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Cinebench portable1/27/2024 In Cinebench, you can see the single-core performance coming really close to the 3700X, which matters more in a laptop. The memory configuration of fast 16 GB (dual-channel) at 4266 helps a lot with navigating through the occasional jank. While an actual dedicated GPU would have been nice, that would also almost completely change the target market for the laptop, and no doubt make it more power-hungry while at it. The integrated Radeon graphics is sufficient for content creators on the go. However, the fact that it even comes anywhere close with its 15W power draw is almost a miracle. That made the experience relatively snappy, but nowhere near its desktop counterparts. I’d often see the chip shoot up to the neighbourhood of 3.5 GHz during bursty-loads, like opening up heavy applications. The 4.2 GHz boost clock is a little ambitious for itself, which it almost never touched during single-core workloads. The chip’s base clock is a little on the lower side at 1.8 GHz, but that’s expected as it is a U-series chip after all, which is built for efficiency. However, since it does have the power, at least you have an option to work on in times of need. 8 cores and 16 threads are mighty enough for any laptop owner, and some of it is actually wasted on a laptop where you probably won’t do any actual production work or gaming on. The laptop comes with AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800U, built on the same Zen 2 greatness that team red dominated the desktop space with in the last couple of years. The Lenovo Ideapad Slim 7 Comes With Windows Hello Facial Recognition for Login The login experience is smooth and fast, and that feeling continues in almost every other aspect of using the laptop. I must confess I’ve never actually used a laptop with Windows Hello, and having used one with it I’ll probably never go back to one without it. Once you do open up the lid the display greets you with Windows Hello login, using the in-built 720p webcam with IR. The laptop is offered as an ‘Ultrabook’ (thin-and-light), yet opening up the lid reminded me of bulky gaming laptops. If I had one real complaint regarding the same, that would be that it’s quite hard to open the lid one-handed. I would have preferred a larger touchpad, which ideally would be less hard to click on, and that’s something that every Windows laptop should take note of. The touchpad was also a little hard to settle into after using the one on the Macbook, although that might be a little unfair. In that lineup, I’d put the Lenovo laptop’s keyboard last. About half of this review was written using the laptop’s keyboard, a third on my Macbook Air and the rest on my desktop’s mechanical keyboard. The keyboard follows the same trend of not being fancy but has good key-travel and a tactile clicky-ness which wouldn’t turn me off from writing on it. In the land of Windows laptops, the slim 7 is built with competence, with a design that won’t turn heads but function just as it should. I’m currently using a 2020 Macbook Air, and the Lenovo Ideapad Slim 7 in comparison doesn’t stand up to it, but it comes close. Starting off with the build quality, it’s always a little hard to resist the temptation to compare Windows laptops with Macbooks.
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