WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.440 Intel Panther Lake laptops have been rolling out for a couple months now and 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 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:18.880 designs with nice battery life, powerful cores, we got new XE graphics cores in 00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:21.240 there and it's enabling some pretty nice 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:25.000 thin and light Windows laptop design. So Lenovo Yoga and Intel sponsored this 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:30.600 video so we could take a look at the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition. 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:34.920 Now Lenovo did send us the engineering sample 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:39.120 before the launch of the laptop so I'm not sure whether the packaging will look 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:46.240 exactly like this for you but for us it comes with this 65 watt adapter the 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.800 USB-C. See how long that is. 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. 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 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:04.760 Thunderbolt 4 ports that is on this thing which we'll take a look at now. 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:06.320 Okay as for the laptop itself let's take 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:11.760 the wow that's very nice. All right let's take a look 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:15.160 see here. Okay I'm getting thin and light feel from this. I feel like I 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:21.000 could flip this around. I could I could do a little 00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:24.360 immediately I notice this very thin edge. I mean you know it tapers 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:27.840 obviously a little bit like the the laptop is not actually as thin as a 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. 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 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:41.480 apparently 1.14 kg or about 2 and 1/2 lb 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:46.040 and Lenovo says that's thanks to the aluminum alloy construction that they 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:50.800 got going on here. This is the lunar gray colorway but apparently it comes in 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 00:01:52.520 --> 00:02:00.840 with in terms of ports. On this side we got two Thunderbolt 4 ports and activity 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:05.600 light or some kind of LED there. On the other side, we've got another 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:09.039 Thunderbolt 4 port, the power button, 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:11.280 and a physical switch that controls the 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:15.080 e-shutter on the camera. So, it doesn't have a physical shutter that covers the 00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:19.480 camera, but it has an e-shutter, which will like electronically disable the 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 00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:28.800 then it will exhaust out the back of the unit. We've got speakers pointing 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:33.480 downwards. These are the woofers. There's four speakers on board, two 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:37.160 woofers there. Uh we've also got the nice like rubbery feet here. And then 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:41.320 we've got two tweeters 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 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:51.280 that the Windows laptops have gone in that direction. And then we have the 00:02:47.880 --> 00:02:51.280 keyboard, which 00:02:51.320 --> 00:02:57.840 yeah, feels feels pretty nice. Got a got a satisfying tactile bump there. There is 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:00.959 a little bit of flex there, which you can see, but you know, that's always 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 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:08.239 big chunky indestructible thing, then yeah, you you know, you're going to have 00:03:06.519 --> 00:03:13.600 less of that. There's three available processors that you can get with this 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:15.920 one. We have the Intel Core Ultra 7 355, 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 00:03:18.760 --> 00:03:29.519 one with the touchscreen, Pure Sight Pro OLED 2880 by 1800 display, and at 14 in 00:03:25.760 --> 00:03:32.080 that gives us a 16 by 10 aspect ratio. 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 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:42.480 around this Dota 2 icon. That's my standard test. And it's capable of 500 00:03:39.160 --> 00:03:45.239 nits in SDR mode, but it's a nice OLED 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 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 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.240 bunch of testing on the color, and they think that the HDR mode is pretty good. 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 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 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:09.720 that's a PCIe 4.0 model. Now, with 00:04:07.480 --> 00:04:13.440 internal hardware in mind, as much as I want to talk more about the display and 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 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:23.680 up, we got Puget Bench scores for Photoshop and Premiere Pro. In 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:27.400 Photoshop, we got 6230, and in Premiere Pro, 21,883. 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 00:04:30.440 --> 00:04:37.280 thin and light laptop, it's pretty respectable numbers. And we're seeing 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:39.560 those Intel Panther Lake chops coming 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:45.480 into play here. Speaking of Intel chops, the Core Ultra 7 355 in this laptop 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:51.040 comes with four XE cores, which I believe are classified as just Intel 00:04:47.400 --> 00:04:52.919 graphics, not as an Arc GPU. However, uh 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.640 in Intel graphics software, it does have a drop-down here for XESS frame 00:04:55.080 --> 00:05:01.280 generation override. So, if you want to use their latest Intel XESS multi-frame 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:05.440 generation to maybe try and push a little bit more out of the hardware, you 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:10.000 can. However, this is what our Labs team found without doing any of that fancy 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:13.240 stuff. In Rocket League at max settings, we got an average FPS of 99. You can 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.400 play Rocket League on this thing, no problem. Dota 2 is uh maybe a little bit 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:22.880 more demanding. We got 71 for an average FPS on there. And to throw a heavy 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:28.919 hitter at it, we got Cyberpunk 2077 at medium preset, and we got under 30 FPS, 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 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:38.720 multi-frame gen though, maybe worth giving it a shot. It's not a gaming 00:05:34.840 --> 00:05:40.440 laptop, but it can game, depending. And 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 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:48.840 100 tops of performance shared across 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.760 the NPU, GPU, and CPU. Whatever you're 00:05:48.840 --> 00:05:54.640 doing though, one big advantage of Intel Panther Lake is pretty good battery 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:59.520 life. This thing has a 70 watt hour battery in it, and our Labs team, during 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:04.600 our standard battery test, this thing lasted for 12 hours, over 12 hours, 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 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 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:18.320 a testament to these new Panther Lake E cores that they got in here. And the 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:22.960 story is not too shabby for charging time as well. This thing took 1 hour and 00:06:20.640 --> 00:06:26.400 57 minutes to charge from 0 to 100% according to Labs. I'll also just say, 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 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:37.560 kind of bringing those standards up to par for the current day. Okay, finally, 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:42.320 this beautiful OLED display. I want to see my favorite crabs on it and listen 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:47.160 to the speakers. So, we've got this board here. The Labs team was like, 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 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 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:59.840 the speakers as much, and we get a more accurate understanding. All right, come 00:06:56.640 --> 00:06:59.840 at me, crabs. 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:10.080 Okay. It's not blowing my socks off, but 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:13.240 there's like a healthy amount of volume there. It is an interesting setup 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:16.600 they've got with the woofers pointing down and the tweeters pointing up. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:21.760 That's pretty good. And I mentioned that the colors of the trees and the bodies 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:27.000 of my friends here looked pretty good. And Labs found that this display is 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:31.000 actually very impressively color accurate. Now, it's pretty easy to 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:36.800 change the color profile that your laptop is in using the Lenovo Vantage 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:40.040 app. Labs says that the default color profile that it comes with, colors are 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:43.680 all going to look pretty nice out of the box. However, according to their 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 00:07:46.640 --> 00:07:52.800 the sRGB or the P3 D65 mode. Now, they 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:56.720 said color accuracy in both of those modes are going to be the best for color 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:59.800 accurate work if you want to do Photoshop or Lightroom or whatever on 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:04.440 your laptop. When you switch to those color profiles, it'll default right to 00:08:01.960 --> 00:08:07.920 65% brightness, and that it will be the brightness at which everything is the 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:12.120 most color accurate in SDR mode. This is an HDR compatible screen. You have to 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, 00:08:15.200 --> 00:08:20.520 once they did that and had content brightness at an appropriate level, they 00:08:18.760 --> 00:08:23.400 said the color accuracy is very impressive in that mode as well. And 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 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:32.840 occasionally have to do a a bit of Photoshop work. I really appreciate 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:36.280 people treating laptop displays as something that needs to be color 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:40.280 accurate and pretty and beautiful. Your camera might be Oh. 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 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 00:08:45.640 --> 00:08:52.120 that, and I guess it works. Haha. Looking pretty sharp. This is only 00:08:49.640 --> 00:08:56.320 5 megapixels, but oh yeah, I can see I think there's some computational 00:08:53.839 --> 00:09:01.040 videography going on here. This is more than enough for uh you know, video calls 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:06.760 and checking your makeup. This particular model of this laptop with the 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:10.120 Core Ultra 7 355, 16 gigs of RAM, 1 TB 00:09:06.760 --> 00:09:11.720 SSD, and 2.8K OLED display comes out to 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:19.120 1,590 USD. However, if you drop from 1 TB to 00:09:15.160 --> 00:09:20.880 512 and drop from 2.8K down to the 1200p 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 00:09:23.280 --> 00:09:29.920 Lenovo says that some Core Ultra 5 models are coming out soon that, at 00:09:27.640 --> 00:09:33.600 least in the US, will start at $1,200. Which, you know, in today's economy, 00:09:32.280 --> 00:09:37.840 you can make the decision for yourself, but for a laptop that is thin and light, 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:42.000 it's pretty to look at. You know, it's capable of dipping into whatever 00:09:40.160 --> 00:09:44.960 productivity stuff you might need to do, and it might even be able to game a 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:51.120 little bit. There you have it, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition. I felt 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 00:09:53.480 --> 00:10:02.480 all though. Hey, subscribe to ShortCircuit for more videos like this. 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:02.480 Tru- Trust me, it'll be worth it.