Inside Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro X (14″) – disassembly and upgrade options
Lenovo’s competitor to the MacBook is really solid. And it has one advantage – you can upgrade its storage.
Check out all Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro X (14″) prices and configurations in our Specs System, or read more in our In-Depth review.
1. Remove the bottom plate
There are only 5 Torx-head screws keeping this laptop’s bottom panel in place. We were surprised that there are no hidden ones. After you undo them, pry the panel with a plastic tool, starting from the hinge gaps.
2. Battery
Inside, we find a 70Wh battery pack. It lasts for 9 hours of Web browsing, or 7 hours of video playback. To remove it, you need to unplug the battery connector and undo all 5 Phillips-head screws that keep it attached to the chassis.
3. Memory and storage
The memory here is soldered to the motherboard. You get configurations of up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM, working at 6000MHz. As for the storage, there is one M.2 PCIe x4 slot, which works with Gen 4 SSDs.
4. Cooling system
Cooling-wise, there are two heat pipes, shared between the CPU and the GPU. In addition, both the graphics memory and the VRMs are equipped with heat spreaders.
Check out all Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro X (14″) prices and configurations in our Specs System, or read more in our In-Depth review.
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Pros
- Thin and light outfit
- Strong aluminum chassis
- Covers 84% of the sRGB color gamut and has accurate color representation with our Gaming and Web design profile (BOE NE145F8M-N61 (BOEAA8))
- High resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio
- No PWM (BOE NE145F8M-N61 (BOEAA8))
- 2x Thunderbolt 4
- Reasonable performance for its class
- Full HD Web camera + IR face recognition
- Good battery life
Cons
- Soldered memory
- No SD card slot
- CPU performance is limited by power