popularDr.W posted Jun 11, 2026 02:57 PM
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popularDr.W posted Jun 11, 2026 02:57 PM
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x (2026): 14" FHD+ OLED Touch, Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-80-100, 32GB LPDDR5X-9523, 1TB SSD $1268.99
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It does like this (or spark laptops) is not your cup of tea, and likely for many others. But I can think of many (including myself) using this or spark. I am not going to buy a $3K spark laptop, because that wont be a value for money for me personally, but if it comes out at $2k with 64GB RAM, I would absolutely consider it a steal - for me.
I do SW development and I have Gemini AI Pro subscription. I use Gemini AND local models for coding. There are many other scenarios too. You may not see a need, but there are lots of people doing this.
Have you used an Windows on ARM recently? You don't need to be a noob on x86 to use it. While it has its weaknesses, it also has many strengths. Its weaknesses get a lot of press from some people because one of their legacy app cant run on it, or because they cant run their favorite game at 8k and gazillion hertz. I agree its not a good choice for those, but for a lot of others who keep an open mind - it is absolutely a great choice.
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I don't know about that specific Yoga laptop, and you didnt mention the whole configuration but based on what you did mention, it wont have anywhere as much run time on battery as this one. If you are into local LLM, it depends on the models you want to run. This can run far larger/smarter models (say 30B-ish parameter models with quantization) compared to Yoga 9i . But if you are using a smaller model (<8B with quantization), Yoga will smoke this laptop. If you are into gaming, Yoga is almost certainly far better. I think Yoga models come with stylus, if you are into that.
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