Lenovo launched the YOGA Air 14s Snapdragon Edition laptop just a few days ago for a price tag of 9999 Yuan ($1,375). Starting today, the device is on sale in China.

This YOGA Air 14s equips the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 processor and offers 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB PCle 4.0 high-speed storage for the above-mentioned price.

Display, design, and other details:

The machine comes with a metal body, is only 12.9mm thick, and weighs only 1.29kg. it comes in two different colors – “Hanyu Blue” and “Light Sea Shell”. You can get a better idea of the color options from the image below.

Upon opening the lid you will be looking at a 2.9K (2944×1840) high-resolution OLED screen that reaches a peak brightness of 1000 nits and offers a 90Hz refresh rate. The panel offers a joyful viewing experience with a 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut (typical). The keyboard has 1.5mm key travel.

You get 3XUSB4 ports for high-speed data transfer. The YOGA Air 14s also offers Wi-Fi 7 for wireless connectivity.

As mentioned above, the machine packs the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 chipset. This particular chipset in fabricated by TSMC on a 4nm process, and packs 12 Oryon CPU cores that reach a max clock speed of 3.4GHz. The built-in Adreno GPU offers a performance of 3.8TFLOPS and the NPU offers a performance of 45TOPS, which is said to be the fastest NPU available for Windows devices. Aside from the on-paper specifications, the chipset is very power efficient and provides convincing performance even when emulating x86 apps.

This is paired with the YOGA Qiankun heat dissipation system, which boasts dual boost fans and reportedly offers a relatively quieter experience. According to the company, the noise level remains at 21dB for most of the daily use cases.

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