Lenovo Legion Slim 7i (2023) Review - Thin & Powerful

Lenovo’s Legion Slim 7 is a thinner and lighter version of the Legion Pro 7, but compromises often have to be made to go more portable. That may not be the case here, as the Slim actually outperforms many larger and heavier gaming laptops!

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Lenovo Legion Slim 7i Gen 8 (2023) Review Timestamps:
0:00 A Thin and Powerful Gaming Laptop?
0:16 Design & Build Quality vs Last Year
1:07 Size & Weight
1:26 Laptop Specs
1:43 Keyboard & RGB Lighting
2:20 Touchpad & Fingerprint Scanner
2:29 Ports
4:16 Getting Inside & Internals
4:57 SSD, SD Card & Wi-Fi Speed
5:15 Upgrade Options
5:47 Speakers & Latencymon
6:08 Battery Saving Features
6:43 Battery Life
7:03 Video Sponsor - Skillshare
8:09 Cooling Design & Thermal Modes
9:40 Temperatures / Clock Speed / TDP
11:10 Game Performance in Different Modes
11:26 Cinebench CPU Performance (On & Off Battery)
12:52 Keyboard Temperatures
13:22 Fan Noise
13:44 Screen - New Option in 2023
13:59 Screen Color, Brightness, Contrast & Bleed
14:41 Screen Response Time & Latency
15:48 Camera & Microphone Test
16:02 MUX Switch, Advanced Optimus & G-Sync
16:20 3 Game Comparison (1440p & 1080p)
18:03 3DMark & Content Creation
18:39 BIOS - LOTS of Customization!
18:56 Linux Support
19:15 Pricing, Availability & Laptop Deals
20:15 Changes Compared to Older 2022 Model
21:01 How it Beats Bigger Laptops
21:17 If You Need More Performance, This is For You!

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[JarrodsTech]

CORRECTIONS & UPDATES: 14:41 Lenovo have replicated the overdrive not working issue and will fix it in a software update.

Update regarding BIOS at 18:39, apparently the mega unlock was because of the unit I was sent and is not normal, so expect far less customization. I have asked if there is a way for the user to unlock the advanced mode, but don't have a response yet.

[jj]

My own slim 7i specced like yours arrived yesterday and it’s a gorgeous machine. The whole package just feels robust and well made; not to mention it’s thinner and lighter, yet more powerful than my older Legion Y540. It’s like two different companies made this and the Y540.

If you’re looking to upgrade yourself from a lower priced laptop or an older model, this is well worth the money. I’m using this for design school and compared to most students Dell workstations and think pads, this machine might as well be a windows MacBook Air.

[sarthak-ti]

I’ve been using this laptop with the same configuration for the last 4 weeks and I absolutely love it! What impressed me was how silent the fans were even at light 1080p gaming. They do get loud at higher resolutions and more demanding titles but the fact that such a thin and light laptop can properly keep up is very impressive. Highly recommend it

[nadravface]

The Windows 11 Battery Saver Mode can significantly increase battery life, in my tested cases 2-4 times, turning 1.5 hours to 4-5 hours. It can be enabled at 100%, so it will always be enabled when unplug the charger. I enabled it and it allows me to go to meetings without the charger, this is really a game charger for me, so it will be very helpful if the battery life is measured with power saver enabled.

[RyomaE]

Looks really promising for someone who wants portability as well as good performance. Waiting for the 7840HS version of this laptop for better battery life.

[teetn]

After doing extensive research for the last couple weeks. Pulled the trigger on this laptop today. They had it on display at Best buy. Got to play around on it for a bit in store dispite it being out of stock in my area. The build quality is impressive and screen is probably the best of any laptop they had in store besides the macbooks. Im excited to get this thing next week.

[noscpe]

I mean this laptop's battery lasted less cuz of the i9 and 4070, while last year's model had an i7 and 3060

[theblitz]

14:27 this is how a screen should be calibrated. Lenovo is the only company that nails this. Love em

[omzo]

I bought the exact same spec laptop (i913900, 4070, 1TB and 32GB) as in this video about 1 month ago (bought it after watching this video in the first place), and i must say that was the best money i ever paid and i want to say thank you for the recommendation Jarrod! I am still extremely surprised at how good this laptop is put together material wise and build quality, but most importantly how crisp and smooth that 3.2K display is. My usage for it is mainly modelling and rendering software aswell as adobe bundle (CAD, revit, lumion, sketchup, photoshop, illustrator etc.) and I recently downloaded BF5 and it is also running great, getting stable 60 FPS on 3.2K resolution.
To those interested, I did end up getting a pretty good deal on it, around €2000 with the 3 year premium care plan after discount (without discount around €2700 [Germany]).

[shahriardhruvo]

You even showed linux support!!! Damn bro I am not gonna miss any of your video from now on. Thankssss

[Cars.]

Before buying a new laptop make sure that you watch the review of it in this channel.

[itzarrandom]

Nice video! Love the Legion Slim 7i, right after the G14

[spencerbeane]

Oh man! I went ahead with a Legion 5i Pro with same specs (i9, 32gb, 4070) thinking it would game better than this Slim 7i based on thermals. Doh! Who would have thought the slimmer machine would win.

Great review, thank you.

[larockwns]

To add clarify to the opening of the laptop at 4:26 - to pull off the bottom panel, simply pull up on the little narrow slots at the back of the laptop and it comes off really easy, no need to pry the cover off

Great video, it's the reason I bought the Slim 7i. I moved over from the Legion Pro 7, and I like the Slim better due to 1) fingerprint scanner, 2) lighter weight, 3) smaller power brick while keeping all the same functionality of the Pro.... oh and no stupid cosair iCue

[toblobs]

Finally, a gaming laptop that will fit in my bag 😂

[NoobiteArchive]

I am hyped for framework 16” to come 😁

It will solve the problems of every gaming laptop which is obselence. It would be funny if framework 16” with discrete gpus could compete with other gaming laptops

[KenMrKLC]

I have been running this same unit with i9 4070 and i upgraded to 32gb ram for 6 months. I actually sold my m1 max macbook 16 because I found me using this more without compromise. I have absolutely no issues and only one wish list item in that the SD card be faster UHS II rather than lame UHS I speed. Easily solved with a SD dongle reader for usbC gets me 250-280mbs transfer of footage from gopro. However with iphone 14 pro having ability to record right to external ssd I may switch over to iphone for my video recording, just unplug ssd drive from iphone right into laptop and then I get SSD speeds for transfer of footage or just edit right on the external ssd

[ukraineforever]

Hi Jarrod, hope we will see Lenovo Slim 5 (R7000P in China) as soon as posible. I think this is will be best middle price laptop wiht 4060 for games

[cunxu]

I have no idea how Lenovo keeps doing this, but so far they still deserve their title as the biggest laptop maker in the world

[melch]

Very nice, any idea when the AMD version (7840/7940hs) will be available?