Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (2026) Series
Processor: AMD Strix / Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 5 430, Intel Panther Lake Ultra 7 355Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon 840M, Intel Intel Graphics 4 Xe3 PTL
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 0.975kg, 1.15kg
Average of 5 scores (from 10 reviews)
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i 14IPH11
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i 14IPH11Processor: Intel Panther Lake Ultra 7 355
Graphics Adapter: Intel Intel Graphics 4 Xe3 PTL
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2880 x 1800 pixels
Weight: 0.975kg
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Tech PowerUP
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition Gen 11 (14IPH11) is an ultra-portable, premium machine with a gorgeous OLED screen that easily sails past the 1000-nit mark in HDR mode. It brings modern I/O, an outstanding trackpad, and a solid keyboard to the table.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/30/2026
Source: PC Mag
In many ways, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition is an impressive machine. Not only is it one of the thinnest and lightest 14-inch laptops on the market, but it comes with a beautiful OLED screen and excellent speakers. The laptop's newer components facilitate both moderate productivity work and light gaming. Still, you can enjoy similar (or better) performance from much cheaper competitors.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/19/2026
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Windows Central
The 14-inch Slim 7i stands as one of my all-time favorite Windows laptops, and the Ultra Aura Edition (Gen 11) carries over much of what I valued in its predecessors. With Panther Lake, this ultra-lightweight PC lasts all day (and beyond), but I'd happily trade some of its battery life for the higher-end Core Ultra X7/X9 processors that Lenovo currently offers outside the US. With the Core Ultra 7 355, it'll still have tremendous appeal towards frequent travelers.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/17/2026
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: XDA Developers
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition sure does have "aura", as the kids say. If you do shell out the cash required to grab one, you won't regret it, but if you're looking for something that's the ultimate value, this machine isn't it. It's beautiful, light, performant, and a superb example of what Panther Lake is capable of.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/17/2026
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Andrew Marc David
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/06/2026
Source: Make Use Of
If you're set on getting a thin and light Windows laptop, you have better options. To name a couple, we really liked the Acer Swift Edge 14 -- and while it's not as light at the Slim 7 Ultra, it's close. But if you want my strongest recommendation, I'd have you consider the 2026 version of the ASUS Zenbook 14, which has the speedy ARM-based Snapdragon X2 Elite 18 core CPU in a package that weighs just tad more than this Lenovo and has much better battery life. But me? I'm sticking to Mac, but I will say that if this laptop had better performance, more ports, was less money and had a less reflective screen, the weight factor could compel me to buy one of these for personal use, but I wouldn't switch from my MacBook Pro. Overall, I find Windows much less satisfying to use than MacOS and so only if the notebook's hardware was extremely compelling would I switch — this comes close, but not close enough.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/26/2026
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: SuperSaf
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition is as thin as 13.9mm, weighs as little as 975g and features a 14” Puresight Pro 2.8k POLED 120Hz display, with up to the Intel® Core™ Ultra X9, 12Xe, 16 Core processor, Intel® Arc™ graphics, 40W sustained TDP, 75Wh Battery and Price starts at £1,620.00.
Hands-On, online available, Long, Date: 01/14/2026
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7a 14AGP11 AI 5 430
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7a 14AGP11 AI 5 430Processor: AMD Strix / Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 5 430
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon 840M
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.15kg
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Yanko Design
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 06/20/2026
Source: XDA Developers
The question of "should you buy this laptop" is hardly a straightforward yes or no. For me, performance matters. I'm not going to drag-race this mid-range laptop basically ever, and the heaviest workload it's going to see is Photoshop, but on the odd chance I do open up Premiere Pro, choose to compile some code locally, or play the odd game, I don't want to be reminded that I bought a laptop that had a poorly refreshed architecture.
Comparison, online available, Short, Date: 05/03/2026
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: The Tech Chap
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7a just launched at CES 2026! This could be the ultimate slim & light Windows laptop (that costs less than you'd think)!?
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/07/2026
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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.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
Intel Intel Graphics 4 Xe3 PTL: The Intel Graphics 4 Xe3 is an integrated graphics card in Panther Lake SoCs with 4 Xe3 cores (32 EUs / 512 ALUs), 4 raytracing cores and a clock rate of up to 2450 MHz.
AMD Radeon 840M: A fairly powerful RDNA 3.5 architecture iGPU that debuted in early 2025 and a direct successor to the Radeon 760M. Its 8 CUs/WGPs (512 unified shaders) run at up to 3 GHz. DX12 Ultimate, ray tracing, AI image generation and other modern features are all supported here, as are many popular video codecs including first and foremost AVC, HEVC, VP9 and AV1. Its gaming performance is good enough for playing 2024 games in low graphics settings.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Panther Lake:
Ultra 7 355: Mobile mid-range 8-core SoC from the Panther Lake family with 4 Xe3 GPU cores. As with Lunar Lake, the built-in NPU 5 offers 50 TOPS and now offers support for FP8.
AMD Strix / Gorgon Point:
Ryzen AI 5 430: A mobile mid-range SoC of the Gorgon Point family. The APU sports 4 CPU cores (1x Zen 5 core with up to 4.5 GHz and 3x Zen 5c cores at up to 3.4 GHz), a 50-TOPS NPU and a moderate RDNA 3.5 iGPU, and is technically quite similar to the Ryzen AI 5 330 from mid-2025.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.00:
14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact.
In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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74%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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