Friday, January 6th 2023
Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is an Incredibly Versatile Dual-Screen Convertible PC: A Walkthrough
It's a laptop, but it can be anything—the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i has the conventional shape of a clamshell notebook, except that there's a second touchscreen where you'd expect the keyboard an trackpad to be. You get a folio-type silicone keyboard with physical keys that provide tactile feedback, or you can pull up an on-screen keyboard on either screen and type with haptic feedback. As a Yoga product, the hinge turns 360°, and at 180° it can become a dual-screen setup. The possibilities are endless.
Under the hood is an Intel Core i7 U-series "Raptor Lake-U" 15 W 2P+8E SoC with 16 GB LPDDR5X memory; NVMe Gen 4 SSD, integrated Iris Xe graphics, and an 80 WHr battery. Each of the two 13.3-inch touchscreens has a 16:10 aspect-ratio and 1920 x 1200 resolution. Comms include Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2 (a 5G modem would be incredible).Elsewhere in the Lenovo booth we see the ThinkBook Plus Twist, which is essentially the same device as the Yoga Book 9i, down to its 13.3-inch touchscreen, but there's only one of them—the other half has a conventional keyboard and trackpad, and a smaller 56 Wh battery. The Legion Pro 7i is the company's high-end gaming notebook, featuring a Core i9 6P+16E "Raptor Lake" processor, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, dual-channel DDR5-5600 32 GB memory, 1 TB NVMe Gen 4 storage, and an incredible 16-inch 2560 x 1600 (16:10) display.
Under the hood is an Intel Core i7 U-series "Raptor Lake-U" 15 W 2P+8E SoC with 16 GB LPDDR5X memory; NVMe Gen 4 SSD, integrated Iris Xe graphics, and an 80 WHr battery. Each of the two 13.3-inch touchscreens has a 16:10 aspect-ratio and 1920 x 1200 resolution. Comms include Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2 (a 5G modem would be incredible).Elsewhere in the Lenovo booth we see the ThinkBook Plus Twist, which is essentially the same device as the Yoga Book 9i, down to its 13.3-inch touchscreen, but there's only one of them—the other half has a conventional keyboard and trackpad, and a smaller 56 Wh battery. The Legion Pro 7i is the company's high-end gaming notebook, featuring a Core i9 6P+16E "Raptor Lake" processor, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, dual-channel DDR5-5600 32 GB memory, 1 TB NVMe Gen 4 storage, and an incredible 16-inch 2560 x 1600 (16:10) display.
4 Comments on Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is an Incredibly Versatile Dual-Screen Convertible PC: A Walkthrough
I do wish it have LCD 1920x1200 option though as Lenovo's PR for it only mentions OLED "2.8K" in the spec. Burn-in is the dealbreaker for OLED on PCs and anything beyond 1920x1200 on 13 inch is just overkill.