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The keyboard’s layout is standard for this sort of portable Lenovo laptop, with full-sized and spaced keycaps. The half-sized Up and Down keys need some time to get used to, but everything else is where it should be. There’s no extra column of function keys on the right side, as on other 14-inch designs, and that’s why Home/End/PgUp/PgDn are only available as secondaries bound to the arrows keys. Furthermore, I can’t find any of these AMD Slim 7 Pro models in the UK or North America at the time of this article, but the Intel-based Yoga Slim 7i Pro models are somewhat available over there. Hopefully, the availability will change in the near future, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Lenovo decides to segment these configurations between markets. Actual battery life may vary depending on application usage, settings, features or tasks selected, network configuration, operating temperature and many other factors. The main benchmark of UL's PCMark 10 simulates a variety of real-world productivity and content-creation workflows to measure overall performance for office-centric tasks such as word processing, spreadsheet work, web browsing, and videoconferencing. We also run PCMark 10's Full System Drive test to assess the load time and throughput of a laptop's boot drive. The hot air is pushed into the screen with this design, but even in FarCry 5 that pushes the system to 45W sustained, the panel never goes above mid to high 30s, as the plastic bezel soaks up most of the heat. In fact, the entire chassis rests cooler than on other portable designs with even less powerful specs.
W (6+ h of use) – Netflix fullscreen in Edge, Intelligent + Better Battery Mode, screen at 60%, Wi-Fi ON; Alongside, this Yoga Slim 7 Pro 14-inch series is also built very well, with a sturdy chassis and materials designed to last the daily hassle and age well; it also offers a big battery and several good 16:10 screen options. As far as the software goes, everything can be controlled through the Lenovo Vantage app, which offers access to the power profiles, keyboard customization options, system updates, battery settings, etc. I find this unified implementation one of the better system control apps in this segment.Lenovo also offers a 2.2K 2400 x 1200 px IPS panel for this series, with only 300-nits of brightness, 60 Hz refresh, and still 100% sRGB color. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro is available in stores at the time of this post, but the availability and configurations vary greatly between the different regions.
There’s also a specific variant of this laptop built on Ryzen HS hardware with LPPDR4x memory and Nvidia MX450 graphics. Our ThinkPadlaptops set the standard for business computing. Tough as nails and reliable, these laptops and 2-in-1s keep you productive in any environment. And it gives you the tools you need – from high-end processing and graphics to cutting-edge touchscreen technology, from pen support to epic battery life, ThinkPad keeps you productive and engaged wherever you are. In PC Mark 10’s Modern Office benchmark, which simulates everyday work jobs, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro battery lasts nine hours three minutes at 150-nit brightness. It can get you through a full day of light work, but without masses of juice to spare.Finally, Lenovo also offers a non-glare variant of the 2.8K IPS panel in the select configurations of this Slim 7 Pro built on the Ryzen HS hardware platform. Those are not available everywhere. Hardware and performance W (~5+ h of use) – text editing in Google Drive, Intelligent + Better Battery Mode, screen at 60%, Wi-Fi ON; We start by testing the CPU’s sustained performance by running the Cinebench R15 benchmark for 15+ times in a loop, with 2-3 seconds delay between each run, on the Performance mode. Despite being thin and light, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro can handle pro-grade apps like Photoshop just fine. The Intel Xe graphics let you play a wide range of games including The Witcher 3 and Control, if you spend a little time to juggle resolution and graphics settings. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro uses exactly the same specs as countless other slim and light laptops. My one has an 11th generation Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor, 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. The lower-end version has a Core i5 CPU and a 256GB SSD.
All battery life claims are approximate and based on results using the MobileMark 2018 battery life benchmark test. Actual battery life will vary and depends on many factors such as product configuration and usage, software use, wireless functionality, power management settings, and screen brightness. The maximum capacity of the battery will decrease with time and use All in all, I still expect the Yoga Slim 7 Pro to be a solid buy in its class for those of your looking for a competent daily driver with the ability to occasionally run demanding loads. Don’t get this for gaming or any GPU loads, though, the Vega graphics isn’t much by today’s standards. You could perhaps consider the Intel variants for that, but you’re sacrificing on multi-core CPU performance there, and if you’re looking to edit photos or videos on your laptop, you should also consider the OLED variant with the wide-gamut panel over the IPS tested here. Our test model is a mid-specced configuration of the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Pro 14ACH5, with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor, 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, 1 TB of fast SSD storage, and Radeon Vega 8 graphics embedded into the AMD APU. Lenovo doesn’t seem to have changed its keyboard style much for this latest 2022 generation of series 7 laptops. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro has what I consider to be standard-grade key travel for a portable style-led computer. The panel came well calibrated out of the box and proved uniform once further calibrated. We also noticed very little light bleeding around the edges.
As far as the noise goes, the fans spin at 40-41 dB at head-level on the Extreme Performance and somewhere between 37-41 dB on Intelligent Cooling, based on load.
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