Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x REVIEW: THE BEST OF THEM

[@andrewmarcdavid]

**DEAL ALERT** $200 off at Best Buy: howl.me/cmSMWOv251n

[@comcast2500]

I received this laptop last week and I'm loving it so far. For a $100 extra, I was able to upgrade the ram to 32 gigs, and the storage to 1 terabyte

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Nice!

[@navyasrip]

How are the speakers on this laptop?

[@comcast2500]

@navyasrip they're really good.when watching any content they good

[@EduardLevesque]

@@navyasrip quiet, tinny and no bass

[@larryb4392]

@@navyasrip The speakers are not the loudest but they are more than adequate unless you are in a very noisy environment. They are well balanced. I did not find them to be tinny like the awful speakers on the Dell XPS 13 or Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge. They definitely do provide moderate amounts of bass which is fine for listening to music. Of course if you are expecting them to be like you are using a separate subwoofer, then you will be disappointed. But I don't think anyone should be expecting that kind of sound on such a thin and light laptop.

[@dcallahan2074]

Great laptop. Got mine with upgraded ram & storage. Screen is amazing. Super fast. Best laptop reviewer I found on the tube. Thanks!

[@Gravage]

Great timing. Mine is in the mail on its way to me right now. Great review!

[@TalynOne]

If you purchase from Lenovo there’s an option to upgrade the memory from 16 to 32 Gb of memory for only $69. The upgrade to 1TB storage costs $45. Great deal compared to the upgrade costs on the Surface.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Yes, it's a fantastic option and great value. Here is the link: howl.me/cmDn4NPBeot

[@sorsdeus]

Just received it, using it for a couple of hours, the monitor is breathtaking, speakers are quite good, do not have a lot more to say until I use it more, but first impression is great.

[@simosda4104]

and now?

[@dannyshakil538]

?????

[@Railmantrihaazipur]

Most interesting 😢tech channel on KZbin I am blessed

[@Deusam24]

Great review and great video as always , thanks a lot for the effort ❤️

[@robertbryanlitao347]

Been waiting for this

[@rafaelperez9652]

As a general purpose laptop, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x laptop is fine for what you need it to do at the end of the day. As I've noticed with all of these laptops in 2024, the Windows ARM technology is brand new so you will have some features that will be hit or miss until they iron out the kinks but overall, it has a gorgeous OLED vivid display, long battery life and a price of $1199.99 which will not break the bank. The fact that there are no USB A ports, no SD Card reader, No HDMI and no headphone jack doesn't really surprise me as many manufacturers are trying to get away from it but it may bother some potential buyers. Soldered RAM might be another negative for people, however, it is running the faster RAM which is always a good thing. Gorgeous 1080p webcam, clear internal mics and great quad speaker sound quality makes this a pretty good laptop in 2024. Overall, it is a stunning product from Lenovo that shouldn't be overlooked! Excellent very thorough review once again Andrew!! 👍😁

[@hirunguyen4522]

its 69$ for 32gb upgrade, no brainer to get upgrade. Apple charge 400$ extra for that

[@maurizio835]

In Europe it ships with a 4 in 1 dongle, for HDMI, USB-A headphone jack...

[@LearningAndGrowingInLife]

Which one would you think is a better buy - this lenovo Yoga Slim 7X or Surface laptop 7 X Plus 13.8 inch?

[@mrmartywaring]

Nice!!! I'm still deciding on a new Windows laptop. This may be it

[@andrewmarcdavid]

To me it's a good choice for a general purpose use laptop

[@shortyyys]

@@andrewmarcdavid I'm so torn between this and surface 7 ... as my general purpose laptop...help

[@Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Loved the "Adreno Graphicshit" reference. 😁👍

[@Antonis24]

I hope Qualcomm improves the iGPU considerably in the next iteration. Hopefully, by then, there are more ARM compatible games.

[@dgillies5420]

It will take awhile to fix the igpu. Phone igpu (adreno) has never been competitive and adreno is a radeon licensed gpu from long ago (adreno is a rearrangement of "radeon"). The timespy score is HALF the 780m score, and 880m is 10% faster and 890m is 20% faster than 780m!

[@handlemonium]

Any plans to get your hands on the Slimboom Executive 16 soon? Aside from Notebookcheck's written review, I haven't see a full video review here on KZbin yet -- especially an audio comparison against a MacBook.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Looking into it

[@m4nc1n1]

I grabbed the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge at BB for $999 today. Best deal right now off you want a Snapdragon X Elite (80) right now.

[@BIANCONERIFRIEND]

Hi Andrew great review as always, thank you for your excellent video, are you planning to review the xps 13 copilot tamdem oled ? There is not a lot of helpful videos around. An xps review coming from you would be nice

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Dell just sent to Dell XPS 9345. I think it is the FHD+ version so not the OLED. I will unbox is tomorrow

[@BIANCONERIFRIEND]

Thank you for your reply, I'm very excited to see the review, I think you are the best person on you tube with the most knowledge on the xps computer line

[@Gvhdvr]

On of the undocumented issues with the current snapdragon socs is the flaky support for 4k120hz. I tried the surface laptop and officially Microsoft does state 4k120hz support but Qualcomm does not? I tried a direct USB-C to DP cable and my thunderbolt 4 hub but could only get 4k60hz. Some people seem to get 4k100hz and I'm not sure what the difference is in their setup? Returned the surface laptop and will wait for the next generation unfortunately.

[@theofiloschamalis161]

Thanks for the comprehensive review! The laptop looks amazing, although it will take a while to appear in Greece. A question I have is if WSL is working on it and whether its using an ARM ubuntu image variant or an x86 one.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

I think the only one that can run Linux will be the Asus, but other should be coming soon.

[@richardmagnorstenbro3234]

@@andrewmarcdavid WSL is running perfectly on this computer. I run Ubuntu 24.04 in WSl.

[@davidneale530]

Whichever distro you run on WSL, it has to be an ARM64 image as the x86 translation can't be used in that situation. WSL already worked fine on previous Windows on ARM systems like the Surface Pro X so it's nothing new here, just faster.

[@richardmagnorstenbro3234]

​@@davidneale530​@davidneale530 Yes, i use ARM64 based Ubuntu. 'WSL.EXE --install ubuntu' in powershell.

[@doriangrecu9467]

Great job Andrew with these series of reviewing different laptops with the new Snapdragon SOC. Any chance you might review a device with an entry level Snapdragon SKU (X Plus)?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Thanks. I am working to get one so stay tuned.

[@Baman-uh2ud]

Lenovo probably is going to use this chasis for AMD Ryzen ai also. Do you agree? So, based on the laptops based on Snapdragon X Elite, probably all of them are going to have AMD ryzen 370 and 365. So, as we know this one seems to be the best between them (samsung, HP, asus), if i see Lenovo launches this laptop with 365, if I order it as it launches, it would be probably a good purchase?

[@jax1v9]

Should i buy this as a student or wait a bit longer?

[@DavidGillooly]

Very nice review. The price is very attractive. I am wondering how the Intel Lunar Lake processor based units will compare to the Qualcomm based units. Last I hear we will see these in Q3. Any news on these from your side?

[@dgillies5420]

Dont hold your breath for lunar lake. They are currently at HALF the power efficiency of snapdragon and zen5. The intel powerpig thighburner laptop will not magically disappear in 1 generation. The only reason Intel sells LAPTOPS AT ALL is because they throttle down to 50% speed when running on batteries! The actual battery life of most Intel laptops is 4h, same as in 2017 ...

[@Burbanana]

Hey Andrew, great review. I just got the SL7 15 in myself. Apparently according to Josh, the SL15 feeds more power to the CPU, u might want to state which model you used in the charts.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

I have the 15" Laptop 7 coming in today for review.

[@n.a.1397]

Is there less screen door / grainy pixels than surface pro?

[@williamcohen3351]

Nice pc. Good keyboard layout. Camera and mics are good. Most people who are buying these probably already have an older intel or amd based unit and can run those applications on them until the compatability issues are worked out in the future. Great review. How are you holding up with the very hot weather in Las Vegas?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

It is extremely hot in las vegas!

[@SuperPreacherX]

Great review! (again 🙂)

[@timurkarim]

Would be great to have the review of Thinkpad P1, gen 7. And even better would be to see the comparison to Yoga Pro 9i

[@EBaron-ew1qe]

When will the Thinkpad t14s gen 6 come out? I would love a review on that

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Waiting on Lenovo. Stay tuned.

[@deneguil-1618]

great review as always! any plans on testing the acer swift ai? i think it could be a great value for battery life as it has an IPS display but a large 75 Wh battery

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Hopefully, I am waiting on Acer. Stay tuned.

[@deneguil-1618]

@@andrewmarcdavid looking forward to it!

[@topmech71]

The battery life is good but I'm wondering if AMD's upcoming mobile chips will be on par.

[@PowerProtocol]

Andrew Marc David has become the Legendary Super Saiyan of Lore.

[@mariusgabrielciocarlan2447]

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the review, a good laptop made this time Lenovo, even if i'm not a fan of lenovo company. Can you please make an comparazation review between Surface Pro 11 and ASUS ProArt PZ13 (HT5306)?

[@alexs.5107]

Is the integrated Adreno GPU performing poorly because of compatibility and optimization issues or because it s just a subpar GPU?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

It may be combo of both.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

lul

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

like i said their 1st gen might have hidden/unoptimized perf and will be rare item in the future, might not and just bad see arc intels for reference

[@dgillies5420]

Its mostly a subpar gpu. Its a very old licensed radeon gpu from like 2010 which has not seem much love since phones don't have a lot of power for 3d graphics. Adreno is a respelling of radeon ...

[@berntlie6799]

Minor typo in table with Cinebench 6/Single-core: Surface Laptop 11 should probably be Surface Pro 11. Sound seems good. Video good, but perhaps a little pixelated? (may be wrong). What is max disk size? I want 2 TB...

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Thanks for letting me know

[@vjdfl5]

I bought one and had it for one night. Seemed like a good little machine, but right now you can get the 16" 4 Edge (80) on sale for $1099 and that's just an unbeatable deal. $100 cheaper with a faster chip, 1.5" bigger screen, AMOLED, number pad, HDMI, USB-A, 3.5mm jack...

[@andrewmarcdavid]

My review of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 16" is coming tomorrow. Stay tuned.

[@aschlect]

Lenovo needs to put an LED indicator on the speaker mute key (F2) for all their laptops. They only do this on ThinkPads as of now. HP does on all of their laptops.

[@hopnguyenvan6653]

It will be perfect if it has haptic trackpad

[@gtccold]

Hey, have you try running the test using the same resolution? Yoga is running at highest resolution.

[@rohitsoni9325]

Can you create a comparison video of Ultra 7 vs Ultra 9 processors? I am getting Asus Vivobook S16 Ultra 7 at 1400 usd and Ultra 9 at 1600 usd. Worth adding extra 200 usd?

[@ass5kickin]

Not worth it. The ultra 9 only clocks slightly higher. No other difference. Go for the ultra 7. If it’s the U processors, then stick to ultra 5.

[@dgillies5420]

Listened to about 10 laptops at best buy today. All HP models failed the tests. My goto benchmark song is "with or without you" by U2. The only laptops to render the bass guitar were the asus zephyrus, asus zenbook 2023, and lenovo slim 9i. Microsoft surface 13.8 copilot+ did okay but surface 15 copilot+ was worse! This laptop - unfortunately - had virtually no detectable bassline from that song ..

[@MegaMijit]

I love the color and that is all metal but unfortunately the force selection is too scarce

[@MrAdhiSuryana]

Can somebody explain how SL7 has better battery life than Yoga 7X?? Did they limit the speed on MS Surface? I mean, I can also do that manually from control panel if I want to

[@maurizio835]

Simple: IPS vs. OLED, smaller screen

[@EduardLevesque]

@@maurizio835 wrong, its power management by microsoft, lenovo is know for horrible power management in their devices

[@desiputtar89]

How much vRAM does Snapdragon X Elite Qualcomm graphics card has?

[@kevinlee8248]

Just a note with the SAMSUNG Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" is £1399.00 (US $1,787.78) n the UK you can purchase this from Samsung at 0% interest over2 years which makes it cheeper than the Lenovo

[@wenlocke]

On the subject of the ports, with mine I got a free USB-C to HDMI/VGA/USB-A/Headphone dongle, but I dont know if thats universal. Its not the most ideal solution, but it does the job.

[@eiceys4612]

Hello all this snapdragon seems nice. I have some x86 software. Am i sure that they ll work ? No gaming

[@ryguy694]

Mine still won't run any external type c monitors (if also powered by the port)

[@quantumdot7393]

Oled tea doesn't help with these video playback battery test . Look at the difference between the surface pro and surface laptop. Both from Microsoft with same battery but the LCD is lasting way longer

[@brockkerns5355]

How does this hold up for programs like fl studio ?

[@kevinlee8248]

This is £1288.00 at Curry's in the UK or US $1659.99 which makes this the same price as all the other x elite machine's which often have the X1E-80-100 chip instead of the X1E-78-100 so not such a good deal in the uk and if you buy it on instalments they charge 29.9% apr interest on the loan.

[@davidneale530]

It's cheaper to buy direct from Lenovo and then you get PayPal 0% for 4 months and more spec choices. I think you are incorrectly accounting for VAT which is shown on the UK prices but not on US prices until you checkout and then you get sales tax of some varying amount depending on the state. The Yoga really is the best spec/price ratio. I paid £1216 for 32GB + 1TB using one of their regular vouchers.

[@Antonis24]

FYI @13:47 --> You added the Radeon 780M in the list of Cons

[@andrewmarcdavid]

@@Antonis24 typo

[@Ευλαμπια-λ1μ]

Would you recommend it to an architect ? ( but the model with 32 GB RAM and 1T )

[@andrewmarcdavid]

depends on which applications you use

[@Ευλαμπια-λ1μ]

@andrewmarcdavid Autocad, rhino, photoshop and twin motion

[@andrewmarcdavid]

@@Ευλαμπια-λ1μ you will run into compatibility issues

[@Ευλαμπια-λ1μ]

@@andrewmarcdavid oh okay . Thanks a lot for answering. Have a nice day

[@engshahed]

Those computers might be good for windows users. For Linux users a lot of optimisations remain. Lot of contributions needed from the community. Linux users please stay back to Intel Ultra predecessor. I do believe it's not the right time to migrate to Intel Ultra as well Snapdragon CPU for Linux desktop Users 💯

[@paulinosamson8507]

Can I put Linux on it particularly Fedora?

[@kevinlee8248]

Just to save you looking it up US $1199.99 is £939.03 UK Sterlin.

[@jopansmark]

Couldn't expect less from a company that made IBM sell their PC business.

[@Paulo-i9h]

Can anyone actually find a review video of this laptop that isnt sponsored / paid?

[@meccu19]

How much did they pay?) At the same time everyone is praising lenovo

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Who is they?

[@meccu19]

@@andrewmarcdavid l e n o v o

[@andrewmarcdavid]

@@meccu19 news to me. Let me know where this payment is. Thanks in advance

[@meccu19]

@@andrewmarcdavid lol sure :D i'll never believe that accidentaly same day tonnes of videos about lenovo xD and they are of course not sponsored

[@jakejoyride]

No HDMI? No USB A? No Headphone Jack? No!

[@maurizio835]

In Europe it ships with a USB-C dongle for HDMI, USB-A and headphone jack.

[@dgillies5420]

If you ever get a job at a place called "a company" that has a type of event called "a meeting" , you may find it useful to buy a thing called "a dongle" that concentrates 6 ports including charging power into 1 USB-C wire, so you dock and undock in 3 secs. You will find that this one $25 devices saves you several minutes a day and quickly pays for itself!

[@shrimpgordita]

It's an all metal build? I thought it was plastic made to look like metal.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

It’s metal

[@hailemichaelabat109]

Hey Andrew! Off-topic question. Today I went to buy the hp spectre 14 2024 based on your review. But the display was a little bit perplexing. It seemed there was some sort of cloudiness. When I downloaded a plain black picture, the display still showed some cloudy brightness. It is hard to explain in words. My question is that is this the part of OLED display(I have never seen an OLED display even for a TV). If this is not normal, how can I check the genuinty of the display? Any advice is appreciated as I really want to buy this laptop.

[@maurizio835]

It is called screen door effect, just google it. It is mainly seen on OLED with pen-supported touchscreens like the HP. There is absolutly no screen door effect on the 7x (just typing on it), because it does not support a pen.

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

You've never seen an OLED display?? What phone are you even using???

[@angelflys97]

If only it had a haptic track pad 😥

[@prk3437]

That is my only concern and another one is the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio of Surface devices are perfect :)

[@larryb4392]

Just curious what the importance of a haptic trackpad is? I have used trackpads for years and merely tap on them to register my input. I can't remember the last time I actually tried to click on one. The trackpad on the Lenovo, which I have, seems perfectly fine to me and I would never consider its not being haptic to be a deal breaker.

[@prk3437]

@@larryb4392 The trackpad of Lenovo is perfectly fine, and I totally agree with that point. The problem is, once you use Haptic touchpad, you get used to it. In Haptic touchpad, you can click or tap anywhere on the touchpad, but on click ones like Lenovo has, only the bottom part can be used to click, the top part is essentially just tap or if Lenovo allows any gestures, use for that. It's like using 120 Hz screens on mobile and suddenly going back to 60 Hz. 60Hz is wonderful, but 120 is just more preferred.

[@larryb4392]

@@prk3437 Your points are well taken and to each his own of course. I have tried haptic trackpads but I never found them to provide any advantages to me as far as tapping or gestures. My real issue is that I don't think newcomers to the different kinds of trackpads should be led to believe that one is better than the other necessarily. It is more, like you said, what you may get used to.

[@prk3437]

@@larryb4392 That is true. I can skip not having a haptic touchpad because 90% of my work necessitates the need for an external mouse. It's more like good-to-have feature, rather than a must-to-have feature. On the other hand I am curious why Lenovo offers only Bluetooth 5.3 and MS offers 5.4. I am also interested to see if any of these will bring support for aptX codecs, because technically the hardware supports it.

[@MegaMijit]

No USB-A or HDMI sucks, but ig dongles

[@mohannadnasser7433]

Try the new huwaei laptops

[@murilovs3827]

Ports is a 5 at best.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

I will say this, they are all USB 4 but would like to see more ports for sure.

[@dgillies5420]

I used a mac at work the last 6 years. You wanna tie all your devices into a single candybar sized power delivery port dongle so you can dock and undock quickly to attend meetings... If you shop carefully they cost ALMOST NOTHING ($25 for 6 ports!) Anything more than 1 USB-c port on a laptop is a waste to me now!

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

​@@dgillies5420 Bad logic. Most people hate dongles and docks. Even Macbook Pros went back to having important ports for a reason.

[@dgillies5420]

@@PSYCHOV3N0M Turns out there are two different things. Having a usb-c dock(as a dongle) is actually great. It just lives on your desk(s) (home, work). If you are just always missing a port on the road, then that's a bummer. Card readers can be done with a USB stick for that purpose. If you have 1 port for charging and 1 USB-A for card readers and/or maybe audio, that may suffice ... What's even worse is buying a laptop with a card reader that becomes obsolete, which won't happen with USB-C.

[@JayzBeerz]

Nice ❤

[@awdadwadwad1723]

It’s ridiculous that blue is the only possible color option, such a fingerprint magnet!!!

[@MegaMijit]

The best color is all anyone needs! How often do you look at the top anyways? Who cares about fingerprints

[@just42tube]

​@@MegaMijit I too would like to know why fingerprints matter? Do people use laptops as fashion items, decorations, accessories to their looks or why does it matter? Having fingerprints on your tools doesn't add anything to their use, but the not having seems insignificant too.

[@pokeken]

Because there are people who either hate their own fingerprints or just have a sense of pride by owning a laptop with a fingerprint free cover…..😂

[@JFM94]

no headphone jack!!?!?! wtf

[@RestoranLaguna-kh4xx]

for me asus viva book s14 oled is better

[@thefunkypopcorn]

Graphicshit or miss (: (: (:

[@leakyabstraction]

The Microsoft Surface Laptop I think has a way better build quality, an absolutely incredible trackpad, and it's also 1199 for the base Elite Plus model, with 13.8 inch 3:2 display. Although it's not OLED, that's true.

[@awdadwadwad1723]

no oled = no buy

[@maurizio835]

at 32 GB of RAM price difference is around 1000 USD.

[@tub8r]

What is Adreno Graphic shit? 14:32

[@andrewmarcdavid]

It's when the the Laptop has to go to the bathroom and that is what comes out.

[@novee23]

Graphicshit or miss 😂

[@shaonbhuiyan77]

Waiting for a 16 inch 16:10 ratio OLED laptop with good keyboard like this and 99Wh battery with a Snapdragon upper tier CPU.

[@AllTimeTech12]

Great Laptop better Spyware!