A STURDY BIG-SCREEN CONVERTIBLE
The design of the Yoga 9i is unassuming bordering on
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professional use. It’s trim and relatively slim, and its
metal chassis is a sleek slate-gray color. The build is
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The Yoga 9i measures 0.78 by 14 by 9.4 inches (HWD)
and weighs 4.4 pounds. That makes for a pretty
standard laptop in terms of size, ready to travel when
necessary, even if it won’t be mistaken for an
ultraportable. For comparison’s sake, the Spectre x360
15 measures 0.79 by 14.2 by 8.9 inches and weighs 4.2
pounds. While both are reasonably portable, we
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of screen to grasp and rotate, and such systems are far
too heavy to hold in one hand in tablet mode. So we
prefer 13.3- and 14-inch 2-in-1s.
For those who won’t compromise on screen size and
want only occasional tablet or kiosk use, however, the
big Yoga 9i is certainly a functional solution. It just
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tray table quite as well.
Lenovo Yoga 9i
(15-Inch)
PROS Sturdy metal
construction. Speedy
performance and
discrete GPU. Long
battery life. Included
stylus and built-in
storage.
CONS Few ports for
its size. 15-inch
convertibles are
simply unwieldy as
tablets.
BOTTOM LINE The
15-inch Lenovo Yoga 9i
combines robust
design with more
potent processing
and graphics
performance than
many rivals, even if
it’s rather big and
awkward as a 2-in-1
convertible, and
lacking in ports.