In transient: Lenovo is refreshing and rebranding its Slim pocket book line-up, canning the Yoga moniker within the course of (within the US, anyway). The Slim 2-in-1 notebooks are coming June 2022 in quite a lot of fashions — together with carbon fiber and glass-reinforced choices, when you’ve got the additional money to spare.
The 4 fashions with anticipated June availability are the Lenovo Slim 9i, the Slim 7i Pro X, the Slim 7 Pro X, and the Slim 7i Carbon. The units are anticipated to start out at $1,799, $1,699, $1,499, and $1,299 respectively. The {hardware} underneath the hood is essentially configurable, and the choices are broader than ever. In the brand new Slim line-up, you’ll select between built-in Intel Iris Xe graphics and devoted Nvidia playing cards, in addition to CPUs from each the purple and the blue groups.
We’ll begin with the most costly flagship Slim pocket book, the 14-inch 9i. Here you’ll be able to stand up to 32GB of DDR5 RAM (clocked at 5600Mhz) and an Intel Core i7-1280P, as much as a 1TB Gen 4 M.2 SSD, and as much as a 4K OLED panel. The graphics are locked in right here, with customary Iris Xe silicon. Aside from the OLED, the 9i’s standout function is its distinctive glass casing.
Next up is the 7i Pro X, which ships with as much as an Intel Core i7-12700H and an RTX 3050. The 3050 is hardly the beefiest GPU in the marketplace, nevertheless it’s positively a step up from an built-in different. This makes the Pro X a viable choice for less-intensive titles, which it should show nicely with its 120Hz panel. That show maxes out at 3072×1920 and is a tad bigger than the 9i at 14.5-inches, nevertheless it lacks OLED illumination.
The 14.5-inch 7i Pro X helps the identical storage choices because the 9i, however the RAM will get a bit speedier at as much as 32GB of 6,000Mhz reminiscence.
The third most costly laptop computer is the Slim 7 Pro X. It shares the identical storage and GPU choices as the opposite Pro X mannequin however permits customers to snag as much as an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS and 32GB of barely slower RAM clocked at 5,400Mhz.
The ‘least expensive’ Slim mannequin is the 7i Carbon. CPU choices prime out at an i7-1260P from Intel, and the (as much as 32GB) RAM speeds are the slowest of the lot at 4,800Mhz. Unlike the Pro X units, the 7i Carbon makes use of both Iris Xe graphics or a low-end 2050 from Nvidia. The 14 or 16-inch laptop computer chassis is reportedly strengthened with light-weight carbon fiber whereas that includes a magnesium carbon design itself.
These laptops will not be obtainable for pre-order but, so you will have to attend a pair extra months to throw your cash Lenovo’s means (for these laptops, anyway).
