Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition review: Everyone stay away, because Lunar Lake is coming!
Design: Beauty comes from simplicity and meticulous finishing
Holding the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition in your hand, the first feeling you feel is premium and solid. The device possesses a unibody design with a frame made from monolithic aluminum alloy, providing impressive durability. The smooth, matte finish not only effectively prevents fingerprints but also creates a smooth, pleasant feeling when touched.
Lenovo has cleverly rounded the edges of the device, completely eliminating the feeling of strain when holding it, a small detail but showing sophistication and care in the design. Silver gray (Storm Gray) further enhances the luxurious and elegant look, suitable for many users, from businessmen, office workers to students.
The highlight of the design of the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is minimalism. The A side of the device has only the Lenovo logo placed on the right edge, creating a harmonious and sophisticated whole. When you open the device, you will see the Yoga logo moved to the left edge of the palm rest, making room for an impressive edge-to-edge screen.
However, this design also has a few small minus points. First, the hinge is quite stiff. Although it feels sturdy and durable, it makes opening the device with one hand difficult. The second is the protrusion at the top edge of the screen to accommodate the webcam and sensors. Although designed quite neatly, it still creates a highlight that is not really seamless in the overall design.
The arrangement of 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports on both sides is a plus point, giving users more flexibility in connecting to peripheral devices and charging the battery. However, having only 1 USB-A port and lacking an SD card reader slot can be inconvenient for users who need to connect to many old peripherals or frequently work with memory cards.
Screen: sharp and brilliant
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is equipped with a 15.3-inch IPS touch screen with 2.8K resolution (2880 x 1800), 16:10 aspect ratio, 120Hz refresh rate and maximum brightness of 500 nits. This is a high-quality screen, providing a sharp, vivid and smooth visual experience.
The screen of the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is touch
Lenovo’s exclusive PureSight Pro technology enhances brightness and contrast, while reproducing accurate colors. The screen covers 100% of the sRGB and DCI-P3 color range with Delta E
However, Lenovo’s choice of IPS panel instead of OLED for the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a controversial decision. Although the IPS screen of the device is of very good quality, it still cannot compare to the OLED screen in terms of contrast, black depth and HDR display capabilities.
For users who are not too strict about display quality, the screen of the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition perfectly meets daily use needs. However, for professional users in the field of graphics or those who love the ultimate visual experience, the lack of an OLED screen may be an unfortunate minus point.
The speaker system on the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition includes 4 speakers (2 tweeters and 2 woofers) arranged on both sides of the keyboard, facing up. The sound quality of the device is very good, high volume, strong bass, clear and detailed mid and treble sounds. This speaker system perfectly meets multimedia entertainment needs such as watching movies and listening to music without needing external speakers or headphones.
The typing experience is excellent as usual
The chiclet keyboard of the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition provides a great typing experience, arguably the best in the thin and light laptop segment. The keys are large in size, reasonably spaced, with deep key travel (1.5mm) and good bounce, creating a smooth and accurate typing feeling. Lenovo has also integrated keyboard backlighting with many different brightness levels, making it easy for users to use in low light conditions.
A special feature on the keyboard of the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is the appearance of the “Mode” key (F9). This key allows users to quickly access smart modes pre-installed in Lenovo Vantage software, helping to optimize performance and usage experience depending on each specific situation.
The device’s touchpad is quite spacious in size, with a glass-covered surface for a smooth and accurate mouse feel. However, compared to the overall size of the device, this touchpad is still somewhat small, especially when compared to competitors such as the MacBook Air or Dell XPS. The full support of multi-touch gestures of the Windows Precision driver makes control operations easier and more convenient.
Performance: the power of Intel Core Ultra 7 258V “Lunar Lake”
This is the most anticipated part: The power of “Lunar Lake” – Intel Core Ultra 7 258V. This processor is manufactured using a completely new process, promising to deliver outstanding performance and impressive power savings.
Benchmark Cinebench 2024, Core Ultra 7 chip leads the single-core rankings with 122 points
Core Ultra 7 258V has 8 cores, 8 threads, with 4 high-performance cores (P-core) and 4 power-saving cores (E-core). The base clock of P-core is 2.2 GHz and can boost up to 4.8 GHz, while E-core has a base clock of 1.0 GHz and boost up to 3.0 GHz.
GeekBench 6 CPU
GeekBench 6 GPU
PCMark 10
3DMark Night Raid
3DMark Steel Nomad
In single-core benchmarks, Core Ultra 7 258V shows outstanding power thanks to its high clock speed. However, in multi-core benchmarks, due to the smaller number of cores and threads compared to competitors, the performance of this chip is somewhat worse.
However, during actual use, I found that the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition operates very smoothly and stably. The device is good for office tasks, web browsing, watching movies, and light photo and video editing. Even with heavier tasks such as programming or gaming, the device can still handle it satisfactorily, with appropriate graphics settings.
Benchmarking the game Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition achieved an average FPS of 49 at original resolution, LOW graphics settings.
The highlight of the performance of the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is the integrated Intel Arc 140V graphics card. This is one of the most powerful iGPUs today, delivering impressive graphics performance, far superior to previous generations of Intel iGPUs. Thanks to that, you can play eSport games smoothly in Full HD resolution with medium or high graphics settings. Even with some AAA games, you can still play at low resolutions and low graphics settings.
SSD benchmark results of Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition with Crystal Disk Mark.
Another plus point is that the device is equipped with 32GB LPDDR5x bus 8533 MHz RAM, for fast data access speed and smooth multitasking capabilities. 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD hard drive provides spacious storage space and impressive read and write speeds.
Besides CPU and GPU, Lunar Lake also integrates a specialized NPU (Neural Processing Unit) processor for AI tasks. NPU on Core Ultra 7 258V has performance up to 45 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second), combined with CPU and GPU can deliver AI processing performance up to 115 TOPS.
Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is also a laptop that meets Copilot+ PC standards
During use, I found that the NPU works very effectively in tasks such as facial recognition, blurring the background during video calls, optimizing images and videos,… These features work. smooth, fast and does not affect overall system performance.
Battery life keeps up with MacBook?
With a 70Wh battery, the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition offers impressive battery life. In actual use with mixed tasks such as web surfing, text editing, watching movies, listening to music, the device can operate continuously from 8 to 10 hoursenough for a full working day.
Rapid Charge Boost fast charging technology is also a big plus, allowing the battery to be fully charged to 80% in just 1 hour.
Built-in AI features
Lenovo has integrated the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition with many smart features, helping to enhance the user experience. Most prominent are the smart modes (Smart Modes) that can be quickly activated via the “Mode” key (F9). These modes include:
Common: Balanced mode between performance and battery life, suitable for most common tasks.
Meeting: Optimized for online meetings, with features like noise cancellation and background blur.
Gaming: Optimize performance for games.
Creative: Optimized for content creation tasks such as photo and video editing.
Learning: Optimized for learning, with features like blocking notifications and limiting app usage time.
Attention: Focus mode, helps users focus on work by blocking notifications and distracting websites.
Shield: Automatically detect security risks when connecting to public networks and enable VPN.
Wellness: Reminds users to adjust posture and rest periodically.
In addition, the device is also equipped with the Smart Share feature, allowing users to easily share files between laptops and smartphones via wireless connection. In general, we can do these features manually, but Lenovo has given us a tool to adjust quickly and conveniently, thereby optimizing the usage experience.
Conclusion: A high-end laptop worth owning
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a comprehensive high-end laptop, from design, performance to included features. The device possesses a thin, light, luxurious design; sharp, vivid screen; keyboard for great typing experience; Powerful performance from Intel Core Ultra 7 258V “Lunar Lake” processor; Impressive battery life and many useful smart features.
Although there are still some small minus points such as IPS screen instead of OLED, touchpad is a bit small and high price, the outstanding advantages of Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition completely overwhelm those shortcomings.
This is a great choice for those who are looking for a thin, light, powerful, fashionable laptop that can meet all usage needs, from office work, studying, entertainment to breakfast. create content. If you are a businessman, an office worker, a student or simply a user who loves technology, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition will definitely not disappoint you.
In the Vietnamese market, Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is currently priced at 42.99 million VND with a 2-year warranty under the Premium Care package.
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