Lenovo releases new budget 15-inch laptop with over 20 hours battery life
Lenovo has finally released one of its cheaper ARM-powered laptops, almost two months after we spotted the company making references to it across support documents. Added to its PSREF website a few weeks later, the Lenovo V15 G7 Q7X is one of a few Lenovo laptops to leverage Qualcomm's Snapdragon C C11-0100 chipset.
For reference, these other laptops are the IdeaPad Slim 3 14Q7X11 and IdeaPad Slim 3 15Q7X11, which Lenovo now sells in multiple countries. By contrast, we can only find the Lenovo V15 G7 Q7X for sale in Japan. However, Lenovo lists the laptop as 'coming soon' across Europe, Southeast Asia and other parts of East Asia. Conversely, the Lenovo V15 G7 Q7X is not yet showing in Canada or the US, despite being earmarked for release in both countries on Lenovo's PSREF website.
In the meantime, Lenovo Japan reveals that the V15 G7 Q7X costs more than its Intel counterpart, which the company sells as the V15 G7 IWC. Still, the V15 G7 Q7X costs less in Japan than Lenovo's other Snapdragon-powered laptops, including the IdeaPad Slim 5x that launched earlier this year (curr. $899 on Amazon).
Currently, the Lenovo V15 G7 Q7X starts at JPY 134,970 (~$845) with 16 GB of RAM, a 512 GB SSD and a Windows 11 Home licence. Alternatively, Lenovo sells versions with Windows 11 Pro and/or Office Home & Business 2024 licences up to JPY 184,800 (~$1,157). All SKUs contain the same 1200p, 400-nit and 60 Hz IPS display with 45% NTSC colour space coverage though, as well as Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity.
Moreover, Lenovo always installs a 50 Wh battery that supports 65 W charging. Reportedly, the Snapdragon C C11-0100 extracts up to 22 hours of battery life when playing 1080p locally stored videos at 150 nits and 20 hours in the JEITA-BAT 3.0 video playback test at 200 nits. Please see Lenovo's website for more details about the V15 G7 Q7X.
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