Lecoo Air 16 laptop has 16-inch screen and 1kg weight

This isn’t the first laptop with a 16-inch screen weighing under 1 kg. That title goes to the Acer Swift Air 16, announced at IFA in September, though it won’t ship until November. In that sense, Lenovo’s newly announced Lecoo Air 16 may technically be the first, as the company promises to begin shipments by the end of this month.

Lecoo is a Lenovo sub-brand aimed at budget-oriented hardware, making it a suitable platform for a Meteor Lake CPU. The new Air 16 uses Intel’s Core Ultra 5 125H processor, which was already positioned as a mid-range option when it launched two years ago. The CPU has 14 cores: 4 P-cores, 8 E-cores, and 2 LP-cores, and comes with integrated Arc Graphics featuring 7 Xe cores (remember this is first-generation ‘Alchemist’ architecture).

Lecoo Air 16, Source: Lenovo

The laptop’s highlight is its 16-inch 2.5K display with a 120 Hz refresh rate. This is also the key difference between Acer and Lecoo models: Acer offers an AMOLED screen and will cost at least €999, while Lecoo uses an IPS panel with a lower price tag. The official price is 5,000 RMB ( about $700 ), which includes a 16-inch chassis just 1 cm thick, LPDDR5 memory, and a 60 Wh battery.

Swift 16 Air, Source: Acer

The Lecoo Air 16 features a seamless keyboard design similar to Dell’s XPS series. It’s hard to say whether squeezing a numeric pad into this layout makes sense, but the laptop is officially positioned for office and business use rather than gaming or general consumer use, so keep that in mind.

Source: Lenovo Lecoo (JD.com) via @realVictor_M