Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (14", Gen 10): Lunar lake 258V, 32gb ram, 1 TB ssd, 2.8k oled screen, wifi 7.
The 258V is basically the bee's knees when it comes to ultraportable laptop processers. Built using a 3nm process at TSMC in taiwan. Extremely efficient, great single core performance, NPU powerfull enough to run co-pilot, decent integrated graphics, and x86 native so no ARM compatibility issues. Many core performance does lag the last generation Intel 155H a little.
Spouse has this laptop with the last generation Intel 155H, and it hasn't missed a beat - except strangely neither of our Lenovo's worked with her HP docking station, But everything seems to work fine with the lenovo dock (that said, it is her secondary laptop - also has work issue HP elite book, and is largely used in a docking station, so has a fairly easy life)
There is also a similar 15" version of the same at a similar price (but I think the SSD is smaller) if you prefer a larger screen and longer battery life.
1 year onsite warranty included, ~$120 to upgrade to 3 year onsite, which I would recommend. Onsite warranties are brilliant, had some dead pixels, and a weird graphics issue on a work Lenovo, and a tech came to my office and swapped the screen and motherboard in about an hour, resolving those issues.
Price obtained by combining the JUNENZ code with a 5% off new user code that can be obtained from visiting their homepage not signed in, and waiting for the pop up (looks like a unique code so I am not posting mine). Can't stack the 5% code with CARTOFFAUG, and the 5% off code is about $4 better.
There is a new user 10% off with signup that also appears on their homepage, but the email never with the code never turned up for me.
Not quite the deal of last year, but this is still a very solid price for a cutting edge high spec & highly portable (~1.2kg) laptop.
https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=164&topicid=31…
May be worth asking via chat / call for a further discount. Lenovo have a reputation of being accommodating.
There is also a 15" version of the same for a similar price, for those that prefer a little more screen space and battery life.
I think same one here at HN: https://www.harveynorman.co.nz/computers/laptops/lenovo-yoga…