Japanese PC brand Dynabook has quietly stepped into the Snapdragon-powered PC era. The company has launched the Dynabook XD5 in Japan, and it’s the first Dynabook laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

Dynabook XD5 Specifications

At the heart of the XD5 is the Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100, an 8-core chip with a boost clock of up to 3.4GHz. It’s paired with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. Qualcomm says the chip’s NPU can deliver up to 45 TOPS, making the XD5 ready for on-device AI features.

But specs only tell part of the story. The XD5 is also impressively light. It weighs just 974 grams and flaunts a 14-inch display. The screen itself is a 1920 × 1200 TFT LCD panel. 

Since this is a Snapdragon-powered laptop, the Dynabook XD5 is rated to deliver up to 28 hours when idle and around 16 hours of video playback. The laptop uses a user-replaceable lithium polymer battery, which is becoming increasingly rare in modern thin-and-light designs.

For connectivity, the XD5 includes two full-function USB4 ports, two USB-A ports (5Gbps), HDMI 2.1 (TMDS), a 1GbE Ethernet port, a microSD card reader, and a 3.5mm combo audio jack. Wireless options are equally modern, with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 on board.

On the software side, Dynabook is adding its own touches. The XD5 comes with Dolby Atmos support and a smartphone integration feature called “Dynabook Smartphone Connection,” which lets you sync your phone and PC a bit smoothly. There’s also a physical webcam shutter.

Dimension-wise, the laptop measures roughly 312.4 × 222.5 × 18.7–18.9mm.

Price and Availability

The Dynabook XD5 retails for 219,780 yen (~ USD 1400) in Japan for the sole 16/512GB model. And it’s available for purchase starting today.

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Many companies are adopting a hybrid working model instead of bringing employees back to the office full-time in an effort to let the employees keep the benefit of working from home such as less time spent commuting and healthier family life, while also allowing workers to collaborate in-person some of the time.

With this purpose in mind, Dynabook’s new Tecra A40-K and A50-K laptops come with several upgrades over the last generation to facilitate this new hybrid work model.

The Tecra A40-K laptop comes with a 14-inch narrow-bezel screen and measures just 18.9mm, making the laptop versatile and suited for professionals who like to move around. The device comes with a webcam with a privacy shutter, a backlit keyboard, and a large click pad which can optionally be outfitted with a fingerprint reader.

The Tecra A40-K, on the other hand, features a bigger 15-inch screen with narrow bezels and is quite thin overall at 19.9mm. The device has a full-size backlit keyboard, a webcam with a privacy shutter, and a large click pad, which can optionally be outfitted with a fingerprint reader.

Under the hood, the laptops feature Intel’s 12th Gen P-Series i5 and i7 processors with optional Intel Iris Xe graphics and up to 64GB of memory.

The devices get a lot of options when it comes to connectivity featuring WiFi 6E, Thunderbolt 4, a full-size HDMI for seamlessly connecting to an external monitor, Gigabit LAN, 3.5mm audio jacks, USB-A ports, and a microSD card reader.

To facilitate video conferencing, the Tecra A40-K and Tecra A50-K feature dual mics with a new AI noise reduction function and stereo speakers with DTS audio processing for clear and crisp sound. The devices feature an HD camera with face authentication. The devices feature Dynabook’s proprietary BIOS which acts as an added security layer to mitigate BIOS-level security threats, and the laptops also meet Microsoft’s strict Secured-core PC requirements.

The Dynabook  Tecra A40-K will start at $1,019.99 and the Tecra A50-K starts at $969.99. They will be offered in multiple configurations through the company’s official website and its resellers. (via Techradar)

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