Snapdragon laptops are well and truly here, and following our review of the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 we’ve cracked open the lid of another machine running the ARM-adjacent processor, this time from Lenovo.

The Lenovo PC YouTube channel recently put the upcoming Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition laptop through its paces, pitting its Core Ultra 7 258V Lunar Lake

Since Intel’s Lunar Lake chips feature RAM on the same package as the processor, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i 15 Aura Edition notebook does not have user-upgradeable memory. Users can either select a model with an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V processor (featuring 16GB of on-package LPDDR5x-8533 RAM) or a Core Ultra 7 258V chip (with 32GB).

Intel’s Lunar Lake processors are really going to deliver on the battery life front, according to some new info from Lenovo. Tom’s Hardware flagged up that Lenovo has apparently broken an NDA and published battery life figures for one of its new Yoga laptops with a Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) CPU,

Intel first announced its next-generation Lunar Lake mobile architecture in June and followed up with a paper launch on Sept. 3. Now we're just waiting for actual laptops to arrive, which should be happening soon.