I said it before, and I will say it again. Laptop GPU is not it if you’re serious about gaming. It is, however, a good option if mobility is the priority. That said, probably lugging around a hunk of metal like the Predator 21X is not it either. You want a rig that is as light and, possibly, as thin as possible. Well, folks, as light and as thin as it possibly can be is what the ThundeRobot ZERO Air is.
This latest 15-inch gaming laptop from ThundeRobot tips the scales at as light as 1.58 kilograms (3.48 lbs)—that’s a little more than two 13-inch iPad Pros, and almost as light as the MacBook Air 15-inch model—but it is a full-fledged gaming laptop. And it is just as thin as 15.9 mm, which is a tad thicker than the now-discontinued MacBook Pro 15-inch.
Under the hood, it benefits from the power of the latest generation of PC processors from Intel, Intel Panther Lake, with up to Intel Core Ultra 9 386H. Intel Panther Lake, for the uninitiated, was launched at CES 2026 under the Core Ultra Series 3 branding, and it is the first chip family built on Intel’s advanced 18A (2 nm) process. Yes. 2 nm! Intel Panther Lake boasts up to 16 cores and 16 threads, and up to 4.9 GHz clock speed.
It is paired with up to 32 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD. It is a 160 W system, featuring up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPU. Finally, it is equipped with a 15.3-inch OLED that boasts 2.5K resolution, 165 Hz high refresh rate, 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, factory-calibrated colors, and a 1,000,000:1 high contrast ratio.
That’s all we know about this rig for now. Unless you were at the event or had one in hand for review, that’s all the information we are getting at this point. No pricing also at this time. It is something to look forward to if you are in the market for a thin and light, larger-screen gaming laptop packed with the latest tech.
Images: ThundeRobot.
