Home Computing News The CoreBook Air 226V's specs would be impressive from Lenovo or Dell; coming from Chuwi at $800, they're either a genuine breakthrough or a reminder that price isn't the only thing that matters when buying a laptop. Chuwi Chuwi has never been the brand you associate with top-tier hardware : it built its name on budget laptops that punched above their weight at entry-level prices.  The new CoreBook Air 226V is a deliberate step away from the brand’s comfort zone. It’s a sub-1kg Copilot+ PC built around Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, and at $800, it’s asking buyers to trust it with something that it has never before: a premium Windows laptop.  Chuwi What makes the CoreBook Air 226V worth considering? For $800, the spec sheet is genuinely compelling. An Intel Core Ultra 5 226V (3nm, up to 4.5 GHz) chipset powers the machine, delivering a combined 97 TOPS of AI compute (40 from the dedicated NPU, the rest from the Arc 130V GPU and CPU).…