30 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020NEWS CES 2020: CHIPS, LAPTOPS & BADASS PC GEAR
recent Corsair acquisition
Origin PC. Big O pairs a
high-end PC with a liquid-
cooled console in a single
Corsair Crystal Series 280X
case, then tosses in an
optional Elgato 4K60
capture card for the ultimate
streaming box. Who says
console and PC gamers
can’t get along? You’ll be
able to heavily customize
the components and
aesthetics of the Big O, as
you’d expect from an Origin
PC product.
Dell blended console and PC in its own
way with the Alienware Concept UFO (see
page 7), which looks like a Nintendo Switch
but runs full-fledged Windows 10. Cool stuff.
The company also showed off Concept Ori, a
folding PC built around a single large screen,
and Concept Duo, a laptop that replaces the
usual keyboard with a second large display.
Because they’re concepts, we don’t know
whether they’ll ever make it to market, so
think of them as hints of what Dell’s working
on for future PCs rather than actual product
announcements. That being said, Concept
UFO looks sick.
Finally, it might not be as outwardly exotic
as the other desktops highlighted here, but
iBuyPower’s Project Snowblind CL (go.
pcworld.com/snwb) could make customloop cooling easier and cheaper, and that’s a
welcome development for PC enthusiasts.
Custom loop cooling for CPUs and GPUs in a
pre-built PC has long been recognized to be
more beautiful, more efficient—and more
expensive. Project Snowblind CL may change
all that. It turns what is normally a five-hour
process into a ten-minute process, essentially
putting custom water loop cooling within
reach of normal budgets.LAPTOPS GALORE
Most of the PCs sold today ship as laptops,
not desktops, so it should come as no
surprise that laptops could be found in every
nook and cranny of the CES 2020 show floor.
While many of the models on display were
thinner, better versions of standard formiBuyPower’s Project Snowblind CL.