CES 2024 may be a TV show, but heading into the new year, it seems like it’s also shaping up to be a pretty great one for laptops too.

The salad days of regular laptop upgrades during the early pandemic are over, but there’s still never been a better time to buy a new computer, especially if you’re as interested in AI as you are gaming. In an effort to keep up (or keep distance) from Apple’s M3 MacBook Pros, Intel’s new Core Ultra chips and AMD’s latest 8000-series chips give special attention to on-device AI processing. With more AI power, the growing list of AI features on Windows laptops should get even speedier.

The new laptops announced at CES 2024 might not push the envelope on hardware inventiveness, but they should more than make up for that by being all around better to use. And when Microsoft does unveil whatever Windows 12 is, these new laptops will be more than ready.

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced Europe to the pastoralist way of life, shifting it away from its hunter-gatherer societies.

The Yamnaya also left a lasting impression on the genetic landscape, one that endures today and from which chronic autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis (or MS), likely originate.