Laptops & Desktops in 2025: What’s New?

The world of laptops and desktop PCs is more exciting than ever in 2025. With cutting-edge technology, sleek, slimline designs, and ultra powerful components, there’s something for everyone. Whether you’re a gamer, content creator, or professional, you’ll find the perfect device to meet your needs. Let’s dive into the latest trends, new models, and the innovative and novel technology powering the future of computing.

Laptops have become lighter, faster, and smarter. The key focus areas this year include:

1. Next-Gen CPUs and GPUs
Intel’s 15th Gen Core processors look set to dominate the market, offering improved efficiency and blazing performance over the previous generation.

Separately, Intel's Core Ultra and Intel Core AI focussed CPUs are already on the market and being used for low power consumption computing across the board. 

Intel's main rival, AMD, are offering their Ryzen 9000 series processors with advanced AI integration and improved multitasking abilities. Along with their usual all core-blazing max boost speed power. 

NVIDIA’s RTX 5000 series GPUs look set to bring ray tracing and AI-powered graphics to ultra-portable devices. Plus, desktop graphics cards with unparalleled levels of performance.

2. Foldable Screens and Dual Displays
Major brands like ASUS, Lenovo, and Dell are pushing foldable screens. Dual-display laptops can be perfect for multitasking and creative workflows. The extra display real estate can really improve video and photo editing workflows as well allowing easy access to multiple tabs or video streams at once. 

3. AI-Powered Features
Many laptops now come with AI-based noise cancellation, adaptive performance, and real-time language translation, plus, battery life optimization using AI ensures your laptop lasts longer than ever and learns based on your usage patterns. This looks set to increase across the board with new features coming out regularly to make full use of large language models as well as other AI models. AI optimised Ray Tracing is improving all the time for gaming, with lifelike visuals becoming more and more impressive. 

4. Sustainable Materials
Eco-friendly laptops are on the rise, with brands like HP and Acer already using recycled materials. We expect to see much more of this with post-consumer recycled plastics present in both the machines and the packaging. 

1. Wi-Fi 7 and Beyond
Faster, more stable connections with Wi-Fi 7 ensure seamless online experiences. Faster than ever connectivity optimised with multiple gaming and stability focussed improvments. Wi-Fi 7 is the latest generation of Wi-Fi currently available designed for data transfer up to 5.8Gbps (maximum, which sadly not many routers or network providers are yet capable of, but this will change over time!)

2. Storage Innovations
PCIe 5.0 SSDs deliver lightning-fast read and write speeds with larger capacities at lower costs make storage much more affordable. With ever improving performance, adding one of the latest SSDs into new devices dramatically improves boot speeds and application loading times. 

3. Optimised Cooling
Vapour chambers in laptops are becoming more common too, seeing optimised cooling that allows for lower fan speeds at lower temperatures. Once again, AI is being used to make everything more efficient, which in turn allows for devices to get smaller and slimmer. We epect to see to ultra lightweight, slim and transportable laptops hitting the market in 2025!