The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x leverages what's best about the new Windows on Arm platform while offering a better value proposition and OLED display.
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x MSRP $1,313.00 Score Details “The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is a fantastic platform for Copilot + and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips.” Pros Cons I reviewed one of the first laptops in Microsoft’s new Copilot + and Windows on Arm initiative, the HP OmniBook X, which provided very good performance and better efficiency than previous Windows machines.
Design The Yoga Slim 7x is the second Copilot+ laptop I’ve reviewed, with the first being the HP OmniBook X. As I did with the HP, I’ll be skipping a discussion of Copilot+ AI functionality because there is unlikely to be much difference between the current crop of machines and the biggest feature, Copilot+, has been postponed. The features that made it into this release, though, include enhanced Studio Effects, Live Captions, and Cocreator.
Keyboard and touchpad The keyboard seems like a bit of a departure from other Lenovo designs. Its keycaps are less sculpted than I remember, and they’re smaller. That makes the spacing seem more generous. The switches are very good, with a snappiness, a comfortable bottoming action, and just enough pressure to create a precise feel. I like it a lot — not quite as much as the Magic Keyboard on recent MacBooks, but it’s very close.
The webcam is a 1080p version with an infrared camera for Windows 11 facial recognition. It’s contained in Lenovo’s reverse notch that also makes opening the lid a bit easier. As a Copilot+ machine, the Yoga Slim 7x supports the enhanced version of Microsoft’s Studio Effects software for better background blurring, face tracking, and other capabilities.
GPU performance The Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100’s Adreno GPU runs at 3.8 TFLOPS, while the faster chipsets run at 4.6 TFLOPS. And once again, we’re limited in how we can test Windows on Arm performance. AI performance The Snapdragon X Elite has a neural processing unit that’s rated at 40 tera operations per second . That’s faster than the NPU in Intel’s Meteor Lake chipset that’s 10 TOPS, and also faster than the Neural Engine in Apple’s M3 chipset that’s at 18 TOPS.
Battery life More than anything, the Snapdragon X Elite and Windows on Arm promise better efficiency as a selling point. They’re somewhat faster than Intel Meteor Lake and the MacBook Air M3, but not enough that you would choose them based on performance along. But better battery life would be significant.
Overall, I have to conclude that while the Windows on Arm laptops are more efficient than most current Windows laptops, they’re not as efficient as Apple Silicon laptops. And I’m not sure they’re worth buying based on battery life alone.
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