Lenovo - Yoga Slim 7x - Copilot+ PC - 14.5" 3K OLED Touch-Screen Laptop - Snapdragon X Elite - 16GB Memory - 512GB SSD - Cosmic Blue

I was very excited about these new breed of snapdragon laptops with OLED displays but I am disappointed. The design is beautiful, the dark blue color is pleasing, holding the laptop felt nice. The key board felt okay, not the best, but the bleeding lights from underneath the keys is not pleasing in the dark, the power button is in a horrible position, and the electronic camera blocker is also not good, I prefer an actual cover over the camera. The speed of the laptop is good, snappy. No heat no fan noise that I could detect. Battery life is better than intel laptops, but not as good as it is being siad, we seen better on current tablets. Here is my main issue with this laptop, now windows is the only OLED alternative to Apple laptops. That motivated me to go back to Windows. I wanted to have a laptop with an OLED display. The problem is the OLED display on these laptops is not good for watching movies. The OLED display is not color calibrated, everything looks yellow, redish and movies don't look sharp. And here comes Windows and its drivers saga, somehow in one of the powerdown shut off, the computer did an update that downloaded a driver and color management software XRITE without my authorization, I was excited and surprised, but it didn't give me any way to adjust the colors, only the option to choose different ICC profiles which didn't help the situation. I also try the windows own color calibration with no sucess either. No matter what I did, skin colors never looked natural. Apple still king when it comes to well calibrated display on all their devices out of the box with no efforts on my part. By the way, I also tried the ASUS PZ13 Proart and the Samsung Book Edge 4, they all use the same snapdragon ship, and they all share the same OLED panel display with the same situation, very yellow, very red bias colors and no way to adjust it.

Pros: design and feel, OLED screen, battery life, light weight, top value/price for the specs you get, works absolutely fine after you install required updates. Cons: would have liked to see more ports but definitely not a deal breaker. Web browsing, videos and music, doc editing, file syning to cloud was seamless. Geekbench 6 scores were 2465 single core and 13733 multi core.

Windows 11 on arm uses 67GB space so you are basically left with 400GB storage. A normal x86 windows uses around 30gb storage. This laptop has an idle memory/RAM usage of ~6GB or 40% of 16GB. The moment you open a browser, like Brave browser, the RAM usage goes up to 60%. in comparison, my desktop pc, x86 computer, uses ~3GB or ~20% of the 16GB RAM. The Brave browser also uses less RAM in my x86 computer than this windows on arm laptop. let's talk about compatibility issues. As an electrical and computer engineer, there are many different programs that we need to use. first, I installed AMD xilinx Vitis/Vivado. the computer did struggle during the installation. Even though the CPU usage was around 40%, there was a lot of stuttering when I was trying to listen to a music with only one tab being open in Brave browser. the installation was successful but the driver installation was not as it gave an error. after that, I was able to open a project in Vivado. I dont think you will be able to program your fpga board as its driver was not installed successfully. next thing, I installed LabView software by national instruments. it was installed successfully but when i opened the laptop crashed and gave a blue screen error. but the blue screen did not go away even after restarting the laptop multiple times. finally, i had to go back to a restore point so i could use the laptop again. when I did that, windows deleted all the programs I downloaded so i had to start the process again. Recently, I installed Arduino IDE to see if I can program the esp32 microcontrollers I have. the program itself works good but there are not port to choose to program the dev boards. I did install CP210x drivers but the issue is still there. one good story, I was able to install and run Ngspice and Magic softwares for VLSI. For that, I enabled Windows subsystem for linux feature and installed Ubuntu from windows store. Battery life has been pretty good. I would say pretty close to my m1 macbook pro. one difference is that the fan kicks in once in a while but the fan is off most of the time. The screen is OLED so it is much better than non OLED screen laptops. The speakers are good enough, lacks some mid frequecies as low and high frequencies are there. My macbook has mid frequencies too. I like upward speakers and I will make sure my next laptop has speakers upward kicking. So, overall this laptop has been not good for me but will be good or good enough for many others as most people don't use the aforementioned softwares. many people buy macbooks for their battery life and this is definitely a good alternative.