Mac Air Windows Alternative?

[whatishacks]

I do NOT want a mac air but it seems like the windows alternatives is non-existant?
 

I only need it for very light video editing, think like recording on OBS and editing on Davinci. Basically, cutting clips up and posting them to youtube and insta.

 

it will mostly be for that and other content creation.

 

Looking for something with great battery life, bright screen, and solid build quality, 16b ram as well.

I really don't want to go with the macbook air but it seems like I have no other option so hopefully yall can help me!

 

Price wise, something similar please. 16b ram

[Electronics Wizardy]

one of the snapdragon laptops that came out recently have great batterylife and decent performance.

 

Otherwise any of the ultrabook/thin and light windows laptops have ok battery life and should be enough performance.

[whatishacks]

16 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

one of the snapdragon laptops that came out recently have great batterylife and decent performance.

 

Otherwise any of the ultrabook/thin and light windows laptops have ok battery life and should be enough performance.

Do you have a link or model?
As for battery life, even 5ish hours is fine.  Basically I dont want to  be plugging in every hour

[TetraSky]

If you really want something like a mac air... Yeah I will have to agree with @Electronics Wizardy. You will probably want one of those snapdragon laptops.

A regular x86 laptop will just die in your backpack, unlike a macbook air. While a Snapdragon laptop will last a lot longer and won't randomly die. As is evident by Linus showing it off during the latest WANshow.

There's a few

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/galaxy-books/galaxy-book4-edge/

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elitebook-ultra-14-inch-g1q-notebook-ai-pc  (I believe this is the one Linus ended up with? )

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/scc/scr/laptops/appref=copilot-plus-pcs-artificial-intelligence

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, whatishacks said:

Do you have a link or model?
As for battery life, even 5ish hours is fine.  Basically I dont want to  be plugging in every hour

What do you want 5 hours of battery life doing? Browsing the web should be pretty doable on almost all models, but video editing 5 hours would be. You can also get a USB C battery bank for most laptops to get much longer battery life on the go.

 

This is a example of one of the snapdragon laptops, but there are lots of other models out there. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/configure/surface-laptop-7th-edition/8tq2hq5xxkj9

[porina]

Lunar Lake just got released and seems to be the ideal candidate in x86 land, as it was designed for power efficiency and 8+ hours of life, making the existence of the Snapdragons questionable already. Ryzen AI laptops may also be a consideration. Not as low power but higher potential performance.

 

It's still a bit early so wider comparative reviews are a bit hard to find on any of this, and availability might take a little time to get wider. For starters one example of Lunar Lake laptop is Asus Zenbook S 14 (UX5406SA) which comes in various specs and prices.