@@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.
Good evening Andrew! I'm glad you reviewed the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7. I'm sort of a Lenovo fanboy because they make great products. Yoga laptops would have been my favourite, but they are not because most don't offer many upgradeability options to spec it even higher, like a Thinkpad and not as versatile in terms of port selection. I like the smiley-shaped keys, which makes the keyboard comfortable and they are portable. Two big pluses. They thin and light devices, which is sort of what I want, but if a powerful processor was put in one of these laptops, it would be warm after some use, if you're doing video editing or game on it, even if the cooling solution helps keep the processor cool. With the screens, it's a hit or miss because most of them come with an OLED and if you're in luck, you'll get the IPS option as well. The Qualcomm processors deliver long battery life and excellent performance and have beaten Apple in benchmarks, but this isn't always true. You see, Qualcomm still needs to work on native app support and through the PRISM emulation layer, the performance is reduced for launching the application (because it has to translate from one instruction set to the other) and you'll likely encounter an error if it fails to launch due to a missing instruction set or for some other reason. I prefer a Thinkpad over a Yoga laptop because they offer more ports (despite them being bulkier, which I'm fine) and more upgradeability options and more stuff to configure. IPS would be my best bet for everyday use because they still deliver great colour contrast and 100%sRGB colour gamut is good enough and great for day-to-day productivity. One made-up example: If I were to work in a business and needed to connect my laptop to the monitor through the HDMI cable, use my USB-A ports and the mic head combo jack to connect my devices and my Ethernet cable, I need my ports. Don't take this example too literally, but I prefer for a laptop to include as many ports as possible over its form factor! So, in terms of the Yoga Slim 7, would I want this device? Nope. I'll give you my opinion why (with what I like, but not use): 1. Display - prone to screen burn-in (if you leave the screen on for hours and you'll see visible marks) and NOT suitable for productivity tasks, but GREAT for those doing content creative work and watching movies with dynamic video footage delivering crazy high colour contrast of 10000:1 (true blacks). High Dynamic Range (HDR) makes the pictures and videos look clearer on an OLED to achieve extra clarity. Screen brightness goes over 500 nits and peak is 1000 nits, which is insane. The screen is overkill for me. IPS with 400-500 nit screen is just enough for day-to-day use. But I do like 2. Ports - 3 USB-C ports, camera kill switch and power button (the last two are not exactly considered ports). It's quite thin (0.55 inches thick, so a huge sacrifice in port selection), which makes it portable, but during use, it warms up, with a couple hotspots. So, if you prioritise versatility (a broader port selection, go with a Thinkpad or other brand that offers lots of ports, BUT I just love Thinkpads because of that and they are great for day-to-day use). 3. Battery life - while the Qualcomm processor delivers impressive battery life over 4K video playback (at 15 hours and 53 minutes), it could've been better, if you tune down the resolution and the refresh rate and other tweaks to save as much battery as you can. 4K video playback is overkill because I don't know how many people are doing that. 720p/1080p is much better because I'm conserving resources. 4. Limited upgradeability options - the fast LPDDR5X at 8448 MT is darn fast and the storage still uses the 2242 form factor, which Lenovo should also 2280 form factor as another option. You can spec these up to 32GB of memory and 1TB of storage respectively (should be enough). But Lenovo can't make the specs go any higher. So, if I hunted down for a new laptop, I'd get a Thinkpad (they offer the ports I need) with an AMD processor as they have reduced the power consumption for a small performance drop and manage heat better, if equipped with an adequate cooling solution and results in longer battery life. In terms of upgrades, I'd have a low-power 400 nit 100%sRGB screen, with 64GB of memory and 2TB of storage for a more intensive workload and store more stuff. MIght do video editing (not 4K, but 1080, yes) or content creation with this much RAM and storage, and also use it for experimenting with virtual machines and run more of them more easily. Overall, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 is a gorgeous product, but for anyone wanting an OLED screen, a thin and light laptop without thinking too much about ports and go with the route of purchasing dongles and accept it as it is and only stick with the apps that are natively supported on these Qualcomm ARM CPUs, this is for you. To end here, I appreciate the videos you're making Marc and I'm glad you're one of these reviewers that opens the back of all laptops you review. I'm also glad you included your testing methodology (in terms of screen brightness, power management settings, etc.). For some of your previous videos, you didn't include any of that and I might assume that you've left them as they were. For example: I watched your review about the Yoga Pro 9i with the Mini-LED display from 2023, I think. I might be mistaken, but I watched the videos by jumping to the battery life. You might have thrown in the brightness you tested the laptop at. Again, keep up with the great work Marc and continue to review laptops with AMD and Intel CPUs, as well as Qualcomm (they're competitive, but they still need work, which I'm sure that it will include new improvements for their newest chips and also offer support for Adobe Creative applications and games (if it's going to happen) and broaden the application compability as much as possible)!
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.
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.
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!! 👍😁
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!
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 RUclips yet -- especially an audio comparison against a MacBook.
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!
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.
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 💯
@@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.
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 ...
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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...
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?
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 ...
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 ..
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.
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)?
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.
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?
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
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...
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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?
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)?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
**DEAL ALERT** $200 off at Best Buy: howl.me/cmSMWOv251n
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
Nice!
How are the speakers on this laptop?
@navyasrip they're really good.when watching any content they good
@@navyasrip quiet, tinny and no bass
@@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.
Great laptop. Got mine with upgraded ram & storage. Screen is amazing. Super fast.
Best laptop reviewer I found on the tube. Thanks!
Good evening Andrew! I'm glad you reviewed the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7. I'm sort of a Lenovo fanboy because they make great products. Yoga laptops would have been my favourite, but they are not because most don't offer many upgradeability options to spec it even higher, like a Thinkpad and not as versatile in terms of port selection. I like the smiley-shaped keys, which makes the keyboard comfortable and they are portable. Two big pluses. They thin and light devices, which is sort of what I want, but if a powerful processor was put in one of these laptops, it would be warm after some use, if you're doing video editing or game on it, even if the cooling solution helps keep the processor cool. With the screens, it's a hit or miss because most of them come with an OLED and if you're in luck, you'll get the IPS option as well.
The Qualcomm processors deliver long battery life and excellent performance and have beaten Apple in benchmarks, but this isn't always true. You see, Qualcomm still needs to work on native app support and through the PRISM emulation layer, the performance is reduced for launching the application (because it has to translate from one instruction set to the other) and you'll likely encounter an error if it fails to launch due to a missing instruction set or for some other reason.
I prefer a Thinkpad over a Yoga laptop because they offer more ports (despite them being bulkier, which I'm fine) and more upgradeability options and more stuff to configure. IPS would be my best bet for everyday use because they still deliver great colour contrast and 100%sRGB colour gamut is good enough and great for day-to-day productivity. One made-up example: If I were to work in a business and needed to connect my laptop to the monitor through the HDMI cable, use my USB-A ports and the mic head combo jack to connect my devices and my Ethernet cable, I need my ports. Don't take this example too literally, but I prefer for a laptop to include as many ports as possible over its form factor!
So, in terms of the Yoga Slim 7, would I want this device? Nope.
I'll give you my opinion why (with what I like, but not use):
1. Display - prone to screen burn-in (if you leave the screen on for hours and you'll see visible marks) and NOT suitable for productivity tasks, but GREAT for those doing content creative work and watching movies with dynamic video footage delivering crazy high colour contrast of 10000:1 (true blacks). High Dynamic Range (HDR) makes the pictures and videos look clearer on an OLED to achieve extra clarity. Screen brightness goes over 500 nits and peak is 1000 nits, which is insane. The screen is overkill for me. IPS with 400-500 nit screen is just enough for day-to-day use. But I do like
2. Ports - 3 USB-C ports, camera kill switch and power button (the last two are not exactly considered ports). It's quite thin (0.55 inches thick, so a huge sacrifice in port selection), which makes it portable, but during use, it warms up, with a couple hotspots. So, if you prioritise versatility (a broader port selection, go with a Thinkpad or other brand that offers lots of ports, BUT I just love Thinkpads because of that and they are great for day-to-day use).
3. Battery life - while the Qualcomm processor delivers impressive battery life over 4K video playback (at 15 hours and 53 minutes), it could've been better, if you tune down the resolution and the refresh rate and other tweaks to save as much battery as you can. 4K video playback is overkill because I don't know how many people are doing that. 720p/1080p is much better because I'm conserving resources.
4. Limited upgradeability options - the fast LPDDR5X at 8448 MT is darn fast and the storage still uses the 2242 form factor, which Lenovo should also 2280 form factor as another option. You can spec these up to 32GB of memory and 1TB of storage respectively (should be enough). But Lenovo can't make the specs go any higher.
So, if I hunted down for a new laptop, I'd get a Thinkpad (they offer the ports I need) with an AMD processor as they have reduced the power consumption for a small performance drop and manage heat better, if equipped with an adequate cooling solution and results in longer battery life. In terms of upgrades, I'd have a low-power 400 nit 100%sRGB screen, with 64GB of memory and 2TB of storage for a more intensive workload and store more stuff. MIght do video editing (not 4K, but 1080, yes) or content creation with this much RAM and storage, and also use it for experimenting with virtual machines and run more of them more easily.
Overall, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 is a gorgeous product, but for anyone wanting an OLED screen, a thin and light laptop without thinking too much about ports and go with the route of purchasing dongles and accept it as it is and only stick with the apps that are natively supported on these Qualcomm ARM CPUs, this is for you.
To end here, I appreciate the videos you're making Marc and I'm glad you're one of these reviewers that opens the back of all laptops you review. I'm also glad you included your testing methodology (in terms of screen brightness, power management settings, etc.). For some of your previous videos, you didn't include any of that and I might assume that you've left them as they were. For example: I watched your review about the Yoga Pro 9i with the Mini-LED display from 2023, I think. I might be mistaken, but I watched the videos by jumping to the battery life. You might have thrown in the brightness you tested the laptop at. Again, keep up with the great work Marc and continue to review laptops with AMD and Intel CPUs, as well as Qualcomm (they're competitive, but they still need work, which I'm sure that it will include new improvements for their newest chips and also offer support for Adobe Creative applications and games (if it's going to happen) and broaden the application compability as much as possible)!
Great timing. Mine is in the mail on its way to me right now. Great review!
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.
Yes, it's a fantastic option and great value. Here is the link: howl.me/cmDn4NPBeot
Andrew Marc David has become the Legendary Super Saiyan of Lore.
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.
and now?
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 $1199.99 which will not break the bank. The fact that there are no USB A ports, no SD Card reader, No HDMI and no headphone jack doesn't really surprise me as many manufacturers are trying to get away from it but it may bother some potential buyers. Soldered RAM might be another negative for people, however, it is running the faster RAM which is always a good thing. Gorgeous 1080p webcam, clear internal mics and great quad speaker sound quality makes this a pretty good laptop in 2024. Overall, it is a stunning product from Lenovo that shouldn't be overlooked! Excellent very thorough review once again Andrew!! 👍😁
its 69$ for 32gb upgrade, no brainer to get upgrade. Apple charge 400$ extra for that
In Europe it ships with a 4 in 1 dongle, for HDMI, USB-A headphone jack...
I hope Qualcomm improves the iGPU considerably in the next iteration. Hopefully, by then, there are more ARM compatible games.
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!
Most interesting 😢tech channel on RUclips I am blessed
Great review and great video as always , thanks a lot for the effort ❤️
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 RUclips yet -- especially an audio comparison against a MacBook.
Looking into it
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.
Loved the "Adreno Graphicshit" reference. 😁👍
Nice!!! I'm still deciding on a new Windows laptop. This may be it
To me it's a good choice for a general purpose use laptop
@@andrewmarcdavid I'm so torn between this and surface 7 ... as my general purpose laptop...help
Been waiting for this
Ports is a 5 at best.
I will say this, they are all USB 4 but would like to see more ports for sure.
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!
@@dgillies5420 Bad logic. Most people hate dongles and docks.
Even Macbook Pros went back to having important ports for a reason.
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.
Is there less screen door / grainy pixels than surface pro?
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 💯
It’s ridiculous that blue is the only possible color option, such a fingerprint magnet!!!
The best color is all anyone needs! How often do you look at the top anyways? Who cares about fingerprints
@@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.
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…..😂
Is the integrated Adreno GPU performing poorly because of compatibility and optimization issues or because it s just a subpar GPU?
It may be combo of both.
lul
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
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 ...
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?
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.
I think the only one that can run Linux will be the Asus, but other should be coming soon.
@@andrewmarcdavid WSL is running perfectly on this computer. I run Ubuntu 24.04 in WSl.
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.
@@davidneale530@davidneale530 Yes, i use ARM64 based Ubuntu. 'WSL.EXE --install ubuntu' in powershell.
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
Dell just sent to Dell XPS 9345. I think it is the FHD+ version so not the OLED. I will unbox is tomorrow
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
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...
Thanks for letting me know
When will the Thinkpad t14s gen 6 come out? I would love a review on that
Waiting on Lenovo. Stay tuned.
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?
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 ...
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 ..
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.
It will be perfect if it has haptic trackpad
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)?
Thanks. I am working to get one so stay tuned.
The battery life is good but I'm wondering if AMD's upcoming mobile chips will be on par.
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.
I have the 15" Laptop 7 coming in today for review.
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?
It is extremely hot in las vegas!
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
Hopefully, I am waiting on Acer. Stay tuned.
@@andrewmarcdavid looking forward to it!
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...
My review of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 16" is coming tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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
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
If only it had a haptic track pad 😥
That is my only concern and another one is the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio of Surface devices are perfect :)
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
Simple: IPS vs. OLED, smaller screen
@@maurizio835 wrong, its power management by microsoft, lenovo is know for horrible power management in their devices
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.
Great review! (again 🙂)
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
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?
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.
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)?
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.
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.
Hey, have you try running the test using the same resolution? Yoga is running at highest resolution.
Couldn't expect less from a company that made IBM sell their PC business.
I love the color and that is all metal but unfortunately the force selection is too scarce
No HDMI? No USB A? No Headphone Jack? No!
In Europe it ships with a USB-C dongle for HDMI, USB-A and headphone jack.
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!
Just to save you looking it up US $1199.99 is £939.03 UK Sterlin.
FYI @13:47 --> You added the Radeon 780M in the list of Cons
@@Antonis24 typo
How much did they pay?) At the same time everyone is praising lenovo
Who is they?
@@andrewmarcdavid l e n o v o
@@meccu19 news to me. Let me know where this payment is. Thanks in advance
@@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
Hello all this snapdragon seems nice. I have some x86 software. Am i sure that they ll work ? No gaming
How does this hold up for programs like fl studio ?
no headphone jack!!?!?! wtf
Can I put Linux on it particularly Fedora?
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.
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.
You've never seen an OLED display??
What phone are you even using???
No USB-A or HDMI sucks, but ig dongles
It's an all metal build? I thought it was plastic made to look like metal.
It’s metal
Try the new huwaei laptops
Nice ❤
for me asus viva book s14 oled is better
What is Adreno Graphic shit? 14:32
It's when the the Laptop has to go to the bathroom and that is what comes out.
Waiting for a 16 inch 16:10 ratio OLED laptop with good keyboard like this and 99Wh battery with a Snapdragon upper tier CPU.
Great Laptop better Spyware!
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.
no oled = no buy
at 32 GB of RAM price difference is around 1000 USD.