I’ll be attending the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/ces” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/ces”>Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas while you’re reading this article, but I was given another opportunity to go hands-on with one of those data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/ces-2026″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/ces-2026″>CES 2026 announcements ages before the actual event.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had an early, pre-production sample of an upcoming data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/hp” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/hp”>HP laptop on my desk, and this time it’s the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/hp/hp-elitebook-x-14-g2-announcements-ces-2026″ data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/hp/hp-elitebook-x-14-g2-announcements-ces-2026″>headline-stealing EliteBook X 14 (G2). I was so taken aback by its weight after pulling it from the box, I honestly believed for a moment HP hadn’t sent me…
