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Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x OLED Laptop: Snapdragon X, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD $1039 Delivered @ Lenovo Outlet

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BlinkyBill on 31/01/2025 - 13:33 lenovo.com (1707 clicks)
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This is much cheaper than the current sales and Lenovo regular store pricing. The stock is new. Note there may be some cheaper Slim5x models on the outlet store but $1039 models are the pick of the crop, with about 8 left (of top-spec models) at the time of posting.

Processor : Snapdragon® X Plus X1P-42-100 Processor (3.40 GHz )
Operating System : Windows 11 Home 64 ARM
Graphic Card : Integrated Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU
Memory : 32 GB LPDDR5X-8448MHz (Soldered)
Storage : 1 TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC
Display : 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), OLED, Glare, Non-Touch, 100%DCI-P3, 400 nits, 60Hz

Note: Snapdragon X Plus (not Elite), this is 8 core model, but for just a tick over $1K it's a ripper deal. I ordered one just to dip my toes into ARM64 Windows. If it goes well I'll grab an Snapdragon X Elite 2 later this year when they're released.

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  • garage sale on 31/01/2025 - 13:39
    +3

    Good if you just want to run Office, too many of my apps outside of Office365 are still on Intel , and not sure what the overhead is for emulation or compatablity.

    • superforever on 31/01/2025 - 13:44
      -1

      and not sure what the overhead is for emulation or compatablity.

      Never tried SD processor laptop, but I heard they are quite OK.

    • BlinkyBill on 31/01/2025 - 13:46
      +4

      Most x64 stuff will work fine under Prism with a lot of stuff now having native ARM64 support. The main issue is VPN (they rely on network drivers), Printer drivers, and stuff like that.

      • tonyamazing on 31/01/2025 - 13:56

        What about gaming?

      • RedHab on 31/01/2025 - 14:16
        +1

        Besides VPNs and some printers not working, there are also many other hardware drivers that haven't been ported, and some that may never be. Other things that won't work are virtual machine hosts like VmWare, and games that have DRM.

        Microsoft abandoned those who'd bought into Windows 8 on ARM back in 2015. Hopefully ARM is too big now for MS to screw their customers over again.

    • dbnewman89 on 31/01/2025 - 14:24
      +2

      Not true… I have a Surface Laptop 7. Chrome, Brave, Office, Vscode, WSL (Ubuntu), Docker, Git, Photoshop, Lightroom all run native so I can run the whole dev stack without emulation…

      The only app I've had performance issues with under emulation is Discord (Open source Legcord is an arm native alt), and the only incompatible app I've had is Forticlient VPN - No solution yet, the msstore version doesn't support SAML.

      The list of native apps is only getting bigger by the day. https://windowsonarm.org/

  • Jklaro on 31/01/2025 - 13:45
    +3

    Should just get a samsung with snapdragon elite and dex it.

    • besttechadvisor on 31/01/2025 - 14:09
      +2

      I know it's a joke, but Dex is single screen only, can't run windows apps, single browser window, etc.

      • Jklaro on 31/01/2025 - 14:10
        +1

        Ah k. I really think they should utilise our phone. So one device is tablet laptop and phone. Save on having the same processor 3 times.

        • besttechadvisor on 31/01/2025 - 14:35

          Too right. The phone in my pocket is more powerful than most people's computers. May as well just having a docking station.

          Chrome OS is going to be dropped in favour of an Android operating system for Chromebooks, so it's just a matter of time until Android works great as a laptop.

      • BadGiraffe on 31/01/2025 - 14:17
        +1

        Google just officially enabled video out for their Pixels… and it's trash. They need a loooong way to get to get as good as Dex.

        • RedHab on 31/01/2025 - 15:19
          +1

          Having recently switched from a Samsung phone to a Pixel, I was surprised by how much on the Pixel doesn't work properly or has rough edges compared to Samsung.

          Samsung's Android is better than Google's, which is odd, as Google makes Android.

          • BadGiraffe on 31/01/2025 - 16:16

            @RedHab: Yeah! I came from a Samsung too! A series. I miss the routines the most.

            But I went with a Pixel because of the 7 years of updates. I plan to keep this one for a while.

  • Gdsamp on 31/01/2025 - 13:45

    Anyone checkem Lenovo Education store pricing

    • BlinkyBill on 31/01/2025 - 13:50
      +1

      Yeah, I checked Regular, Education, and Pro stores :) The outlet is still the cheapest. I think the edu store was $1300 on sale.

  • belongsinforums on 31/01/2025 - 13:49
    +2

    https://laptopmedia.com/au/series/lenovo-ideapad-slim-5x-14-… 1.5kg according to this site

    • JetBombat on 31/01/2025 - 15:10

      thicc dragon

  • belongsinforums on 31/01/2025 - 13:59
    +1

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/880797

    Some useful input here from Scotty himself

  • dr on 31/01/2025 - 14:22
    +17

    Price is amazing, so here is my 2c after using it for 6-7 months as daily driver for anyone considering buying it.

    Note, Im using Yoga Slim 7 14Q8X9 model. I'm not a gamer so have no experience with that aspect.

    Greats:
    - very lightweight
    - screen is gorgeous,
    - keyboard is great
    - a lot of stuff works either directly or through emulation
    - WSL2 works

    Not so much:
    - battery life is still not on par with MacBooks, it is better then standard x86/amd64 laptops, but far from 12-15 hours range on single charge
    - app compatibility and driver support is still hit and miss, for example Qualcomm updated graphics driver few months ago but that update is not applicable to Lenovo models
    - dev work is hit and miss, some 3rd party nodejs and python modules/packages do not exist for ARM so you cannot use native windows arm64 versions. I decided using them through WSL2 but that carries it's own set of problems.

    God damn awful:
    - random networking related lockups after resuming work. Imagine following scenario, browser with 50-500 (Ozbargain) tabs open, you return after the break and want to resume work, and machine has turned into molasses. Performance tab shows a lot of disk swapping, network activity is delayed and "throttled". This state lasts from 30 seconds to 4 minutes, and there was quite a few times when I gave up waiting and did a hard reboot. I'm not sure if this is driver issue, newtwork stack issue, or just poor ssd performance but it is happening randomly to this day. I'm using Edge and that was my first suspect, but same behaviour was with Chrome and Firefox.

    eGPUs are not working, and IMO will never work, as neither NVidia, nor AMD have zero interest to provide oxygen to Qualcomm growing their market share. Microsoft seems to punt on ARM cpus without any heavy support to make it on par with x86/amd64.

    This is my experience, your mileage may vary.

    • RedHab on 31/01/2025 - 15:23
      +4

      Thank you for that detailed writeup, and for taking the pain as a "early adopter".

      I'll probably switch to ARM in a few years, if it becomes popular.

    • BlinkyBill on 31/01/2025 - 15:34
      +2

      Yeah, Yoga Slim 7x was my first choice but I wasn't willing to gamble $2K on ARM64 until I was sure it was for me, for $1K I'll give it a go. Hopefully it works out well as for work all I need is Windows, Chrome, Office, and Visual Studio. I care more about the power usage and battery life. I currently have a Yoga 9i with i9 + 4060 GPU and Mini LED screen and battery life is well…. "average".

  • noscopedJFK on 31/01/2025 - 14:24

    This is a GOOD DEAL

  • bcYield on 31/01/2025 - 14:28
    +1

    If they make slightly higher resolution for a bit more says $1.1k, I can convince myself to try. A few days ago, they had decent specs ones but for like $1.6k, and one yoga 7i 2in1 for under $1.5k (was $1k for a moment before lol).

  • Bigbanger666 on 31/01/2025 - 14:32
    +1

    I know its nitpicking but i wish this had an 120hz screen

  • Phoebus on 31/01/2025 - 14:37
    +1

    Waiting for this price on the Strix Point version.

    • brifog on 31/01/2025 - 14:43

      You'll be waiting a while…

  • s1n1st3r12 on 31/01/2025 - 14:37

    How would this fair doing basic graphic design?

  • Dollar Dreamer on 31/01/2025 - 14:39
    +6

    ARM for Windows will be ready in 10 years. Yes I know they said this 10 years ago but this time it will be true.

    • Gdsamp on 31/01/2025 - 15:06
      +1

      Just in time for the next announcement of Tesla Full self driving "ready next year",,,,

    • Phoebus on 31/01/2025 - 15:14

      and Tesla will have 1000km 10 minute recharge batteries good for 1 million km or 25 years.

    • merill on 31/01/2025 - 15:42

      ARM for Windows is not the problem. I run ARM for Windows as my daily driver on my Mac M1 under VM and it runs fabulously. It's faster than any PC I've used and I do a lot of dev work from nodejs to C#, VSCode, VS all without a hitch. I used Teams on the VM all day, spend at least 3 hours a day on meetings and everything works fine, rock solit.

      I even forget it is Windows with the Parallels Coherence feature where it opens each app in it's own window on the mac.

      Hopefully the Snapdragons will iron out their kinks and be comparable to the M1++

      Disclaimer: I'm a Microsoft employee but use Macs as my daily driver 😂

  • butter on 31/01/2025 - 14:40

    does anyone know if Visio works on this under emulation?

    • belongsinforums on 31/01/2025 - 15:17

      Couldn't you just use the web version?

  • moyanous on 31/01/2025 - 15:14

    Doesn't the OLED model have lower effective resolution than the IPS version due to its subpixel arrangement?

    • DangerNoodle on 31/01/2025 - 16:43

      It's more due to their panel/model choice in this specific rather than being an OLED specific problem. Some android phones run OLED displays at higher resolutions on smaller panels. Asus have a 14.5inch OLED laptop running 2880x1800.

  • mathew42 on 31/01/2025 - 15:19
    +1

    Looks like linux support for Snapdragon laptops is coming via Ubuntu 24.10 Concept heart Snapdragon X Elite.

    • brifog on 31/01/2025 - 15:27
      +1

      Yeah but then you have to use Ubuntu.

      • BadGiraffe on 31/01/2025 - 16:27

        I see what you did there.

  • Pro1278 on 31/01/2025 - 15:41
    -1

    Paid around $700 a month ago on lenovo outlet

    • bobokingdom on 31/01/2025 - 16:09

      That's LCD with 16GB RAM / 512GB SSD?

  • morediscount on 31/01/2025 - 16:15

    Can it run Crysis ?

    • CrispyChrispy on 31/01/2025 - 16:30
      +1

      It'll be more of a walk than a run imo

  • El Grande on 31/01/2025 - 16:43

    Thanks OP got the last one. I was going to get a M4 Macbook Pro but this is half the money and twice the ram. Lets see how we go.

  • Xylewy on 31/01/2025 - 17:08

    A new one just got added

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