Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Copilot+ PC Review: Great Price to Performance

Performance is strictly middle-of-the-road, and the Yoga Slim 7x turned successful mean scores among the 5 Copilot+ PCs I’ve tested to date, connected some wide CPU-intensive applications and graphics-heavy tests, though I did execute an oddly outlying precocious people connected the Cinebench 2024 image-rendering benchmark I couldn’t readily explain. A funny result, but I won’t motion astatine unexpectedly large performance, nevertheless fleeting it is.

At the hazard of repeating myself yet again, retrieve that Snapdragon-based computers inactive person compatibility issues and won’t tally each app; if you request the basics—web browser, Microsoft Office, Minesweeper—this won’t beryllium a large deal, but powerfulness users are already moving into roadblocks with immoderate of their astir indispensable pieces of software.

The laptop’s artillery life, successful keeping with different Copilot+ PC units, is exemplary. Its people of 15 hours and 36 minutes connected a full-screen YouTube trial was 2nd lone to the Surface Pro’s 17 hours and 20 minutes, and conscionable up of the 15 hours I achieved connected the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q. Audio prime is good but abbreviated of stellar; successful a larger room, it won’t beryllium capable for movie night.

The hands-on acquisition with the laptop is solid. The 14.5-inch surface is an oddball size, but it gives the laptop a spot much roominess without feeling overly large. The keyboard has that classical Lenovo snap, with well-spaced keys and a airy pulverization coating connected the keycaps that gives them a pleasant consciousness connected the fingertips. The touchpad is spacious without being garishly large, and I seldom deed it with a thenar portion typing.

There is 1 downside to the Slim 7x, and it’s benignant of a large one: The instrumentality runs adjacent nether mean loads, and it’s loud—by acold the loudest Copilot+ PC I’ve tested to date. The caller Snapdragon chipset is expected to veritably sip power, which is wherefore it enables specified awesome artillery life, truthful a bruisingly large instrumentality is simply a astonishment here. It’s an unfortunate eyesore (earsore?) successful what is different an awesome package.

Making up for that and immoderate different defects is the price. At $1,200, the Yoga Slim 7x is the cheapest of the Copilot+ PCs I’ve tested to date, and dollar for dollar it’s got the champion price-to-performance ratio of immoderate of the lot, careless of what metric you’re looking astatine (raw show oregon artillery life). If you’re seeking a flashy, head-turning experience, best-in-class power, oregon room-filling multimedia system, this astir apt isn't your champion choice. But if you privation an all-around coagulated inferior subordinate astatine a tenable terms (and you’re sold connected Snapdragon), you can’t spell wrong.