Dell XPS 13 Plus gets a new keyboard design... and a touch bar?

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Aside from home entertainment updates, CES is also about laptops. One of the new updates from Dell is a new look to its XPS 13 laptop. The latest XPS 13 Plus gets a new keyboard look that flattens the keys into the body, and the large haptic trackpad takes up the area across the bottom of the keyboard. The capacity keys are now in a touch bar-like design above the keyboard, which the company says takes up less space and offers more room for thermals that help keep the air flowing and the system cool.

There are two up-firing speakers underneath the keyboard, which should come in handy when you're watching your favourite shows on the 13.4-inch InfinityEdge display. Dell offers up to 4K resolution configurations with OLED and touchscreen options, too. The screen also gets Eyesafe technology to help reduce harmful blue light coming from the display. The 4K options are DisplayHDR certified. There is a 720p webcam at the top of the screen. Actually, this laptop gets two cameras: an RGB one and an IR for better quality and resolution.

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ASUS ROG Flow Z13 is the brand's newest powerful gaming tablet

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ASUS brought its newest and most powerful gaming tablet to CES 2022. The ROG Flow Z13 is a 13.4-inch slate with a built-in kickstand. The most remarkable parts of this tablet are what powers it, making it a compact, high-end gaming laptop. It runs on an Intel Core i9-12900H 45W processor and NVIDIA's RTX 3050 Ti with 40W of total graphics power, even if it's just a 12mm-thick tablet. It also has fast DDR5 RAM and PCIe 4.0 storage.

While the Z13 is a new product, it gets the ROG Flow X13's most remarkable feature: support for an external GPU enclosure for faster, better graphics. It supports the ASUS XG Mobile eGPU kit so that you can connect the RTX 3080 or AMD's Radeon RX 6850M XT (a new addition for 2022) via its proprietary port. It connects directly to the card with a PCIe 3.0 connection with eight lanes for data throughput.

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Razer and Fossil launch special edition version of Gen 6 smartwatch

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One of the new devices Razer showed off at CES is actually a smartwatch that has been introduced before. The Razer x Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch updates the existing Wear OS device to get a Razer feel. It comes with a black strap, but the company also gives you an acid green-coloured band that matches Razer's signature colour.

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The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 comes with an 8-inch display next to the keyboard

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ASUS isn't the only company with a dual-screened laptop. Lenovo is also bringing another unusually designed laptop to CES. The latest iteration of the experimental ThinkBook Plus line gets a second, notepad-shaped display beside the keyboard.

The ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 pairs its main 17.3-inch IPS 3K display with an 8-inch 800 x 1,280 LCD that has a digitizer layer so you can use a stylus with it. Windows 11 is tweaked to accommodate the additional screen. As Engadget noted, more snap shortcut options are available here that take the second display into account. It has a waterfall mode that cascades the app on the right to the screen below.

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