You're Gonna Love It - Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 (14″ AMD) Laptop - Ryzen 9 AI 365

[@steshaw6510]

This is available in Australia. Looks like a great laptop if 14" is big enough. I quite like the display size. Curious about the speed of the SSDs. This is "discounted" at $1,999 AUD here in Australia. A comparable laptop is the MacBook Air M3 for $2,099 (8-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD). The equivalent M2 MacBook Air (which I still have) is currently available for $1,899 AUD (or 1,719 AUD from the Apple Education Store) - this originally cost me $2,349 AUD in late 2022.

[@WildEva]

the display size is perfect for me as I wanted something bigger than a handheld for coding reasons but still small enough to be portable

[@steshaw6510]

@@WildEva yeah, I like the 14" display too. I use a MacBook Air at the moment that's 13.6" and I previously had a 13.3" one. I plug it into a monitor when I need more screen real estate!

[@ytnimal]

Great review as always. Good to see that they have a model with 32GB ram unlike last years unit. I wish it had an extra M2 slot for additional HDD.

[@TechGuyBeau]

I'd have to agree with you

[@nhanNguyen-wo8fy]

I have an suggestions. You should add test for the blur/change background. We use that feature a lot in meeting (the sole purpose of the webcam) you know. It also show the how good is the signal processing and AI capability of the cpu.

[@jayaguru.r967]

You're really underrated bro 🤧

[@TechGuyBeau]

Thanks

[@RyeRyeL]

I've used Windows all my life, but £1450 for a Lenovo to come close to a MacBook Pro M4 is insane. I've had screen hinge failures on Yoga Slim machines (it's well documented, there is a class action lawsuit) I'm honestly at the point where I might just buy a MacBook and give up throwing money at lower build quality Windows devices that cost nearly the same anyway.

[@iankurseth]

Great review. For some reason, the IPS version of this laptop still has a 2280 slot. Lenovo should have redesigned the motherboard for the igpu version. It would be much lighter and probably an extra m2 slot too.

[@SamuHell782]

I hope you get the chance to review the ThinkPad T14p Gen 2. China exclusive though.

[@Zio_Cook]

I have had this laptop since early November 24 with 32GB/1TB, bought without windows at 1150 euro (italy). All in all it is a good laptop, the screen is really a great display, nice colors, good brightness, just a bit too reflective. I had some youthful problems with the amd video drivers, with the screen occasionally flickering while watching videos, all things fixed at the time of writing. The color space setting (from lenovo vantage app) was also not working at first, but fixed a short time ago by lenovo. Other than that, I immediately replaced the network card with an AX210, the RZ616 honestly had disappointing performance in wifi6 and wifi5... Regardless, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good laptop with nice specs and good build quality

[@longpt7854]

Hi, did you try it on Linux ? I wonder its compatibility on Linux

[@Zio_Cook]

@@longpt7854 So, when the pc arrived i checked ubuntu 24.10 (6.11 kernel) and it booted normally, screen scale was correct and it seemed everything was working, dunno if the ir sensor for face recognition etc was working (probably not).

[@longpt7854]

@@Zio_Cook how is the battery life on ubuntu my buddy? Does it last long or degrade significantly compared to windows? And can I set a charging threshold for it? (Stop charging at 80%) And the fan noise in heavy task too? I'm planning to get this one for my data science + AI + bioinformatics study. Hope that 32gb will be enough 😆

[@Zio_Cook]

@ So, for clarity i use windows 11 (i only tested for my personal curiosity linux), and in balanced mode it should last me 8h with my usage (my pc has never reached 0% battery). If you want more battery, you can limit TDP with x86 tuning utility, then, you can go above 8h. This cpu scales so well with wattage that with only 15/16W it performs similarly to my desktop i7-9700K, even better sometimes. It depends on usage, fyi theese are wattages switchable with Fn + Q: Eco: 25W PL1 / 35W PL2 Balanced: 40W PL1 / 54W PL2 Performance: 60W PL1 / 71W PL2 Dunno if from linux you can limit tdp... For the fan noise, if you aren't gaming on this thing, you'll be never hear the fans, they turn on very rarely or when you wake the pc from sleep, but for a short time; and when they turn on the fan curve is very soft, never heard them honestly. AI thing: the only thing i saw using Ryzen NPU was windows studio effects for the camera, didn't tried llm's or such things

[@longpt7854]

@@Zio_Cook thank you honestly for your very detailed response. If possible, I plan to get an eGPU and try out with this thing, hope it would perform well hehe 😍

[@Andrew-uk5qd]

My biggest, and probaly the only complaint for the pro 7, is the missing sd card slot Also, is matte finish OLED a thing yet? Wish that would come so soon...

[@williamblake7386]

To me, 14 inch means portable, you carry it from one place to another, otherwise small screen sucks. So you never know the angle of the light or what position you hold your laptop so that the screen doesn't flash. There must be options between glossy or matte, but manufacturers often does not bother.

[@gunta.]

Good review - which software do you use to show the ingame overlay CPU and framerate statistics at 16:34? Thanks!

[@TechGuyBeau]

Hwinfo and afterburner

[@UriGleiser]

Imagine this beatiful with AMD Strix Halo and 128Gb of Ram available. ❤

[@TechGuyBeau]

Now we getting crazy out here. And I support it

[@williamblake7386]

120w is just for thin and light, sounds great.

[@RNK170]

But why is the trackpad not centered? 😭 That is always a deal breaker for me because it looks so off...

[@WildEva]

Lol nice ocd, it's centered to the spacebar and the alt buttons (perpendicular to them) if that helps.

[@nSpiraliArchitectb]

What is that HP you used for the screen comparison? It's nice! Awesome review as always. Glossy screens on laptops are a no-go for me as I do lots of work under strong natural & artificial light and hate glare.

[@TechGuyBeau]

It's an HP zbook with AMD 7940hs. Really a great laptop. Been daily driving it for a few weeks now

[@matthewmyers3593]

Looking at the Lenovo site links provided - I do not see the AI 9 "HX" 365 - Just AI 9 365

[@fergus247]

hello im concerned with the low base clock rate it smells like it needs to boost to absurd levels and get hot and consume lot of electricity in order to perform well but i could be wrong

[@WildEva]

It does get hot ~100 in cpu during gaming but I bought a laptop cooler for it, helps a lot

[@Aceperformance370]

Do you prefer this one over the 258V Slim 7i Aura Edition?

[@Drado220]

Nice video but i don't think there is a 365 hx. It's just ai 9 365

[@TechGuyBeau]

Yeah misspeak since I just finished my review of the hx370. It was on the brain :p

[@PixelatedWolf2077]

I wish Lenovo offered up Mini-LED models for some of their laptops.

[@BigAirCot]

They do with high end ones. Mainly yoga 9 pro and some legion models

[@RodrigoFerreira-bs6hd]

When you say this model was very similar to the one you reviewed a few months ago (equivelent to the Ideapad 5 Pro) you don't actually mean the build quality is the same, right? I almost bought that Ideapad but in the end its build quality concerned me a lot (especially the dreaded hinge problems). You're telling me a Yoga Pro has the same build quality? If that is true, then it's a massive disappointment, as I would really want it to last.

[@TechGuyBeau]

I think you are confusing models. These are extremely high quality laptops

[@i3looi2]

I wonder what was the total wattage on the APU during gaming. Does it mean we finally ca game 3h+ on a battery ?

[@TechGuyBeau]

Yes. My ryzen ai hex 370 handheld (recent video) can game WELL at 15-20w. And it has a small battery Same CPU at 15/20 in a 80wh laptop... should give you 4-5 hours

[@Remixah2008]

Can someone tell me which cpu is stronger? The new AI 365 or the AMD 8040HS? The base clock of the Ryzen Zen4 is higher. Thank you 🙂

[@VihangaDananjaya1214]

I hate Lenovo for removing the ips screen option from my dream laptop, the ideapad pro 5

[@mariussm7797]

This, or the old one with RTX 3050 6GB inside?

[@kevinlee8248]

Which IGPU. are going to be used on the new AMD Ryzen AI Max and Max + ( 385,390 & 395).

[@TechGuyBeau]

We will have to see tbh

[@4tech69]

I need pro 9. Cant deal with 14

[@hoangtri5776]

pls go back to reviewing the thinkbooks, there's a g7+ version which uses the same chip

[@alain-m2t]

AI = Screen OCR to record everything you do

[@robhunt8378]

You'll have no privacy and you'll be happy.

[@alain-m2t]

@@robhunt8378 Well we have the no privacy already, the drugged part (being happy) is well underway for 95% of the people now full of nano robots in their blood (NPC are blind)

[@knechtnoobrecht-c137]

What about battery life?

[@kubahabet4569]

its phenomenal

[@morcheebix]

Try ff7 rebirth on it 😊

[@TechGuyBeau]

I already did, however, the data got corrupted. Suffice to say it runs quite well, unfortunately, the video is unsalvageable due to corruption.

[@morcheebix]

@ cool you rock!

[@WildEva]

I thought the standard was cyberpunk 2077 like it's the new crysis to test or something

[@burbanana]

NOTE: this is NOT an HX cpu. HX line is separate in both naming and performance

[@markjames1680]

It's just slightly less powerful, for a regular user it'll be just as good.

[@burbanana]

@@markjames1680 Did I claim anything about sufficiency? no, no need for speculative comments, there is a difference in iGPU as well here.

[@markjames1680]

@ Did he say it's HX?

[@burbanana]

@ in the initial slide that he showed or talked about if you watch the entire thing. No big deal, just noted it for him and others

[@KevinCollins-j9x]

Wake me up when they release a Macbook Pro competitor not these Macbook air competitors.

[@nhanNguyen-wo8fy]

Audio the yoga is clearly better. The HP has more base but kind of cheap base.

[@PixelatedWolf2077]

Boomy bass then.

[@L0v4szL]

Thanks for the test. I'm really sad that Lenovo laptops only come with OLED this year. I was expecting a Yoga pro 7 or Pro 9 or maybe a Legion 7 with one of the 5xxx GPUs, but as I saw at CES, it's exclusively OLED. I work with a lot of static content and I don't want to worry about burn-in. I know there are software techniques for that, but it really hurts the saleability later. For example, I wouldn't buy a used laptop.

[@mrsrhardy]

Here is the problem. Ai NPU on any PC unless its CUDA/nVidia is nerfed and is ONLY good for face/fingerprint use. If & when (or ever) AMD/Intel and now ARM get the NPU libraries made to work with local LLMs it wont matter as the SIZE of LLMs are now bigger than the mezzly 4gb they set asside for iGPU/NPU (its shared) and most iGPU are no slouches now too. So its MARKETING and someone needs to make videos on the state (or lack) of any support outside of say 12-32gb nVidia cards! As for the rest of the video, Im typing this on a LENOVO and my BIGGEST gripe is the ball-clutching of its horrible BIOS updates! How in 2025 anyone can mess-up as much as Lenovo do on downloading and SAFELY installing a bios update amazes me and I have had several Lenovos and they all suffer from this problem! Anything that wont often work ort will brick a laptop is a hard pass for me, so I turn it off, BIOS updates. BTW Im a PC guru and do this all day every day and its that bad I have to warn others!

[@ytnimal]

The NPUs are not there to run full AI models. Its there to enhance the experience which will be baked into future apps. Just like how CUDA helps in Gfx or Intel iGPU helps in encoding and decoding. NPU are for lighter tasks which CPU will take time to do. CPU can off load it to NPU. Also for most consumers a simple 7B Local LLM model is enough. Power users are also better off using something in the cloud, but if they are worried about privacy then yes spend more upfront and get a better Laptop with higher VRAM or something from Apple with unified solution. Maybe make a server at home and remote login to it. But i agree the naming schemes are cringe.

[@MnemonicCarrier]

That's not entirely true. There's one company working on real time subtitle generation for videos and video calls using the NPU. Another company is working on real-time translation for voice calls - and this will be done using your own voice (instead of a robotic one). I'm sure other developers will come up with other useful things to do on the NPU. AI isn't just Large Language Models.

[@PixelatedWolf2077]

The AI with new Intel laptops can technically run SLMs. Microsoft is coming out with one that can run on Lunar Lake NPUs.

[@RodrigoFerreira-bs6hd]

Battery sucks on it

[@TechGuyBeau]

Someone didn't watch the batter section....

[@RodrigoFerreira-bs6hd]

​@TechGuyBeau even if I dropped it to 60hz it would still be far behind the Slim 7 with Lunar lake.. Many other people and reviewers have complained about its battery life.

[@andyH_England]

Yes, AMD is the worst now. Apple is at the top, followed by Intel, Snapdragon (close), and then AMD. For ultrabooks like this, battery life is probably more relevant than a bit more performance from AMD.

[@burbanana]

this one has been out for a while now, don't buy it though, touchpad is HORRIBLE and has way too much power fed for no gain

[@jakejoyride]

OLED == no buy