

Take Asus’s lineup for instance. Its ROG gaming laptops span the gamut in measurement, with ultraportable 13-inch fashions on one finish and astronomic 18-inch choices on the opposite. But regardless of the footprint, each single one in every of these notebooks sport extremely beefy {hardware}. Long gone are the times of four-core processors and lower down cellular graphics. These laptops imply enterprise, sporting top-of-the-line processors and extremely quick graphics.

You can catch all of them within the video embedded above, together with the astoundingly skinny Zephyrus M16, which measures lower than 20mm thick but nonetheless sports activities a Core i9-13900H and discrete Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics chip. It wasn’t the one ROG laptop computer with Nvidia’s top-of-the-line graphics chip, both. Full, untamed variations energy the ROG Strix Scar 16 and 18, rated at a blistering 175W TDP—you gained’t must make compromises in your sport settings. And the Strix fashions boast loads of eye sweet on the machines themselves, too, with beautiful RGB LED strips on the entrance and rear of the chassis, together with translucent paneling paying homage to the 90s.

Be positive to additionally get the rundown on the corporate’s two 13-inch thin-and-light fashions, the removable pill ROG Flow Z13 and 360-hinge ROG Flow X13. By their seems to be, you may assume they’re underpowered, with mid-range processors and a half-step above built-in graphics, however you’d be mistaken. The tiny Z13 runs a Core i9-13900H and an RTX 4060 inside—leaps and bounds above what you’d get from a similar-looking Surface Pro. Meanwhile, the X13 options AMD’s newly unveiled Ryzen 9 7940HS and an RTX 4070. And as icing on the cake, you’ll be able to hyperlink these laptops with one in every of Asus’ proprietary exterior GPUs. The RTX 3080 model is out now, and Asus is promising a 4090 model to return sooner or later.

Prices have but to be introduced, however we should always hear extra on that within the coming weeks. Good information is, you gained’t have lengthy to attend—these juicy new laptops will begin hitting streets within the second quarter of the yr. While you wait, take a look at our roundup of the best laptops at CES 2023 and remember to subscribe to PCWorld’s YouTube channel for extra movies like this!