the way they have implemented the side button is stupid. The actual button is not placed perpendicular to the mainboard. a right angle pece of plastic is used to trigger the button. This model is notorious when it comes to power button failure where the button is not affected but the small plastic clicker get broken and you will not be able to turn on the laptop. You can see how bad it is here. th-cam.com/video/Lgbhu86ialw/w-d-xo.html
I have this laptop. It is amazing in person. It looks great, feels great, has an incredible OLED display, good speakers, great battery life + standby time, and it is eminently portable. The ports don't bother me because I am forward-looking anyway. I just bought a USB-C thumb drive, and I'm good to go. I'm only waiting for Linux support before I am truly happy with it.
Honestly I'm going to take the contrarian position here and predict that at this time a year from now Windows Recall will be considered revolutionary for productivity and impossible to go back from!
What could go wrong with a software that takes snapshot of your screen every 5secs? All that porn browsing and logging into bank account will surely be kept totally ... private. Totally secure and nobody will ever write an exploit
@@RunForPeace-hk1cu Especially after the scrutiny they received pre-launch, it likely won't be any easier to write an exploit for Recall than it is now for practically any other form of subterfuge: stored passwords in browsers, files/data, biometrics, session cookies... sure, it's a risk, but once a criminal is inside a personal computer, the world is at their fingertips. But imagine: "What should I do next?" "Well, yesterday, you emailed with a client and promised him you'd get back with him this afternoon. I'd suggest you do this next, before your 2pm sales meeting." I realize that this functionality will not be available at launch, but I'd be willing to bet a substantial sum it'll happen soon. And it will be an absolute game-changer. Using your PC for unsavory activities along with work? Don't enable Recall. Simple! For the rest of us, those with real jobs who are truly busy humans, this might turn out to be revolutionary. Just saying.
@@RunForPeace-hk1cu The flack it got made Microsoft re-evaluate the storage of the content. Also, you can fully customize Recall to exclude certain apps, certain web pages, incognito mode and so on. You can exclude your bank web site and all your favorite porn pages (:
What could go wrong with a software that takes snapshot of your screen every 5secs? All that porn browsing and logging into bank account will surely be kept totally ... private. 🤣🤣🤣 Totally secure and nobody will ever write an exploit
People literally acting like they have cia info on their laptops lmao recall is i think really innovative and good feature hopefully they will do it optional
Qualcomm is dropping a new beta GPU driver now/soon. They will of course absolutely show love for it, as it's a make or break for them in the PC space. They have everything to lose if it fails.
The biggest issue with ARM based windows laptops is the lack of optimization for ARM. In that aspect you are better off going for an Apple laptop. Since you won't be gaming much (if at all) on these CPU's anyways then you really don't need the other Windows things either (I guess).
I think tolerance for incompatibility depends on the nature of the "hiccups," If things just run more slowly for now until the next update, I think that's acceptable. But if we have a printer or external keyboard or monitor or speakers that doesn't work, and timing for a fix is completely unknown, that's a lot harder to accept.
@@jespero94 sadly in my world of computing having 32gb is like saying you have 8gb and want to do gaming, maybe streaming and maybe just maybe some adobe/ 3D modeling work
@@PalchikVykin yea maybe thats it. I guess you have to buy a much more extensive computer then. But i totally agree with you that they should make atleast more 32gb options and more
Most common users want a fancy ultrabook which has decent performance and a pro could also use an eye candy to relive their workload stress so I don't see how looks of an laptop don't matter, product designers shouldn't exist then
@@arvandvarahram Battery life is killer vs other windows laptops I've used. Right now I'm watching youtube and browsing the net with 36% battery and it says that will get me 3h 35m of use. There is the Multi control app
@@arvandvarahram Battery seems great vs other Windows laptops I've used. I'm watching YT with 56% battery and it says I have another 6 hours left. It's in the "balanced" (default) battery setting. There is multi control
Agree, battery life amazing but I'm in the 14 inch. Amazing to just shut the lid, have instant sleep and wake. And open the lid the next day and have amazing battery
Have you reviewed the Surface Laptop 7? I ended up going that way instead of with this one but am curious on the comparison, but I only see the surface pro oled in the numbers.
I've got my eye on this one to replace a Lenovo Slim Pro I have that runs a 6800hs and 3050. Sadly I can only get 16GB of ram in Canada, but I think it might be enough.
Matt Moniz, who sees maybe a dozen new devices a month -- for you this color is awesome because it is different from all the other darn laptops you see which are mostly black. You know, I always had gotten the space gray iPhone. Then with the 12 mini i said what the hell and got the blue phone. I instantly regretted it (the color, not the phone; the phone was awesome and a family member is still using it to this day). Then I got a blue Yoga 6 for my daughter, and both of us didn't love the color. Ever since these blunders, I'm back to boring old black. Just like the sticker guy. He's so excited about these new Snapdragon stickers, so he's being extra careful to put them on in perfect symmetry and alignment. But soon he's going to be bored and drinking on the job again, and our Snapdragon stickers will be as crooked as our GeForce and AMD and Intel stickers. The only good job in the sticker business is the sticker guy who works at Apple. And that guy is union and unfireable. That's about the cushiest job in the entire tech industry.
Hey Matt, thanks for this video. May i ask if you would recommend this Laptop for a business management student. Does it work well with excel, Microsoft word and other study software to help me have a seemless experience? Am not a gamer nor a video creator its purely for study
I don't know what apps other people are using that they say the Snapdragon SOCs are no good or only for low power, etc. I'm currently using mine for software development (Visual Studio & VS Code) and it's great. A real powerhouse. I'm not sure what you might want to do (other than video editing) that would want more power, tbh.
It is great for the CPU as it has 12 cores which is more than every ultrabook rival. The problem is for GPU-related workflows where it is distinctly subpar. Maybe drivers will improve GPU performance, but do not buy this for GPU-related work; e.g. Blender and rendering video.
@@andyH_England I would never buy any laptop - even one that claims to have a "mobile 4090" or some such bollocks - for anything requiring GPU intensive workloads. They don't have the power and those "mobile 4090" GPUs get easily outclassed by a desktop 1060ti most of the time. However, I think that using the NPU for limited offloading from the GPU would be possible, so perhaps we'll see something around that soon. With all that said, I'll be excited to see a desktop packaging of these Oryon CPU's or the Elite X SOCs so we can see what happens when we pair them with a real GPU.
Purchased this laptop and immedietely returned it. The specs are promising and the features are great, but software compatibility with the Snapdragon chip is just not there and we can expect it to be alot longer than what it took Apple when they switched from Intel. As of right now this laptop is alot of wasted potential.
MacBook hands down. This processor does not have proper software compatbility yet. Even mainstream apps like Adobe Premiere Pro have not yet been released for the Snapdragon.
Ill be stoaked when they start making x elite laptops with dedicated gpus, if they did the g16 with it plus haptic touchpad, itd be straight up over for apple
4:07 you look good not because of the natural light, but it was because you yourself look good! I hope it makes your day although I just made things up :)
Thank you for the review. I went to check out the link you provided to see how much it would cost. A concern with this item centers on whether or not it has an audio jack for wired earbuds. Personally, I remain a ludite on that... I do have a question on a feature that many take for granted, and that is "bluetooth" and security features for it, specifically, is it secure, and how easily can it be "hacked?" Thank you.
For video editing with resolve this is an absolute let down, I was looking to upgrade from my Macbook M1 Air, but I guess it's not happening. The media engine are the same with m1/m2/m3 for h.264/h.265/prores after all, so my almost 4 yesr old M1 Air also beats out this Lenovo 7x as well, kinda sad. I was really looking forward to this one especially as the form factor and weight are about the same as my M1 Air but with a larger OLED display, bigger battery and a fan to prevent overheating. Rip, what a let down.
Indeed there is another video very critical and at 6:01 is a benchmark versus power draw scatter plot. Think of Snapdragon as a CPU that does more work then Intel using too much power just like Intel! AMD and apple M3 - both designed by Jim Keller at some point - do the same work at 25% less power!
@@dgillies5420Jim Keller also worked on Golden Cove architecture which is in 12th gen Alder Lake. Intel own node has been behind TSMC and Apple has been on TSMC’s 3nm node for 2 years ahead of AMD and Qualcomm. Then there is also the low-power efficiency penalty of x86 vs ARM. It’s gonna be more comparable when Strix Point, Lunar Lake (both on improved node) and next gen Snapdragons come to market.
Possibly yes, but they won't beat Apple. Apple controls the whole platform which is essential to saving power! They can do things like use low energy LEDs in their custom display! They can cut the ram in half to save power and use a very fancy virtual memory system to get back most of that loss. They keep saving power in the CPU and optimize the throttling until they can throw away the fan and save even more power! These laptops use most of the Apple ingredients but the assembly is clumsy and disjointed!
Chinese always make it a bit cheaper cutting on some basic hardware. In this particular case, their laptop is a little cheaper than Samsung's Edge 4 but has a slower processor and a way worse screen.
text isn't as clear as it is on IPS or mini-LED displays...the colors shift when scrolling...the screen is super reflective....any ways to make any of this better?
both amd and nvidia are working on their own ARM SoCs as well so i believe radeon/geforce compatibility with arm will be available by then, but they probably don't want to give qualcomm the advantage while qualcomm has the exclusivity window with microsoft
I was wondering if we should continue to highlight a product made by a company with close ties to the Chinese government. How are they able to source a 4nm processor? Will Qualcomm supply the processors that will go into missile systems targeting Americans serving our country? With so many other great products, acknowledging that many are assembled in China, should we continue to support companies that are owned by those close to the Chinese government? The Legend Computer Company, now Lenovo, represents the best of Chinese engineering and continues to produce great products long after it purchased IBM PC division. So this isn’t denigrating the company and its employees. But the reality is that Lenovo is basically a state owned enterprise. We are free to purchase products from whoever we want. That comes with living in a free country, but should we consider factors beyond our narrow self interest?
Qualcomm is an American company and chip designer. Lenovo is one of the few Chinese tech companies that aren’t sanctioned in the USA because most of its leadership and workforce is not Chinese. People buy products from Lenovo because they are one of the few laptop manufacturers left that don’t scam you for simple things such as ram and storage.
I don't understand the obsession with fingerprints. A laptop is a tool, I'm interested in hardware and performance. I will not put it on the wall as a picture. But that's the type of nonsense that spills over from the Apple ecosystem. It doesn't matter that the screen is clearly 3 generations behind everyone else, that it doesn't have a good selection of ports, that small capacity sdd and ram are sold at premium prices, and that it's impossible to upgrade the hardware because everything is welded to the motherboard, but hey, it looks pretty.
No doubt this is a great laptop, I'm just not enjoying how the internals are shrunken in these new devices (is easier to find high end 2280 format than 2242/2230)
While browsing and stuff? I'm not getting that on mine. It also not stated to last the long while browsing. I think Msft said 10 hours for browsing, 14 for video. With reduced brightness. But I absolutely get much better battery than I did on Intel/AMD.
Even MS does not quote 14 hours. You must have it on low brightness. I get 8-10 hours SOT. It is about half what I get on my much cheaper MB Air M2 15-inch, which gets 18-20 hours doing the same stuff. It is not as bad on battery gaming as FPS is well below rivals.
@@andyH_England 14 on local video playback, 10 on browsing stuff. But I guess you could get 14 if it idles a lot. Still, battery is pretty damn good on my Surface Pro.
I got that blue color in the last year machine - don't buy it. It comes apart. And I don't mean the edges. In the middle of the machine, small particles come apart. It is not IN the metal. It's just a coating... Would strongly recommend not getting this color even though it looks fantastic.
I was looking on Lenovo UK website they have in 4 variations with a 32gb ram option and 1TB storage for £1,350 incl VAT and I was wondering if double the ram would make a big difference in operation, I know it will take time for software to catch up but considering how much cheaper this is to my Macbook pro like almost half the price and one of the main reasons I bought a Mac was battery and running cool and quiet which this seems to manage quite well also that oled touch screen too, plus I still prefer windows to Mac OS
Hi Jim. Did you buy this laptop in the end? I'm been thinking of getting it too. (Mac user who's a bit disillusioned with the slow improvements on this side). I think 32 GB wouldn't affect most software, unless you're doing some graphics/video work. But it's always good for the future to have more RAM. (Some reviewer online said that that much of memory is "overkill", but you can fairly easily chew through 16 GB RAM with the right apps!) Let us know how you decided. Cheers.
@@williamarrowsmith2748 Hi, no I went for the Microsoft snapdragon laptop in sapphire mostly because I read some very bad reports of Lenovo customer service being awful plus the MS laptop has a nice keyboard and trackpad that's as good as my Mac pro and the superior build quality it's just an IPS panel but a good one, my suggestion is go into a store and try them out hands on that way you get a better idea of what you're buying, hope this helps
I actually like the side power button. I prefer to use my laptop docked a lot and not having to open it to reach the power button is awesome
the way they have implemented the side button is stupid. The actual button is not placed perpendicular to the mainboard. a right angle pece of plastic is used to trigger the button. This model is notorious when it comes to power button failure where the button is not affected but the small plastic clicker get broken and you will not be able to turn on the laptop. You can see how bad it is here. th-cam.com/video/Lgbhu86ialw/w-d-xo.html
Yea i like it also. No problem so far
I have this laptop. It is amazing in person. It looks great, feels great, has an incredible OLED display, good speakers, great battery life + standby time, and it is eminently portable. The ports don't bother me because I am forward-looking anyway. I just bought a USB-C thumb drive, and I'm good to go. I'm only waiting for Linux support before I am truly happy with it.
exactly wht i was thinkin...a nice riced arch setup on it
Can it run roblox
After seeing the Microsoft webcam; I cannot unsee that glory.
Finally, after a worthy wait, we found this review from Mathhew.
Isn't it misleading to put non-x360 laptop in the Yoga lineup? Many people would be looking to buy it thinking that it is convertible laptop.
Literally opened the video thinking its a convertible. Seems like a pretty dumb decision from Lenovo.
Been waiting for this review in particular!
"Now this has 90hz refresh rate". Thats where the review ended for me as a potential buyer but I sat around because I respect Mathew.
recall and good stuff in the same sentence made me chuckle.
😂
Honestly I'm going to take the contrarian position here and predict that at this time a year from now Windows Recall will be considered revolutionary for productivity and impossible to go back from!
What could go wrong with a software that takes snapshot of your screen every 5secs? All that porn browsing and logging into bank account will surely be kept totally ... private.
Totally secure and nobody will ever write an exploit
@@RunForPeace-hk1cu Especially after the scrutiny they received pre-launch, it likely won't be any easier to write an exploit for Recall than it is now for practically any other form of subterfuge: stored passwords in browsers, files/data, biometrics, session cookies... sure, it's a risk, but once a criminal is inside a personal computer, the world is at their fingertips.
But imagine:
"What should I do next?"
"Well, yesterday, you emailed with a client and promised him you'd get back with him this afternoon. I'd suggest you do this next, before your 2pm sales meeting."
I realize that this functionality will not be available at launch, but I'd be willing to bet a substantial sum it'll happen soon. And it will be an absolute game-changer.
Using your PC for unsavory activities along with work? Don't enable Recall. Simple!
For the rest of us, those with real jobs who are truly busy humans, this might turn out to be revolutionary.
Just saying.
@@RunForPeace-hk1cu The flack it got made Microsoft re-evaluate the storage of the content. Also, you can fully customize Recall to exclude certain apps, certain web pages, incognito mode and so on. You can exclude your bank web site and all your favorite porn pages (:
Thanks for letting us know about the compatibility issues because NO ONE said anything about that and I bought one. Taking this thing back asap 😂.
Glad I could help!
can you speak about it a little?
so now you can finally review the Surface Laptop 7 too :) would be great to see how a base model performs with the X Plus SOC.
This is the laptop I was planning on buying, so far looks outstanding
Recall is a privacy nightmare
Ya that’s why they pulled it
Employers are salivating on this new way to spy upon and micromanage employees with a microsoft big brother policy app!
What could go wrong with a software that takes snapshot of your screen every 5secs? All that porn browsing and logging into bank account will surely be kept totally ... private.
🤣🤣🤣
Totally secure and nobody will ever write an exploit
Made for crazy companies, goverments, dictatorships. 🤔
People literally acting like they have cia info on their laptops lmao recall is i think really innovative and good feature hopefully they will do it optional
what a beautiful laptop :) I hope ARM gets more and more software support and the GPU drivers get some love from Qualcomm
Qualcomm is dropping a new beta GPU driver now/soon. They will of course absolutely show love for it, as it's a make or break for them in the PC space. They have everything to lose if it fails.
Beautiful machine! Hopefully they make a variant WITHOUT Windows or permit us to replace Windows with Linux-on-ARM.
The biggest issue with ARM based windows laptops is the lack of optimization for ARM. In that aspect you are better off going for an Apple laptop. Since you won't be gaming much (if at all) on these CPU's anyways then you really don't need the other Windows things either (I guess).
I think tolerance for incompatibility depends on the nature of the "hiccups," If things just run more slowly for now until the next update, I think that's acceptable. But if we have a printer or external keyboard or monitor or speakers that doesn't work, and timing for a fix is completely unknown, that's a lot harder to accept.
Really wish manufacturers would move away from 16Gb and move towards at the very least 32Gb being the minimum with 64-96 options
Wtf💀💀
You can get this one with 32gb 😉
@@jespero94 sadly in my world of computing having 32gb is like saying you have 8gb and want to do gaming, maybe streaming and maybe just maybe some adobe/ 3D modeling work
@@PalchikVykin yea maybe thats it. I guess you have to buy a much more extensive computer then. But i totally agree with you that they should make atleast more 32gb options and more
Don't care about best looking, we wanna hear how it performs
Just like the other Snapdragon x elite laptops
All we need to know about this laptop is summarized at 7:15 "there's a lot of things that don't work" (same for all laptops with this Snapdragon chip)
That's not all he talks about. If looks don't matter to you, it matters to others. These reviews are not made just for you.
Most common users want a fancy ultrabook which has decent performance and a pro could also use an eye candy to relive their workload stress so I don't see how looks of an laptop don't matter, product designers shouldn't exist then
@@vedkapur1 Don mind if they don't charge arm n legs for a good ultra book.
I really like how people are concerned about privacy but their data are already with the big tech companies and they are making tons of money from it.
Love how these look, but I went with the Samsung (16") for the screen. Super happy with it so far
How is the battery life? And please, can you confirm there exists "Multi control" in "Sumsung settings" under "Connected devices"? Thanks a lot.
@@arvandvarahram Battery life is killer vs other windows laptops I've used. Right now I'm watching youtube and browsing the net with 36% battery and it says that will get me 3h 35m of use. There is the Multi control app
@@arvandvarahram Battery seems great vs other Windows laptops I've used. I'm watching YT with 56% battery and it says I have another 6 hours left. It's in the "balanced" (default) battery setting. There is multi control
Agree, battery life amazing but I'm in the 14 inch. Amazing to just shut the lid, have instant sleep and wake. And open the lid the next day and have amazing battery
The power button placement on the side is a deal breaker. You'll end up turning on the laptop accidentally when it's in your bag.
Another honest review (thanks!) but I'm surprised you didn't say anything about those stickers!
It's easy to remove. I left the snapdragon one on because I liked it.
@@cynicist8114 I just like to joke with Matt about the stickers 😁
Have you reviewed the Surface Laptop 7? I ended up going that way instead of with this one but am curious on the comparison, but I only see the surface pro oled in the numbers.
I'm keen to see a Asus Zenbook / Vivobook S 14 Flip with a Snapdragon X Elite CPU.
Strangely, there’s no Zenbooks. The vivobooks got the snapdragon. Could it be a way to protect the branding from risk?
I've got my eye on this one to replace a Lenovo Slim Pro I have that runs a 6800hs and 3050. Sadly I can only get 16GB of ram in Canada, but I think it might be enough.
The 3050 will be better than this though.. Just incase you need a powerful gpu.. Otherwise the x chip is great.
Matt Moniz, who sees maybe a dozen new devices a month -- for you this color is awesome because it is different from all the other darn laptops you see which are mostly black. You know, I always had gotten the space gray iPhone. Then with the 12 mini i said what the hell and got the blue phone. I instantly regretted it (the color, not the phone; the phone was awesome and a family member is still using it to this day). Then I got a blue Yoga 6 for my daughter, and both of us didn't love the color. Ever since these blunders, I'm back to boring old black. Just like the sticker guy. He's so excited about these new Snapdragon stickers, so he's being extra careful to put them on in perfect symmetry and alignment. But soon he's going to be bored and drinking on the job again, and our Snapdragon stickers will be as crooked as our GeForce and AMD and Intel stickers. The only good job in the sticker business is the sticker guy who works at Apple. And that guy is union and unfireable. That's about the cushiest job in the entire tech industry.
Have you tried the Vivobook S 15? Which one did you like the most?
That thumbnail is CLEAN
Great video, but what do u mean Google Drive will not work?
What is with this stupid trend of removing headphones jacks from laptops.
Hey Matt, thanks for this video. May i ask if you would recommend this Laptop for a business management student. Does it work well with excel, Microsoft word and other study software to help me have a seemless experience? Am not a gamer nor a video creator its purely for study
Laptop manufacturers should go back to colourful laptops rather than making only black and metallic
unfortunately that has become a design trend that is not only used for laptops.
I don't know what apps other people are using that they say the Snapdragon SOCs are no good or only for low power, etc. I'm currently using mine for software development (Visual Studio & VS Code) and it's great. A real powerhouse. I'm not sure what you might want to do (other than video editing) that would want more power, tbh.
It is great for the CPU as it has 12 cores which is more than every ultrabook rival. The problem is for GPU-related workflows where it is distinctly subpar. Maybe drivers will improve GPU performance, but do not buy this for GPU-related work; e.g. Blender and rendering video.
@@andyH_England I would never buy any laptop - even one that claims to have a "mobile 4090" or some such bollocks - for anything requiring GPU intensive workloads. They don't have the power and those "mobile 4090" GPUs get easily outclassed by a desktop 1060ti most of the time. However, I think that using the NPU for limited offloading from the GPU would be possible, so perhaps we'll see something around that soon.
With all that said, I'll be excited to see a desktop packaging of these Oryon CPU's or the Elite X SOCs so we can see what happens when we pair them with a real GPU.
Purchased this laptop and immedietely returned it. The specs are promising and the features are great, but software compatibility with the Snapdragon chip is just not there and we can expect it to be alot longer than what it took Apple when they switched from Intel. As of right now this laptop is alot of wasted potential.
Software compability issues with what? Any example?
Matthew, great job. Would you buy this Or a MacBook Air?
What OS are you the most comfortable with?
MacBook hands down. This processor does not have proper software compatbility yet. Even mainstream apps like Adobe Premiere Pro have not yet been released for the Snapdragon.
I had a 15 air, eventually no touch on the screen drove me nuts.
Ill be stoaked when they start making x elite laptops with dedicated gpus, if they did the g16 with it plus haptic touchpad, itd be straight up over for apple
I dont use ARM, I use LEG 👍
This is the worst dad joke I’ve heard in like 3 weeks. But I respect it haha
Low Energy GPUs?
Never skip leg day
That is a very… very old joke. Quite RISCy.
cortex might enter pc scene w 'leg' cpu
4:07 you look good not because of the natural light, but it was because you yourself look good!
I hope it makes your day although I just made things up :)
LOL thanks I appreciate it = ) Hope you're having a good day as well.
watching this on my week old yoga slim 7x
I was told by lenovo tech support that indeed this laptop can support an egpu because its got usd c with the same output as thunderbolt 4
how does the keyboard stack with macbook pros and thinkpad laptops? are they just as good?
Thank you for the review. I went to check out the link you provided to see how much it would cost. A concern with this item centers on whether or not it has an audio jack for wired earbuds. Personally, I remain a ludite on that...
I do have a question on a feature that many take for granted, and that is "bluetooth" and security features for it, specifically, is it secure, and how easily can it be "hacked?"
Thank you.
no audio jack you would need a dongle or a usb c to audio jack
Is it touchscreen and does it have pen?
How did you open the computer? Took the screws up but the middle part is ”stuck”, really dont want to apply force and destroy it…
Managed to get it open, it was a ”plug” :)
Is it a haptic touchpad ?
No
@@MatthewMoniz :) oops
Do you live in Toronto? I haven’t seen you in the city lol I am a big fan of yours 😊❤
For video editing with resolve this is an absolute let down, I was looking to upgrade from my Macbook M1 Air, but I guess it's not happening. The media engine are the same with m1/m2/m3 for h.264/h.265/prores after all, so my almost 4 yesr old M1 Air also beats out this Lenovo 7x as well, kinda sad. I was really looking forward to this one especially as the form factor and weight are about the same as my M1 Air but with a larger OLED display, bigger battery and a fan to prevent overheating. Rip, what a let down.
I just got my hand on some beta drivers from Qualcomm that should improve it. I’m going to give them a go and see if it helps
Can you game on it? Like world of Warcraft? I read some things that the snap dragon isn’t good for gaming
World of warcraft runs great on it since its been optimized for ARM. Other games not so much
@@MatthewMoniz awesome! I may grab one of these tomorrow thank you so much
@@MatthewMoniz last question lol what about Devinci resolve ?
Finally Lenovo from Matt ❤
42 db is quite high, that means the design is too slim for such a powerful CPU
Indeed there is another video very critical and at 6:01 is a benchmark versus power draw scatter plot. Think of Snapdragon as a CPU that does more work then Intel using too much power just like Intel! AMD and apple M3 - both designed by Jim Keller at some point - do the same work at 25% less power!
@@dgillies5420Jim Keller also worked on Golden Cove architecture which is in 12th gen Alder Lake. Intel own node has been behind TSMC and Apple has been on TSMC’s 3nm node for 2 years ahead of AMD and Qualcomm. Then there is also the low-power efficiency penalty of x86 vs ARM. It’s gonna be more comparable when Strix Point, Lunar Lake (both on improved node) and next gen Snapdragons come to market.
@@dgillies5420 from my POV the X Elite is not the problem but the design of this laptop
Is this better than the the Huawei mate book X pro?
I'm shocked, he didn't mention the stickers! are you ok matthew?
qualcomm X elite in 5 years... they gonna drive intel and amd crazy
Possibly yes, but they won't beat Apple. Apple controls the whole platform which is essential to saving power! They can do things like use low energy LEDs in their custom display! They can cut the ram in half to save power and use a very fancy virtual memory system to get back most of that loss. They keep saving power in the CPU and optimize the throttling until they can throw away the fan and save even more power! These laptops use most of the Apple ingredients but the assembly is clumsy and disjointed!
I am surprised no one noticed no headphone jack
Chinese always make it a bit cheaper cutting on some basic hardware. In this particular case, their laptop is a little cheaper than Samsung's Edge 4 but has a slower processor and a way worse screen.
The Surface Latop is the best looking to me
Good work! Will be great if you could compare this one with the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14”.
text isn't as clear as it is on IPS or mini-LED displays...the colors shift when scrolling...the screen is super reflective....any ways to make any of this better?
amd needs to get radeon working with arm asap, i believe nvidia is going to make geforce working with arm soon
both amd and nvidia are working on their own ARM SoCs as well so i believe radeon/geforce compatibility with arm will be available by then, but they probably don't want to give qualcomm the advantage while qualcomm has the exclusivity window with microsoft
Lenovo sells this one with 32 gb upgrade very reasonably priced-
This or the Microsoft surface latop 7?
I was wondering if we should continue to highlight a product made by a company with close ties to the Chinese government. How are they able to source a 4nm processor? Will Qualcomm supply the processors that will go into missile systems targeting Americans serving our country?
With so many other great products, acknowledging that many are assembled in China, should we continue to support companies that are owned by those close to the Chinese government? The Legend Computer Company, now Lenovo, represents the best of Chinese engineering and continues to produce great products long after it purchased IBM PC division. So this isn’t denigrating the company and its employees. But the reality is that Lenovo is basically a state owned enterprise.
We are free to purchase products from whoever we want. That comes with living in a free country, but should we consider factors beyond our narrow self interest?
Qualcomm is an American company and chip designer. Lenovo is one of the few Chinese tech companies that aren’t sanctioned in the USA because most of its leadership and workforce is not Chinese. People buy products from Lenovo because they are one of the few laptop manufacturers left that don’t scam you for simple things such as ram and storage.
Why no eGPU? is that a snapdragon X thing?
I thought Yoga range was all about being 4 in 1 with laptop, tablet, tent and flat modes so....why?
I don't understand the obsession with fingerprints. A laptop is a tool, I'm interested in hardware and performance. I will not put it on the wall as a picture. But that's the type of nonsense that spills over from the Apple ecosystem. It doesn't matter that the screen is clearly 3 generations behind everyone else, that it doesn't have a good selection of ports, that small capacity sdd and ram are sold at premium prices, and that it's impossible to upgrade the hardware because everything is welded to the motherboard, but hey, it looks pretty.
Nah, the color should be black or dark silver and OLED is only 90Hz.
what is youtube enhance?it works with ARM chip
I don’t know if you’ll see this but do u think I could play Fortnite in this with 120 fps
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Performance on battery vs charger?
no headphone?
youtube?
No headphone / microphone jack?
No Audio Jack? It reminds me Zenbook from 2020, which no Audio Jack too 😅
1% of users would use that is probably why
Is Dell XPS 13 next on the queue?
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Theeee GeeeePeeeeUuuuu iiis sooooo sloooooooow. What I want and need is a ARM based workhorse with capable GPU like my M1 Max Macbook.
No word about speakers, omg
Video editing?
No doubt this is a great laptop, I'm just not enjoying how the internals are shrunken in these new devices (is easier to find high end 2280 format than 2242/2230)
Wait, no headphone jack!?
This or asus vivobook?
No headphone jack on a laptop is a bad move, that even Apple hasn't made so far.
Sorry, lost me right when you called the most invasive spyware from M$ yet "the good stuff". That was a joke, right? Right?
Price
Anyone know the artist and name of the song? Thanks a lot
no headphone jack
AirPods??
I can not agree with you anymore , Slim 7x is the best WoA laptop in 2024.
No IPS?
I'm wondering, how many people actually click their touchpads? Everyone I know, including me, taps the pad.
Me sometimes
I never click. Always tap. I don’t want anything different. Clicking on laptop feels weird to me now.
Very often, unless you never drag&drop. However, I prefer drag&drop via touchscreen or the external mouse.
I clicked on my touchpad to reply to your comment haha
@@mazurka5042 😀
The keyboard keys are blue, not black
Something´s off with the Surface Pro OLED battery test, mine is getting 14 hours SOT.
While browsing and stuff? I'm not getting that on mine. It also not stated to last the long while browsing. I think Msft said 10 hours for browsing, 14 for video. With reduced brightness.
But I absolutely get much better battery than I did on Intel/AMD.
@@rowaystarco day to day stuff and a little bit of gaming.
Even MS does not quote 14 hours. You must have it on low brightness. I get 8-10 hours SOT. It is about half what I get on my much cheaper MB Air M2 15-inch, which gets 18-20 hours doing the same stuff. It is not as bad on battery gaming as FPS is well below rivals.
@@andyH_England 14 on local video playback, 10 on browsing stuff. But I guess you could get 14 if it idles a lot. Still, battery is pretty damn good on my Surface Pro.
I'd like to see it with linux
Wanna see a Windows machine with ARM Mediatek chip
"Royal Blue" Good Lord.
What with snapdragon laptops getting rid of USB type A ports? Is it because of no driver support?
I’m buying this when I get paid.
I got that blue color in the last year machine - don't buy it. It comes apart. And I don't mean the edges. In the middle of the machine, small particles come apart. It is not IN the metal. It's just a coating... Would strongly recommend not getting this color even though it looks fantastic.
Surface laptop 7 much better looking and has better build quality. This is nice though
No mention about the stickers? Hmmm
I was looking on Lenovo UK website they have in 4 variations with a 32gb ram option and 1TB storage for £1,350 incl VAT and I was wondering if double the ram would make a big difference in operation, I know it will take time for software to catch up but considering how much cheaper this is to my Macbook pro like almost half the price and one of the main reasons I bought a Mac was battery and running cool and quiet which this seems to manage quite well also that oled touch screen too, plus I still prefer windows to Mac OS
Hi Jim. Did you buy this laptop in the end? I'm been thinking of getting it too. (Mac user who's a bit disillusioned with the slow improvements on this side). I think 32 GB wouldn't affect most software, unless you're doing some graphics/video work. But it's always good for the future to have more RAM. (Some reviewer online said that that much of memory is "overkill", but you can fairly easily chew through 16 GB RAM with the right apps!) Let us know how you decided. Cheers.
@@williamarrowsmith2748 Hi, no I went for the Microsoft snapdragon laptop in sapphire mostly because I read some very bad reports of Lenovo customer service being awful plus the MS laptop has a nice keyboard and trackpad that's as good as my Mac pro and the superior build quality it's just an IPS panel but a good one, my suggestion is go into a store and try them out hands on that way you get a better idea of what you're buying, hope this helps