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An early look at the 2024 Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i and Yoga Slim 7i
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@@alextoddslickyou need a brain to think
ikr bro is making me think i am skipping days at this point
yeah because all the companies who make these computers are paying him to upload these lmao
@@jonathanjlevine you comment contained spoilers
Thanks to CES, we can watch 3 Dave videos within 24 hours
@@Umar_Akmal96oh ..kay? Anyhooo, so hows the new lineup of legion laptop
A great day for us all, what a wholesome and informative guy.
make that 4 now lol
You jinxed it! He removed the dual screen laptop
@@Umar_Akmal96 Who's that Pokemon? ... it's Pakichu!
You might have tunnel vision around sound, but I do think it's a really important factor. I've got some jet engines running in some laptops and, if I had known I was going to push them that hard, I might have found something quieter.
What happened to the Dave who would never take sponsor deals to stay unbiased??
Why is this dog barking here!
Dave keeping faithful to fan noise checks and missing print screen button gives me trust
it's not really about bias and more about what this channel is for, showing off cool tech and new devices that most people would find interesting and/helpful. Which is what he did here and what he's been doing since forever.@@simonvutov7575
Best 17 hours of my life. Back to back videos by Dave, what else do you need.
@Umar_Akmal96abe padh to le upar kya likha hai. Chale ate hai muh utha ke.
Yes!!
@@advaitBA Bot hai wo
@Umar_Akmal96 cap lol pakistan aint winning shit lmao
also why is this in the dave2d video LMAO
It's amazing how far the yoga laptops have come. My first laptop Dave did a video on, which was also my first Dave2d video, was the yoga 920, where he peeled a carrot on its sharp edge 🥕
Great to know someone else loves quiet devices as much as I do!
@@Umar_Akmal96 ??
@@Umar_Akmal96 may lamat na utak mo
That's something I love about my MBP compared to my work laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3): it's silent. Especially something like only a Teams video call shouldn't be a noise making thing.
I'm so glad he covered the Yoga series laptops. I'm eating good with these Dave videos coming out daily.
Couldn't agree more!!
agreed but I've been rocking this for over a year now, got my slim for $400 open box at Best Buy. steal, it's been great. Glad to see they threw an RTX in one. maybe that will be my next machine
Thanks! a request to keep all videos in this form factor, like simple set up that matches Dave 2D's simplistic delivery.
Man, I would be super interested in a comparison between the 14 inch 7i with the Core Ultra 7 vs the same chassis with the Ryzen 7840H. Especially when looking at noise levels and efficiency.
The i7 155H is comparable to 7840u in both CPU and GPU performance. It runs hotter and uses more watts/performance tho. The 7840hs still beats it by a 10-15% margin. Source Notebookcheck. Personally just found today a -40% deal from late '23 yoga slim 6 with the former setup and am really happy!
They're looking amazing. I've got a slim modern oled laptop and it's great but these Yoga you reviewed seem to be the pinnacle of the tech.
I'm close to tears! I've been looking soooo long for a powerful but silent windows laptop! Then I was about to give up and was at the blink of the edge to buy a MacBook last week! So thankful for this video, now I'll only have to wait a little bit more :)
Don't do it! You will have to change your whole workflow to get a quieter machine.
Windows are much better than macOS. Some simple tasks are so weird on macOS but I enjoy silence almost a year now with my Mac.
Don't switch... here is m1 max user, worst decision of my life. It's awesome device, that's all, macos is sucks big time, ARM sucks even bigger time. No software, no games. Great battery, screen, trackpad nad keyboard... so you're sitting with this great thing to do nothing, can only recommend this to girls for office, "creative" work, and overall surfing.
For me and my needs Windows are so much better. I use both sistems a lot.@@Promikes
@@Promikes If you didn't research if your programs and games were available on mac that's your fault ngl. Mac is great for video editing, development and basically anything that is graphically demanding. Just because you cant play call of duty on it doesn't make it bad my guy
2:22 "I cannot stress this enough" this is such a good pun
Hp pavilion Plus 14 (68 Wh) with #AMD 7840U has 10 to 11 hours of BATTERY. Hp spectre x360 14 (68 Wh) with #Intel Core ULTRA 7 155H has 14 to 15 hours of BATTERY. 😱 Intel laptops BATTERY life is as good as MacBook M2/M3 even though Intel is using Tiles/Chiplet. Impressive🤯 💪
Zenbook 14 2024 has 15 hours 37min BATTERY
Man CES is the best!! So many videos by Dave!!! 🥳🎉
The usb drive speeds you mention sell USB 3.1 speeds short. It's more like 800mb/s, and my TB3 enclosure usually hits 1200mb/s when boosting in real life workloads, the 2500mb/s is purely theoretical when measuring bandwith with something like sandisk. In my experience it's not USB bandwidth but cache size that makes most of the difference when editing with multiple streams on an external drive - drives start to crawl once the DRAM buffer is full.
That is very true. Hopefully, they have a larger DRAM. I would buy a large internal SSD and just use the external Thunderbolt SSD for storage to keep space on the laptop. I suspect that is what pros do.
Maybe due to 5gbps and 10gbps usb 3 version?
Samsung t5s do only get 500mb/s or less. The t7 does 1gb/s while still on usb 3 and now they've released the t9 which is 2gb/s and it's not thunderbolt it uses 2x2 usb or something. Idk the naming is not great.
Great vid. thank you Dave. A link to that thunderbolt drive would be great.
I have a 14.5" yoga pro 9i (4060, 13905H, 32gb RAM) and they are actually slept on. The cooling is superb (no throttling), screen is great and battery life is to be expected. The build quality is also the best I have seen in any windows laptops.
2:40 Not putting the full CPU name in a chart like that is insanely frustrating. (Ultra 7 155H, Ultra 9 185H, and which i7 was it???)
It's nice to see reviewers mention music production once in a while - thanks for that!
i like these videos man, u made us wait for a long time without any uploads
Sums up my entrie day the three videos of Dave2D!
nice video man!!! i love your content brodie!!!!
I use NoteBook FanControl (NBFC) to keep my laptop very quiet as well while gaming (30 to 35 dB). CPU and GPU do thermal throttle however, but the FPS loss is negligible, from 5 to 10 FPS in most games. My laptop is repasted with PTM7950 and it helps a lot as well.
This. Only downside is, that some models can get quite hot that way, not that it damages them. It's just uncomfortable and can get that plastic smell off the shell of the device in your nose. It does work well, however, as I'm doing the same.
ahhhh sponsored segment. I will say, I am hoping to see laptops start including the Frore Airjet system. So far its the most interesting system I have seen from cooling in the laptop segment.
i believe thats not going to come true in many years. Why? imagine you have so much cooling in a slim laptop and no fan noise. It would make these 1year over year incremental efficiency gains obsolete, crushing this kind of business strategy. Once we have so efficient chips that it wouldnt make a difference anyways thats when we will have these airjet solutions. Evil or not, money dictates.
@@PKperformanceEU sadly I agree with you.
this, Asus g14/16, im really impressed with the new tech. hopefully way more to come
after using my yoga slim 7 with a Ryzen CPU for more than a year, the screen has a very visible imprint of the keyboard that cannot be wiped away. I guess the screen is too flexible and presses on the keys when you close the laptop. I wonder if the new devices suffer the same issue.
I'm so torn between this pro 9i, xps 16 and new asus g16 this year! heat + fan noise and display are top considerations though, so good to see lenovo making them a priority here!
Anecdotal, but I had legitimately the worst experience with customer service for my Lenovo. The ASUS laptops look beautiful with those OLEDs.
Very disappointed with Dell's XPS flagships, I have paint peeling from the keyboard which has never happened to me before in my 10+ years of owning laptops, initial impression is really good but then it falls apart
and no full size SD WTF!!! almost every pro camera still uses SD@@nickjohnson1823
So based on these two peoples comment ^ Asus is the way to go?
@@lonz0_0 It's more that there's no reason to go for Razer. ASUS just crushes it. There are other options out there depending on what your priorities are, but ASUS beats the Razer one in effectively every way.
3 Dave2D vids back-to-back? I’m lovin it!
Hey Dave, would you take a look at some months old HP elitebook 865 G10 ? I know it's out for some months now, but I'm generally interested how usable business oriented premium laptops have become.
Omg I been waiting for dave2d to review these‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
first time seeing Dave releasing 3 videos in one day
They once made this C720 or something. It was a 2 in 1 with dedicated graphics, good stylus support and good screen. Idk when will I get a similar product back. Currently rocking a samsung book 2 360. No graphic card but it supports rest of the needs.
Sadly these days the only things that fit the bill are the MSI Summit E16 Flip Evo, Asus Flow X13 and X16, or the Surface Laptop Studio, but all three series use MPP rather than Wacom. On top of that, the SLS is absurdly overpriced for what you get. The Book4 Pro 360 will likely have integrated graphics that are a bit faster than these gaming handhelds like the ROG Ally and Legion Go, but other than that there really isn't anything else. I honestly wish the Galaxy Book Ultra had pen support, or that they'd put a 4050 in the Book4 Pro 360.
What was the thunderbolt cable and drive Dave used in 3;55?
Love the videos! Would it be possible to keep the graphs/table on screen a tad longer? My pause game ain’t what it used to be and I’m having to rewind each time
How many more videoss, my day is blessed
Grande Dave! Thanks for the video review! 5 stars worth!
Would have been nice to compare battery wirh an amd laptop. So many reviews praise new meteor lake but it is actually just catching up
I can't believe it''s quiet either, that's why we need more tests with recorded samples, not just the numbers. We hope to see them soon on your channel. 👍
Good to see that Dave's getting sponsors, his reviews are really geniune.
2 vids yesterday and another upload today. Dave2D is on fire 🔥🔥🔥
Appreciating the content: 😁 Appreciating back-to-back yt vids fr Dave: ✅
Big fan of lenovo laptops. Personally used the Yoga and carbon x1 as a consultant
Thanks a million man for the review... Really nice insights... Does lenovo offer it in a matte screen version as well?
16inch M1 Pro vs intel core ultra? Should you get a dedicated gpu as well with intel for premiere?
Awesome review, very informative!
Would u recommend these laptops or the new xps 14 and 16 like for balance of productivity work, battery life and slight gaming. Are they comparable?
3 videos in 1 day. well done dave!
I'm excited to see Dave truly excited.
back to back to back, my man is on a roll and im all up on it
For the 9i Pro, you say you got 35 dB from Overwatch. What graphics card are you using? I would also want to see the dB from a 4070 version of the laptop running something like Cyberpunk.
You simply cannot trust sponsored videos these days...
Is it possible to buy these new ultra cores in some laptops or not yet?
It's a shame that this review is sponsored. I was hoping for an unbiased review of this laptop.
What are you opinions on the new Intel Ultra chips compared to Ryzen. I’ve had an IdeaPad 5 Pro 16 for 1.5 years now. It’s like the budget brother of the Yoga Slim 7. It has a 6800HS and RTX 3050 and it gets 8-10 battery life in office work and like 2-4 hours editing or gaming. The noise is not too loud, much better than my brothers G14 but still louder than a MacBook. My laptop doesn’t have the same display and fit and finish as these, but Lenovo had some similar Slim Pro laptops last year with the 7940HS, did you test any of them?
I was just hoping to see in CES 2024 more devices with frore airjet cooling. Unfortunately there is nothing yet. Those coolers are really the next thing for electronic devices
He was previously disappointed in the new Intel chips. Now, in a sponsored video, he's singing them praises. Dave, please don't sell out. Sell Out by Reel Big Fish: "So I signed on to the record company They say they're gonna give me lot's of money If I play what they want you to hear Tell me it's cool, and I'll sure believe it Sell out, with me, oh yea Sell out with me tonight The record company's gonna give me lots of money And everything's gonna be alright"
how do these compare to the zenbook 2024? 14OLED? particularly the fan noise.
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Kind of crazy they can do this on x86 platform where apple is on ARM. I wonder how much better intel could get with the efficiency from ARM
How good is the Pro 9i for gaming? In comparison to something like the new G16?
i got a yoga slim 7 14 with the exclusive 7640S a few months ago and it's a beast. specced it out and it came to £680 with a student discount (base model was like 1k lol). 2K OLED panel looks beautiful. All I had to do was give up a touch screen and the OS preinstalled. The cooling solution is just insane for the from factor, and the performance is nuts. Handles all my music production needs without breaking a sweat. Integrated GPU performance with the 760M is a little more than the GTX 1050. And doing idle tasks like note taking and browsing, it can last a good 7-8hrs on battery. Wild.
Was thinking of doing the same, but then the Intel arc ideapads came out, and now...I just don't know. How are the trackpad and keyboard on your laptop?
£68 Are you sure?
@@Alhussainba haha missed a zero
Is the intel Athena program still not running? The whole point is what Dave mentioned in th3 first minute.
Cool! Thanks for sharing it. ✌️
The problem with paid sponsored videos is that it is a paid sponsored video.
It is also 35db quiet while gaming more demanding game with 4070 in performance mode?
Exactly my thoughts. I want to know the noise Level in Cyberpunk oder Witcher 3
Sounds great, I like & own multiple Lenovo laptops. That said I just tried a MacBook Pro (M3) for the first time and it's pretty amazing. I wonder if Lenovo is quite in that league yet regarding battery life & quietness.
Battery life will be shorter, but still pretty good. Windows as an OS supports so much wide range of hardware that power states of the various components are not as optimized. Thus we can see batter lives at over 10 hours on Windows, but (especially with nice displays) we will not be seeing 15+h. Regardless anything over 8h would be fine for me as it lasts the time I need it to last.
@@InnocentiusLacrimosamy m1 max 14 MacBook pro is only like 3-4 hour working on it, and maybe 5 streaming, I don't know about what 10 hours people are talking... yes I have always WhatsApp, telegram, browser with 50+ tabs, so this clinical benchmarks do, it's great, but your 10 or 15 hours is a joke.
@@Promikes That is somewhat comforting. Anyhow, on my Windows machines the battery life is very much affected by my work habits and power profile. Same powerful machine can be 2h on other settings and 8h on other. Due to my work, I mostly use upgradeable gaming laptops which will chew through battery fast if at 100% cpu & gpu states. I guess that your computer use habits also keep the cpu & igpu active almost constantly.
do you know why the flow series line up didn't get a 2024 refresh like the other rog models?
@Dave2D Can you review the smaller one or just tell us if it's so silent as well?
Thank you ces for these videos
There seems to be a Lenovo Yoga Pro 7i (14.5") in addition to the Yoga Slim 7i (14") available outside the US, any comments on this other model relative to the Pro 9i (16")
Does those have the new Lenovo TGX port for e-gpu ?
dk if I should get a 16 inch macbook pro M1 Pro, or a windows laptop with the intel core ultra....
Dave, we definitely need a new video on the new Intel naming scheme
Can you benchmark this for autodesk revit and for unreal engine 5? Plsss I've been looking for this type of laptop just to know if its a good enough for minimum work for architecture to supplement my pc. All i need it to do is to use those app for small revision pr presentation.. I just want to have a laptop that looks like na pro 7i with the screen of that yoga 9..
Hi Dave (not that you'll see this) can you do a video on what monitors Lenovo have coming up this year?
any idea when release date is for the 2024 Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i ?
On a separate note, I own the 9i with a Core i9/RTX2070 and the BIOS software is quite cool. It allows yoyu to run the laptop on "quiet mode", which reduces the fans speed to avoid noise. This obviously makes the laptop run hotter but nice feature to have in case it's needed.
Hi Dave, good review as always. 👍🏻 can you review Z series from Lenovo, specially new AMD processor. They claim more then 15 hours of battery life on these devices.
Looks like there is finally some real competition to MacBooks or rather the niche they are occupying. Quite refreshing and it hopefully leads to lower prices there as maybe Apple is now a tiny bit under pressure now.
competition? no. Viable options, yes. This core 9 185h doesnt come close to even just a 12c M3pro, let alone any of the m3max. But at least now we are not only limited to macbooks. Tbh im willing to take this lack of cpu performance over a macbook as windows has much more softwares available and windows ARM is absolute garbage so not really an option if you want macbook with windows availability.
Not yet, Apple Silicon reigns as king in mobile.
lol no. A MacBook would still destroy this thing, not to mention how cheap these laptops look compared to a Mac.
Yeah, these are such nice devices. Especially when they are also running Windows OS, which has access to all the software that I need for work. Mac OS is unfortunately severely gimped on software side.
Quite fascinating that after all these years PCs are still playing catch up to Mac products and they are just getting close.
Has Lenovo fixed the hinges in the most recent laptops? The hinge is attached to the frame with a screw threaded in a plastic piece, so it ends up breaking It happened to both hinges of my laptop (different occasions) and found that it’s a common issue
no, they will never fix it and my general advice as a laptop technician is to never buy Yoga and always go for the higher-tier ThinkPads. Yogas will often fail shortly after warranty expires (2,5 to 3 years).
Also the fragile power button AND reset button. Why does a laptop need a power button on the side??
How does the ultra 9 compare to. Something like i7 latest gen? Or like the i9 i would love to know
You can review the web camera as well?
As a current Yoga user, it has surpassed my expectations. I’m glad this upcoming year they doubled down on their creative identity. I’ll wait for a Thunderbolt 5 option before upgrading. The yoga laptop already had amazing battery life, but it is loud. My guess is that the battery life is a sleight improvement but the improvement is more about how quiet (efficient) they are.
I'm HONESTLY wondering Amd zen5 variants with these ...
How would you compare pro 9i to zephyrus g16, your initial impression. It is clear that they target a bit different audiences but might still be a close choice for many
my wife got this 14" 7i pro 2023 version with rtx 4050, it runs well & quiet with even the older intel cpu. got to play new AAA games with high settings for dozens of hours with no throttling.
Laptops for creative work were not up to the task? What about nVidia Quattro and RTX A series?
Which is that thunderbolt drive that Dave is using?
I look forward to the student laptop choice for 2024!
Was looking for an HP Spectre 2024 video.. Could you do one?
Dave can you suggest a good budget gaming laptop?
Can you run some cpu and gaming benchmarks on Core Ultra 9 Asus Zenbook Duo?
Dave has released 4 videos within a day. Dave is in his Kobe year.
The Yoga hinge is terrible (no one-finger open, as you saw when he opened it). Not to mention the fans on my old Yoga broke after like only a few months.
I love how Dave just casually flexes his AW3225QF on the desk behind him. 😂
Let's hope the Lenovo Legion is also built with the same improvements applied. A bit more power balanced with reasonable power consumption and fan noise.
Can we just take a second and really appreciate the rounded corners of the screen?
@Dave2D, to be honest, this video actually looked like a sponsored video, even on your narrative. The display, both the FHD+ OLED and the 16" 3.2K Mini LED is not new, they are even present in lenovo's 2023 lineup of the predecessors of these two laptops already. Only update is the Intel meteorlake but saying that Intel's new chip made these kind of new laptops possible is incorrect. AMD's Zen 3+ (6000 series) and Zen 4 (7400 series) have been providing this kind of efficiency and high integrated Graphics performance for 2 years now. Only problem is due to pressure from Intel, none of these brands put AMD chips in their premium series or make it extremely difficult to get, even if they release one. Just use a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Gen 8 with Ryzen 7 7840S(lenovo's custom tuning to the Zen 4) and you'll see that all the features, performance, efficiency, battery life you have discussed, are already there.
I have got one of the 2023 lenovo slim pro 7s upon hearing many good reviews about them like this one. Lenovo QC is shit, I had the computer for 2-3 months. During sleep it heats up for no reason(probably some ridicilous process running in the background) and it burnt the hardware. I was unable to boot (no hard drive detected) and had to send it for repairs. They changed the whole motherboard (should have been fun :)). I have the computer back and the issue persists. I cannot close the lid so I use it on shutdown on closing the lid. I don't know how much these reviewers are getting paid. It is always good things about these laptops. Maybe my experience is an exception but it was a waste of money. Just wanted to vent.
Acer also have that stranger heat up as well, I curious too.
Great. Now we're getting somewhere But I don't like that design mix with rounded at the bottom and squared at the top I prefer the latter for a clean sharp look
Is the Galaxy Ultra book 4 the same as this device? It would be interesting to see how they compare.
what animation was playing on the yoga pro 9i? Great video as always👍
My question too