Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5

Windows on Arm has been in the discussion for a while thanks to the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus chips, which according to the company, may launch somewhere around “mid-2024”. It means we are quite close to the launches of a bunch of possibly power-efficient laptops running on the platform. Leaks surrounding the new chips and laptops are also continuing to surface. One of them is a couple of images of the upcoming Lenovo IdeaPad Slip 5 shared by WalkingCat.

The images of the upcoming Lenovo IdeaPad laptop confirm that it will be powered by the Snapdragon X Plus chipset. NotebookCheck speculates based on the performance numbers of the Snapdragon X Plus chip (X1P-64-100) that the new laptop could be slightly less capable as compared to the IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 9, which lets you choose between the AMD Ryzen Hawk Point APUs and Intel Meteor Lake processors.

The Snapdragon X Plus equips 10 Qualcomm Oryon CPU cores with a 6+4 architecture (6 high-performance cores and 4 energy-efficient cores). This chip is said to be a cut-down version of the more expensive 12-core Snapdragon X Elite chip, both of which will be based on TMMC’s 4nm process node.

In addition to the platform, the images also reveal the ports of the new machine. It offers you two USB-C ports, a dedicated HDMI port, and a 3.5mm jack on the left side. The right side has two USB-A ports and a microSD card slot. According to reports, many of the upcoming Snapdragon-powered laptops may not offer the 3.5mm jack. However, this one does.

Unfortunately, this is all the information that the images of the upcoming IdeaPad Slip 5 reveal. The first wave of Snapdragon powered laptops will reportedly launch on May 20, which is just days away at this point. We will update you as more information becomes available. To give you an idea of what else to expect, the IdeaPad Slim 5 14IMH9 offers a 14″ 16:10 aspect ratio OLED with a 1920 x 1200 resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, and 100% DCI-P3 rating for a price tag of US$ 1000.