Lenovo’s new IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon is the lightest 14-inch OLED laptop

Lenovo’s new IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon (branded as Yoga Slim 7 Carbon outside of North America) joins an army of OLED laptops that launched this month. Lenovo claims it’s the lightest 14-inch OLED laptop on the market at 2.37 pounds. (Guess the company is right. The closest competitor I can think of is Asus’ ZenBook 14X OLED, which weighs 3.09 pounds. It’s also lighter than the ZenBook 13 OLED and the Dell XPS 13 OLED. .)

One thing to note is that the OLED panel (from Samsung Display) comes with QHD + resolution, rather than the 4K resolution you often see on OLED laptops. This means that you won’t get as many pixels as on a 4K OLED machine (like the ZenBook 14X), but you will also be able to see better battery life. QHD + is still very sharp, especially at this size.

There are other things to love about the display as well. It has a 16:10 aspect ratio, which will provide more vertical space than the 16: 9 panel on last year’s IdeaPad Slim 7. Lenovo says it has a 90Hz refresh rate (a feature Samsung has promised will appear on more OLED laptops this year), will cover 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and hit 600 nits of brightness.

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Inside, the Slim 7 can be configured with up to an AMD Ryzen 7 5800U, Nvidia GeForce MX450 graphics card, 16GB of memory, and 1TB of storage. There’s a 61 Wh battery that Lenovo says will last up to 14.5 hours – which might seem like a tall order, but we got close with last year’s Slim 7, which had a slightly smaller battery.

Lenovo also insists that the thing is durable, despite its lightweight construction. According to the company, the device has undergone “nine operational tests” for durability and can withstand “daily physical shocks and harsh environmental conditions.” It is expected to hit shelves in October with a starting price of $ 1,289.99.

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Lenovo also introduced a new Yoga Slim 7 Pro (named IdeaPad Slim 7 Pro outside of North America – I know it’s confusing). It’s a 16-inch laptop with a standard IPS touchscreen rather than an OLED, although it’s also 16:10 and has QHD resolution. This screen goes up to 120Hz, an even bigger boon for the gaming crowd. The models come with a Ryzen 7 5800H, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. There is a 75 Wh battery. The Slim 7 Pro is expected in October with a starting price of $ 1,449.