hey pc world fans gordon with pc world i am in the lenovo suite checking out the brand new
slim line of clamshell laptops yes there are people who prefer clamshell laptops i
am actually pretty good with them we're going to start with the lenovo slim 7i carbon
carbon obviously means carbon fiber the lid is carbon fiber the bottom and the keyboard deck
is metal magnesium but it makes it super light so if you want a clamshell laptop that is state
of the art that is spectacularly light this thing is 2.1 pounds you're getting a 3.3 inch
2k screen and get this even though traditionally you get 60 hertz panels this is actually a 90
hertz panel in here and of course you can't have a laptop that's a winner if you're not 1610 the
slim 7i is a 1610 panel that means it's basically taller rather than wider that you see with the
cheap 16 9s let's face it that's what you're getting there inside it's intel core up to core
i7 12th gen that's alder lake and it is alder like p which means you are going to be able to get a
2.2 pound slim semi carbon with a 14 core cpu in it yeah get out of here right that's crazy you're
also getting wi-fi 6e bluetooth 5 it has a 50 watt hour battery you are getting a privacy shutter and
ir so you know if you want to open your laptop up and have it log into windows 11 pro for you
the camera will do that battery size is 50 watt hours um and let's go over the all-important thing
because you want to know about your ports internet i know you love the ports let's go over it
you're gonna get a type c on this side a power button i thought this was actually for
a sim card for a modem it is not you have a hard switch to cut out the camera because if
you're like me you're changing clothes in front of your camera all the time
the other side a thunderbolt 4 port and a small led it looks like or possibly a reset button
i'm not sure but yes i'm going to do that again thunderbolt 4 usbc yeah there is no headset jack
on this laptop lenovo says just like other vendors have said you know what we need to take that space
you're not rolling around with that five dollar pair of earbuds anymore you've got
wireless headphones let's just take that space back to make this laptop thinner lighter i know
just be aware when you get this laptop make sure you have a bluetooth headset to go with it
the laptop itself is going to come in right around 1300 should be available in june next up you get a
choice of what you want this is the lenovo slim 7 pro x it is a little bit bigger than a 13.3 inch
screen it is a 14.5 inch screen this one i think might be i think that's the intel is intel based
because you can get the slim 7i pro x with an intel 12th gen i7 p that means basically again
up to 14 cores with a combination of performance cores and efficiency cores the screen is 14.5
inches 3k resolution that's qhd plus and yes again it's a good laptop so you're going to get 16 10
aspect ratio none of that 16 9 stuff that's that's for the people slumming it what i really love
about this is you're getting a 14.5 inch screen 16 10 aspect ratio with touch and the reason is it's
a very good matte finish typically a lot of touch screens have gorilla glass on them they're super
shiny a lot of reflections in them this has spectacular anti-reflective coating on it and
of course inside up to a 14 core 12th gen i7 32 gigs of dual channel lpddr5 uh one terabyte uh ssd
m.2 and this this might kind of shock you because you look at that this laptop's like well this has
got to be integrated graphics integrator graphics well lenovo has somehow stuffed a geforce rtx 3050
into this laptop um that's pretty impressive because the entire laptop weighs 3.48 pounds right
so you're getting 3.48 pounds laptop with discreet graphics with a 30 50 and with a 14 core 12 gen
and something that honestly would have had nothing but integrated graphics just a few years ago
so you're getting just a ton of performance that gpu is rated at 50 watts of tgp and yeah i mean
it's not going to be a 30 80 ti the main reason i can see having this laptop is somebody who wants
to go out and they need a pretty heavy duty core count and they also may do you know some video
editing where having it the nvidia nv ink is is a great advantage so you can actually do a decent
amount of video editing on this laptop that would have been impossible just three to four years ago
or not in this form factor this laptop will also come with wi-fi 6e have a 70 watt hour battery and
is gonna come in at about seventeen hundred dollars and ship in june of course hey you
know what you're going i you know gordon i like amd i like to support the little guy what can
lenovo do for me lenovo's got that for you too with this one which is the lenovo slim 7 pro x
with a ryzen 9 cpu in fact you might be a little surprised but it's going to come
see again it's a touch screen it's going to come with up to a ryzen 9 6 900 hx and a 3.5
3 pound three and a half pound laptop that is just amazing this is just simply you could never
do this just four years ago again same gpu option you can get up to a geforce rtx 3050 50 watt tgp
in this laptop with an a core ryzen 9 6000 that's just a spectacular amount of hardware and uh i
didn't mention and i should mention besides the fact that you're getting uh you know rtx
very fast cpus you're also getting a 120 hertz panel so on both of them on both of them so these
both both of these laptops are 120 hertz i was like well really what do you need 120 hertz for a
30 50 at 50 watts well let's be realistic you're not going to be playing triple a games at that
refresh rate the main advantage of having a 120 hertz panel in laptops these days is people
just like it you know having a really smooth experience when you you move windows when you
scroll 120 hertz just means it's gonna look so much smoother than a 60 hertz panel and the nice
thing for amd fans well the core i7 laptop laptops gonna come in at about 1700 bucks or start there
this one will start at fifteen hundred dollars so you're basically saving three
hundred dollars going from intel to amd i do want to point something out though
and we're going to show you as we go over the ports we're going to grab the intel one
we're going to start on this side essentially identical you're getting power button no it's
not a sim card sim card slot you're getting two usb 10 gig ports your courageous headset port
the switch to turn off the camera so people can't see you stuff in your face with food
the other side though slightly different intel will give you a full size hdmi you get two
thunderbolt ports for amd you get a usb type a and two usb cs there is no usb4 support on this laptop
it's usb 3.2 but the main difference probably for a lot of people is going to be the thunderbolt
as well as that hdmi port so something you need to know the last slim we're going to
go over though is something i kind of like i was surprised this is the lenovo slim 9i14
you can immediately tell by looking at the top there's something different about it this is not
the first time lenovo's done it before but i like it initially i was like why would you want a lid
made of glass yes this is a glass lid but then you pick this up and it just feels just just luxurious
i mean yes if you're going to drop your bowling ball on it it's not going to be good but the glass
just feels just so much nicer than just aluminum or carbon fiber to me it really does give it a
luxury feeling and even though i thought well that's crazy to add glass because it's heavier
obviously you can shatter it but after putting my hands on it i was like you know what i would like
i would actually like the glass on the keyboard deck too because that would just take that that
raspy feel that you get out of putting your hands on lumen or magnesium it just doesn't feel as good
and yes it says yoga it is a slim 9i14 because here in the us yoga means convertible laptop
overseas europe asia yoga means just simply a different branding here in the states where
we also don't use a metric system you're going to get you're going to get a it's really a slim brand
for the laptop it is a 14 inch screen 4k and it's hard to tell on the internet but let me tell you
it's an oled panel and oleds if you've ever seen them are just amazing the contrast ratio
the black levels on oleds are just to die for so you're going to get this in the slim
9i 14 internally it is intel only up to a core i7 12 gen that's 14 cores it's a p part not a u part
and the other special thing about the slim 9i14 is you will get intel's brand new arc 350m
graphics chip that's with four gigs of memory the claim to fame is hey it's made by intel so
there might be some power sharing techniques that they will add and the significant thing
that nvidia and amd cannot do right now on that external discrete graphics is it will do av1
encodes in hardware so if you are actually going to be doing an av-1 encode on a g-force or a
radeon you're going to have to run that mostly on the cpu you're going to kill the battery it's also
going to take a lot longer in theory av-1 encode in the arc gpu should simply kick the butt on
current g-force and radeon graphics cards other parts you're going to get up to 32 gigs lp ddr
you're also going to get m.2 up to 1 terabyte a wi-fi 6e wireless bluetooth 5.1 it will have
a 75 watt hour battery bowers and wilkins audio so pretty decent audio for a laptop you're also
getting an fhd you know windows biometric screen and the top uh and let's see what is the weight
of this baby oh three pounds which again let's think about this now so you are getting 14 cores
a gpu that can do av-1 encodes in a three-pound laptop so that's just something impossible just
a few years ago we're now doing that and you get that luxurious glass top let's go over the ports
though because that is important we get a power button a thunderbolt port look at this beautiful
rounded edge so this is the other thing that all the lenovos are featuring there's no more
hard edges feels great in your hand doesn't cut into it you're getting a switch for the webcam
the other side interestingly hmm you couldn't put a headset headset uh jack in the other one you can
do it in this one somehow you're also getting a second thunderbolt port actually three thunderbolt
ports so you're getting three thunderbolt ports and a headset jack in this but again three pounds
14 cores alder lake p arc 350 graphics with av1 encode this laptop will come in at about
eighteen hundred dollars so premium price and should go on sale around june in fact i think
all the laptops here will be available in june i know you're wondering well what's faster ryzen 9
14 core alder lake what about this one and what about that one at this point we don't
really know lenovo's not telling us the numbers they say we're still working on it
i'm going to guess it's basically going to be faster than what we saw out of intel's previous
11th gen 4 core cpus because you're now getting 14 cores and as we know amd's ryzen 6000 series have
been pretty spectacular cpus so if you're wanting to see performance in this class a laptop i
say you gotta wait you gotta wait till we get these in our hands the good news is we should
be able to get them at pc world so come back to our channel and pcworld.com to see the reviews you