- 2× Thunderbolt 4 ports with 40Gbps bandwidth, Power Delivery, external display support, and eGPU compatibility
- 3× USB-A ports, HDMI 2.0, and a 3.5mm audio jack
- Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and a 2MP webcam with a physical privacy shutter
The bigger question is whether CHUWI can keep the appeal of this configuration intact once the novelty fades. With an official retail price of $799 and an early-bird price of $749, it undercuts many branded Copilot+ rivals while keeping the headline features buyers now expect: fast charging, modern ports, and enough AI hardware to avoid sounding outdated on day one.
CHUWI CoreBook Air price and availability
The CoreBook Air is available for pre-order now. CHUWI says the $50 launch discount is first come, first served while stock lasts, which means the usual race against the clock disguised as a promotion.
CHUWI’s new CoreBook Air is trying to do a familiar but still difficult trick: cram Copilot+ PC features, Intel Lunar Lake silicon, and a proper all-day battery into a 1.2kg laptop that costs less than many premium ultrabooks. On paper, the CHUWI CoreBook Air looks aimed squarely at the crowd that wants AI hardware without the usual pricing theater.
The 14-inch model pairs a 2.8K IPS panel with a 90Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB coverage, which is a tidy set of specs for students, remote workers, and anyone who hates blurry text. CHUWI is also leaning hard on portability: the CNC-crafted aluminum chassis measures 312.9 × 222.5 × 16.8 mm, and the company says the machine is built for travel without feeling like a toy.
Intel Lunar Lake and Copilot+ features
Inside, the CoreBook Air uses the Intel Core Ultra 5 226V, an 8-core, 8-thread chip from Intel’s Lunar Lake (Series 2) platform with boost speeds up to 4.5GHz. Graphics come from the integrated Intel Arc 130V GPU, which CHUWI says can deliver up to twice the graphics performance of older Iris Xe parts. That’s a useful boast, but the real shift here is the AI stack: the laptop reaches up to 97 TOPS of total AI performance, including up to 40 NPU TOPS from Intel AI Boost.
That hardware enables the usual Copilot+ PC features in Windows 11 Pro, including Click to Do, Cocreator, and Live Captions, plus a dedicated Copilot key. It also gives CHUWI a chance to pitch local AI as a privacy and latency win, which is smart marketing because cloud-heavy AI is starting to look both slower and more expensive than vendors promised.
Battery life, ports and upgrade options
CHUWI pairs the chip with 16GB of LPDDR5X memory at 8533 MT/s and a 512GB PCIe SSD, with user-upgradeable storage support via PCIe 4.0 x4. The 55Wh battery is rated for up to 15 hours of local video playback, and the 65W USB-C charger is said to bring it to around 63% in about one hour. That is the sort of spec sheet that sounds routine until you remember how many thin laptops still die halfway through a long train ride.
- 2× Thunderbolt 4 ports with 40Gbps bandwidth, Power Delivery, external display support, and eGPU compatibility
- 3× USB-A ports, HDMI 2.0, and a 3.5mm audio jack
- Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and a 2MP webcam with a physical privacy shutter
The bigger question is whether CHUWI can keep the appeal of this configuration intact once the novelty fades. With an official retail price of $799 and an early-bird price of $749, it undercuts many branded Copilot+ rivals while keeping the headline features buyers now expect: fast charging, modern ports, and enough AI hardware to avoid sounding outdated on day one.
CHUWI CoreBook Air price and availability
The CoreBook Air is available for pre-order now. CHUWI says the $50 launch discount is first come, first served while stock lasts, which means the usual race against the clock disguised as a promotion.