Best Buy has
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Copilot+ Laptop (Open Box / Various Conditions, Cosmic Blue, 83ED0001US) on sale
from $585.99 below. Select free store pickup where available, otherwise
shipping is free for select locations.
Thanks to Community Member
lotrbfme for sharing this deal.
- Note: Pricing and availability for purchase and pickup will vary by location.
Available Conditions (will vary by location):
- Fair $585.99
- Good $613.99
- Excellent $635.99
Specs:
- 14.5" 3K (2944x1840), 90Hz, 1000-nits OLED Touchscreen Display
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 Processor
- 16GB Soldered LPDDR5x-8448 Memory
- 512GB PCIe 4.0x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
- Qualcomm Adreno Integrated Graphics
- Windows 11 Home
- Wi-Fi 7, 802.11be 2x2 + BT5.4
- FHD 1080p (2.0MP) + IR with E-shutter
- 4 stereo speakers, 2W x2 (woofers), 2W x2 (tweeters), optimized with Dolby Atmos, Smart Amplifier (AMP)
- Backlit, English (US) Keyboard
- Buttonless glass surface multi-touch touchpad, supports Precision TouchPad (PTP), 80 x 135 mm (3.15 x 5.31 inches)
- Ports:
- 3x USB-C (USB4 40Gbps), with USB PD 3.1 and DisplayPort 1.4
- 70Whr Battery
- 1.28-kg (2.82-lbs.)
Top Comments
I have yet to find something that I need and that it can't do and I do actually code for living (at least in part).
If on a fence get it, try it for a month if you are unhappy give it back and no harm done, you got to play with some exciting new tech. I would say chances are 90% you will be happy with it unless you do something quite specialized (and then you should already know not to touch this).
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I'm picking up a second one at this price!
My experience is that the M4 Macbook Pro lasts longer than 7 to 8 hours. FWIW, I also asked ChatGPT:
Battery life of the MacBook Pro M4 based on 10 independent reviews:
Review Source: Battery Life (Hours)
The Verge: 17
TechRadar: 18
CNET: 16
Macworld: 15
Laptop Mag: 16
AnandTech: 18
Tom's Hardware: 17
Digital Trends: 16
The Wirecutter: 17
9to5Mac: 16
Average: 17 hours
Back on topic. I've a newish Lenovo (14.5" Slim 7 ProX, AMD Ryzen, RTX 3050) that uses the same chassis as this deal. It's a beautiful and light machine, just a little thermally-limited on an x86 architecture. I'm closely watching the Microsoft/ARM development. I think this is only the beginning. The battery life is there.
run all kind of work-related software and never had any issue with ARM.
Apple appears to be doing just fine by accurately pricing it's products.
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If you can wait, there will be deals with intel/amd during BF. By then, laptops with the newer chips will have come out and they need to sell last year's model.
it's not only Qualcomm that has to put work into it. Major Linux distros need to create and verify that their sw suite works with the mechanisms implemented within the kernel, as it varies between vendors.
There is also another attempt [postmarketos.org] using PostmarketOS (reddit thread [reddit.com]) - haven't tried it yet.
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but they'll get twice the battery of an a similar laptop with an Intel chip. but there are definitely a lot of games that won't run or run well and there are some software that won't run or run well.
you should look into it.
If you mostly do writing and research and web browsing you're probably fine. which is probably why he's calling it a Chromebook. but Chromebooks don't let you use the desktop version of Firefox for instance or brave.
so this has way more utility than a Chromebook in my opinion.
and the power of the chip is much stronger than what you would find in 99.9% of Chromebooks.
these Snapdragon chips perform quite well in synthetic benchmarks.
but definitely some headaches trying to use windows on arm instead of traditional x86.