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Specs/Key Features- AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS 8-Core 4.75GHz Processor (7000 Series)
- 14.5" 2560x1600 IPS 90Hz 350-Nits Touchscreen Display w/ Built-In FHD IR Webcam w/ Quad Array Microphone
- 512GB Solid State Drive SSD
- 16GB LPDDR5 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB GDDR6 GPU (Dedicated)
- WiFi 6E WirelessAX
- 4-Cell Lithium Polymer Battery
- Windows 11 Home (OS)
- Inputs
- 2x USB 3.2 Type-C
- 1x USB 3.2 Type-A
- 1x HDMI
Warranty- Includes a 1-year standard manufacturer warranty w/ purchase
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If you don't need the 3050 gpu, I think the Yoga 7i 14" MIGHT better choice after comparing the two.
Yoga 7i 14" Pros:
Yoga 7i has the same brightness (when comparing side by side) despite Lenovo saying the Yoga is 300nits, its the same nits as indicated by my light meter (within 30~ nits).
Resolution is close between the two units, 1400p on the Yoga vs 1600p.... Hard to notice the difference.
Battery life was 10.5 hours running a Youtube 1080p loop in Chrome at 150nits, I got 7.5 hours on the Slim 7 Pro. (Both at 60hz).
Yoga has a miniSD card reader and Slim 7 Pro does not.
All other perks of the Slim 7 Pro are about equal against the Yoga.. The Yoga is a 2in1 if you're into that sort of thing and consider it a bonus.
Yoga is much thinner and a bit lighter as well. Slim 7 Pro is about the same weight as my Zephyrus G14..
Yoga has a much quieter fan overall... Slim 7 Pro gets noisy quickly.
$300 less over the Slim 7 Pro..
Pros of the Slim 7 Pro:
Has 16gb of ram (MIght be the biggest factor for people)
Nvidia 3050 GPU.. Great if you need the power for productivity and for gaming.
Good price to performance ratio for what you get compared to something like the Asus Zephyrus G14.
90hz display is excellent, bright, zero backlight bleed in my unit.
USB4 is included, matching the need for TB4.
Quad speaker system delivers a bit deeper, fuller sound overall compared to the Yoga but not overly drastic enough over the Yoga's 2 speaker system, both are decent.
Faster 8 core cpu vs the i5 on the on the Yoga.. although when both are on Quiet mode they are about the same performance in CB23.
Just some food for thought if you want to save some money, the Yoga 14 is a great choice in my opinion after playing around with the two.
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If you don't need the 3050 gpu, I think the Yoga 7i 14" MIGHT better choice after comparing the two.
Yoga 7i 14" Pros:
Yoga 7i has the same brightness (when comparing side by side) despite Lenovo saying the Yoga is 300nits, its the same nits as indicated by my light meter (within 30~ nits).
Resolution is close between the two units, 1400p on the Yoga vs 1600p.... Hard to notice the difference.
Battery life was 10.5 hours running a Youtube 1080p loop in Chrome at 150nits, I got 7.5 hours on the Slim 7 Pro. (Both at 60hz).
Yoga has a miniSD card reader and Slim 7 Pro does not.
All other perks of the Slim 7 Pro are about equal against the Yoga.. The Yoga is a 2in1 if you're into that sort of thing and consider it a bonus.
Yoga is much thinner and a bit lighter as well. Slim 7 Pro is about the same weight as my Zephyrus G14..
Yoga has a much quieter fan overall... Slim 7 Pro gets noisy quickly.
$300 less over the Slim 7 Pro..
Pros of the Slim 7 Pro:
Has 16gb of ram (MIght be the biggest factor for people)
Nvidia 3050 GPU.. Great if you need the power for productivity and for gaming.
Good price to performance ratio for what you get compared to something like the Asus Zephyrus G14.
90hz display is excellent, bright, zero backlight bleed in my unit.
USB4 is included, matching the need for TB4.
Quad speaker system delivers a bit deeper, fuller sound overall compared to the Yoga but not overly drastic enough over the Yoga's 2 speaker system, both are decent.
Faster 8 core cpu vs the i5 on the on the Yoga.. although when both are on Quiet mode they are about the same performance in CB23.
Just some food for thought if you want to save some money, the Yoga 14 is a great choice in my opinion after playing around with the two.
(Lenovo - Yoga 7i 14" 2.2K Touch 2-in-1 Laptop - Intel Evo Platform - Core i5-1235U - 8GB Memory - 512GB SSD - Storm Grey -$699.99)
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/leno...Id=65022
(Lenovo - Yoga 7i 14" 2.2K Touch 2-in-1 Laptop - Intel Evo Platform - Core i5-1235U - 8GB Memory - 512GB SSD - Storm Grey -$699.99)
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Overall the system feels fast. In terms of the physical design, my only gripe is the power button placement on the side — I always hit it when trying to move the machine around. I've mapped the power button to do nothing.
Lenovo sorta changed the power modes from what their manual says. So it uses standard Windows performance plans no matter what, but Lenovo Vantage adds 3 fan modes on top of it, one that tries to keep the fans off, one that is auto and default, and one that runs the fans more aggressively. The latter seems to slightly improve gaming performance but not enough to matter. Overall the fan noise seems reasonable, it's on the high pitched side when spinning up but sounds a lot quieter than my Steam Deck. On desktop work in the Balanced setting, I didn't have to change the fans from Auto to have it be mostly silent.
Overall the screen is bright enough but for me, basically only the highest 2 or 3 notches are useful. The rest are way too dim.
Audio quality is acceptable — my other laptops are Apple M1/M1 Pro models and honestly they all have better sound, but these speakers are still good enough for casual use.
Gaming wise it fits my bill, every title I've run is 60+fps at Medium ish 1080p settings. I'm sure I could push it a little more. It definitely runs every game I've tried better than the Steam Deck, which is my main goal here — I was tired of lugging around a Dell XPS with iGPU plus a Steam Deck so I can have decent battery life plus some gaming on the go.
WiFi and BT is MediaTek and works okay, though I've found the Intel AX211 is faster.
Overall it's a good machine. There's definitely more powerful choices for 14" gaming laptops with the usual trade offs (giant power brick, even louder cooling, no touchscreen and crappy keyboard/trackpad, crappy battery life doing light tasks), and better choices for pure productivity as others have mentioned. But this really hits the sweet spot if you want a balance of both, and there's not a ton of options that give you both worlds.
Overall the system feels fast. In terms of the physical design, my only gripe is the power button placement on the side — I always hit it when trying to move the machine around. I've mapped the power button to do nothing.
Lenovo sorta changed the power modes from what their manual says. So it uses standard Windows performance plans no matter what, but Lenovo Vantage adds 3 fan modes on top of it, one that tries to keep the fans off, one that is auto and default, and one that runs the fans more aggressively. The latter seems to slightly improve gaming performance but not enough to matter. Overall the fan noise seems reasonable, it's on the high pitched side when spinning up but sounds a lot quieter than my Steam Deck. On desktop work in the Balanced setting, I didn't have to change the fans from Auto to have it be mostly silent.
Overall the screen is bright enough but for me, basically only the highest 2 or 3 notches are useful. The rest are way too dim.
Audio quality is acceptable — my other laptops are Apple M1/M1 Pro models and honestly they all have better sound, but these speakers are still good enough for casual use.
Gaming wise it fits my bill, every title I've run is 60+fps at Medium ish 1080p settings. I'm sure I could push it a little more. It definitely runs every game I've tried better than the Steam Deck, which is my main goal here — I was tired of lugging around a Dell XPS with iGPU plus a Steam Deck so I can have decent battery life plus some gaming on the go.
WiFi and BT is MediaTek and works okay, though I've found the Intel AX211 is faster.
Overall it's a good machine. There's definitely more powerful choices for 14" gaming laptops with the usual trade offs (giant power brick, even louder cooling, no touchscreen and crappy keyboard/trackpad, crappy battery life doing light tasks), and better choices for pure productivity as others have mentioned. But this really hits the sweet spot if you want a balance of both, and there's not a ton of options that give you both worlds.
Also you can completely disable the 3050 in the bios btw.. I'm running a battery test in iGPU mode now to see if it helps at all. I'm expecting not enough to make a difference though.
Overall, it's a super nice machine especially at the $899 price point... There just isn't anything that compares at this price at the moment (that i can think of?)
Also you can completely disable the 3050 in the bios btw.. I'm running a battery test in iGPU mode now to see if it helps at all. I'm expecting not enough to make a difference though.
Overall, it's a super nice machine especially at the $899 price point... There just isn't anything that compares at this price at the moment (that i can think of?)
Speaking of that, none of the modes available guarantee the NVIDIA GPU is off. When the dGPU is enabled, you lose a good 2+ hours of battery even when it's doing nothing. I've seen very innocuous things like starting a WSL Ubuntu or just opening Handbrake in the background flick on the GPU simply because they call NVIDIA APIs.
Like with a lot of MUX laptops, short of the BIOS option, you can also force the dGPU off simply by disabling it in Device Manager. It's just annoying that most other gaming laptops map this onto their eco/silent mode and you have a hot key to do this.
Not the biggest deal for power users. I've never had a gaming laptop that does all of this stuff correctly by itself, it's just a learning curve to figure out what the actual knobs are for this thing!
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I've had a MacBook Pro with discrete graphics before and the heat caused it to fail prematurely so I'm a little cautious about buying another ultra book with a discrete card..how are the thermals on these over the long term?
What do you guys think, return it and roll the dice on Best Buy open box AMD for the same price, pay $112 difference for new, or keep the i5 with Iris XE?
From my limited time using it,
pros of the i5:
Higher resolution screen (2.8k v 2.6k)
Brighter screen (400 nits vs 350 nits)
Physical camera shutter (vs electronic shutter on the AMD)
Larger hard drive (1TB vs 512gb)
120 hertz screen vs 90 h
The processor seems like a tossup from what I've seen so far
Pros of the AMD:
6400 MHz ram instead of 5800 MHz?
Discrete graphics card vs Iris Xe (this seems like the biggest reason to change)
Is the discrete card worth losing the other stuff listed above? I haven't purchased a new computer in 10+ except until last week so I'm a little out of the loop.
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