10 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2021NEWS BEST OF CES 2021
surprise, but the GeForce RTX 30-series
stands up as clearly one of the best
technologies at CES. —Gordon Mah UngASUS ROG FLOW X
The Asus ROG Flow X13 (go.pcworld.com/
fx13) offers a unique take on RTX 30-series
laptops coming out of CES. Rather than trying
to cram a powerful GPU into its slender
chassis, Asus opted for a slender laptop
paired with a semi-proprietary external GPU
called the XG Mobile.
This offers a win-win-win for laptop
gamers. When not gaming, the ROG Flow
and its GTX 1650 weighs 2.8 pounds andshould be easy to carry around for work
purposes. But when you want to game, you
plug in the 2.2-pound XG Mobile and enjoy
the full performance of a mobile RTX 3080
without any concerns about thermal
throttling. —Adam Patrick MurrayHP ELITE DRAGONFLY MAX
The HP Elite Dragonfly Max (go.pcworld.com/
drmx) is a corporate laptop made for the times
we live in, when everyone is working remotely
and staring into their webcams for hours on end
in videoconferences. For remote work, the
laptop weighs about 2.5 pounds, and it sports a
360-degree hinge for versatility as you move