Lenovo showcases Intel Core Ultra-powered ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition

Unveiled first at CES 2025, Lenovo has now announced the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition, it’s AI PC, for the APAC market.The new flagship device represents Lenovo's latest attempt to capitalize on the growing demand for AI-capable hardware in the professional market, promising to transform how businesses leverage artificial intelligence for everyday productivity.
Starting at $1,399, the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition comes in two configurations: the X9 14 featuring a 14-inch 2.8K OLED display (2880x1800) with 400 nits brightness and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, while the X9 15 boasts a larger 15.6-inch 3K OLED panel (2880x1620) with the same color accuracy and brightness levels.
Both models are powered by Intel Core Ultra 9 processors (up to 185H) paired with up to 64GB LPDDR5X RAM and 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD storage. With ultra-slim profiles measuring just 15.4mm for the 14-inch and 16.9mm for the 15-inch model, these devices maintain impressive battery life—up to 15 hours for the X9 14 and 14 hours for the X9 15—despite their powerful internals and AI capabilities.
The Aura Edition lineup, which qualifies as both Lenovo AI PCs and Microsoft Copilot+ devices, features the latest Intel Core Ultra processors. Delivering up to 45 trillion operations per second, these processors handle complex AI tasks while optimizing battery life. The result of a multi-year Lenovo-Intel partnership, these machines aim to redefine AI computing with premium hardware and exclusive Lenovo AI experiences.
What sets these devices apart are three unique AI features: Smart Modes, Smart Share, and Smart Care. Smart Modes intuitively adapts to user needs with specialized settings including Shield for privacy protection, Attention for blocking distracting websites, Collaboration for enhancing video calls, and Wellness for digital health monitoring.
Smart Share provides seamless photo transfer between smartphones and laptops using Elliptic Labs' AI Virtual Sensor technology. Users can simply tap a supported smartphone on the screen edge to launch the feature and drag-and-drop recent photos between devices, compatible with both iOS and Android.
For technical support, Smart Care offers one-click access to Lenovo's online support tools and Premier Support Plus, connecting users directly to elite Lenovo engineers through remote camera sharing, voice, or chat from a PC or smartphone.

Complementing the hardware capabilities, Lenovo's AI Now platform serves as the intelligence backbone of the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition. Built on Meta's Llama 3.0 large language model, AI Now processes all data locally on the device, ensuring user information never leaves the system.
The platform offers contextual awareness that streamlines document organization, provides natural language search across personal files, generates summaries of complex documents, and enables powerful text generation capabilities.
Lenovo has committed to expanding AI Now's functionality through regular updates, with upcoming features including cross-device knowledge retrieval, intelligent document parsing, and expanded multilingual support for German, Spanish, and French.
Asides the ThinkPad X9, the Aura Edition portfolio includes six more models across commercial and consumer segments: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13, ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10, Yoga Slim 7i in 14" and 15" options, and the Yoga 9i 2-in-1.