Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 15ILL9 Aura
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Primary Camera: 2 MPix
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Average of 10 scores (from 16 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 15ILL9 Aura
The Snapdragon Elite series just got a lot less attractive now that Lunar Lake can offer comparable battery life. For optimal gaming performance, however, a Zen 5 alternative is still recommended.
Source: Zdnet.com
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a solid 15-inch device with a handful of unique features. The Intel Core Ultra 7 (Series 2) chip provides fast, cool, battery-efficient performance, and everyday users will appreciate the nice display, comfortable keyboard, and marathon battery life. I recommend opting for the 32GB configuration, since the RAM is not upgradeable. This raises the price by $100, but it's absolutely worth it for future-proofing. Lastly, features like Smart Share are useful, but I would caution Intel and Lenovo alike from spending too much time on flashy tricks and instead focusing on enduring well-designed devices.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/13/2024
Source: The Verge
So where does that leave us? The Yoga Slim 7i shows you can get good performance and battery life from a Lunar Lake laptop — especially compared to Meteor Lake laptops like the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra, which is nearly a full pound heavier, with a screen that tops out at 60Hz. As a laptop, the Yoga Slim 7i is fine but not exceptional.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/01/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Zdnet.com
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a solid 15-inch device with a handful of unique features. The Intel Core Ultra 7 (Series 2) chip provides fast, cool, battery-efficient performance, and everyday users will appreciate the nice display, comfortable keyboard, and marathon battery life. I recommend opting for the 32GB configuration, since the RAM is not upgradeable. This raises the price by $100, but it's absolutely worth it for future-proofing. Lastly, features like Smart Share are useful, but I would caution Intel and Lenovo alike from spending too much time on flashy tricks and instead focusing on enduring well-designed devices. The hardware here is impressive, and Intel's Series 2 "Lunar Lake" chips are absolutely worthy contenders to Qualcomm's ARM-compatible Snapdragon X Elite and Apple's M4 chips. Performance (and thoughtful, well-designed physical form factors) speak for themselves more than buzzy features ever will.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/30/2024
Source: Laptop Mag
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura edition is a Lunar Lake refresh for one of my favorite laptops. It offers a vivid display, great audio quality, a stellar typing experience, and a polished design. However, it falls short of its Snapdragon-powered sibling, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x. The addition of smart modes and smart share helps the Aura edition stand out, but they may not be deal-breakers for many people. Unfortunately, the Yoga Slim 7i Aura edition lagged in our two most important categories: overall performance and gaming. While it had solid scores in our single-core and 3DMark Wild Life benchmarks, its multi-core performance was much lower than its rivals, and my hands-on gaming experience was hit-or-miss.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/24/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Digital Trends
The Yoga Slim 7i faces some stiff competition among the limited number of 15-inch laptops. It’s just as well-built as its competition and it looks great. It’s very portable — though not quite as thin as the MacBook Air 15 — and light enough that you won’t mind carrying it around. It’s also surprisingly affordable, more so than the other two I’ve mentioned throughout this review. That makes it very attractive. It’s not the fastest laptop, but it gets very good battery life. If you’re looking for a larger laptop with a lot to offer, the Yoga Slim 7i should be on your list.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC World
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is another solid addition in Lenovo’s generally strong line-up of mid-range and premium Windows PCs. It suffers a few flaws, like a relatively small touchpad and a mediocre display, but makes up for its shortcomings with attractive design, a great keyboard, and class-leading speakers. Intel’s new “Lunar Lake” Core Ultra 7 256V, meanwhile, delivers a respectable performance uplift over prior Intel laptops, packs a great IGP, and brings battery life into competition with Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops. That makes the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition an excellent choice if you want a thin, portable Windows laptop that’s still versatile enough to handle productivity and entertainment with equal ease.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/16/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Matthew Moniz
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/13/2024
Source: Mash IT
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 10/08/2024
Source: Dave 2D
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/05/2024
Source: Trusted Reviews
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is mostly about what’s under the hood rather than what it looks like outside, but this is still a premium laptop with solid build quality, a gorgeous OLED display and some great software features that make for a helpful user experience.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/05/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Inside Handy
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/07/2024
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Frandroid
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/15/2024
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%
Source: Les Numeriques
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/15/2024
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 100% workmanship: 80%
Source: GSM Maniak
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/18/2024
Rating: Total score: 89%
Source: Cell Phones
VN→ENPositive: Slim size; light weight; elegant design; high performance; nice display; impressive battery life; good connectivity.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/24/2024
Source: Komputer for alle
DA→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 91%
Comment
Intel Arc 140V: A pretty fast integrated graphics adapter that higher-end Intel Lunar Lake family processors employ. This is a direct successor to the Arc 8; it can drive three SUHD 4320p monitors simultaneously via HDMI 2.1, eDP 1.5 and DP 2.1. With the 140V, all 2023 and 2024 games are playable at 1080p on low graphics settings.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Core Ultra 7 256V: An upper mid-range Lunar Lake family processor. It sports 4 new Skymont E-cores and 4 new Lion Cove P-cores running at up to 3.7 GHz and 4.8 GHz respectively, along with the new Arc 140V iGPU and 16 GB of on-package LPDDR5x-8533 RAM. It essentially matches the Core Ultra 7 165U and Core i7-1360P in multi-thread performance and it eats up to 37 W when under short-term workloads.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.30":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
78.93%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
