Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Ultra 14IPH11 review: Best XPS 14 alternative yet

[Redaktion]

Lenovo is going directly for the Dell XPS jugular with the latest Yoga Slim 7 Ultra 14. At under 1 kg, the model is already much lighter than the Dell flagship while keeping the same Intel Panther Lake X7 and X9 CPU options.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Slim-7-Ultra-14IPH11-review-Best-XPS-14-alternative-yet.1280307.0.html

[uther]

The nearly 11-hour WLAN runtime is excellent

With a 75wh battery, are you f* joking?? Thats abysmal and the status quo 5 years ago with 50wh batteries.

Also this idiotic 2242 SSD Slot, that Lenovo also has on the X9. What on erth are they thinking, thats capped then to 2TB, because there is no bigger SSD in the form factor.

+ no Ports, white color and glossy display renders this machine despite the low weight a no-go.

[dumb_oems]

A flickering glossy display?

Embarrassingly high DPC latencies? How can they be so incompetent not to get this right after all this time?

Annoying fans active even at light loads?

Just get the Air.

[bummer, when 48 GB RAM]

If you plan to run agentic workflows on this using the state of the art (SOTA) LLM that is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M, know that the 32 GB RAM won't be enough:

.. I've come to the conclusion that (1) 32768 is the biggest context I can get away with in an adequately smart model, and (2) it just ain't enough.

(Here is a good (V)RAM requirement calc: huggingface.co/spaces/oobabooga/accurate-gguf-vram-calculator (paste e.g. this into its "GGUF Model URL" field: huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/blob/main/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf).)

[bummer, when 48 GB RAM]

If you get a laptop with a dedicated GPU and even if it's only 8 GB VRAM, the context goes from 32k to approximately 148k, at least according to the mentioned accurate-gguf-vram-calculator (more here: notebookchat.com/index.php?topic=306383.0 #2).

[C2C]

Embarrassingly high DPC latencies?

I wonder if this can be tested under Linux and if the issue persists there too.

That would rule out it being a hardware issue and more Microsoft incompetence.

Or is this more to do with something in-between the OS and hardware, like OEMs firmware / BIOS?

[RobinLight]

Another ridiculous review on Notebookcheck. I don't understand why this lightweight notebook is compared to "competing" models much heavier. There are already notebooks in this class like the also on NBC reviewed Honor MagicBook Art 14 using the Snapdragon X Elite. But it is totally ignored here.

It's similar weighted, has a glossy 120Hz OLED display and a haptic touchpad.
Even though the Honor's display is larger, having a higher resolution and a much smaller battery (60 vs 75Wh), the battery life is longer than the Lenovo!!

This isn't a well done Panther Lake implementation, it's even slower than the old Snapdragon in native benchmarks.

Btw. why the US page of NBC is still using the old Cinebench 23 which doesn't have ARM support natively?

[PhytochromeFr]

Why you still use AX router for benchmark BE Wifi devices??? BE has double bandwidth with 320Mhz width channel, but AX router can't. You should replace router.