1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,440 Intel Panther Lake laptops have been rolling out for a couple months now and 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:12,640 you know it's nice to see Intel sort of return to form. So we've got a bunch of 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:18,880 designs with nice battery life, powerful cores, we got new XE graphics cores in 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:21,240 there and it's enabling some pretty nice 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:25,000 thin and light Windows laptop design. So Lenovo Yoga and Intel sponsored this 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:30,600 video so we could take a look at the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition. 7 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,920 Now Lenovo did send us the engineering sample 8 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:39,120 before the launch of the laptop so I'm not sure whether the packaging will look 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:46,240 exactly like this for you but for us it comes with this 65 watt adapter the 10 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,800 USB-C. See how long that is. 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:55,000 Oh oh whoa it's even longer than what is that? That's 6 feet at least. 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:59,080 But yeah that's 65 watt and you can plug that into any one of the three 13 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:04,760 Thunderbolt 4 ports that is on this thing which we'll take a look at now. 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,320 Okay as for the laptop itself let's take 15 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:11,760 the wow that's very nice. All right let's take a look 16 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:15,160 see here. Okay I'm getting thin and light feel from this. I feel like I 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:21,000 could flip this around. I could I could do a little 18 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:24,360 immediately I notice this very thin edge. I mean you know it tapers 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,840 obviously a little bit like the the laptop is not actually as thin as a 20 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:33,160 USB-C port. In case you're wondering the specific thickness is 13.9 mm that way. 21 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:39,600 And in terms of weight I mean like I said it doesn't feel super heavy. It is 22 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:41,480 apparently 1.14 kg or about 2 and 1/2 lb 23 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:46,040 and Lenovo says that's thanks to the aluminum alloy construction that they 24 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:50,800 got going on here. This is the lunar gray colorway but apparently it comes in 25 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:55,120 seashell if you like a little bit more pop. Okay let's see what we're dealing 26 00:01:52,520 --> 00:02:00,840 with in terms of ports. On this side we got two Thunderbolt 4 ports and activity 27 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:05,600 light or some kind of LED there. On the other side, we've got another 28 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:09,039 Thunderbolt 4 port, the power button, 29 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:11,280 and a physical switch that controls the 30 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:15,080 e-shutter on the camera. So, it doesn't have a physical shutter that covers the 31 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:19,480 camera, but it has an e-shutter, which will like electronically disable the 32 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:24,760 camera. Now, on the bottom, we've got a nice big grill here for fan intake, and 33 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:28,800 then it will exhaust out the back of the unit. We've got speakers pointing 34 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,480 downwards. These are the woofers. There's four speakers on board, two 35 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:37,160 woofers there. Uh we've also got the nice like rubbery feet here. And then 36 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,320 we've got two tweeters 37 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:45,680 up here. And up here we can we can also see a nice big trackpad, too. I like 38 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:51,280 that the Windows laptops have gone in that direction. And then we have the 39 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,280 keyboard, which 40 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:57,840 yeah, feels feels pretty nice. Got a got a satisfying tactile bump there. There is 41 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,959 a little bit of flex there, which you can see, but you know, that's always 42 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:05,200 going to be a bit of a trade-off uh with a thin and light laptop. If you want a 43 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:08,239 big chunky indestructible thing, then yeah, you you know, you're going to have 44 00:03:06,519 --> 00:03:13,600 less of that. There's three available processors that you can get with this 45 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:15,920 one. We have the Intel Core Ultra 7 355, 46 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:21,360 but you can also get the Ultra 5 325 or the Ultra 5 322. So, we got the upgraded 47 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:29,519 one with the touchscreen, Pure Sight Pro OLED 2880 by 1800 display, and at 14 in 48 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:32,080 that gives us a 16 by 10 aspect ratio. 49 00:03:29,519 --> 00:03:36,320 We got a 120 Hz display here, which to me is is immediately obvious when I move 50 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:42,480 around this Dota 2 icon. That's my standard test. And it's capable of 500 51 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:45,239 nits in SDR mode, but it's a nice OLED 52 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:49,360 display, you know, it supports HDR, and you have to plug in to get HDR, but once 53 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:54,120 you do that and enable it, it gets up to 1,100 nits. And apparently, Labs did a 54 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:57,240 bunch of testing on the color, and they think that the HDR mode is pretty good. 55 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,320 So, I'm going to take a look at that in a little bit. Some other things about 56 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:07,480 the system, the one we have has 16 GB of RAM, and we've got a 1 TB SSD in here 57 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,720 that's a PCIe 4.0 model. Now, with 58 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:13,440 internal hardware in mind, as much as I want to talk more about the display and 59 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:18,760 how it's beautiful, and we will talk about that in a second, we're going to go through the Labs results first. First 60 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:23,680 up, we got Puget Bench scores for Photoshop and Premiere Pro. In 61 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:27,400 Photoshop, we got 6230, and in Premiere Pro, 21,883. 62 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:32,280 Now, those are not going to be at the very, very top of the stack, but for a 63 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:37,280 thin and light laptop, it's pretty respectable numbers. And we're seeing 64 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,560 those Intel Panther Lake chops coming 65 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:45,480 into play here. Speaking of Intel chops, the Core Ultra 7 355 in this laptop 66 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:51,040 comes with four XE cores, which I believe are classified as just Intel 67 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:52,919 graphics, not as an Arc GPU. However, uh 68 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:56,640 in Intel graphics software, it does have a drop-down here for XESS frame 69 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:01,280 generation override. So, if you want to use their latest Intel XESS multi-frame 70 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:05,440 generation to maybe try and push a little bit more out of the hardware, you 71 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:10,000 can. However, this is what our Labs team found without doing any of that fancy 72 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:13,240 stuff. In Rocket League at max settings, we got an average FPS of 99. You can 73 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:18,400 play Rocket League on this thing, no problem. Dota 2 is uh maybe a little bit 74 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:22,880 more demanding. We got 71 for an average FPS on there. And to throw a heavy 75 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:28,919 hitter at it, we got Cyberpunk 2077 at medium preset, and we got under 30 FPS, 76 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:32,760 but 28, pretty close. I don't know if I would try it here. You got the 77 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:38,720 multi-frame gen though, maybe worth giving it a shot. It's not a gaming 78 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:40,440 laptop, but it can game, depending. And 79 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:45,720 it'll run AI features if you're running those locally uh fairly well, with up to 80 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:48,840 100 tops of performance shared across 81 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,760 the NPU, GPU, and CPU. Whatever you're 82 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:54,640 doing though, one big advantage of Intel Panther Lake is pretty good battery 83 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:59,520 life. This thing has a 70 watt hour battery in it, and our Labs team, during 84 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:04,600 our standard battery test, this thing lasted for 12 hours, over 12 hours, 85 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,720 streaming a 1080p video off of a Plex server, which is not bad. I mean, we see 86 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:15,000 high-powered laptops in our test getting like 10 hours or less, so 12 hours, it's 87 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:18,320 a testament to these new Panther Lake E cores that they got in here. And the 88 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:22,960 story is not too shabby for charging time as well. This thing took 1 hour and 89 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:26,400 57 minutes to charge from 0 to 100% according to Labs. I'll also just say, 90 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:33,120 before we get on to the color and the speakers, that this thing comes with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. Panther Lake 91 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:37,560 kind of bringing those standards up to par for the current day. Okay, finally, 92 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:42,320 this beautiful OLED display. I want to see my favorite crabs on it and listen 93 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:47,160 to the speakers. So, we've got this board here. The Labs team was like, 94 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:51,720 "Please play audio on a hard surface. It'll It'll That's what it's meant to 95 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:54,440 be. In the wild, laptops play audio on these." It's so the mat doesn't dampen 96 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,840 the speakers as much, and we get a more accurate understanding. All right, come 97 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,840 at me, crabs. 98 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:10,080 Okay. It's not blowing my socks off, but 99 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,240 there's like a healthy amount of volume there. It is an interesting setup 100 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:16,600 they've got with the woofers pointing down and the tweeters pointing up. 101 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:21,760 That's pretty good. And I mentioned that the colors of the trees and the bodies 102 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:27,000 of my friends here looked pretty good. And Labs found that this display is 103 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:31,000 actually very impressively color accurate. Now, it's pretty easy to 104 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:36,800 change the color profile that your laptop is in using the Lenovo Vantage 105 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:40,040 app. Labs says that the default color profile that it comes with, colors are 106 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,680 all going to look pretty nice out of the box. However, according to their 107 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:51,160 testing, the best modes to use if you want to use in SDR mode are going to be 108 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:52,800 the sRGB or the P3 D65 mode. Now, they 109 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:56,720 said color accuracy in both of those modes are going to be the best for color 110 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,800 accurate work if you want to do Photoshop or Lightroom or whatever on 111 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:04,440 your laptop. When you switch to those color profiles, it'll default right to 112 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:07,920 65% brightness, and that it will be the brightness at which everything is the 113 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:12,120 most color accurate in SDR mode. This is an HDR compatible screen. You have to 114 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:16,960 plug it in for HDR to work, and you have to enable HDR in Windows settings. But, 115 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:20,520 once they did that and had content brightness at an appropriate level, they 116 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:23,400 said the color accuracy is very impressive in that mode as well. And 117 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:28,520 that's nice for me to hear because I'm always looking for laptops with, you know, nice color accurate displays. I 118 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:32,840 occasionally have to do a a bit of Photoshop work. I really appreciate 119 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:36,280 people treating laptop displays as something that needs to be color 120 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:40,280 accurate and pretty and beautiful. Your camera might be Oh. 121 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:44,000 Well, there we go. I went to test the uh the camera and the microphone, but the 122 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:47,680 e-shutter is on, so it's not letting me have anything. Didn't even mean to test 123 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:52,120 that, and I guess it works. Haha. Looking pretty sharp. This is only 124 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:56,320 5 megapixels, but oh yeah, I can see I think there's some computational 125 00:08:53,839 --> 00:09:01,040 videography going on here. This is more than enough for uh you know, video calls 126 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:06,760 and checking your makeup. This particular model of this laptop with the 127 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:10,120 Core Ultra 7 355, 16 gigs of RAM, 1 TB 128 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,720 SSD, and 2.8K OLED display comes out to 129 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:19,120 1,590 USD. However, if you drop from 1 TB to 130 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:20,880 512 and drop from 2.8K down to the 1200p 131 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:25,600 option, which is still an OLED, that'll get you down to 1400 for this one, and 132 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:29,920 Lenovo says that some Core Ultra 5 models are coming out soon that, at 133 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:33,600 least in the US, will start at $1,200. Which, you know, in today's economy, 134 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:37,840 you can make the decision for yourself, but for a laptop that is thin and light, 135 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:42,000 it's pretty to look at. You know, it's capable of dipping into whatever 136 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,960 productivity stuff you might need to do, and it might even be able to game a 137 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:51,120 little bit. There you have it, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition. I felt 138 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:54,960 like we've We're Aura farming this whole time, you and me together. You most of 139 00:09:53,480 --> 00:10:02,480 all though. Hey, subscribe to ShortCircuit for more videos like this. 140 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,480 Tru- Trust me, it'll be worth it.