Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 - Insane Battery Life! By Matthew Moniz

By Matthew Moniz
Aug 14, 2021
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Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 - Insane Battery Life!

What is up everybody welcome to my first live stream: that's an actual review, not an unboxing, an actual review, or I've kind of taken, b-roll and tested the laptop already and combine these interactive elements into this style of a live stream. This is a test, most importantly, after this live stream is done. Please, please. Let me know in the comments section down below if you like this style, and you want to see more live streams that focus on a more interactive review, a quick shout out to python a quick shout out to Eleanor and everybody entering the chat. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day for this live stream. Now this is a special laptop because it is a mid-ranger.

That's priced fairly well, well, depending on which model you decide to go with. This is the Lenovo IdeaPad slim7 and- and this is a laptop that weighs about three pounds and um. It's its a good increase volume. Hey is the volume okay just to make sure I think the volume is okay. I think we're good all right volume, let's go volume is not good make.

My man, what it's not high enough, how about now is the volume okay. Now, how does the volume sound, okay, volume's? Fine guys? I think you guys are losing it okay. Here we go um, you guys totally just ruined my flow. I hope you're happy totally just ruined my flow anyways. This is the idea pad slim, seven, it's a three pound laptop great mid-ranger, fantastic for back to school.

It's a good option. The big thing about this laptop that a lot of people are looking for is the fact that it uses the new AMD Ryzen processors. This is a 4 800. U, inside here, that's eight cores, and I know a lot of people are looking at this guy and thinking should they buy this, or should they spend less money and buy the flex 5, because the flex 5 is about 600 us? This is a cheaper laptop and yes, technically, the specs are a little slower, but the 4500u is very equivalent to an intel, i5 processor, in fact a bit faster in certain instances. So here's the big deal three pounds for the IdeaPad slim 3.3 pounds for the flex 5. The IdeaPad slim is an entirely metal chassis, there's not that much flex.

On top of the deck it's a thinner laptop than the flex 5. As you can see right here, the flex 5 on the right hand, side is significantly thicker and the, but they do have the same. Ports like the port lineup is fairly similar. Now, with the idea pad, you have an USB type-c power delivery which uses a 65 watt brick compared to a barrel, connector type of style on the flex 5. They both have HDMI.

They both have USB type-c, obviously not thunderbolt 3, since it's using an AMD processor and then, of course you have your headphone jack. On the other side, you have your power button on the slim7 two USB ports micro SD card slot. The only benefit of moving downwards towards the flex 5. Are you get a full size, SD card slot? Now the power button just happens to be here instead of the back, like you have on the slim 7 and of course you have two USB ports on the flex 5. Now this is a beautiful laptop like you know it.

It looks a lot like the cheaper ones, but they're they're improving certain materials in order to put it in line with the mid-range category. The other thing to note is that this display is not a type of display that can be flipped, 360 degrees. If you want that, you have to go with the yoga. The most it can do is a 180 degree format, so you can put it all the way back almost to the back of the desk, which is pretty close, but you can't flip it 360 degrees. Now some of you might be familiar with the slim 7 in in in different markets, and if you are a lot of the specs in that laptop, are very identical to the specs inside this guy.

Now, let's just a quick little look at the keyboard deck here, it's the same keyboard layout as the flex 5. It's using Lenovo's u-shaped keys, but it doesn't have a nipple. This is a nipple free, laptop okay. If you want the red nipple, you got to spend the money. You got to move yourself up to the thing pad, because the ThinkPad is the laptop with uh the nipple technology.

Now these are u-shaped. They do have a slightly smaller travel distance. The the key press is about 1.3 millimeters of travel distance. Both of these laptops have backlighting. I don't know if you can see it on this, but if I hit function space bar I can cycle through the different levels of backlighting, which is kind of nice.

For some reason, my chat has just completely stopped. Let's just restart that now intake grilles are in the same portion. They both support Dolby at most. The difference, though, is that the touchpad is a bit diff different like on the right hand, side you have a more proportionally sized touchpad, whereas on the IdeaPad slim 7, the touchpad is a bit more horizontal, giving you more horizontal space, but that's only because the actual chassis is a smaller form factor than the flex. Five.

Now sticker placement look, you know, Lenovo's guy usually does a pretty good job. You usually know they're in line they're, not too crooked he's a solid, solid sticker guy, but you know he's he's kind of slacking on the slim 7. Like. If you take a look over here, the sticker placement is a bit crooked. You know I don't want to hit.

I don't want to hate on uh lenovo's sticker guy too much because uh he's not as bad as let's say acres, but gotta step it up. Lenovo, you got. You got to put your sticker guy in good training. Okay. Now there is a little of flex on the keyboard on both of these laptops.

It's not huge, but you know it's its there. I would say it's slightly more on the flex 5, but again this is more of a budget spent laptop compared to the IdeaPad slim 7. Now, when it comes to the display, as I mentioned before, it doesn't rotate 360 degrees. The most you can do is 180 like this. Now some of you might like that, because it can go lie down flat on your desk, if maybe so, you're passing the laptop to somebody.

But if you want one that can rotate all the way around in sort of like a tablet like form factor, then you got to go with the yoga slim 7. Now this display is significantly better than the display on the flex.5. and the reason being, is you just have much better color accuracy? You have better color gamut, it's a brighter display, like 387 nits of brightness. So if you take this thing outdoors you're going to be able to see it like you're, going to be able to look at it and have a good experience now there is an infrared camera at the top of the display, but it's its! It's not windows, hello! If you want windows, hello, you have to, pay extra and get let's say a ThinkPad which will have it embedded at the top of the display. Camera quality is not that great, I'm not even to waste my time showing you because there's just no point but um, you can open up this laptop using one hand.

So there's like a little indent that sticks outwards and if you place your finger up here ever so nicely, you can open up the entire display. Speakers are generally on the top of the deck. This time they are using Dolby Atmos we're gonna, do a speaker test in a second, but um Lenovo usually does a better job with their speaker quality compared to other manufacturers. Like you know, some p, some companies just don't take speaker quality that seriously. So I have to give credit to Lenovo.

Even you know, placing better speakers on their budget and mid-range laptops now, to show you guys the speaker quality, I'm going to load it up on both laptops. It's the only thing that I don't have pre-recorded, because I find these are better to do live since you can kind of hear the difference live and there's no like uh pre-recorded stuff going on, but I'm just going to load up anything. I'm going to look go to my epidemic sound over here. I'm gonna load up YouTube on this computer because the chat is frozen on my other one, okay, I'm going to log in, I think, there's if I remember correctly, there's quad speakers inside here. So it's gonna, give good sound all right, make sure you guys don't see this I'll, I'll switch the camera in one second, as soon as I log in we will do a little sound test, all right.

So trending, let's go here, we'll play this guy here we go alright. So this is the sound coming from the slim 7. Let's get a little base, okay, so that is the slim seven, and now we're going to play the flex 14 doing the same thing. I have a feeling the speakers are going to sound. Exactly the same.

That's just my gut feeling! All right! You guys! Let me know which one sounds better. This is the flex five. I don't know this. They sound, they sound a lot alike. I'm not seeing a huge difference in terms of speaker quality, but they do sound very, very familiar now.

For those of you curious about the actual specs of my unit, the one I have here is the dozen 7 4 800 EU, with 16 gigabytes of ram. This is a 14-inch display full HD 60 hertz display 512 gigabytes, NVMe SSD. Now this unit costs more than 899 dollars the base model, the 4700 you that you guys see on Lenovo's website costs, 900, USD or 1300 Canadian. It's about 0.9 kidneys for universal currency. This model here costs about an extra 100 bucks or so now internally.

There are some differences between this model and the flex 5, and we're going to go over that right. Now, I'm going to show you guys the differences between both of these laptops, I'm just going to open it up, so you guys can see the internals I've already taken off all the screws. I don't have to do that on camera. Annoying me I'll, probably all right. So this on the right hand, side is the flex, and then this, on the left hand, side is going to be the idea pad all right.

So there is a big difference between both of these laptops, so flex, 5, IdeaPad, slim 7. , as you can see, the battery inside the slim 7 is massive, even though technically it's not a big battery in real life, it's only 60 watt hours, but it takes up almost half of the laptop, whereas in comparison you have a 51 watt hour battery inside uh, the flex. Five and trust me. It makes a big difference in terms of battery life. The battery life you get from the slim pad or idea pad slim seven is significantly more, even though it's only nine watt hours bigger now.

The cooling solution is also different, as well with the flex 5. You only have one fan with two copper heat pipes, cooling, the CPU and integrated GPU, whereas with the slim 7, you get two fans with one big heat, pipe cooling, the CPU and integrated GPU. Now in terms of upgrading, you have one slot here for your ram. This is upgradable and the other part of your memory is eight gigabytes. That's soldered onto the motherboard! You can't access it.

You can't upgrade it, so technically you can only have a max of 24 gigabytes of ram inside here. However, I would probably just leave it at 16, so you can take advantage of dual channel configuration since the other. Stick is eight gigabytes as well. Um here, look hard drive, speeds or NVMe. SSD speeds on this guy are perfect.

They're over 3 000, like 32, to be precise, it's exactly 32, 46, read and about 2203 megabytes right, so a very good NVMe SSD, and this big battery literally net me 19 hours and 15 minutes of use. That's insane like 19 hours of battery life. This is with the screen at 30 brightness, where that's almost a full day, like that's almost a full day. The funny thing is the 19 hours and 15 minutes that I got on this guy was done in intelligent cooling mode. This is like the default mode for this laptop.

If you drop it down to battery savings mode, you'd think you'd get more battery life, but I actually got a little. Less only got 18 hours and 53 minutes either way. That's still an insane amount of battery life. Now in comparison, the flex 5 feels sorry in comparison, the flex 5 gets about 9 hours of battery life, so you get significantly more battery life with the IdeaPad slim 7. Now, in terms of upgrading, you know SSDs and stuff, like that, I don't see any extra slots to place one just this little slot right here.

You can probably uh do a smaller form factor, NVMe SSD, on this side. So technically you could have two drives inside this. I'm guessing the other. NVMe drive is soldered onto the motherboard and then um actually is this. Well, let's take this off.

I think this is oh, sorry. This is the NVMe SSD. This is not the ram I apologize. So this is your one NVMe SSD slot, and then this is potentially a second slot. If you want to place another drive, all 16 gigabytes of ram is soldered onto the motherboard, so whatever configuration you decide to buy, that's all the ram you're going to get which is kind of unfortunate, whereas on this guy it's the same sort of situation like if I was to take this off.

This is your solder soldered memory on the motherboard, and then you have one slot for your drive and then that's basically it is like you. You can't upgrade anything else now, unfortunately, you don't have access to the Wi-Fi six cards. So if you want to swap that out, you can't- which is probably not a big deal, because at the end of the day like, why would you Wi-Fi six is like the future and the pretty most Wi-Fi six cards that are inside these laptops are super solid, but the big deal is performance, like a lot of people are gravitating towards these AMD processors because of the performance like you're. Getting a lot of value for its price point like to have eight cores inside a laptop like to give is bonkers. You know, and a lot of people want value to performance as much as possible.

They don't want to spend lots of money on a laptop, that's going to perform slower than um than this guy right. So right now it's a good thing. However, I think, as like the future goes forward. There's going to be a lot of changes. People are going to find out that AMD is going to finally increase their prices as more and more people buy AMD laptops over intel ones.

This is assuming intel can't get their act together and start selling faster CPUs. With the same sort of quality now, performance is interesting because, if you're doing like a simple cine bench score, you know to see how fast the CPU runs. This thing dominates, like literally look at this 3500. This is beating out an eight core h series processor from a gigabyte, aero, hp omen, and all these other laptops like that is that's impressive. Like super impressive, like how many laptops like do that, why did that like go away? That's weird! Okay, like that's super impressive, like to be able to have that type of performance in an u-series processor, but there is a catch though there is a catch, even though this laptop is dominating other laptops in terms of sheer CPU performance.

It's doing something bad in order to get there and- and it's not a good thing, and I'll explain that to you in a second okay, GPU performance, it's an integrated GPU. The Vega chip that's inside here is about as good as like a MX, 250 or 350, depending on the the laptop you're buying. You can game on this, but you're not going to be like you're not going to be like gaming. The latest games with super high settings. You can play some more well optimized titles from the past like overwatch, and fall guys, for example.

Now when it comes to the adobe seat, suite, that's where the? U series of AMD processors completely fall apart. I don't know what it is, and this is probably not an AMD problem. This is probably more to do with adobe's optimizations in general, but it completely falls apart, like for photoshop, for example, this is using a superior processor compared to all these other intel based laptops. You see here, and it came in second last place. Okay, uh 4800u should beat out a MacBook in photoshop like an i5 MacBook without any issues, but it came in second last place to all these four core i7 intel processors and the same thing holds true when it comes to Adobe Premiere pro like with premiere pro, this laptop just couldn't perform.

It came last. It doesn't matter which i5 or i7 intel laptop that I put up against this. Furthermore, it completely fell flat on its face. The funny thing, though, as soon as you use an AMD processor, that's a h series paired with an NVIDIA card. Things are fine.

Things are great. It's only when you drop to the u series process or using their integrated GPU. Does this sort of chip fall significantly behind when it comes to the adobe suite now this makes me feel like this is obviously an adobe problem. Their software is obviously not optimized for the integrated Vega GPUs inside these Ultrabooks, because their h-series processors paired with NVIDIA GPUs, are flying their doing a fantastic job when it comes to the adobe suite now the reason why you're seeing such high scores in cine bench compared to all these h series laptops is due to one simple fact: this laptop is getting really, really hot, and I mean ridiculously hot AMD's. Threshold for CPUs is 105 degrees Celsius.

This thing is getting hotter in a than 105 degrees Celsius, so, for example, this is uh intelligent mode. So, there are three profiles that you can use on this laptop, intelligent mode, performance mode or battery savings, intelligent mode. We're looking at 100 to 102 to 105 degrees Celsius. Okay, that's ridiculous! This is an oven cooker, you're going to be cooking eggs all day on this thing, if you put it on performance mode, which is what you see right here now it's the same sort of idea, 108 degrees. Sometimes it hits 108 degrees Celsius.

Now, don't get me wrong. The CPU performance is through the roof. It's unbelievable you're, getting like clock speeds of over three gigahertz, but the CPU is just ridiculously hot and that's unacceptable for any laptop, like the longevity of this machine. Won't be that great. Now, if you're, just basically doing you know like everyday tasks, and you're, not pushing your laptop, then you're fine, you know, but if you're constantly pushing those cores to its full potential, if you're doing any sort of like compiling code or anything, that's utilizing all the cores constantly, then it's not gonna.

It's not going to be good for the longevity of this machine, but if you go into the battery savings mode, that's when you finally get better thermals when battery savings is being completely pushed to its max. The CPU temperatures drop to about 80 degrees so goes down to 80 degrees, but you end up losing some of that performance, because clock speeds start to hover around 2.2 gigahertz. So it depends on what you're, using this laptop for, if, if, if you're buying it, because you want to use this thing for like just browsing the web listening to music- maybe pushing it every once in a while, then I personally feel like you- have nothing to worry about, but if you're going to be like rendering files all day, compiling code combined cold compiling code all day, then the CPUs inside here are going to get really hot, and it might affect the longevity of the CPU inside here. So that's something that needs to be fixed. The thermals inside this laptop okay- and that brings me to fan noise.

Now I've tested all three profiles. If you leave this on uh battery savings mode, you're, looking at around 40 decibels, which is really acceptable, you don't hear the fans they're not loud, which is great for if you're in class or at the office, and you're. Just simply taking notes, if you, if you bump it up to intelligent cooling, then the fan noise is going to hit around 48 decibels, which is a little louder. You're going to hear this. Okay, like this, you start hearing the fans they're not annoying to the point where it's no good to use, but you will hear the fans now, if you put it on performance mode fan.

Noise goes closer to six around 55 decibels, so it starts to get a bit too loud. So if you're in class keep it on battery savings mode, you're, looking at 40 decibels, if you're, not in class, and you're at home- and you want to push it- you can leave it on performance mode, but decibels will pump up to about 57 if you leave it on intelligent cooling, which is their default mode you're. Looking at around 48 decibels, which I showed you over here, so I think that's it- I mean. I think I pretty much covered everything about this laptop it is it has. It has great performance with great performance, but it gets way too hot.

It has insane battery life. Some of the best battery life I've tested this year, 19 hours of battery life. The build quality is fantastic, like perfect, build quality, it's light, it's portable, and it's very easy to use. It has a really great display. Okay turn on has a fantastic display: full HD, 60 hertz IPS much better than what you'd get on the flex 15.

, it's not touch, which is unfortunate, but overall it's a great display. If you want to touch display, then you have to go with the actual yoga slim or buy one of Lenovo's laptops. That's a poor touch. That is so. I think that pretty much wraps up my review on the Lenovo IdeaPad slim7, what do you guys think of this style of live stream? Where I incorporated some b-roll and other specs? Do you want to see more videos that use a live stream, or should I just stick to making uh the regular reviews that are done in like four to five minutes? If you want in the meantime, let me know your feedback and also, if you have any questions about this laptop, let's do 10 minutes, and I'd be happy to answer them.

Does it have macro support? What do you mean by macro support the power button? Placement is fine. It's on the side like it's. It's not that it's right here. I don't think it's a big deal. So python loves, it loves the style of review.

Happy duck says this is dope. Garth ix says Matt shut up. I don't want to see a live stream ever again. Do the review. Do you think the r5 version will have the same display which one's the r5 version? Oh, the idea pad 5! That's a good question.

I think it'll be somewhere in the middle. Well, they can always watch the live stream afterwards, python. It's on my YouTube channel. If you want Indian prices, you're going to have to check India. I don't have Indian prices.

Thank you, Brian. Oh, is there macro keys? No there's! No macro keys. It's just your function, keys on the top of the device, there's not any actual macro keys to bind things to you're thinking of gaming. I mean there are some laptops that have it, but mostly you're. Looking at like a gaming laptop that has it this versus the swift 3.

Um. I like the build quality better on this, and the performance is better on this, but I, like the cooling better on the swift three doesn't get nearly as hot. This gets way too hot. There is no thunderbolt 3. It's an AMD.

Processor testicles love the format. How much is this one? In Canadian? The price of this guy in Canadian is uh 1294 for the 4700? U version! That's the base cost this one's a bit more expensive, the one I'm reviewing today, it's around probably around 14 1500 Canadian, any chance of you getting the yoga slim profile. No, there's no chance! I mean I'm not going to get it. It's pretty much! The same processor, oh, oh yoga, slim 7! Pro! Sorry! I misunderstood you yeah! I definitely want to get the yoga slim 7 pro into the studio, so um once that comes in I'll definitely review it. That laptop looks very interesting, along with uh Lenovo's new legion, thin laptop that they just released.

That also looks pretty awesome, swift, five, I haven't reviewed it yet, but it looks cool so compiling code on this is fine. That's the one area that AMD processors completely crush the competition. If you're buying this to compile codon, it's its fantastic, it is absolutely fantastic, and it'll beat out most windows laptops with similar specs. The only area that it does suffer in, like I mentioned before, is uh. The adobe suite, like I said like the performance, is, is just not that great compared to the competition again.

I think this is something to do with adobe's optimizations and not so much with AMD's hardware does not play Witcher 3 definitely play solitaire, but not cod war zone um. Do you show off the charge or the charger? I don't have here it's in the box, but it's like those little. It's like those little um black. It's like this big, like this big. This thin about, like that size, the charging brick this is terrible.

This is a terrible way to review it's about that size. It's an USB type c, and it's a 65 watt charging brick. The graphics card, I think, is a Vega 8. If I remember correctly, it's an integrated GPU, it does have Wi-Fi six. It does support USB type-c charging a lot of this already answered, but you can see here USB type c.

This is power, delivery for USB type-c charging. It comes with an USB type-c 65-watt charger. Oh, I also forgot to mention it has rapid pro charging, so you can. You can use fast charge to charge this laptop. I think in like 15 minutes, you'll get like a couple of hours of battery life, something ridiculous like that.

Okay, I think. That's it. I think we're going to wrap it up guys. Thank you so much for joining my live review. Please uh feel free to hit the like button.

That'll mean a lot to me. It also helps the video also any feedback for these live streams for future videos. That would be greatly appreciated if you could just drop them in the comment section, not the chat. So I could see it. That would be greatly appreciated because if you guys are really enjoying these live reviews and live unboxing, I'd like to continue doing them and any feedback, how I can make them better or or or if you don't want to see them at all.

I would greatly appreciate if you could, let me know in the comments section down below Lenovo 7i Lenovo legion, 7i, review videos coming out this week, a bunch about wells with a bunch of other stuff, so stay tuned for that today, NVIDIA is announcing their new 3000 series GPUs, so stay tuned. For that it starts in about an hour and a half. I might live stream that on twitch, so if you're interested in hanging out on twitch and watching the NVIDIA live stream, twitch. TV Matt moneys, thanks again for sticking around. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to watch this.

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