Deal | Affordable laptop with 16 GB RAM and 8-core Intel CPU scores $350 discount

Thanks to an ongoing offer on Best Buy, the the 16-inch Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 laptop is now available with a sizable $350 discount, bringing its price down to just around $650. 

This specific model of the laptop is powered by the Core Ultra 5 226V Lunar Lake CPU paired with 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM. 

In synthetic multi-threaded benchmarks, the agent Luna Lake CPU should be able to keep up with the modern Intel Core 7 350 CPU. Compared to Team Red's offerings, the Ryzen AI 5 430 APU found in many entry-level laptops is roughly around 8% slower. 

The majority of casual day-to-day workloads should be easily doable on the affordable laptop. That said, folks with heavy CPU-intensive workloads might want to increase their budget and go for a newer Panther Lake-equipped system, such as the IdeaPad Slim 3i (currently $989.99 on Lenovo).

The laptop features a 16-inch, 1920 x 1200 display with support for touch input and a peak brightness of 300 nits. The IPS panel is not exactly pixel-dense, and features a refresh rate of only 60 Hz. Lenovo claims 45% coverage of the NTSC color gamut, which would be at least around 60% of the sRGB color gamut.

Clearly, the Yoga 7i laptop's display is nothing worth writing home about, but is definitely usable.

Unsurprisingly, there is no discrete GPU on offer. The Intel Arc 130V iGPU is no slouch, however, and can easily keep up with An NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile GPU found in older laptops. 

In other words, some lightweight gaming and casual video and photo editing should be doable on the system. 

The I/O on offer has been detailed below:

• Dual USB4 Type-C ports
• Single USB 3.2 Type-A
• HDMI 1.4b
• Audio combo jack (3.5mm)
• microSD slot
• WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4

Other notable features of the affordable laptop include a 70 Wh battery, an 512 GB M.2 SSD, a 1080p IR camera, a quad 2 W speaker setup with Dolby Atmos certification, and a quad mic array. As the name suggests, the laptop features an 180° hinge for 2-in-1 functionality. 

At its current discounted price, the 16-inch Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 laptop definitely features a lot of bang for the buck for folks who are willing to look past its suboptimal display. 

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