Lenovo Yoga 7 - The BEST Budget Productivity Laptop

**A Comprehensive Review of the Lenovo Yoga 7: A Creator's Dream Laptop**

This is a 1080p infrared camera, so it's not packing crazy levels of detail or anything. Sure, but it is plenty for online conference calls and this is a test of the built-in video quality. This is only a 1080p 30 FPS camera, but like I said it should be plenty for online calling and the like, you know Skype or something along those lines. It's not going to be anything you know game-changing of course, most laptops kind of fall short in that regard, but that's not what these are intended for. These aren't supposed to replace say full-on like mirrorless cameras and the like.

I'm also curious about the microphone quality in this one. I'm moving around the room to show you how the camera deals with Dynamic lighting changes shifts and color tone. Sorry, it's probably a bit jarring that I keep moving around okay, back to the regular stuff. So, there are two 2-watt Dolby Atmos audio speakers baked into this Frame, both upward firing and closer toward the back here near the screen which is nice. I was surprised by the low tones actually more prominent than I expected them to be. This really does pack a-punch alt together, and you really get a sense of Dolby's tuning capabilities with these little drivers.

Now that the bulk of performance is out of the way, one vital question remains: battery life. Thanks to AMD's latest smart power management feature, this device can survive just wave after wave of brutal workload without the need to be plugged in all the time. It's always that constant tug-of-War right between being as powerful as you can be in such a small footprint and also maintaining that power efficiency as well. Because if your laptop always has to be plugged in to really stretch its legs, it's not really a laptop at that point. It loses the portability aspect of the device which is kind of the whole point of laptops to begin with.

This is perhaps the best thing about these new Yoga 7 devices: they're not only insanely powerful for the dollar spent again under $1,000 aspect, which is pretty insane, but they're also insanely efficient. The 840 series processors have the sort of magic baked into them that allows for local video playback at this point up to nearly 20 hours in the right conditions okay airplane mode low brightness, but you can make it work and that's kind of unheard of especially for a laptop this big and this thin as well.

This is not like a full 99W hour battery you could expect in some of the big chunkers out there. I actually think this is only just over 70 W hours so that's pretty impressive battery life for a battery that's really not as big as it could be. And in my own personal testing, which I encourage you to cross-reference with other full-fledged genuine reviews streaming 1080p video at 50% brightness and volume, I was still averaging just over 4 hours of playback.

But if you find the need to charge, the included brick is actually super compact so you can throw it into your backpack and forget it's even there. It also relies on the USB-C interface and is capable of intelligent rapid charge with an EMP, empis on preserving battery health in the long run by enabling features like conservation mode in Lenovo Vantage.

I'm honestly so glad to see the Gen 9 Yoga 7 back in the spotlight these laptops are so cool for their all-around flexibility. I mean literally, and it's also pretty great that they boast hefty AMD hardware without breaking the bank. And I'm also glad they've cleared up uh okay, I need to stop doing this, I'm glad they've cleared up some of their region-dependent naming convention. This is me being a little nitpicky, but uh Lenovo HQ if you're watching this, thanks for clearing up the name stuff. It was just very jarring having to sort out the naming conventions between say the states and Europe and Asia as a reviewer that's much appreciated.

**Conclusion**

When coupled with Cutting Edge processors obviously like the 8840 HS and Ryzen AI, the new Yoga 7 is sure to impress for years to come. To learn more about them including this specific device, consider checking out relevant links in the video description. I want to thank both Lenovo and AMD for giving us a chance to share this two-in-one with you. Also, I want to encourage you to test again the claims that I have made in this video for yourself if possible visit a big box store play around with the device get familiar with it, and this is an important one.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis here is the new Lenovo Yoga 7 a true 2in1 unibody laptop housing a blazing fast AMD ryzen 78840 HS processor with ryzen AI and radon 780m graphics on the surface she's a productivity Workhorse but there's much more here that meets the eye and we've partnered with Lenovo and AMD in this one to bring these things to light starting first with the obvious a beautiful gray aluminum exterior it feels premium in the hand but also quite thin the edges and seams are all nipped and tucked and nothing feels plastic iy which is great for a laptop that costs under a th000 bucks fully loaded mind you branding is on the minimal side which is nice we'll find a Lenovo logo below the keyboard near the fingerprint reader and along the lower backside of the screen the yoga brand is a bit larger on the opposite corner and a small Dolby Vision Atmos logo rest near the trackpad if you're wondering the underside of the device is very clean and void of any prominent text at all although I imagine you won't be looking much under there the port selection is also very generous you'll find two USB C ports along the left Edge accompanied by an HDMI 2.1 Port unified Jack resides further down as well and off to the right you'll find two USB type A ports along with a Micro SD card reader and power button with integrated LED the rear edge has no ports at all and this needs to be the case because well the yoga 7 2 in one folds into a tablet you can think of this is a sort of hybrid device perfect for desk or lap work sure but also convenient while on the go when fully folded it's not even an inch thick you can see that's a it's pretty thin considering this is a full laptop and you combine that with lenovo's tilt and pressure pen you've got a full-fledged tablet with a large IPS touchcreen that can be optioned up to OLED this one's intended target is the creator someone concerned with suets say like Adobe whose Photoshop Premier and after effects programs can prove quite taxing on inferior Hardware the 8 cores and 16 threads baked into the AMD 8840 HS prove more than capable in a variety of complex workloads chewing through a cinch R32 synthetic like it was made of paper and rendering densely packed 4K timelines in respectable Windows considering we're working with open GL make no mistake for the price of these yoga 7 models can definitely hold their own it also doesn't hurt that these ship with two months of free Creative Cloud trials the full suite at your disposal for two whole months that's not too bad so if you're looking to get your feet wet this might be your chance and on the subject of workloads I want to talk a little bit about this because folks hear AI nowadays and they quiver a little bit amd's ryzen AI processing can and does expedite complicated tasks like de noising graphics and video summarizing and responding to messages emails and more you can turn just a few scribbles of notes into entire dissertations with the right guidance and being able to rely on amd's efficient in-house chip for the calculations can save both time and money look I know AI is an extremely overused acronym by this point in mid 2024 but when used correctly and when kept as local as possible it can simplify a workflow in seconds take premiere for example feed it a few prompts allow it to conjure captions for for raw footage and watch as it trims the fluff in a blink of an eye it is incredible how quickly it does this stuff this is literally hours of work just completely Vanishing right in front of us it's stuff that we can do today as content creators thanks to advancements in AI it doesn't always have to have a negative connotation now this being a 16in two in one I mean she she's not the smallest so it can be a bit heavy for some folks to hold especially with one hand it's going to take probably a two-hand use or again you could put it in tent mode like we did here you can also lay it completely flat if you want so that's cool it ain't called the yoga for nothing or you could set it up in its traditional laptop mode like so the screen is going to orient itself according to uh how you have the screen rotated and of course the keyboard will just completely turn off if you have it flipped around so that you don't accidentally push Keys you don't intend to speaking of that keyboard it's a full size with 10 Keys which is nice the travel is pretty good it feels fairly tactile for a laptop that's uh something I didn't really expect the key spacing is not really my cup of tea Lenovo tends to space their keys out just to Tad more although I will note that uh despite having tons of functions built into this it doesn't feel all that cluttered when I'm just you know on the- go typing and say Microsoft Word or something in fact typing comes fairly naturally and I imagine many creators will appreciate full-sized shift Keys just another personal pet peeve of mine thank you whoops that's sticky keys thank you Lenovo for including full sizee shift keys I just War to throw that out there a bit more on the screen I am really digging the 16 X10 aspect so this is going to be slightly taller than a conventional 16x9 ratio what you would find in a normal TV or typical gaming Monitor and this is a huge help when say video editing or photoshopping the extra real estate takes the hassle out of densely packed timelines allowing you to see more once with scrolling up and down all the time and if you're rocking the OLED version of the yoga 7 you won't even notice the black bars along the top and bottom while consuming traditional 16x9 me it's just really nice having more vertical real estate any Creator trust me will appreciate something like this it just helps the screen not feel as cluttered and that's something that's very difficult to avoid on laptops even as large as this one this also has 10-point multi-touch support which is cool regardless of the screen technology choose by the way whether it be IPS or OLED but the OLED variant also includes up to 400 nits of peak brightness and 100% dcp3 color reproduction with Dolby Vision it's the way to go on my book I I recommend it unless you aren't at all familiar with OLED and at that point you might not want to buy OLED because once you do you're never going to want to go back both of these are 60 HZ capable they don't go any higher than that but again you have to think about what these are intended for creators in the field folks on the go who aren't necessarily gaming but rather creating don't get me wrong she'll still game pretty well actually considering amd's Radeon 780m in here is far from what we refer to as quote ideal for a gaming setting and look it's 2 gig frame buffer is going to quickly become a limiting factor in titles say any newer than GTA 5 right we can maintain above 60 FPS here but jump to anything newer like dirt 5 still in 1080P the medium preset and uh yeah the Story begins to change a bit you could of course lower the resolution lower the iname settings even more and hit that 60 FPS cap but Lenovo was quick to point out that this is far from what they deem as a gaming worthy laptop but I always like to try and all things considered this isn't really all that bad static Simulator games uh mobas would be perfectly fine to run on this machine provided you can handle the 60 HZ cap pair that with 16 gigs of system Ram which this has dual Channel 6,400 MHz and the yoga 7 should prove quite the contender now let's talk Creature Comforts the first thing I noticed in this device was the manual camera shutter above the screen it's literally just a manual slider that covers the lens and I thought this was pretty clever one more way to reassure your users that uh you actually do have privacy online which is important to a lot of people by the way here's a quick selfie I took with it right this is a 1080p infrared camera so it's not packing crazy levels of detail or anything sure but it is plenty for online conference calls and this is a test of the built-in video quality this is only a 1080p 30 FPS camera but like I said it should be plenty for online calling and the like you Skype or something along those lines this is plenty for that uh it's not going to be anything you know gamechanging of course most laptops kind of fall short in that regard but that's not what these are intended for these aren't supposed to replace say fullon like mirrorless cameras and the like I'm also curious what you guys think about the microphone quality in this one I'm moving around the room to show you how the camera deals with Dynamic lighting changes shifts and color tone sorry it's probably a bit jarring that I keep moving around okay back to the regular stuff so there are two 2 wat Dolby Atmos audio speakers baked into this Frame both upward firing and closer toward the back here near the screen which is nice I was surprised by the low tones actually more prominent than I expected them to be this really does pack a-p punch alt together and you really get a sense of dolby's tuning capabilities with these little drivers so now that the bulk of performance is out of the way one vital question remains battery life and thanks to amd's latest smart power management feature this device can survive just wave after wave of brutal workload without the need to be plugged in all the time it's always that constant tug-of War right between being as powerful as you can be in such a small footprint and also maintaining that power efficiency as well because if your laptop always has to be plugged in to really stretch its legs it's not really a laptop at that point it loses the portability aspect of the device which is kind of the whole point of laptops to begin with and this is perhaps the best thing about these new yoga 7 devices so they're not only in insanely powerful for the dollar spent again under $1,000 aspect which is pretty insane but they're also insanely efficient 840 series processors have the sort of magic baked into them that allows for local video playback at this point up to nearly 20 hours in the right conditions okay airplane mode low brightness but you can make it work and that's kind of unheard of especially for a laptop this big and this thin as well this is not like a full 99w hour battery you could expect in some of the big chunkers out there I actually think this is only just just over 70 W hours so that's pretty impressive battery life for a battery that's really not as big as it could be and in my own personal testing which I encourage you to cross reference with other full-fledged genuine reviews streaming 1080p video at 50% brightness and volume I was still averaging just over 4 hours of playback but if you find the need to charge the included brick is actually super compact so you can throw it into your backpack and forget it's even there it also relies on the USBC interface and is capable of intelligent rapid charge with an EMP empis on preserving battery health in the long run by enabling features like conservation mode in Lenovo Vantage I'm honestly so glad to see the gen9 yoga 7 211 back in the spotlight these laptops are so cool for their all-around flexibility I mean literally and it's also pretty great that they boast Hefty AMD Hardware without breaking the bank I'm also glad they've cleared up uh okay I need to stop doing this I'm glad they've cleared up some of their region dependent naming convention this is me being a little nitpicky but uh Lenovo HQ if you're watching this thanks for clearing up the name stuff it was just very jarring having to sort out the naming conventions between say the states and Europe and Asia as a reviewer that is much appreciated um I do think that these laptops have a place in the Creator Spotlight and it doesn't hurt that the ecosystem has been cleaned up along the way just wanted to throw that out there and when coupled with Cutting Edge processors obviously like the 8840 HS and ryzen AI the new yoga 7 is sure to impress for years to come to learn more about them including this specific device consider checking out relevant links in the video description I want to thank both Lenovo and AMD for giving us a chance to share this two inone with you I also want to encourage you to test again the claims that I have made in this video for yourself if possible visit a big box store play around with the device get familiar with it and this is an important one watch plenty of reviews for an informed purchase I'm confident the yoga 7 will remain a solid Contender at its price point my name is Greg thanks for learning with me wthis here is the new Lenovo Yoga 7 a true 2in1 unibody laptop housing a blazing fast AMD ryzen 78840 HS processor with ryzen AI and radon 780m graphics on the surface she's a productivity Workhorse but there's much more here that meets the eye and we've partnered with Lenovo and AMD in this one to bring these things to light starting first with the obvious a beautiful gray aluminum exterior it feels premium in the hand but also quite thin the edges and seams are all nipped and tucked and nothing feels plastic iy which is great for a laptop that costs under a th000 bucks fully loaded mind you branding is on the minimal side which is nice we'll find a Lenovo logo below the keyboard near the fingerprint reader and along the lower backside of the screen the yoga brand is a bit larger on the opposite corner and a small Dolby Vision Atmos logo rest near the trackpad if you're wondering the underside of the device is very clean and void of any prominent text at all although I imagine you won't be looking much under there the port selection is also very generous you'll find two USB C ports along the left Edge accompanied by an HDMI 2.1 Port unified Jack resides further down as well and off to the right you'll find two USB type A ports along with a Micro SD card reader and power button with integrated LED the rear edge has no ports at all and this needs to be the case because well the yoga 7 2 in one folds into a tablet you can think of this is a sort of hybrid device perfect for desk or lap work sure but also convenient while on the go when fully folded it's not even an inch thick you can see that's a it's pretty thin considering this is a full laptop and you combine that with lenovo's tilt and pressure pen you've got a full-fledged tablet with a large IPS touchcreen that can be optioned up to OLED this one's intended target is the creator someone concerned with suets say like Adobe whose Photoshop Premier and after effects programs can prove quite taxing on inferior Hardware the 8 cores and 16 threads baked into the AMD 8840 HS prove more than capable in a variety of complex workloads chewing through a cinch R32 synthetic like it was made of paper and rendering densely packed 4K timelines in respectable Windows considering we're working with open GL make no mistake for the price of these yoga 7 models can definitely hold their own it also doesn't hurt that these ship with two months of free Creative Cloud trials the full suite at your disposal for two whole months that's not too bad so if you're looking to get your feet wet this might be your chance and on the subject of workloads I want to talk a little bit about this because folks hear AI nowadays and they quiver a little bit amd's ryzen AI processing can and does expedite complicated tasks like de noising graphics and video summarizing and responding to messages emails and more you can turn just a few scribbles of notes into entire dissertations with the right guidance and being able to rely on amd's efficient in-house chip for the calculations can save both time and money look I know AI is an extremely overused acronym by this point in mid 2024 but when used correctly and when kept as local as possible it can simplify a workflow in seconds take premiere for example feed it a few prompts allow it to conjure captions for for raw footage and watch as it trims the fluff in a blink of an eye it is incredible how quickly it does this stuff this is literally hours of work just completely Vanishing right in front of us it's stuff that we can do today as content creators thanks to advancements in AI it doesn't always have to have a negative connotation now this being a 16in two in one I mean she she's not the smallest so it can be a bit heavy for some folks to hold especially with one hand it's going to take probably a two-hand use or again you could put it in tent mode like we did here you can also lay it completely flat if you want so that's cool it ain't called the yoga for nothing or you could set it up in its traditional laptop mode like so the screen is going to orient itself according to uh how you have the screen rotated and of course the keyboard will just completely turn off if you have it flipped around so that you don't accidentally push Keys you don't intend to speaking of that keyboard it's a full size with 10 Keys which is nice the travel is pretty good it feels fairly tactile for a laptop that's uh something I didn't really expect the key spacing is not really my cup of tea Lenovo tends to space their keys out just to Tad more although I will note that uh despite having tons of functions built into this it doesn't feel all that cluttered when I'm just you know on the- go typing and say Microsoft Word or something in fact typing comes fairly naturally and I imagine many creators will appreciate full-sized shift Keys just another personal pet peeve of mine thank you whoops that's sticky keys thank you Lenovo for including full sizee shift keys I just War to throw that out there a bit more on the screen I am really digging the 16 X10 aspect so this is going to be slightly taller than a conventional 16x9 ratio what you would find in a normal TV or typical gaming Monitor and this is a huge help when say video editing or photoshopping the extra real estate takes the hassle out of densely packed timelines allowing you to see more once with scrolling up and down all the time and if you're rocking the OLED version of the yoga 7 you won't even notice the black bars along the top and bottom while consuming traditional 16x9 me it's just really nice having more vertical real estate any Creator trust me will appreciate something like this it just helps the screen not feel as cluttered and that's something that's very difficult to avoid on laptops even as large as this one this also has 10-point multi-touch support which is cool regardless of the screen technology choose by the way whether it be IPS or OLED but the OLED variant also includes up to 400 nits of peak brightness and 100% dcp3 color reproduction with Dolby Vision it's the way to go on my book I I recommend it unless you aren't at all familiar with OLED and at that point you might not want to buy OLED because once you do you're never going to want to go back both of these are 60 HZ capable they don't go any higher than that but again you have to think about what these are intended for creators in the field folks on the go who aren't necessarily gaming but rather creating don't get me wrong she'll still game pretty well actually considering amd's Radeon 780m in here is far from what we refer to as quote ideal for a gaming setting and look it's 2 gig frame buffer is going to quickly become a limiting factor in titles say any newer than GTA 5 right we can maintain above 60 FPS here but jump to anything newer like dirt 5 still in 1080P the medium preset and uh yeah the Story begins to change a bit you could of course lower the resolution lower the iname settings even more and hit that 60 FPS cap but Lenovo was quick to point out that this is far from what they deem as a gaming worthy laptop but I always like to try and all things considered this isn't really all that bad static Simulator games uh mobas would be perfectly fine to run on this machine provided you can handle the 60 HZ cap pair that with 16 gigs of system Ram which this has dual Channel 6,400 MHz and the yoga 7 should prove quite the contender now let's talk Creature Comforts the first thing I noticed in this device was the manual camera shutter above the screen it's literally just a manual slider that covers the lens and I thought this was pretty clever one more way to reassure your users that uh you actually do have privacy online which is important to a lot of people by the way here's a quick selfie I took with it right this is a 1080p infrared camera so it's not packing crazy levels of detail or anything sure but it is plenty for online conference calls and this is a test of the built-in video quality this is only a 1080p 30 FPS camera but like I said it should be plenty for online calling and the like you Skype or something along those lines this is plenty for that uh it's not going to be anything you know gamechanging of course most laptops kind of fall short in that regard but that's not what these are intended for these aren't supposed to replace say fullon like mirrorless cameras and the like I'm also curious what you guys think about the microphone quality in this one I'm moving around the room to show you how the camera deals with Dynamic lighting changes shifts and color tone sorry it's probably a bit jarring that I keep moving around okay back to the regular stuff so there are two 2 wat Dolby Atmos audio speakers baked into this Frame both upward firing and closer toward the back here near the screen which is nice I was surprised by the low tones actually more prominent than I expected them to be this really does pack a-p punch alt together and you really get a sense of dolby's tuning capabilities with these little drivers so now that the bulk of performance is out of the way one vital question remains battery life and thanks to amd's latest smart power management feature this device can survive just wave after wave of brutal workload without the need to be plugged in all the time it's always that constant tug-of War right between being as powerful as you can be in such a small footprint and also maintaining that power efficiency as well because if your laptop always has to be plugged in to really stretch its legs it's not really a laptop at that point it loses the portability aspect of the device which is kind of the whole point of laptops to begin with and this is perhaps the best thing about these new yoga 7 devices so they're not only in insanely powerful for the dollar spent again under $1,000 aspect which is pretty insane but they're also insanely efficient 840 series processors have the sort of magic baked into them that allows for local video playback at this point up to nearly 20 hours in the right conditions okay airplane mode low brightness but you can make it work and that's kind of unheard of especially for a laptop this big and this thin as well this is not like a full 99w hour battery you could expect in some of the big chunkers out there I actually think this is only just just over 70 W hours so that's pretty impressive battery life for a battery that's really not as big as it could be and in my own personal testing which I encourage you to cross reference with other full-fledged genuine reviews streaming 1080p video at 50% brightness and volume I was still averaging just over 4 hours of playback but if you find the need to charge the included brick is actually super compact so you can throw it into your backpack and forget it's even there it also relies on the USBC interface and is capable of intelligent rapid charge with an EMP empis on preserving battery health in the long run by enabling features like conservation mode in Lenovo Vantage I'm honestly so glad to see the gen9 yoga 7 211 back in the spotlight these laptops are so cool for their all-around flexibility I mean literally and it's also pretty great that they boast Hefty AMD Hardware without breaking the bank I'm also glad they've cleared up uh okay I need to stop doing this I'm glad they've cleared up some of their region dependent naming convention this is me being a little nitpicky but uh Lenovo HQ if you're watching this thanks for clearing up the name stuff it was just very jarring having to sort out the naming conventions between say the states and Europe and Asia as a reviewer that is much appreciated um I do think that these laptops have a place in the Creator Spotlight and it doesn't hurt that the ecosystem has been cleaned up along the way just wanted to throw that out there and when coupled with Cutting Edge processors obviously like the 8840 HS and ryzen AI the new yoga 7 is sure to impress for years to come to learn more about them including this specific device consider checking out relevant links in the video description I want to thank both Lenovo and AMD for giving us a chance to share this two inone with you I also want to encourage you to test again the claims that I have made in this video for yourself if possible visit a big box store play around with the device get familiar with it and this is an important one watch plenty of reviews for an informed purchase I'm confident the yoga 7 will remain a solid Contender at its price point my name is Greg thanks for learning with me w\n"