Lenovo Yoga 7 Has MANY Problems
I have the Yoga 7 with AMD Ryzen AI 350. It is absolutely rigged with many problems:
(1) The touchpad does not have good grounding, this issue seems widespread that if you search in Reddit forum here, there are some forum discussing how after some time the touchpad is behaving erratic. Usually after 1 month of use, the electricity is not properly discharge so you need to discharge manually by opening the back case. I fix this issue by putting grounding to the case using copper wiring. But this is a crazy thing to do for the laptop of this price!
(2) The body case is creaking on several points of the body, this is build quality issue, it seems Lenovo does not provide adequate structure to the laptop, I end up putting many taped cushion inside the laptop to increase rigidity.
(3) After sometimes, my laptop's left speaker, specifically the larger left side speaker suddenly died after only 6 months of use.
(4) The battery life is not up to the modern laptop standard, I usually only get around 4-6 of real word use light-medium usage.
(5) The thermal paste of the processor is not well applied, I need to repasted it by myself to increase the performance when I realized that the idling temperature is not optimal.
(6) Driver issues, the drivers are not mature in any way! Sometimes the AMD I2C drivers, AMD UMDF sensors, Graphics, and other AMD Chipset drivers are problematic, especially when you have let the computer sleep, some drivers might not run hence requiring full restart. Also if you do clean installation and install the AMD Graphic driver from Lenovo's website, software like Davinci Resolve might not detect that there is a graphic card, requiring you to install AMD Graphics driver directly from AMD website, but when you install it, you might ran into problems like audio not firing, or the chipset driver for the sensors and I2C driver not properly running, I could manage all of this to work but it took so much effort and time, everything does not smoothly run.
In conclusion, if you know nothing about computer and about maintaining it like I described, better stay away from this computer! I waste so much time and money just to get this device to work as intended. :(
I think the plus points of the laptop are only the screen, pen, and keyboard. The rest is problematic.
Posted Mar 27, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC