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The days of heavy laptops are over. Today’s customer wants a laptop built like a tank but light as a pencil box. Lenovo looks like it’s doing just what every customer wants it to do. With the new premium flagship product, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon, Lenovo promises to offer the best-in-class performance.

However with a weight that will make you forget the laptop is even there. Like the other laptops in the Yoga segment of Lenovo, the Slim 7i Carbon is very lightweight, weighing in at just under 1 KG. However, the light weight doesn’t comprise the performance the Slim 7i offers.

Let’s Talk About the Design and Looks

With a stylish-looking smooth Moon White façade, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon is made with Aerospace-grade aluminium and has a MIL standard certification to boast about its durability. 

As with the durability, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon comes with a nine MIL-STD-810G military-grade standard that assures you that your device can withstand dust and extreme temperatures. Also, with that certification, you can trust the fact that your Yoga Slim 7i will see the daylight even after a drop test.

Lenovo offers you a 13.3-inch QHD+ IPS display with 2560 x 1440-pixel resolution. The laptop comes with a 16:10 aspect ratio with 91% screen to body ratio, 100% sRGB coverage, 300 nits of brightness, and a Dolby Vision certification that is the cherry on the top. The keyboard is a chiclet backlight one with stain resistance so you will be able to work be it day or night.

Some Behind The Scenes For Our Readers 

The latest and most powerful processor of Intel’s, the Intel i7 11th Generation powers the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i. This guarantees you that your Yoga Slim 7i will never be left behind when it comes to CPU-intensive work. 

But you may not believe that, so Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon goes a step ahead and boasts of an Intel-Evo certification that cements the fact that the Slim 7i has undergone rigorous real-world scenarios and has proven its mettle when it comes to performance.

The Intel i7 11 Gen is paired with 16 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 1 TB of M.2 PCle SSD that is unfortunately not upgradable. That’s right, for those who want a laptop they can build upon, the Yoga Slim 7i Carbon is not the ideal choice. But for regular users, 16 GB of high-speed RAM and 1 TB of fast-paced Solid-State Drive is a suitable configuration they can hold on to for as long as they want.

The graphics are handled by an Integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics. This may be a little underwhelming considering that competitors in that range offer a dedicated graphics card but given the lightweight and the lightning-fast processor, graphics won’t be an issue.

Battery And Connectivity

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon comes with a 50 Whr battery that will give you an approx. 15 hours of video playback and 13 hours of productive work. As with all electronics, battery life varies based on the usage of the device. You also get a quick charge that gives an approx. 2 hours of video playback for 15 minutes of charging.

In terms of connectivity, you get a Wifi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, an IR camera, mic and headphone combo, a USB Type-C port, and two thunderbolt ports. The USB Type-C offers charging capabilities and also supports an external display with a 120 Hz refresh rate.

An Intelligent thermal cooling system and high-efficiency thermal fans with Q control cool the laptop’s processor.

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon costs Rs 1,19,990. It offers you featherweight portability and military-grade durability with a decent battery back up. To top it all, it has a stunning moon white exterior.

Its been reported that the tech giant bit off Apple as a logo, pushed manufacturing of their two shiny new  MacBook Pro models, powered by Apple Silicon to the second half of 2021. Thus confirming predictions and rumours fogging 14- and 16-inch models. 

The corporate giant previously chalked out to set in motion the mass production of the two unspecified MacBooks in May or June as Nikkei Asia reports in an English version of a piece about iPhone 12 mini production, originally sniffed out by Nikkei on Wednesday.

While the beans of an exact schedule were not spilt, a nudge into the more hopeful part of the year checks out with expectations fumed by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and other insiders.

In a report centring on Apple’s cutting off of iPhone 12 orders from suppliers, the publication duly noted that Apple has rescheduled mass production of the two new MacBooks from May or June until the latter part of the year. 

Although the notebooks being referred to as “MacBooks,” in the report,  it is more probable that this is referring to the expected new MacBook Pro models.

In the meanwhile, Apple has rescheduled its mass production plans of its two new Macbooks in the latter half of the year. The current schedule is different from the previous schedule of May or June, Nikkei has learned.

What’s In Store In July For Apple Lovers?

The better half of the year officially starts in July, so there should still be enough time for Apple’s suppliers to amp up their productions for a launch later in the year.

According to Kuo, the two brand new  MacBook Pros will enjoy some mini LED screens, a chassis overhaul. If we talk about casing design, the new models have abandoned the curvy style which was seen in the older models top and bottom parts and have adopted a flat-edged form factor design which is not very different from the ‌iPhone 12‌. 

The come-back of much loved MagSafe charging technology is expected. Also coming back to the stage are expanded I/O options including an HDMI port and an SD card reader, while the very unpopular Touch Bar will be swapped with physical function keys. USB C ports will probably be the only type supported by the MacBooks. 

The expected MacBook Pro models will use a similar heat pipe design used by the current 16-inch MacBook Pro models, which Kuo declares as a much prevailing option than the current 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air because it will result in enhanced computing prowess. 

Thanks to the overhauled design and surging replacement demands in the wind, Kuo expects total MacBook shipments would bolster significantly by at least 25 to 30 per cent this year over  last year to approx. 20 million units.

Many of Kuo’s educated predictions were aired by Bloomberg someday among the freshest 30  of this pandemic carrying year. 

All though tech gurus predict that Apple is wound up for the introduction of 14-inch MacBook Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2021.

What we learned is that both of these laptops are most probably going to be coming with Apple Silicon chips — anticipating second-generation “M1X” or “M2” designs that build on the M1. 

Kuo expects a launch in the 2021 third quarter, while others are under the assumption of the debut date being sometime much later in 2021.

While all we, the rest of the population, can do is to wait patiently and expect something good to come out from 2021 and if it’s a breakthrough in MacBooks, we won’t be complaining.