Best Lenovo Laptop 2024: Top picks in gaming, Chromebooks and more

If you’re looking for an immense all-round portable, then the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro is the best Lenovo laptop that money can buy. We found it to excel when it came to build quality with little to no flex with its aluminium casing, and at 1.39kg, remains rather portable, as well as being strong, which makes it a marvellous choice for students looking for an all-conquering ultrabook-style offering.

The display on the Yoga Slim 7i Pro is also something to behold, with a 14-inch screen, complete with a taller 16:10 aspect ratio, that we found in testing to have a brightness of 388 nits. This meant that colours looked pretty rich for an LCD panel, and in the real world, would be vibrant enough for indoor and indeed outdoor usage.

Inside, the 11th gen Intel Core i7 chips provided some brilliant performance in testing, with its benchmark figures coming close to that of the Dell XPS 13. If you want to use the Yoga Slim 7i Pro in pro-grade apps such as Photoshop, it should work a treat, with its integrated Iris Xe graphics also helping to give you moderate performance in games, albeit at a downscaled resolution. 

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro has even been approved by the Intel Evo initiative, which means the laptop meets Intel’s strict criteria to be labelled as one of the best Intel-powered laptops on the market. The battery life on offer here we found will get you through a working day with a little bit of juice to spare, even if the 19-hour figure Lenovo quotes is a little optimistic. 

All in all, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro is a great all-round Lenovo laptop with superb construction, complete with a good 16:10 display with admirable performance from its Intel combo of CPU and integrated graphics. 

Reviewer: Andrew Williams
Full review: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro review

The Lenovo Chromebook Duet has been a mainstay on our list of the best Chromebooks for a good while now, and it’s for good reason, given it offers arguably one of the most accessible and convenient computing experiences money can buy.

We found it to be extremely portable, weighing in at just 450g, making it a great choice for those on the go. This is quite the versatile device too, given you can use it as either a touchscreen device or a more traditional laptop with the keyboard cover.

Its 10-inch touchscreen features some great colours, which we found to be great for day-to-day usage, whether you’re enjoying episodes of Rick and Morty or BoJack Horseman, or even some cloud gaming with the likes of The Witcher 3. It struggled a little with darker scenes during testing, but on the whole, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet’s display performed admirably.

The MediaTek Helio P60T octa-core processor, also served up a nippy performance for web browsing during our tests, even if its benchmark scores may not indicate otherwise. ChromeOS is a great operating system for those who need a system to do the basics well, and we found the Lenovo Chromebook Duet worked pretty well for just that.

In testing the Chromebook Duet for a day’s work, and in running our battery benchmark, we found its battery life to be stellar, with a total of 13 or so hours before it eventually conked out. This puts it in the upper frame of Chromebooks.

Make no bones about it, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet is a brilliant Chromebook, especially if you’re after the convenience of a touchscreen and a tablet-style arrangement. If you want a more traditional laptop-based Chromebook experience then we’d say to head for the likes of the Acer Chromebook 314 which offers comparable performance in a laptop-style chassis.

Reviewer: Ryan Jones
Full review: Lenovo Chromebook Duet review

The name ThinkPad is synonymous with business laptop greatness, and the latest Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 delivers.

This new model stays true to what makes these devices great and sprinkles some luxury on top. What makes the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 so good is how the user interacts with it. It’s an absolute joy, with a keyboard that offers surprisingly deep travel for such a slim device as well as satisfying feedback. There’s useful 2-stage backlighting and, of course, the red joystick nestled in the centre.

Also important for business users is a quality webcam, and you’ve got that right here. The 1080p webcam offers detail and some neat features, like blurring when you walk away and infrared for secure face unlocking.

What you might not expect from a functional business laptop is a high-quality display. This ThinkPad breaks through this expectation with a high contrast 14-inch QHD+ OLED panel. Its colours are rich and the brightness is strong. You get the added benefit of a semi-matte finish for batting back reflections too.

You buy a ThinkPad for its build quality and business add-ons but performance is always key, and it’s up to snuff in this device for high-end productivity users. There are fans on board but they are never all that distracting when you do push this laptop.

Reviewer: Andrew Williams
Full Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 review

If you’re trying to find a reliable gaming laptop that won’t break the bank then the Lenovo LOQ 15i is a fantastic option. The LOQ 15i can pass as a business laptop thanks to its subtle design and wedge-shaped profile, with the only giveaway being the customisable RGB lighting. 

The low price of the LOQ 15i is reflected in the basic screen set-up; the 15.6-inch Full HD (1080p) display comes with a 144Hz refresh rate and a maximum brightness of around 350 nits. Content creators will want to look elsewhere due to the low colour accuracy scores – with our tests showing sRGB and DCI-P3 hitting 61.6% and 43.9%, respectively – but that thankfully didn’t have too much of an impact when it came to video streaming. 

The real star of the show here is the performance of the LOQ 15i; our model came with a Raptor Lake Intel Core i5-13500H processor alongside an RTX 4060 graphics card and 16GB RAM. While it’s not capable of playing games like Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing enabled at 60fps, even with DLSS 3, it did manage to hit 67fps in Full HD, making it more than capable of running triple-A games. 

Moreover, toying around in Lenovo Vantage and enabling GPU overclocking brought a massive frame-rate boost – up to 20fps in Rainbow Six Extraction and a good 10fps in Cyberpunk 2077 with the Ray Tracing Ultra preset. The fans do kick up and the machine does run hotter under these circumstances but overall, these are very impressive results for the price point. 

For just £1249.99/$1327.99, the Lenovo LOQ 15i shockingly capable gaming laptop that’s arguably the ideal pick for budding gamers who don’t require all the bells and whistles that other devices come with. It’s definitely not a perfect machine, but it offers everything you’ll need for a smooth and immersive gaming experience on a budget.

Reviewer: Stuart Andrews
Full Review: Lenovo LOQ 15i

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i (2022) is one of the best-looking ultraportable laptops around. Not only that, but it has a stunning OLED screen, decent battery life and packs plenty of power. 

The Yoga Slim 9i, as its name suggests, has a slim glass and aluminium design with a high-quality keyboard and a smooth trackpad. There’s also a sharp 1080p webcam with Windows Hello facial recognition, three Thunderbolt 4 ports and a headphone jack. 

The 14-inch OLED touchscreen produces incredible colours and pin-sharp detail across its 16:10 aspect ratio with great vibrancy, punch and depth. This is one of the best screens we’ve tested across many laptops, exceeding the MacBook Air M2 in resolution and colour handling, and matching the Dell XPS 13 Plus’ OLED screen. 

When it comes to performance, the Yoga Slim 9i is powered by the Intel Core i7-1280P with integrated graphics, 16GB of dual-channel DDR5 memory and a 1TB SSD. The laptop also showed similar results to the Dell XPS in Geekbench single and multi-core benchmarks and in PCMark 10 while in Adaptive Performance mode and outperformed the MacBook in Extreme Performance mode. 

The Yoga Slim 9i can run for a full day with Adaptive Performance mode on, the screen brightness reduced and Battery Saver mode on. Put it through more intensive use and it’ll last about 7 hours. This isn’t a bad result for an OLED laptop, but non-OLED rivals will almost certainly last you longer on one charge. 

This isn’t the cheapest laptop around and the battery life could be better, but for those searching for a good-looking and powerful laptop, the Yoga Slim 9i won’t disappoint. 

Reviewer: Mike Jennings

Full Review: Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i (2022)

For those after a 2-in-1 offering, the Lenovo Yoga 6 should certainly serve you well. It features a 360-degree screen hinge, and we found it to be sturdy with no unnecessary wobbling. In addition, its fabric and plastic construction looks great. 

The 13.3-inch FHD display looks to offer some brilliant contrast. It isn’t the brightest screen, so you may be better off using it indoors. The bezels here look to be nice and thin around the edges, which helps along with the Yoga 6’s modern aesthetics, and at 1.3kg, this isn’t too heavy of a laptop. We found that this made it nicely portable, lending this to also be one of the best student laptops.

Inside, the Yoga 6 is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor, which offers up some smashing performance, especially in multi-core areas, offering up better benchmark results than more expensive ultrabooks such as the Dell XPS 13 OLED. Its integrated graphics will offer you some okay gaming performance, although if gaming is a top priority, then a certified best gaming laptop will serve you better.

When it comes to battery life, the Yoga 6 excels with 14 hours measured in the benchmarks, putting this up there with the very best, and even beating off more premium ultrabooks in the process. It rivals Chromebooks such as the Acer Chromebook Spin 713’s runtime, although this Lenovo laptop has the added functionality of being a Windows laptop with more power behind it.

Reviewer: Andrew Williams
Full review: Lenovo Yoga 6 review

The keyboard has good travel and feels nice to use, but the touchpad could be more responsive. With that said, you’ll probably want to use an external mouse for gaming anyway. 

The screen is bright and vibrant with a WQXDA resolution and a speedy 165Hz refresh rate. The display does struggle with darker scenes, but colours are wonderfully punchy and the laptop can comfortably be used outdoors even on brighter days. 

The Lenovo Legion Slim 7 (2022) is a slender gaming laptop with a large high-resolution display and enough power to run modern games. 

The Legion Slim 7 has a sleek design for a gaming laptop, weighing just over 2kg. The build is sturdy and there’s a good array of ports including three USB 3.0 charging ports, one HDMI port on the back of the laptop and two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 3.5mm jack, a DisplayPort and a button to turn the camera on and off along the side. 

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 offers good performance, while the Intel Core 12700H is more than capable of powering gaming sessions, along with any day-to-day work you might want to use this laptop for. There’s also a 1TB SSD with read and write speeds double that of most gaming laptops for fast loading times. 

The CPU is outperformed by both the Razer Blade 17 (2022) and the Asus ROG Flow X16 (2022), but both of these laptops have a much higher price tag. 

The battery life is impressive for a gaming laptop, but we would still recommend keeping the Legion Slim 7 plugged in during gaming sessions. The charger is also very heavy, hindering the laptop’s portability in this respect. 

Still, the Lenovo Legion Slim 7 remains a slim and reliable gaming laptop with a speedy SSD and a vibrant display. 

Reviewer: Gemma Ryles

Full Review: Lenovo Legion Slim 7 (2022)