Hey, everyone, I'm Mark.
And one of the things that caught my attention at CES 2023
was the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i.
It's not a foldable.
It's an OLED dual screen laptop that
I think is unique and I think a lot of creators would like.
So I met up with Lenovo's team to check it out.
Here's the footage from that meeting.
This is the yoga book 9i.
So this is it?
Yes. Soundbar and dual 13 inch displays.
So this allows a lot of different things to happen.
It comes with this kickstand and magnetic
keyboard, Bluetooth keyboard.
So set it up in the horizontal
so you get dual screen productivity
and then it's optimized as well for vertical content consumption.
So if you want tiktoks while you're doing your emails, anything like that,
if you don't want to use the Bluetooth keyboard or kickstand,
it just takes a tap of four fingers and you get a keyboard.
Here you have widgets and then you can slide it up and you get a trackpad.
And then the same can also be done with the actual keyboard.
It's a magnetic Bluetooth keyboard to snap it on.
You get the regular keyboard
does it
with the trackpad, there's a snap on to it.
Yeah, there's magnets.
And then you can also have it down here if you want to have the widgets
of course, pen input.
So all your sketching drawing over the dual
13 inch display is.
So this yoga book 9i is expected to come out in June
2023 starting at $2099.
And what makes this different from traditional clamshell form factor
is that dual screen setup, which opens up some interesting possibilities.
Like you can watch a movie on one screen while taking notes on another,
or if you're editing videos, the bottom display can be used for the timeline
while the top screen is for previewing the video files.
It's actually kind of similar to my home office setup
where my laptop is on my desk directly in front of me,
and then I have a bigger external monitor just above the main laptop display.
And just like the previous yoga's, this form factor also lets
you switch between laptop, tablet or tent mode according to your needs.
Imagine a use case where you're in a face to face meeting, put the yoga
9i eye in tent mode and the screen facing the person you're meeting with.
See slides in presentation mode while the screen facing yourself
shows the slide notes.
Also this yoga book 9i will include the folio stand.
It will make it easier to set up the detachable Bluetooth
keyboard for multitasking, and this supports inking as well.
With the stylus, the folio stand folds up nicely as well.
When it comes to specs, it will run on 13th gen Intel core i7
processor Intel, Iris, Xe, Integrated Graphics, 16
gigs of RAM and up to one terabyte storage.
There's a full HD IR camera that supports Windows Hello face unlock.
And when it comes to ports it comes with three usb-c Thunderbolt four.
The two displays are also 13.3 inch,
all led with 2.8 resolution.
Lenovo showed off some of the unique gestures with the yoga book
9i like flicking an app from one display to the other
and tapping one of the screens with five fingers
takes you in and out of the waterfall display mode.
Tapping the screen with ten fingers,
shows the onscreen keyboard and you can move the keyboard position
up or down by dragging the ten fingers up or down.
It took me a couple of minutes to get used to these gestures,
so that's the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i.
It's definitely different and I'm curious if this is something
you would use or buy or even curious about.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
I also wonder if other brands will try
to make this type of form factor as well.
It comes out in June, so still a few months away.
All right. That's all for now.
If you have any questions, let me know in the comments section below.
See you in the next video.