We’re on the ground floor at CES 2026, the annual consumer electronics show that sets the stage for a new year in technology. As always, there’s no shortage of great products and concepts at CES, but here are our favorites of 2026.
High-end laptops should be able to do anything and everything. And Lenovo’s new Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition, equipped with a cutting-edge Core Ultra 9 Series 3 processor, RTX 50-series GPU, and 16-inch 3.2K OLED display, is more than capable of serving as a “do-everything” PC. It’s well-equipped for video editing, gaming, or whatever other task you want to throw at it.
But the most interesting part of this laptop is its “Force Pad;” a large and responsive touchpad that doubles as a Wacom drawing surface. You can use it to draw, sketch, or annotate notes with an included stylus, though it can also serve as a natural and convenient control surface in apps where you would typically use a mouse, such as video editing apps. It’s a neat addition that really makes the Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition a “do-everything” laptop.
Though, interestingly, Lenovo isn’t the only brand to embrace this concept. Acer’s new Swift 16 AI also offers a touchpad with native stylus input (minus the official Wacom tie-in). Both machines look great, though the Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition’s inclusion of a discrete GPU pushes things to the next level, which is why it’s earned our “Best Laptop” award.