[Video Review] Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Pro 16
Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Pro (16", 2022) in-depth review
All hail to the second generation of IdeaPad Pro notebooks. This is a product that really got a lot of deserved attention last year, and now - we are looking forward to seeing what Lenovo did to improve it.Obviously, one of the changes is stepping up from the Tiger Lake-H35 to the Alder Lake-H processor family. This by itself will bring a huge performance upgrade. We are more intrigued about the optional dedicated Arc graphics card though. Unfortunately, we were not able to find a configuration equipped with it, so we had to settle for an iGPU model only.Once again, you are treated to[...]

Pros
- Thin and light outfit
- Strong aluminum chassis
- Covers 90% of the sRGB color gamut and has accurate color representation with our Gaming and Web design profile
- High resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio
- Thunderbolt 4 + SD card slot
- Reasonable performance for its class
- IR face recognition
Cons
- Low power charger
- Soldered memory
- Only 16GB maximum RAM
- HDD/SSD
- up to 1000GB SSD
- M.2 Slot
- 1x 2280 PCIe NVMe 4.0 x4 See photo
- RAM
- up to 16GB
- OS
- Windows 11 Home, No OS, Windows 11 Pro
- Battery
- 75Wh, 75Wh, 4-cell
- Body material
- Aluminum
- Dimensions
- 356 x 251 x 16.9 mm (14.02" x 9.88" x 0.67")
- Weight
- 1.95 kg (4.3 lbs)
- Ports and connectivity
- 1x USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
- USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps), Sleep and Charge
- 1x USB Type-C
- Thunderbolt 4, Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort
- HDMI
- 2.0
- Card reader
- SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC
- Ethernet LAN
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11ax
- Bluetooth
- 5.2
- Audio jack
- 3.5mm Combo Jack
- Features
- Fingerprint reader
- Web camera
- FHD with IR, Fixed Focus
- Backlit keyboard
- Microphone
- Dual Array Microphone with Noise Cancellation, Support for Lenovo Voice Assistant/ Amazon Alexa
- Speakers
- 2x 2W Stereo Speakers, Dolby Atmos
- Optical drive
- Security Lock slot