Why CES 2021 was filled with business laptops and Chromebooks
It was a year when practical concerns overtook cool new designs, mostly.
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When we look back on the virtual CES 2021, we'll mostly think about what didn't happen. No memorable Las Vegas meals, no celeb sightings in the convention center, no crazy in-person demos of fantastic new prototypes. Instead, what we saw through our browser screens was mostly a procession of practical products, designed not to inspire or delight, but to just help us get through the next several months of mask-wearing, working from home and waiting for our turn on the vaccine line.