Snapdragon-powered Honor MagicBook Art 14 laptop begins global rollout

Honor launched its ultra-light MagicBook Art 14 notebook globally in September. Initially released in China with Intel Core Ultra 5 125H and Ultra 7 155H chips, the company later announced a Snapdragon X Elite-powered version during the IFA in Berlin.

Today the laptop with the Arm-based processor is finally going on sale.

Honor called the laptop “the first AI-powered Snapdragon X Elite PC” on the market. It does have some advanced AI capabilities thanks to the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, running generative AI LLM models over 13 billion parameters on-device.

The chip's prime cores run at 4.0 GHz, with the rest being at 3.5 GHz. This means it is the third-most powerful variant of the X Elite (out of four) – the X1E-80-100. The rest of the laptop is the same as the Intel-powered version – LPDDR5X RAM and 1 TB SSD.

When we reviewed the MagicBook Art 14, we were impressed with its performance, power management and battery efficiency. The Intel Core Ultra 7 variant we received is one of the best laptops to get in the 14-inch to 15-inch category, and we can't wait to see if the Arm-based version is as good.

Sadly, Honor did not reveal the pricing, and we will have to wait for store listings to fill us in on that over the next few days.