Chuwi CoreBook Air debuts as new ultra-lightweight with 16-inch model also shown
Chuwi has returned to its CoreBook series with the CoreBook Air, four months after dipping its toes into the world of gaming laptops. Meanwhile, the company updated the CoreBook X with a newer Intel processor in April around the time it released the MiniBook X 2-in-1 with the Processor N150 (curr. $349 on Amazon).
By contrast, the new CoreBook Air adopts AMD APUs. According to Liliputing and a recent MadTechTalk video, Chuwi will eventually offer the CoreBook Air with a Ryzen 5 6600H from AMD's Rembrant generation with Zen 3+ CPU cores and a Radeon 660M iGPU. However, Pegasus is already selling a Ryzen 7 H 255 variant with newer Zen 4 cores and a more powerful Radeon 780M iGPU. For reference, the latter enjoys a 34% performance boost over the former in our benchmarks.
Additionally, the retailer currently only shows a 14-inch variant with a 2,240 x 1,400-pixel and 60 Hz IPS display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. Moreover, this model features a 60 W battery, 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage for HKD 4,599 (~$591) within a package that weighs rougly 1 kg.
Apparently, a 16-inch variant is coming, too. Called the CoreBook Air Plus, the larger variant adopts a 1200p display and a Windows Hello-compatible IR camera. Weighing in at between 1.3 kg and 1.43 kg, the CoreBook Air Plus retains the same 60 Wh battery as its 14-inch counterpart. Currently, Chuwi expects to start selling the CoreBook Air and CoreBook Air Plus globally from next month.
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Pegasus via Liliputing, MadTechTalk
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