Following up on final week’s Lenovo gaming laptop computer announcement, the corporate is again with a number of new Home windows 11 laptops for work and creativity.
The brand new laptops embrace the Slim Professional 9i Gen 8, Slim Professional 7 Gen 8, Slim 7i Gen 8 and Yoga 7.
Lenovo’s Slim Professional 9i (pictured above) is the flagship providing, boasting 14.5- or 16-inch PureSight Professional shows, Lenovo X Energy, and extra. PureSight Professional is a brand new show know-how obtainable on a number of of Lenovo’s new laptops that makes use of mini0LED know-how to supply as much as 1200nits of brightness and color accuracy by hitting one hundred pc of each DCI-P3 and the Adobe RGB color gamut.
Lenovo X Energy, however, is a set of {hardware} and software program options that work collectively to enhance numerous experiences. An instance supplied by Lenovo is that X Energy can “drastically” pace up software program preview, rendering and exports when enhancing video.
Past X Energy and PureSight Professional, the Slim Professional 9i gives as much as thirteenth Gen Intel Core CPUs and an Nvidia RTX 4070 laptop computer GPU.
Lastly, there’s the AI Engine+, which is accessible on the 9i and different Slim Professional laptops. It helps enhance efficiency by anticipating energy or battery wants based mostly on what customers are doing with the laptop computer.
Slim Professional 7, Slim 7i and Yoga 7 sequence
Transferring on to the opposite laptops, Lenovo goals to pack efficiency into modern designs.
The Slim Professional 7 sports activities a 14.5-inch PureSight Professional show with as much as a 3K decision, 400 nights of brightness and a 120Hz refresh fee. Lenovo didn’t observe the CPU choices for the Slim Professional 7, however did say it’ll use both the Nvidia RTX 3050 or 4050 laptop computer GPUs.
The Slim 7i, however, sports activities the newest technology thirteenth Gen Intel Core CPUs.
Lastly, the Yoga 7 and 7i supply 360-degree hinges — as normal with the Yoga line — in order that customers can make the most of a typical clamshell laptop computer expertise or fold the machine right into a pill. The Yoga sequence gives both the newest thirteenth Gen Intel or AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU with a 2.8K OLED 16:10 show.
Availability
Lenovo offered the next particulars concerning the laptops’ availability in North America, although solely with U.S. pricing. I’ve included CAD conversions beneath, although precise Canadian pricing could range.
- Slim Professional 9i (16-inch) will begin at $1,799.99 USD (about $2,456.81 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning Could 2023.
- Slim Professional 9i (14.5-inch) will begin at $1,699.99 USD (about $2,320.32 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning Could 2023.
- Slim Professional 7 will begin at $1,199.99 USD (about $1,637.87 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning April 2023.
- Slim 7i will begin at $1,179.99 USD (about $1,610.57 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning April 2023.
- Yoga 7i (14-inch) will begin at $849.99 USD (about $1,160.15 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning April 2023.
- Yoga 7i (16-inch) will begin at $799.99 USD (about $1,091.91 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning April 2023.
- Yoga 7 will begin at $799.99 USD (about $1,091.91 CAD), with anticipated availability beginning Could 2023.