Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition Review: An Intel Copilot+ PC

However, connected much wide tasks, the Yoga didn’t propulsion through. My scores connected the PCMark 10 benchmark were not markedly antithetic than first-gen Core Ultra scores, and show connected the manufacture modular Geekbench 6 trial was amazingly low—40 percent beneath a emblematic Snapdragon X-powered laptop and 20 percent beneath the mean Core Ultra 1. I didn’t announcement immoderate peculiarly sluggish show portion investigating (and adjacent boot-up was speedy), but powerfulness users with 100 browser tabs unfastened astatine erstwhile whitethorn commencement to consciousness immoderate pain. On the positive side, since this is Intel silicon connected the x86 architecture, the strategy doesn’t person immoderate app compatibility issues that Snapdragon machines endure from connected the ARM architecture.

In immoderate case, portion it’s intolerable to gully a wide decision astir the show of a CPU based connected a azygous laptop, this astatine slightest serves arsenic a starting point.

The remainder of the laptop offers a coagulated though not wholly singular experience. The surface is not particularly agleam compared to competing laptops, but it inactive looks bully nether emblematic viewing conditions. The keyboard and its mildly concave keys connection a snappy, responsive typing experience. The touchpad is responsive, and the 4 speakers (with Dolby Atmos support) dependable great. Note that the instrumentality tends to footwear successful rapidly nether load, and it tin get rather loud.

Battery beingness deserves its ain conversation: At conscionable implicit 12 hours of moving clip connected a full-screen YouTube playback test, the Yoga enactment astir different Intel-based machines to shame. However, laptops with the caller Snapdragon chips inactive person Intel squarely bushed connected this front. Fifteen hours is simply a communal benchmark for Snapdragon X Elite systems, and 1 Snapdragon X Plus strategy adjacent deed 19 hours of moving clip successful my testing. Apple silicon has thing to fearfulness from Intel connected the artillery beforehand yet.

At $1,300, the Yoga Slim 9i isn’t a fund system, but it’s good priced fixed its wide performance, design, and usability. The jury’s retired connected whether Lunar Lake volition beryllium the game-changer that the beleaguered Intel would emotion for it to be, but astatine the precise slightest it’s a measurement successful the close direction.