Notebooks are exciting again: Dell may have paved the CES path with the early announcement of the XPS 13 2-in-1 – which neuters 2016’s best laptop by using Intels Core M processor and reducing the battery size – but Samsung pushed to highway speeds by entering the gaming market with the Notebook Odyssey. The pair of GTX1050-ready beasts can be specced with up to 32 GB of RAM on the 15,6-inch model and run on Intel’s Kaby Lake silicon.Acer and HP both brought gaming rigs to the show, but across the board advancements in Chromebooks will open up that market segment to a larger market with it’s ready-for-Android platform. PC manufacturers are capitalising on Apple’s Macbook Pro missteps in a big way and 2017 is poised to be the year of the laptop.
