While more flagship laptops exist in the market today than ever, I can’t say that each leaves a lasting impression. Or, justifies its price tag. But every once in a while there comes a laptop that stands out across multiple aspects — the build, productivity features, battery life and maybe more. I wondered if the new Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x would be one such, and here’s how it fared.

Design

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x looks fairly professional in a staid Cosmic Blue colour. It’s a super light device, as far as 14-inch laptops go, weighing a little above 1.2 kg. I loved how compact the device is, along with the fact that the build seems really sturdy and premium! There was no wobbling whatsoever and the screen can easily be pried open with a finger without the laptop tilting up entirely.

Display

The 14.5-inch OLED touchscreen is one of the USPs of the laptop. The colours are vivid and stills and videos look crisp and immersive onscreen.

Apart from some of Asus’ flagship laptops, this display on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is one of the best OLED displays I’ve used in recent times. The 3K display offers Dolby Vision and a fairly high 1,000 nits of peak brightness. The variable refresh rate is however capped at 90 Hz, although it doesn’t take away from the experience of browsing, watching movies or playing casual games on the laptop. The aspect ratio is 16:10, making it ideal for both watching multimedia and working on documents. The four speakers built-in deliver decent sound, but can get a bit tinny as the volume increases. It also favours treble over bass notes a fair bit.

The touchscreen is smooth to scroll across, and the Windows 11 OS supports multiple customisable gestures to navigate using the touchscreen. A quick swipe from the left edge brings up active widgets, a swipe from the right edge gives me quick access to the notification centre. Easy zoom in/outs with two-finger pinches, scrolling down web pages and a three-finger swipe down to snap back to the desktop all work really snappily.

Productivity

The keyboard on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is one of the most comfortable I’ve used in the past year. I’m not sure if Lenovo has improved the material of the keys but the typing experience feels buttery smooth with very satisfying key travel. The device has four studio-grade microphones that effectively reduced distracting background noise during my meetings and briefings. The FHD IR camera has a physical shutter for reinforcing privacy. While the video quality is decent enough under normal lighting conditions, it gets too grainy for my liking in less-than-ideal lighting.

Windows Studio Effects has a bunch of video filters — illustrated, watercolour and animated — that are fun to play around with for a minute, but nothing that I would actually ever use in a meeting. The other webcam features include automatic framing which keeps me centred even as I fidget around a bit. One of my favourite features, presence sensing, has been carried over to this device as well . This feature locks the laptop a second or two after I walk away from it.

Tech Specs

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is one of the first Copilot+ laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite. The brand claims it’s built to handle heavy tasks such as 3D rendering and video editing with ease while still preserving battery life. During my use with multiple apps, websites, documents and games, the laptop never slowed down or stuttered.

The unit I received for review had 32 GB RAM and 1 TB storage, of which about 950 GB was usable. Connectivity-wise, there are two USB Type-C ports on the left and one on the right, alongside the power button and the camera privacy slider.

The device is equipped with a 70 WHr battery, which promises about 16 hours of web browsing or a little more than 23 hours of high-res video playback. My usage with the device was mostly focused on reading articles online, writing with the Google suite, browsing web pages, watching an hour or two of videos online and occasional gaming. With this, I typically saw the battery drop by only 6-7 per cent in one hour, with the brightness set at 70 per cent. It can easily last a full workday without having to be plugged in.

Verdict

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x checks off a lot of boxes in its attempt to be an object of desire. It’s built to be durable, packs in a striking OLED touchscreen display, is ultraportable, offers smooth multitasking and long-lasting battery life. That too at a price tag that isn’t exactly the heaviest when it comes to powerful flagships. With so much working in its favour, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is an easy laptop to recommend if you’re looking for your next flagship-grade laptop.