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Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 Laptop: 14.5" 2.8k 120Hz OLED, Ryzen AI 9 365, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD $1940.45 Delivered @ Lenovo Education Store

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Currently selling for $2,999.00 on the main website
You can upgrade to 2 years onsite support for an extra $54.50 or 3 years for $121.00
Unfortunately there is no touch screen option, but other than that seems to be a great option.

Also available
Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (15", Gen 9) 15.3" 2.8K 120Hz IPS Touch, Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 258V, 32 GB LPDDR5X, 1 TB SSD $2,200.45
Yoga Slim 7x (14", Gen 9) 14.5" 3K 90Hz OLED Touch, Snapdragon® X Elite X1E-78-100, 32 GB LPDDR5X, 1 TB SSD $2,062.55

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  • What are the requirements to be able to buy this from their education store?

    • +3

      .edu.au email at sign up I believe.

      • Damn.

        Do retail stores price match EDU stores?

    • +15

      Must be able to balance a ball on your nose

      • +11

        That seals the deal

      • That sounds flippin' hard.

  • +7

    If you want to make a comparison to Intel Ultra 200(which lacks hyper-threading)

    https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6180vs6281/AMD-Ryzen-AI…

    AMD AI 9 365 scores 28858
    Intel Ultra 7 258V scores 18819

    • +19

      They have everything on their educational store, its just another way to get a discount. I don't think anyone here is actually suggesting that this is required for education.

      • Fair enough

    • +19

      Students do more than word processing…

      • Fair enough

      • What are you trying to say?

        • +1

          High school students in Victoria have access to the entire Adobe Suite

    • +3

      you've obviously never learned After Effects then

  • -3

    Unless you’re doing heavily multi threaded tasks like rendering, lunar lake mops the floor with battery life, and had a slightly better igpu

    • +1

      Do some more research instead of reading headlines…

  • +6

    Having tested both( Lunar Lake and Ryzen AI 9) with similar sized chassis and battery capacity(over 70wH), there wasn't much difference in battery life when I used either of them for Office or Video playback. I was still able to get an average work days battery life out of both. The difference was about 3-4% on average for the Lunar Lake. However I did notice the AMD AI 9 was much smoother when multiple applications were running due to having a more powerful CPU.

    • -3

      Skip to 5:21 at the review: https://youtu.be/ymoiWv9BF7Q?feature=shared

      Idk how you were able to get such a different result from geekerwan who is one of the best tech reviewers out there

      • +3

        Looking at the video, in your link, he is using laptops from different manufacturers and a script to conduct the test in a lab. I just used the laptops from the same manufacturer in similar 14" chassis. Also I just used it like a normal person for the day (MS Outlook, Excel, Teams and Video playback) away from the office. There wasn't much difference between them over the day, maybe 30 mins to 1hr, for the Luna Lake.

    • Quite surprising, office and video playback isn't very taxing, so would expect negligible differences regarding multiple application performance.

    • The specific Slim 7 (258V) in this post has 1020 mins runtime on nbc's Web testing, quite literally double the battery of the posted Yoga 14 Pro (AI 9 365) @ 520 mins.

      https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-Ultra-7-256V-perfor…

      https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Pro-7-14-G9-review…

      Every AMD generation since zen3+, we've lost about 20% battery on the Yoga Pro 14. No idea how they keep screwing it up, Identical battery and screen.

      780 mins ("7735hs" / 6900hs) -> 620 mins (7840hs) -> 520 mins (AI 9 365).

      https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1113860872771747890/1…

      Maybe the AI 9 365 laptop you tested had a much better implementation than on the yoga.

      The Vivobook 14 OLED with a AI 9 370HX lasts about 990 minutes, which is pretty close to the Lunar Lake 258V Model @ 1020 minutes.

      That's nearly double of the Yoga Pro 7 (AI 9 365) @ 520 mins in this post with what is a very similar CPU, so would point to implementation issues somewhere.

      https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-VivoBook-S-14-OLED-laptop…

      • Keep in mind the vivobook 14 hx370 is 1200p 60hz vs lunar lake which is 1800p 120hz, so still a huge lead given the screen resolution differential

        If you go to the notebook check review where the test the power consumption with external monitor, lunar lake massively beats the hx370 in power consumption again

        • That would be where a lot of the battery life difference comes from, makes sense. Makes the AMD option look even worse then.

          To see the Lunar Lake SKU w/ comparable specs at nearly double the battery of the HX370 / AI 365 is extremely disappointing.

          Especially with how much of a downgrade the battery already got with 7940hs / 8940hs from 6800h / 6900hs,
          would have expected them to recover it a bit but its somehow gotten even more worse.

  • It is slower than 8845hs ryzen

  • +6

    $1887 on EPP sites

    • How much is the aura edition on the EPP?

      • +1

        Slim 7i Aura 15" Ultra 7 258V 32GB 1TB at $2147

    • What are EPP sites?

      • Employees Purchase Program

    • How does one get access to the EPP??

  • I am looking for a laptop with low fan noise for music production (Ableton).

    Does anyone have experience with ASUS Vivobook S 16 OLED M5606WAI ?
    https://au.store.asus.com/asus-vivobook-s-16-oled-m5606wai-m…

    The specs and pricing of those laptops are similar but the larger screen of Asus makes it tempting for me as I can fit more tracks on my screen.

    Any recommendations or comments?

    • Wait for a deal on a Lenovo with Intel CPU and 16" IPS display

      Thunderbolt 4 is very handy for music production

      OLED is overkill for music production and depending on your workflow, the risks with burn in can be greater because DAW's are mainly static elements

    • +2

      If you’re hammering the cpu you won’t get low fan noise

    • My mate tells me Mac is the way to go for his music production.

      • I am a life-time Windows user. I won't bother learning a new OS, although everyone says Macs are great in music production :)

        • +1

          It's worth noting the mac itself isn't any better. It's just more audio software runs on a Mac, and there is a bit more of a community.

          If you've got your daw/workflow set up on Windows, it won't really be any different.

  • Geforece graphic card?

    • +1

      no.

    • +1

      You missed the 155H + RTX 4050 Yoga 7i for around 2050 a bit ago.

  • Is the touchpad an easily replaceable part on Lenovo laptops? Have a 2 year-old Lenovo where the touchpad will stop working and Windows random menus popping up on the screen. Definitely not a driver issue as it happens in the BIOS and other OS.

    • +1

      from my dealings with the repairers - No, it will cost a fortune.

    • +1

      Go to the Lenovo website/support, you'll get a tech who'll try and fix it remotely, if they can't they'll give you a repair quote which probably won't be cheap, but it should give you all the info you need to get a price from your local repair shop.

  • Waiting for this downclocked cpu variant to go a steam deck type device next year. Going to be fun!!!

  • Does education store usually stack with Cashrewards?

    • No, the education store is specifically called out at 0% cash back.

  • +2

    I would be careful of lenovo laptops.
    I bought one for $1.2k (aprox), and they tried to charge me around $800 (approx) for a screen repair.
    It seems 2k or 4k screens are standard, so a 2.8k screen repair may costs a ridiculous amount.
    They told me we have to bring the screen from overseas so it was expensive, so I said by buying it a seat on an airplane?

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