Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Review: Windows on Snapdragon Is Not Ready

The first wave of Windows "Copilot+ PCs" has arrived, promising all-day battery life, greater power efficiency, and great performance to better match Apple’s MacBook lineup. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is one of the first models to reach store shelves, but it doesn’t quite live up to the hype.

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x

5/ 10

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is one of the first Copilot+ PC laptops, with all-day battery life, an OLED screen, and a power-efficient ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite chipset.

Pros

• Great battery life
• Slim and light design
• Fantastic OLED screen Cons
  • ARM Windows 11 has software compatibility issues
  • No USB-A ports
  • No Thunderbolt support $1199 at Lenovo$1199.99 at Best Buy

    Price and Availability

    The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x starts at $1,199 in the United States. That base model has a Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 Processor, Windows 11 Home ARM Edition, 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD for storage, and a 14.5-inch 3K OLED touchscreen. Lenovo also sells a higher-end model for $1,289.99 model with a larger 1TB SSD.

    Lenovo’s online store gives you a few options for customizing the hardware, including upgrading the RAM from 16GB to 32GB (a $69 charge at launch), bumping up the SSD from 512GB to 1TB (a $45 charge), and upgrading to Windows 11 Pro (for $28). You can replace the SSD and upgrade Windows at any time after purchase, but the RAM is not user-upgradable.

    Specifications

    Operating System

    Windows 11

    CPU

    Snapdragon X Elite

    GPU

    Qualcomm Adreno

    RAM

    Up to 32GB

    Storage

    Up to 1TB

    Battery

    70Wh

    Display (Size, Resolution)

    14.5-inch 3K OLED touchscreen

    Speakers

    4 stereo speakers

    Colors

    Cosmic Blue

    Ports

    3 x USB 4 Gen 3 Type-C

    Network

    WiFi 7 802.11BE, Bluetooth 5.3

    Dimensions

    12.80 x 8.86 x 0.51in

    Weight

    2.82lbs (1.28kg)

    Webcam

    1080p

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    Design: The Ports Are Lacking

    Even though the Yoga Slim 7x might have exciting new hardware and software, the design is typical for an ultrabook PC. It packs a large 14.5-inch screen, front-firing speakers, and a large keyboard and trackpad into a package measuring 12.80 x 8.86 inches. It weighs slightly more than the current 13-inch MacBook Air, at just 2.82 pounds.

    The Yoga Slim 7x is primarily built with aluminum, not plastic, and the build quality seems acceptable. It doesn’t feel as cheap as some other laptops, but I can flex the keyboard or display panel a bit. The coating on the back of the screen panel is also a magnet for smudges.

    

    Lenovo’s keyboards are generally high quality, and I don’t have any big complaints about the keyboard on the Yoga Slim 7x. There’s a dedicated function row with shortcuts for brightness, volume, microphone access, locking the screen, and even opening the calculator. The keys are all backlit, and you can toggle the key brightness by holding down the function key while pressing the space bar. The trackpad below the keyboard is spacious, too.

    The Yoga Slim 7x is one of several new Windows laptops with a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard, which opens Microsoft’s AI chatbot assistant when pressed. You can use Microsoft PowerToys or a third-party utility to remap that to perform other actions—I changed it to act as a play and pause button because there’s not a dedicated key for that on the keyboard.

    There are speakers on each side of the keyboard, each with 2W woofers and 2W tweeters, complete with a “Dolby Atmos Smart Amplifier.” They don’t sound great, especially in comparison to Apple’s recent laptops—there is very little base, and some distortion is noticeable at higher volumes.

    

    The Yoga Slim 7x has three USB Type-C ports, all of which support USB4 Gen 3, USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) 3.1, and DisplayPort 1.4. Those are the only physical ports on this computer. You don’t get a headphone jack, an SD card reader, USB Type-A ports, or anything else. It’s great that all three ports work the same, so you can use any of them for power input or a USB hub, but I wish there were better built-in options for connectivity. There’s also no support for Thunderbolt, so some types of external drives, monitors, and hubs won’t work.

    There’s also a 1080p webcam above the display, with a switch on the side of the bottom lid for turning it on or off. There isn’t a physical cover for the webcam, though.

    Finally, even though this laptop is sold under the Yoga brand, this is not a convertible laptop. The screen can be pushed back to nearly flat with the keyboard, but it cannot bend all the way around for tent mode or functioning as a tablet.

    Display: A Fantastic OLED

    The Yoga Slim 7x has an excellent screen. It’s a large 14.5-inch OLED panel, with a resolution of 2,944 x 1,840 (3K) and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The screen also has touch support, a 100,000:1 contrast ratio, a 90Hz refresh rate, and a 100% DCI-P3 100% sRGB color gamut. That all adds up to a display that looks great and has super-smooth animations, no matter if you’re playing games, watching movies, or just reading emails.

    Lenovo includes the ‘X-Rite Color Assistant’ application, accessible from the taskbar status icons, which allows you to switch between different color profiles. I’m not a graphic designer, so I just stuck to the default color settings.

    

    The 90Hz refresh rate gives you more fluid animations and more responsive games than a typical 60Hz screen while using less power than the 120Hz screens that are more common on smartphones and gaming hardware. However, Windows still isn’t consistent with supporting high refresh rates. Moving around windows and scrolling through the Microsoft Store might be silky smooth, but opening the Start menu or performing other actions seem to be stuck at 60Hz.

    The display also supports HDR content, either through VESA DisplayHDR True Black 600 or Dolby Vision. However, there are still not many applications and games on Windows that support HDR, including most streaming services.

    Software: Hello, ARM Windows

    The Yoga Slim 7x has an ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processor, which means it runs Windows 11 for ARM instead of the typical Windows 11 operating system for x86-based Intel and AMD processors. The ARM edition looks exactly like Windows 11 on every other PC, and it has all the same included applications, but software and driver compatibility are a bit different.

    Most applications, games, and drivers for Windows were built for 32-bit or 64-bit x86 computers, though most web browsers and some other applications are now ARM-native as well. Windows on ARM can run most x86 applications and games with the Prism compatibility layer, which translates x86 code to ARM code as needed.

    

    When the Prism emulator works, you don’t notice it at all, though the software might run a bit slower than it would on a comparable Intel or AMD-powered computer. This is also similar to how the Rosetta 2 emulation layer works on Mac computers with ARM-based Apple Silicon chips.

    Some of the applications I use every day already have ARM-native versions, including Firefox, Slack, Outlook, and Spotify. Discord doesn’t have an ARM version yet, so it runs as an emulated x86 application, and performance randomly slowed down about two weeks into my review period. I tried a few games, with mixed results: "Civilization VI" worked well, but "Overwatch" had frequent stuttering that seemed to happen regardless of the graphical quality setting. Some games don’t open at all, and most games from the Microsoft Store or Xbox app can’t be installed. Microsoft is working to improve game performance in x86 emulation, but the inconsistent compatibility is something to keep in mind with the Yoga Slim 7x and other ARM-based Windows computers.

    

    有些軟體在 ARM Windows 上不存在且無法模擬。如果您的裝置需要特定的第三方驅動程式才能運行，而不是透過 Windows 更新提供的通用驅動程序，則它可能無法運作。您也無法使用虛擬化軟體和某些模擬器 - VirtualBox 和 VMWare 沒有 ARM Windows 版本。我無法嘗試微軟的HyperV虛擬化工具，因為它需要Windows 11 Pro。此筆記型電腦預先安裝了 Windows 11 家用版。您可以使用適用於 Linux 的 Windows 子系統，但它會安裝 ARM Linux，而 ARM Linux 不具有與 x86 Linux 相同的軟體。

    這款新的 ARM 筆記型電腦仍然有一些軟體臃腫，例如 McAfee 防毒軟體和隨機的 Lenovo 工具。幾天后我不得不卸載邁克菲，因為它不斷顯示惱人的彈出視窗並阻止某些應用程式運行。微軟也越來越積極地提示使用 Edge 瀏覽器，並在 Windows 11 中預設使用 OneDrive 進行儲存。

    最後，值得注意的是，Windows 11 目前是這些 Snapdragon X 筆記型電腦的唯一作業系統。如果您想認真嘗試桌面 Linux，請購買一台配備 x86 Intel 或 AMD CPU 的筆記型電腦（或者更好的是，專為 Linux 設計的筆記型電腦）。

    性能：非常好，如果您的應用程式運行的話

    這是第一批配備 Snapdragon X Elite 晶片組的 PC 筆記型電腦之一，值得慶幸的是，它並沒有讓人失望。我工作日的大部分時間都在 Firefox、Slack、Discord 和 Outlook 之間切換，通常是從 Spotify 或 YouTube 播放音樂，而筆記型電腦始終保持敏捷和響應。我測試了 16GB RAM 型號，但也有 32GB RAM 配置 - 用戶無法升級記憶體。

    在 Geekbench 6 CPU 基準測試中，Yoga Slim 7x 獲得了可觀的單核分數 2,459 分和多核分數 13,439 分。它還在 Geekbench 6 GPU 測試中獲得了 20,599 的 OpenCL 分數。這與配備 M2 或 M3 晶片的 Apple MacBook 的性能大致相同，但與配備 M2/M3 Pro 或 Max 晶片組的高階 MacBook 不同。 2024 年戴爾 XPS 16 的 CPU 分數幾乎相同。

    

    您也可以在 Yoga Slim 7x 上玩一些遊戲，效能接近大多數其他高階超極本。對於要求較高的遊戲（例如“賽博朋克 2077”或“博德之門 3”），您不會獲得良好的體驗，但要求較低的遊戲可能會有效。 x86 模擬層對於遊戲來說比 Snapdragon 的原始效能更重要，但希望隨著時間的推移，這會變得更好。

    儘管 Yoga Slim 7x 中的實際硬體與大多數競爭對手相當或超過，但您的實際性能將根據需要模擬的軟體數量而有所不同。

    電池壽命：充電一整天

    由於許多較新筆記型電腦的現代待機功能損壞、基於 x86 的處理器架構效率低下以及其他因素，Windows 筆記型電腦歷來都難以保持較長的電池壽命。延長電池壽命是 Yoga Slim 7x 中 Snapdragon 晶片所承諾的優勢之一，值得慶幸的是，事實證明這是真的。

    在 Yoga Slim 7x 上，我可以輕鬆地獲得一整天的電池續航時間，同時還可以管理電子郵件、在 Slack 中交談、在 Firefox 中處理 5 到 20 個選項卡以及檢查 Discord。 Snapdragon X Elite 晶片組也不會產生太多熱量，因此當我不玩遊戲或運行基準測試時，筆記型電腦風扇很安靜或根本不運行。

    與大多數其他 Windows 筆記型電腦相比，這裡的電池壽命更接近平板電腦或 MacBook。很高興看到微軟和高通在這個部門取得了實際進展，即使硬體還有其他限制需要改進。

    競爭：很艱難

    Yoga Slim 7x 在美國的起價約為 1,200 美元，這對於 Windows 超級本來說是相當典型的價格。它直接與 2024 年戴爾 XPS 13 和 14 以及新款 Surface Laptop 和三星 Galaxy Book 系列等筆記型電腦競爭，後者的價格均高於 Yoga（分別為 1,399 美元和 1,699 美元）。 Yoga 的 AMOLED 螢幕在這個價位段中可能很難被擊敗，但除了獨特的 Snapdragon X 晶片之外，其餘硬體都相當標準。

    還值得記住的是，13 吋 M2 MacBook Air 的起價為 1,099 美元。從紙面上看，硬體的匹配度很差，基本配置中只有 8GB 統一記憶體和 256GB 儲存空間，但該硬體在 macOS 上的表現通常比 Windows 上好。蘋果的現代 M2 和 M3 晶片與 Yoga 7x 中的 Snapdragon 晶片具有相似的能源效率和電池壽命，但軟體相容性遠不是一場賭博——無論如何，只要它在 macOS 上可用即可。

    您應該購買聯想 Yoga Slim 7x 嗎？

    

    乍一看，聯想 Yoga Slim 7x 是一款出色的筆記型電腦，具有輕薄的設計、出色的性能和全天的電池續航時間。 OLED 螢幕尤其出色，但如果沒有完全可轉換的二合一設計，這款筆記型電腦配備觸控螢幕就沒有多大意義。

    Yoga Slim 7x 的最大優勢，即 Snapdragon X Elite 晶片組，也是其最大的弱點。除了基本的生產力應用程式和網頁瀏覽器之外，ARM Windows 中的軟體相容性也是一個冒險。有些應用程式和遊戲根本無法運行，而另一些應用程式和遊戲的性能卻有所下降，即使與同等價格的英特爾或 AMD 超級本相比也是如此。隨著時間的推移，軟體情況應該會有所改善，因為更多的 Windows 軟體已更新為在 ARM 晶片上本地運行，並且微軟改進了 x86 模擬層，但這仍然使 Yoga Slim 7x 目前很難銷售。

    如果您想要一台 Windows 筆記型電腦，並且主要使用網頁瀏覽器和基本生產力軟體工作，那麼 Yoga Slim 7x 可能是 一台不錯的筆記型電腦。不過，有太多邊緣情況導致它表現不佳，而且你不應該花這麼多錢來成為微軟和高通的 Beta 測試人員。如果您知道您需要的軟體可以在 ARM Windows 上運行，或者 Windows 更新後情況會顯著改善，請考慮在折扣時購買。

    

    Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x

    5/ 10

    Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 是第一批 Copilot+ PC 筆記型電腦之一，具有全天電池續航時間、OLED 螢幕和基於 ARM 的節能 Snapdragon X Elite 晶片組。

    聯想 百思買 1199.99 美元

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