• March 28, 2024

Lenovo touts the Yoga 9i as a device that creates an unparalleled entertainment experience, highlighting the Bowers & Wilkins speaker system—said to be the first on a laptop. True to the letter, the Yoga 9i proved excellent for multimedia consumption. With the Yoga 9i around, I didn’t need a TV in my bedroom. Considering the many TV sets with built-in speakers that produce tinny, distorted, or weak audio, the Yoga 9i performed so much better in terms of sound quality. I still got decent audio with the volume at the maximum level.

It was not only in sound quality that the Yoga 9i gave the average boob tube a run for its money. The 2.8K OLED touchscreen was a pleasure to watch on. At night after lights out, I dim the screen when watching but still get nice detail and color vibrancy.

The Yoga 9i is indeed pretty. The shiny, rounded edges, which Lenovo calls “comfort edge design,” add sophistication. These also make carrying the Yoga 9i by hand comfortable, in addition to the device measuring just a little over an inch thin (15.24mm) and weighing only 1.4kg.

The Yoga 9i wouldn’t be a true blue yogi if it couldn’t bend, so of course it features a 360-degree hinge. The device could be folded backwards and stand like a triangular tent. This was convenient when sharing the screen and using the stylus pen that came with the Yoga 9i. Speaking of convenient, the Yoga 9i has an audio jack and a total of four USB ports, two of which are Thunderbolt 4.

The Yoga 9i I tested had a 12th-generation Intel Core i7-1260P 2.1GHz processor on the Intel Evo platform and 16GB RAM, was running Windows 11 Home, and came pre-installed with Microsoft Office 2021.

Transitioning from my primary work laptop was seamless as soon as I logged into my Microsoft account. My OneDrive files were synchronized right away and the apps I needed were fast to install. It was no surprise to find the Yoga 9i working fast and smooth, especially with the whopping 1TB SSD.

The Yoga 9i shows that Lenovo is in touch with users’ current needs and lifestyles. For instance, it has a dedicated key that enables the camera’s background blur effect. When using Zoom, the feature still works in tandem with the program by blurring your background even more. The built-in Full HD IR camera produces good quality picture, too. I did not miss my external HD web camera at all during my video calls.

The edge-to-edge keyboard makes the most of the width of the device, so typing was comfortable. I appreciated the one-touch function keys as well as the dedicated keys on the right-most row. The device still has the typical Home, Pgup, Pgdn, and End keys as secondary functions to the arrow keys.

Speed says

The Lenovo Yoga 9i (P109,995) is an elegant and powerful laptop that excels in productivity, connectivity, and entertainment, leveraging Thunderbolt 4.0 ports, a spectacular screen, an amazing front-facing camera, and the outstanding Bower & Wilkins sound system. With its beauty and brains, the Yoga 9i is highly capable to be your device for serious work, creative pursuits, and plain fun.

Words and photos by Aritha Zel Zalamea

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