Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition Review: Should you buy it?

Intro:

An ultra sleek and smooth design under 1kg with uncompromised performance and all-day battery life. Here is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. So let’s start talking about this thing.

Durability and Build Quality:

In most respects, Lenovo’s build quality and durability are a pretty solid notch above what similarly priced Windows laptops offer. There’s little to no body flex, which is likely due to the magnesium alloy frame that reinforces the aluminium outer shell. Lenovo also applied a new coating, which does an amazing job at repelling fingerprints and resisting scratches. Honestly, most laptops we use look like a CSI crime scene after we gone a day with them, but this one is super cool.

However, Lenovo have this yoga coating, which really makes it feel smooth, comfortable and premium. There is very little flex. This coating is also anti-fingerprint,t and it’s water repellent. Honestly speaking, using this over the past few days, we haven’t got any fingerprints on it. This is probably the most fingerprint resistant lenovo laptop used, and it just feels really nice,e like silky smooth nice.

The maximum display is 180 degrees because it is a touch laptop.p, You can show or do anything to anyone. If it were 360, then it would have been a2-in-11 series of yoga. There are speaker grills on the left and right. Below is the branding of yoga. Here we get the badge of Intel Core Ultra and Evo. And from the bottom, we get this. And the sticker is carbon-neutral certified. It is said that our laptop is made with very low carbon emissions and it isenvironmentallyt friendly. This laptop comes with 15 inches form factor, so the weight is around 1.55 kg. It is not that heavy, and it is not that lightweight, and if you include the charger in the 65W box, it reaches up to 1.8 kgs, so it won’t put much weight on your shoulders.

Build quality is very solid, and this laptop is very thin, 13.9mm thick,k and the edges are round, ed so if you accidentally touch it, it won’t be pointed. As we said, Lenovo Yoga 7i Aura Editiis on imagined with Intel.

Special Features:

So, let’s talk about those features, First of all, Smart Care, In Lenovo Vantage software, You get the option of Chat with an agent and Lina chat, Lina chat is AI based and the agent will be assigned to you in real time So that you can talk to anyone who is in trouble in your laptop and not just in working hours but 24×7 Premium service is required. Then we have smart modes. You get normal scenario modes in this, in which you can select common, gaming, media, creative, etc. And in automatic mode, you will automatically identify the application you are using and the workflow you are using. It will automatically tweak your system. But here comes smart modes. First of all, there is a shield mode. We turned it on. In this, we get a privacy alert that if someone is looking over your shoulder, they will tell you.
And there is a privacy guard that will blur the screen. There is an auto-prompt VPN option. If you are using a public network or a public wifi and you want to do banking, Transactional or you want to log in to something that is sensitive for you, then you can use it for your personal security. In modes, you get an attention mode. There is an attention timer for how much time you have to set for concentration. You can add distracting domains like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

There is a quality, the low light enhancer is off, and it records the quality like this, there is no light on the face,e and if we turn on the low light enhancer, then this much impact is there. Apart from that, you get a wellness mode and you get the option of eye wellness In which you get reminders every 20 minutes that you need to rest a little, Otherwise you have to wear big glasses and make videos Apart from that, you get the option of posture warning, If you have a very bad posture and you are watching a movie, then you will say laptop.

Intel Unison:

After that, the most exciting feature is the ecosystem. That is extra in this laptop. You can easily transfer data through the Intel Unison app. You can control the entire phone. You will know about Intel Unison. You can just drag and drop the photos on your laptop and transfer them to your phone without any effort.

Specifications:

Now let’s talk about the technology, Intel Corei77 has a 258V processor. It has 8 threads processor with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores And Intel has not kept hyper threading in the processor just to maintain power efficiency And it also gives good performance, We will talk about that later In terms of GPU, We get Intel’s Arc 140 V with 16GB shared RAM If we compare it with Iris Xe, The Arc GPU performs next level. You can also play games easily on this laptop without any lag.

We get 47 trillion operations per second NPU is used to handle low powered AI tasks Because battery backup matters a lot in a laptop, If the CPU will load on the GPU for everything then the battery will consume a lot So, NPU is used there Whenever you will do any low power task, Your NPU will be hit and it won’t load on CPU and GPU And as it has 47 Tops NPU, So it is a co-pilot plus certified laptop But its update hasn’t rolled out yet, But it has many features like Live Captions, Automatic Super Resolution, Co-Creator, Windows Studio Effects, Recall feature will come in this laptop whenever the update will be officially rolled out.

It has 32GB LPDDR5X RAM, 8533MTPS speed and 1TB Gen4 SSD, which has read and write speed. It is a thin and light laptop,p and it has a single SSD slot so you can replace it. It should be upto 2TB according to us. If they had added an SD card expansion slot, it would have been good to add a data waiter. That is a bare minimum requirement in today’s date.

It has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, MS Office 2024 lifetime, 3 months of Xbox Game Pass with every Lenovo laptop, 2 months Adobe Creative Cloud subscription for 2 months. This laptop is also intel evo certified, This certification is very useful, If you are going to buy a laptop, This certification will be there in the laptop, Like fast charging, Type C port, Thunderbolt 4, Screen wake time less than 1 second, Windows hello support, Whether it is face unlock or fingerprint, And also latest connectivity, When all these things are there in the laptop, Then your laptop is intel evo certified, Or when you see the cover of intel evo, Then all these things will be there.

Benchmarks:

Now let’s start with benchmarks, Here you can see the score of Cinebench R23 We tested on both charging and battery and the difference of numbers is not much, Laptop gives almost same performance on battery and charging and you can see the other numbers, Here are the numbers of Cinebench R22 and R24 Geekbench 6 benchmark is of Multi-core, Single-core CPU, AI benchmark and Geekbench 6 OpenCL score is 29000 which is the score of iGPU, This is a good number for GPU then we have PCMark 10 6000+ which is a good score and we have also mentioned VRMark benchmark in the yes list, If it is not a dedicated GPU then VR gaming is not that good but still its score is good 5000+ This will vary on different games and you can play games on VR system.

Battery:

The battery department is very impressive. They have fixed a 70Wh battery in such a thin laptop. We were testing it,t and it had 50% screen brightness. The speakers were very loud, so we couldn’t hear them at 100,% so we kept it at 50-60%.

Display:

You will see the display most. Yes, it is 15.3 inches, and it is Lenovo’s pure size. It has a 10pt multi-touch display which supports 10pt multi-touch. It is good for professionals who don’t want to use a touch screen and scroll through content. It has a glossy panel and an anti-fingerprint coating. But compared to any other normal laptop, it is a bit less. It has a 60:10 aspect ratio, 2.8K resolution, 2880×1880 resolution, and a 120Hz refresh rate. Yes, we are tired of saying that we don’t want 60Hz, we want low 120Hz. It supports a 120Hz refresh rate and dynamic refresh rate. In our testing, the brightness went up to 544 nits, which is good.

It is very bright whether you use it indoors or outdoors. If you have reflections outdoors, then a glossy display is not usable. And colour gamut 100% sRGB, 87% Adobe RGB, 98% DCI-P3 and 85% NTSC. It has a fullycolour-accuratee displayan, and you can do colour grading in any video or photo.

Ports:

Apart from that,t we get a Type C Thunderbolt 4 port and a headphone mic jack com.bo On the righside s, id,e we get a USB Type A port 3.2 Gen 1 and another Type C Thunderbolt 4 .por.We get a power button and a camera shutter button. Thed the Thunderbolt 4 port is for fast-speed data transfer.

Conclusion:

So, it targets professionals or students who don’t like to go towards a MacBook because people say that battery backup is very tough with performance. Now Intel is saying that they will also do it. Battery backup is tough; it is around 17 hours. It is a good laptop for students and also for the office.