Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 Gen 9 AMD Review - Strix Point at last!

[@ucheanwuanwu786]

You deserve to be up there with the best KZbinrs. Your content is top notch

[@MashITTech]

Thank you so much for the kind words :)

[@chisel2008]

Especially because you buy your own products to review it's a lot more trustworthy.

[@eduardopatricio]

I received mine 2 days ago. I love it. Power and versatility for all my needs!

[@MashITTech]

Glad you are enjoying it

[@eduardopatricio]

@@MashITTech I am. :) I rather have the multicore power and high gaming compatibility. And the screen... 🤩

[@trenxan]

@@eduardopatricio Can you confirm the big drop in performance on battery? I'm thinking of getting it but that would be a dealbreaker for me

[@d3stroyah]

does it have PWM on the screen? flickering, you can check with your phone camera using high shutter speed, if you see bands there is flickering. please can you check?

[@eduardopatricio]

@@d3stroyah it does. Using the FV-5 app, I start to see very faint bands from 1/500.

[@Snowmation]

I hope you hit the 50k subscriber mark before xmas...you deserve it...such a good channel!

[@MashITTech]

Thanks so much, the subs have been such a hard slog 😂

[@Snowmation]

@@MashITTech I can imagine.

[@steshaw6510]

Missing fingerprint reader is disappointing. A dual fingerprint-reader/power button on the keyboard would be a great idea for the next model.

[@lbcck2527]

I have already set my eyes on this specific model. Waiting for further price drop when more brands offer the same processor/RAM/storage combination. I especially like the power the button on the side. These enable me to turn on/off the laptop without the need to open the screen and using it like a desktop at home and office with my dual monitors when not mobile or on-the-go. The OLED display is a nice to have. Besides its good reliability and resale value, I see that only Lenovo provides power button on the side - hence has been using this brand for more than 10 years and on-going.

[@naveenraj9026]

Does it have any hinge issuues and what about the wieght

[@sku2007]

I have a lenovo L390, power button on the side. but doesn't work with closed lid, have to open it to power on

[@EdricKhiew-i1q]

is there an IPS option for this? would love to get an IPS display just for better battery!

[@wilbertlaurenz6918]

hey man, nice video! do u think this is better than the lenovo slim 7i aura edition?

[@LetWorkTogether]

Great review. Thank guy!!!!

[@nomad0369]

Nowadays a lot of applications are web-based. Could you please include Speedometer 3.0 results as well? I think this is important if we are talking about "snappiness" of everyday use. Thanks.

[@MashITTech]

Good idea, I will add that in future

[@nickyevans8120]

Hi, great video as always! how does the build quality on these compare to the newer ThinkPads ?

[@rossdev]

Really enjoy your videos David, hope you make the 50k subs 👍

[@MashITTech]

Thank you mate :)

[@Kkkkk-i5i]

Thank you. Good review

[@CloudNativeSkunkworks]

You and Gary deserve a christmas party!!!

[@MashITTech]

Haha thank you 🙏

[@NightVisionViking]

Just bought one. Thanks!

[@MashITTech]

Hope you enjoy it, let me know your thoughts when it arrives :)

[@gustavovd]

Great review 👏👏👏

[@AyoHues]

Thanks - this is a very clear and concise review. We’ve really been spoilt for choice this year with brilliant new CPUs from all the three big WindowsOS manufacturers and also Apple’s M4 is arriving very shortly that could well trump the lot in terms of a single generational leap. Golden age. This is a great laptop but I think the Core 200 Ultra is a better choice for an ultrabook with an iGPU because it is more efficient, if less powerful. These Strix Point laptops are real powerhouses so they really need dGPUs to give them the graphics power they really deserve. For anyone with a use case that does need the greater CPU heft but not the graphics, this is fine. Everyone else should probably wait for the dGPU models (at CES?) or go Lunar Lake.

[@Robbe1984]

I can also confirm that it handles Autocad, maybe not heavy 3d tasks but it works for land surveying

[@gonzalorivera3313]

Great Review!!! this machine can run premier and after effects for videos ?

[@James-bp6ek]

Great review, will you being doing a review on the newly released Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 (AMD)?

[@skxlper]

Can you use an egpu with this laptop?

[@TestName286]

Is the battery life better than the intel variant? That's an easy 1 to 1 comparison

[@SenselInc]

+1 for a haptic touchpad in this laptop! 😄

[@locnguyen9268]

Hi Mash IT, thanks for your video, this is great video, i have a question, which version you want? Yoga pro 7 or yoga slim aura? I wish this Ryzen is on aura version! It difficult for me to have final decision!

[@cameronbosch1213]

When will this be coming to the US? I'm not interested in many laptops this year (this one included) because I need lots of RAM for VM usage as well as a dGPU, but this is interesting competition! Finally it seems like laptop CPU competition is getting better. I'm just waiting for Arrow Lake so there can be laptops with that much RAM and hopefully still decent battery life.

[@MashITTech]

I was really surprised when I checked today and it still wasnt available in the USA! I will speak to my lenovo contact and see if he knows

[@avineshblah5739]

Wait arrow lake is for laptops also ? I thought it was the desktop chip

[@cameronbosch1213]

@avineshblah5739 it's the laptop version too with options for slotted RAM. Lunar Lake with onboard RAM only is a side deal.

[@avineshblah5739]

@@cameronbosch1213 oh that makes sense, hopefully it'll come with better tdp even if battery takes a bit of a hit. Any clue when it'll launch ?

[@cameronbosch1213]

@avineshblah5739 I heard Q1 2025 unfortunately. Probably will launch with some Nvidia RTX 5000 laptop GPUs.

[@notchipotle]

I have an older yoga 7 pro with ryzen 7 8845hs and an RTX 3050, why don't they use a dedicated GPU with the new one, it helps a lot when editing video

[@samal90]

From what we see in benchmarks, this new APU pretty much performs like a RTX 3050. So a dGPU is not needed anymore.

[@MashITTech]

no idea, and I totally agree. I think they will with the intel model sadly

[@naveenraj9026]

When did you buy it , i was planning to buy it or should i try any other model

[@MrRedialplease]

Is it good for 999 euro ? Or model like on video with 32ram for 1150

[@HDRPC]

Great Sir. Thanks

[@dareemmanuel6079]

Please what's fan noise like on standard power profile? How does it compare to Aura in that sense?

[@MashITTech]

on optimised, the fan noise is non existant until heavily using the laptop and then you get a light whoosh. It is similar to the Aura except the aura fans would come on a lot later if you were heavily using the system.

[@erikreider]

Would be awesome with some compilation tests for us software engineers (phoronix test suite is an easy tool for it)

[@ryanocallaghan8833]

Lovely review, appreciate it. Instant like after the McAfee bit, I also really despise bloat-y antivirus software!

[@MashITTech]

Thank you mate :)

[@Snarkyafterthoughts]

I didn't think it was possible, but somehow all these new chips made buying a Windows laptop even more confusing! Congrats Windows!! Lenovo really needs to clean up and streamline is product line. That's coming from someone who has two of their laptops. They are too big and their products are too good now for their website to look like a warehouse catalog from 2007.

[@BNnnen]

Can you open it with one hand? I saw that the new one with Lunar Lake couldn't do that and that's kind of a dealbreaker :(

[@RemofRenaissance]

Subbed and happy to help the road to 50k Ps. Not sure how I wasn’t subbed already. Always top drawer content on here. Thank you.

[@MashITTech]

Thanks so much, appreciate the support :)

[@JT11111]

Hi mate, can you make a video on how to best protect an OLED laptop and prevent burn in? especially as I use 3D softwares like blender, where the UI is static on screen for long periods of time

[@marcopn1174]

Is it the good Oled panel also used in the 7x? Otherwise I'd rather get the 7i aura with the IPS and bigger screen

[@libra1807]

Thanks for the nice video! I want to buy this for doing bioinformatic. I was thinking maybe being thin causes more heating. Should I buy a gaming laptop to be sure about cooling? Unfortunately, gaming Lenovo laptops in this price come with 16 GB RAM not 32.

[@MashITTech]

this isnt overly thin for integrated gfx and it will hold its temps without throttling for hours on end. The lenovo gaming laptops that only have 16gb can easily be upgraded by yourself so dont let that hold you back if you would prefer a gaming laptop. If you check out my channel, I have countless videos on upgrading legion laptops etc

[@kaczan3]

7:57 Is that a mouse dongle? Or a wifi dongle? I'm asking because on my current (old) Lenovo laptop I get lag spikes every 30 minutes or so unless I use a wifi dongle instead of the built-in wifi. Have you experienced something like this?

[@MashITTech]

its the dongle from my razer orochi. No issues with the wifi on my home or work wifi routers and I have even games over wifi

[@kaczan3]

@@MashITTech Thank you!

[@samal90]

This laptop is awesome! I will probably wait to see if they release a version with Strix Halo in 2025 and get one.

[@Lasershock]

What would you recommend, this or the aura edition?

[@MashITTech]

both amazing machines but I would take the aura for much better battery, thermals and gfx. The Strix point would be better for someone that prioritises CPU performance

[@Lasershock]

@ thank you❤️

[@evyataravidan]

@@MashITTech I'm also trying to decide between these two. Would you say that the 258V is better for video editing? even though it is running on lower wattage and has lesser single and multi-core performance according to benchmarks?

[@raphaelt7587]

What is the best between pro 7 with amd and pro 7i with intel ultra 9 and rtx 4060?

[@knestradalp]

Is this the small version of the yoga pro 9?

[@MashITTech]

no, they make a pro 7 and pro 9

[@knestradalp]

@@MashITTech I don't understand Lenovo laptops. The Slim 7 and Pro 7 look the same and the Pro 9 looks the same too. What confuses me more is that these laptops can be found in different configurations and maybe even with the same processor and graphics.

[@Boykub1111]

I would like you to test the body strength because I found a complaint about this on Reddit. When you press under the bottom cover of the laptop, it makes a sound like there is a gap inside like the assembly is not tight.

[@MashITTech]

Let me test my unit later and get back to you 👍

[@Boykub1111]

@@MashITTech thank you mate I'm just a new follower of yours, I just noticed a channel of this quality should have millions of subscribers!

[@MashITTech]

@@Boykub1111 haha I can only wish! but I keep plugging away :) and thanks for subscribing.

[@Boykub1111]

@@MashITTech soonnn

[@MashITTech]

@@Boykub1111 thanks for the reminder 😀 ok, just put some serious pressue on mine, I can get it to flex slightly as you would expect but no clicks/pops/odd noises or excessive movement. Feels incredibly solid to me

[@TechButler]

Which one of the two CPUs is better for 3d modeling?

[@JenuelDev]

can we have a Lenovo Pro 7i Gen 9?

[@MashITTech]

I am struggling to find that one in the uk

[@nhanNguyen-wo8fy]

3:22 I don't think the mic quality was good enough. 😅

[@SafriPurwantarah]

How's the SSD speed?

[@WhiskyCardinalWes]

🤣 4:38 I love that bit! 😂 As for the web cam, video is good, the microphone is meh.

[@denisskorikov6234]

Hello sir, is the hard drive upgradable? Does it have one extra slot?

[@MashITTech]

SSD is upgradable but sadly there is only 1 slot

[@denisskorikov6234]

@@MashITTech thanks! and what it the maximum capacity it can handle?

[@bmalach]

Your summary is great and it perfectly matched my thoughts on these two laptops. It convinced me that I made a good choice - just yesterday I ordered the Aura, but it wasn't easy at all to decide, the sheer performance of the strix point in yoga pro 7 was very tempting. Kudos for bashing the stupid McAfee antivirus!

[@MashITTech]

thank you mate. HAving both side by side and it is a really tough call, both great machines but I think I would also take the aura for the more efficient CPU and great battery life. The fact I can video edit on it is also the icing on the cake although this wont be of interest to most others

[@mariopenulli1395]

@@MashITTech What about a comparision video between the Aura and the Yoga Pro?

[@hirunguyen4522]

why are they not center the touch pad

[@28Corner]

To match the center of space bar so it wont be accidentally touched if you're laying down your palm when typing

[@absaglam]

At last I decide on to buy an Asus Zenbook S14 (2024). More battery life and light weight is the winner.

[@d3stroyah]

is the screen affected by pwm flickering? it's my dealbreaker with most lenovo oled. please report this

[@MashITTech]

Sadly yes it is.

[@jessegriffin9]

Why is the name Yoga Pro 7? Is there a Yoga Pro + numbers? Or is there a regular Yoga + numbers? What is the difference between them? I'm exhausted.

[@MashITTech]

lenovo love to confuse. The yoga range is a mess and it makes it difficult choosing the right one

[@matkeyboard8054]

thank god the oled is no more 1200p , oled base model should be only 2.8k that the minimum ... if not text fringing issue

[@Burbanana]

Doesnt Arc still have glitchy issues in games?

[@MashITTech]

I am sure there will be some specific game issues as intel drivers are always a bit lacking but all the popular games I tried worked perfectly

[@Burbanana]

@MashITTech makes sense

[@5after12]

i bet you get a lot of use out of that co-pilot button

[@MashITTech]

I make sure to use it every day so I can live my life to the max!

[@PurpleWarlock]

​@@MashITTech can it be changed to work as a Right CTRL button?

[@MrRedialplease]

This model with 32gb ram for 1140 euro is a good price ? Or maybe better aura edition ? I want to play on it witcher 3 /dota2

[@MrRedialplease]

Or there is a model with 8845hs + 3050 6gb still yoga, but pro. For 999euro

[@MashITTech]

any model with a dedicated graphics card will have the best performance so I would consider that. Dota 2 will play early on the strix or aura model but I think Witcher 3 is a bit more demanding

[@dustyslack]

Anyone got a link to buy in the USA?

[@MashITTech]

Sadly it has not hit the USA market yet! Europe got it first for some reason

[@צפנתכהןגינדי-ט9מ]

Is it okay for simple video editing?

[@MashITTech]

for 1080p and shorts it will be great but my needs are pretty heavy (multi stream 4k50 10bit plus plenty of titles and effects) and it wouldnt cope with the videos I produce

[@ninasazonova2511]

What about HINGES durability ???!!!

[@ramisvakazov8757]

I hope you'll have a great X'Mas party!

[@jbcrib]

The price is absurd in my country. Costs about twice as much as the 8040s.

[@MashITTech]

that is crazy. They are a little more expensive in the UK than 8000 seres but that is always the case when the new gen arrives with lenovo. We will soon see some discount codes I am sure

[@PurpleWarlock]

Well, it is the top of the line. Meant to take on Apple's M series. A shame that the best feature , the 890m igpu, only exists on the top models. 😢

[@henrikg1388]

Seems real nice... but I have to reiterate... MacBook comes in bot 14 and 16 inches. How great these machines could be if they had a bigger version as well. 😉

[@MashITTech]

good point!

[@naveenraj9026]

I was planning to buy yoga pro 7 gen 9 with for 1200$ with Follwing Specs AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS Memory: 16 GB LPDDR5X-6400MHz (Soldered) Solid State Drive: 512 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 TLC Graphic Card: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 Laptop GPU 6GB GDDR6 is it worth or should i go with some other model for this price range I want it for my work(SDE) and for some video editing and casual gaming

[@MrRedialplease]

For this price you can by aura edition. In Italy your spec now costs 999euro. Like on video Ryzen 365/32 ram 1150. Idk what to buy

[@ricarmig]

Two comments: - Lenovo as usually cheapens a laptop by going 365 instead of the amd 370 and doing a bad decision with the 2242. Even the Ally X manages to find space for a bigger ssd… they also have managed a very limited battery life! - editing 4K 10 bit is slower on the AMD eventually because AMD’s drivers are either not optimized or Davinci is not AMD friend. Do you know if it edits fast on the snapdragon X? In summary: there are better options.

[@MashITTech]

agreed with the 365 and 2242 comment, and there was loads of room for an 80mm if they wanted. The new intel chips worked incredibly in resolve, I was really surprised. Sadly, the arm version of resolve is still performs terribly with the snapdragon chips and adobe still havent released an ARM version despite saying they were going to

[@ricarmig]

@@MashITTech honestly it seems once again that Intel’s “background/marketing team” game is back and strong, eventually making pressure so that AMD’s devices come always with serious limitations and intel’s don’t 😩 if battery life is on most newer AMD so good and this is bad? Why could they make physical space for the 2280 and got a 2242 with a connector oddly blocking the bigger option? Why is Davinci only optimized for Intel’s? (When I got my M1 Mac mini, Davinci was updated VERY fast as a beta for the new ARM architecture. How come now, with an ARM Snapdragon they can’t get it fast when they have already a ARM version? Tweaking from x86 and AMD GPUs to the M1 was blazing fast and now it takes ages… I also don’t understand why on AMD’s it runs so bad)

[@IkeSpeaksUp]

I'm watching this one, I think the price will be slashed as the new Intel version will likely drive sales while AMD lacks in this segment for Lenovo. If it goes below $800, I'll snag it to replace my slim 7 pro x which I can never get beyond 4 hours of battery life.

[@MashITTech]

yeah, prices will drop for soon for sure! lenovo always put new models out at a crazy price then offer a stupid discount a few months down the line. I got my last T14 ryzen model for 40% off!

[@dareemmanuel6079]

Is there anyway we UK folk can get like a US keyboard layout? I really need a full sized left shift key

[@MashITTech]

Sadly I don tthink there is :(

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@MashITTech Could you maybe try ordering from the Netherlands. They use ANSI like the US afaik.

[@parijatbhamburkar]

Look into package forwarding services, they usually work for smaller electronics so maybe laptops too.

[@DrFurb]

I feel the battery performance is poor compared to rivals

[@MashITTech]

its better than some of the 8000 series ryzen we have reviewed recently but gets destroyed by snapdragon, apple silicon or the new core ultras

[@pneuma23093]

Glad intel has brought some competition to AMD in the thin and light laptop market. Should keep AMD from being complacent. Great for the market overall.

[@avineshblah5739]

​@@MashITTechit also seems overpriced in comparison

[@ricarmig]

@@MashITTechbattery life is poor, the screen is very reflective, the ssd is limited, the chip should be the 370 and the price too steep. Too greedy these days…

[@HDRPC]

This is because Intel 268V+Ram consumes 15 watts in single core and AMD without ram consumes 23 watts in single core.

[@frankwong9486]

Apple silicon joined the chat Hello mate , I heard you talk about power efficiency Snapdragon left the chat

[@ryanrandle887]

Not available in Canada yet. Boo!

[@MashITTech]

Yeah it makes a change for the U.K. to get it before USA and Canada! Not sure what Lenovo were thinking

[@mmadevgame]

Do you have any info if/when lenovo z16 gen 3 coming? And will it be strix point or strix halo

[@MashITTech]

Sadly I dont :(

[@IvoPavlik]

Finally a Strix Point laptop which isn't an Asus!

[@MashITTech]

Asus flooded the big KZbinrs with an early release which is why thats all we saw for a few weeks. I never trust these reviews as they are sponsored by asus and I often find Asus' business practice shady to say the least so I wont do sponsored laptop reviews

[@IvoPavlik]

@@MashITTech that's much appreciated 👍🏻 and I agree with Asus being a shady company. It seems that it's even worse: it's been almost 2 months since Strix Point introduction and there is non a single non Asus laptop on the market where I live. Asus seem to have some kind of exclusivity at AMD and boy they do push the prices when there's no competition.

[@Ramallinone]

i picked up asus vivobook ai 9 365 s15 instead ,for £1200. Its still expensive ,but it has a 15" screen at least.

[@MashITTech]

How are you finding it?

[@Ramallinone]

@MashITTech It's a very good second light duty pc, and it has different fan profiles . I keep on standard 19w and the fans very quiet. It's only rated 50w tdp at max power ,but it's enough . Oled screen, it's great as well, with 600nits peak brightness on hdr. Track pad is big and accurate. Build quality is awesome as well with plasma ceramic aluminium durable new gen. alloy chassis.

[@MashITTech]

@@Ramallinone glad to hear you are enjoying it. I wanted to review it but they took ages to come to the UK so I ordered the lenovo instead

[@steshaw6510]

The trouble with the price is that you can have a MacBook Pro 14 base model for £159 more in the UK

[@HDRPC]

Wow The Finals of intel 268V 30 watts is matching amd 60 watts. Intel is much more efficient.

[@MashITTech]

Yep, I couldn’t believe it. Only thing that’s better on ryzen is cpu but at twice the wattage

[@HDRPC]

@@MashITTech true. Intel has good Panther Lake with 12Xe3 cores and more powerful media engines in computex 2025

[@KimonoKenny]

It wobbles so much lol but it looks like a great laptop overall!

[@kartikpintu]

these are hella expensive

[@dajotimes]

I'm just bummed by the colour. Otherwise a great laptop!

[@yellowjoe.2000]

2242 SSD killed it

[@issa0013]

It's beautiful laptop but the price it should come with the 370

[@subsound4471]

no 2280 slot no buy

[@akin242002]

My workload isn't at CPU extreme levels, so I like the Intel version more. Better Single core performance and battery life.

[@mariopenulli1395]

Yep, I think most customers have those preferences. I have not been CPU limited on a laptop for years.

[@vladmihai306]

meh, especially give the price

[@catsspat]

"New Ryzen AI 365 Stupid Name CPU."🤣

[@Dr.D00p]

Only a single SSD slot is bad enough, but then they double down on the stupidity by making it a 2242 🙄. Well done, Lenovo, a very effective way to buzz kill your product to so many.

[@MashITTech]

yep, and worse still, there was plenty of room for an 80mm in there with decent placement

[@cameronbosch1213]

It looks like there's room and a screw hole for a 2280. Unlike some other laptops.

[@MashITTech]

it looks like it but there is a large connector blocking a larger SSD from running across it

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@MashITTech that might mean that single sided 2280 drives would work, but they only go up to 4 TB. Still better than being stuck with shorter SSDs.

[@FutureProofNothing]

Cannot upgrade ram, not interested. Disposable gadget

[@MashITTech]

sadly a lot of the ultrabooks are heading this way. but at least they use high speed ram and dont charge a fortune when upgrading from 16gb to 32gb like apple

[@alphabasic1759]

Until Lenovo starts including haptic touchpads on these laptops I won’t buy one. Mechanical touchpads are awful. Even the best of them. Now that I’ve used a haptic I won’t go back. I went from my MacBook to a Huawei which I consider the best of the ultralight premium laptops. It beats everything in terms of weight, thickness, screen size, brightness, 2tb, 32 gb, and the best of the ultralight premium laptops CPU’s. Makes this laptop look sad.

[@MashITTech]

They added the haptic to the P1 Gen 7 and its amazing, really hope they can do the same to the T series soon

[@EvilestMinion]

Stupid name cpu. I agree. That's a mouthful.

[@SY-zv2cz]

For thin ultrabook laptops multithreaded performance is not that important. I would like to see browser performance, application loading performance and code compilation performance over cinebench MT and geekbench MT. These 2 benchmarks have become too boring.

[@MashITTech]

You make a good point. I will try and improve my benchmarking tests to include this

[@Isnonofyobusiness]

I just recently ordered this and I’m nervous since I’m normally a Apple user and never had a Microsoft device or anything from Lenovo 🥹 excited tho