- 10 years ago, Lenovo's Yoga brand
invented the very first convertible laptop.
And now, to celebrate that,
they have created this, right here,
(bubble pops) the very first Lenovo Yoga
that isn't a convertible?
Uh, yeah, this's the new Lenovo Yoga Pro,
Pro's very important, Pro 9i.
Which is no longer convertible,
but also heckin' powerful.
Let's check it out, and huge thanks to Lenovo
for sponsoring this.
Ooh!
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- Before we get started,
we need to clear up some confusion
that is entirely Lenovo's fault.
This, right here, in all of the world,
is Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i.
Except for North America,
where it's the Lenovo Slim Pro 9i,
which is different than Lenovo Yoga Slim.
Totally different laptops.
Anyway, (laughs) we've got two of them though.
This right here is the 14",
and let's see what it has
for a charger.
Here we have 140-watt charger,
which is being delivered over a USB type C.
Love to see it.
Man, over 100 watts type C,
they're actually doing it!
And this right here is a very small brick.
This has to be gallium nitride.
Also here we have the 16"
not Yoga in North America Pro 9i.
Let's see, is there anything else in here?
Presumably, if you get a actual production version.
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(sighs) For the 16"
we have 170 watts,
but it is not delivered over USB type C.
The color that we have here is tidal teal.
And I do have to say,
it looks pretty darn good.
Around the side, we have a full-size SD card reader.
Excellent start, guys.
Two Thunderbolt 4s, HDMI 2.1?
Ah-ha, fact checkers say HDMI 2.1!
We also have two full-size USB type As,
headphone/microphone combo jack,
a little webcam turnoff switch.
Can you see that there?
And also, the power button is on the side right here.
So, normally when you have
a small device and a big device,
you kinda just repurpose the motherboard for both of them.
Now, we'll have to take these apart later
and figure out what exactly is on the go.
But I can tell you for sure it's totally different on this,
looking at the IO.
So on this side we have our power input,
USB type A, HDMI 2.1. Thunderbolt 4
and a headphone/microphone combo jack.
Then around on the other side
we have our full-size SD card reader
and another USB type A.
Normally you'd expect them to be, you know,
pretty much the same between the models,
but here it is just entirely different.
I'm rather surprised.
Boop a doo doom.
'Kay, let's have a look, here.
This feels very good.
Actually, let's get rid of the mouse mat.
You can get this mouse pad at lttstore.com.
Also this water bottle.
The chassis is made out of CNC-machined aluminum,
and it feels like that.
This is an excellent-feeling laptop
and there is no real soft spots.
16 the same? 'Kay.
16's a tiny bit softer than the 14,
but that makes sense.
It's a much larger laptop.
Also has a larger track pad!
Geez, they're spoiling us,
look at this!
Most of the time, when you have two laptops
that're in the same family,
they just sorta cheap out.
And so, they'll make a really nice track pad
for, like, the 14, 15" version.
Then the 17-or-a-larger-inch version
just kinda gets the exact same track pad.
Here, though, for the 16",
they have a bespoke, actually very large-size track pad
and I really appreciate that.
Also a NUM pad.
All right, let's have a look
at what we're dealing with for specs, here.
I know for sure that it's an Intel processor
because the i part of the 9i means Intel.
Here we have an i9 13905H.
Oh dang, this's a powerful boy.
So 14 cores total,
six performance cores, eight efficiency cores
and a max turbo frequency of 5.4 gigahertz.
We'll see how she does in a chassis like this.
I imagine that the 115-watt maximum turbo power
will not be achieved in this machine, which is okay.
Here we also have 64 gigabytes of RAM,
although it won't tell me what the speed is.
A micron one terabyte SSD,
Intel wifi 6E,
love to see that.
And the star of the show,
a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070.
So this right here is up to 80 watts on the GPU.
Which again, laptop this big,
is pretty darn impressive.
On the 16, the specs are exactly the same.
The only difference's that that GPU
is able to draw up to 100 watts of power,
and the total system can draw up to 130.
Let's have a little look at this keyboard.
So there is a 0.3-millimeter dish
in every single key,
and they seem to be very happy about that.
Also, there is a millimeter and a half of travel,
which should be...
Keyboard's excellent, absolutely love it.
Good job, guys.
So the edge of the laptop is round, here.
This right here has enough palm-rest space
that my hands can very easily just rest on it
and you don't have to worry
about the kinda sharp edge down here.
That's because they have the speakers along the sides.
Whenever they put it up on the top,
then keyboard moves down,
track pad gets smaller,
my hands get hurt by the sharp edge down here.
But nope, keyboard's up high,
track pad's really big,
and I am comfortable.
Back to the rounded corners for a second.
The only spot that's sharp is down here on the palm rest.
It actually is nicely rounded like up here,
where your hands don't go ever. (laughs)
- Classic. - This's gonna be hard to see,
because it's just kind of playing hard to see
let alone doing it with a camera in a brightly-lit set.
But this right here is a mini LED display.
And it is extremely bright,
up to 1200 units peak brightness.
The problem, though,
and you'll see this on Macs as well,
is that there's a little bit of a bloom around it.
You can see around the mouse,
when it's on a very dark page
with a black background around it,
there's a little bit of a halo around bright objects.
That is just a limitation of the tech
and something that, oh, it overcomes,
but then it's not nearly as bright as this.
Now, apparently this will be better on production versions.
This right here is an engineering sample,
and they said that it isn't tuned quite perfectly.
But I just wanted to point it
out 'cause even, like, it's a technology thing.
You can tune it as much as you want,
but at the end of the day
there's gonna be tiny bit of bloom.
But eat all the brightness.
This is a fantastic-looking display,
and it has one of my favorite features,
which is color space switching.
So say that you have Adobe open.
That wants to have Adobe RGB,
and it will actually display that to you.
Then, when you go over to your web browser,
you don't have to go in and be like,
"Oh I no longer want it." (gibbers)
It'll just go straight to SRGB.
So everything that you're seeing
is going to be color accurate
no matter the content,
and you don't have to worry
about making sure all of that is good yourself.
Love it, love that feature.
The resolution is 3072 x 1920,
and the active signal mode
is 83 or 165 hertz.
And it can dynamically change between those
depending on what's happening
on the display, which is...
I was not expecting this to be 165-hertz panel.
They very specifically tell us
that we're not supposed to game on it too much in this,
but I wanna game a bit. (laughs)
So on here we have Dolby Vision, heck yeah.
Was that 0.1 milliseconds?
0.2-millisecond response time.
They put this on a creator laptop
and they tell us not to game on it?
What the hell're they?
I'm opening "Valheim".
(Bell laughs) It's a cottage creation app.
Also screen specs,
242 PPI display.
peak brightness of 600,
but also it gets up to 1200 in small bits
And 10-bit color.
While we're discussing screen specs,
or continuing to discuss them,
the 16" model is 3,200 x 2000,
but otherwise essentially identical to the 14".
Hmm!
So we are screen recording at the moment,
so take this for what it is.
But we're also currently getting 30 FPS.
(Alex grunts)
Wow, this character's very weak.
- [Bell] That's Phillip.
Be nice to Phillip.
- It's Paul.
- Frick. - You didn't even get
his name right.
- Aw. (Alex laughs)
- [Bell] P-A-L-L.
- So here we are in "Valheim".
1080p high, running at 60 to 70 FPS.
Which is pretty good.
Not as good as I thought a 4070 would be,
but it's not a gaming laptop.
It's a creative laptop.
Okay, maybe it just needed a second,
but I am a lot happier now.
So turned off the screen-recording.
Settings were a little bit high, if we're honest.
And now I'm seeing 95 FPS.
That's more in line with what I was expecting.
There we go, Mr. Boar,
you're getting punched in the face.
Actually maybe I'm gonna die.
This's a very low-level (indistinct)
character, hmm?
- [Bell] What FPS're you getting?
- I'm getting 95 FPSs.
- [Bell] Woo!
- 1080p though, so that's kinda lame.
Oh, this is so sweet though.
Look at this, look at this.
There's actually good response times on a creative laptop.
It's so often that they have a laptop
that's built that's incredibly powerful
and then the screen that they put on it has, just,
loads of input latency, or stuff.
So even though it is a very gaming-capable machine,
actually gaming on it just sucks, terrible time.
This right here, though, oh!
it's very good.
And I just wanna remind you, like,
having a high refresh rate display
doesn't only matter for gaming.
You are going to still have increased responsiveness
and the ability to do things way faster
in, I don't know,
Adobe Crash Simulator 2023.
You'll be able to very quickly, like,
move everything around.
It's just more responsive in general.
Even File Manager you can notice the difference.
I am slightly curious,
just how heavy is this thing?
3.7 pounds, so that is incredibly good
for the amount of power that we just saw.
16" comes in at
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4.9 pounds.
So this right here,
it's getting up there in weight
but it hasn't quite cracked that five-pound mark.
Let's give the 16" a run.
I'm still shocked that they made
completely separate track pad skews for both of them.
And on both laptops the track pad is exceptional.
So it's nice and large, glass-topped.
And it just, in general, feels great to use.
You don't have to, like, break it in or anything.
It's not sticky from the factory.
It is, just out of the box,
a great-to-use track pad.
The keyboard on the 16's worse.
It's not bad.
It still is good, like, it's the same key switches,
and they are excellent key switches.
But there's just a tiny bit more flex,
particularly, sort of, in this middle right-ish area,
But it's not super noticeable.
But it's enough to take this,
oh yeah, right there you can sorta see it.
A bit of a soft spot.
And it's enough to take this keyboard
from the A+, like, very easy A+ of the 14",
and it's more like an A, A- territory
'cause it just doesn't quite have the consistency
or the snappy feel across the whole thing.
That said though,
some people absolutely die for a NUM pad.
I personally take it or leave it.
But like, Josh maybe loves NUM pads.
I don't actually know.
But I'm guessing. (Bell laughs)
Well, 16's about the same as the 14.
I don't know, I don't need to say anything anymore.
Speakers, for the speakers,
I did have to turn their Dolby stuff
off 'cause it's pre-production.
Apparently that doesn't quite work yet.
That'll work when you guys actually get it.
I do love having Dolby.
But, what also is in here that I saw
while I was turning that off,
they have a full-blown EQ.
Love to see it, guys.
So if this doesn't sound quite like how I want it,
I could change it to make it so it is.
(water rushing)
So on the 14" we get four speakers,
and the 16 has six.
So let's see if that makes a difference.
(upbeat electronic music)
Okay.
(upbeat electronic music continues)
Okay, that's pretty good,
but nothing like amazing.
Won't blow you away,
won't make you have to get a Bluetooth speaker
every single time that you wanna play "Crab Rave".
(upbeat electronic music)
'Kay.
(upbeat electronic music continues)
Oh, the 16's better!
The 16's a lot better.
Okay, here we go.
(upbeat electronic music)
All right, way crispier,
way more bass.
It does sound like there is some DRC
when we got to the drop, there, but like,
(upbeat electronic music)
not even in the same league.
(upbeat electronic music)
Oh!
16", A+ for laptop speakers.
14's, like, B+, maybe somewhere around there.
Not terrible, fantastic.
Now, for the camera
we get a five-megapixel camera and four microphones
to act as not only getting my voice
into the laptop,
but also getting their voices not into the laptop.
I think it looks pretty good.
Apparently the tuning is pre-production,
as is the theme of this video,
but it's working pretty well.
It's not doing anything dramatic.
But at the same time, that's good.
It is very simply exposing for my face.
Everything looks kind of boring,
but in the sort of way where it's good,
because you want a laptop
to just simply make your face look good.
As a bonus, around that,
there's also Windows Hello facial recognition
so you don't have to do stuff like typing in your password.
Don't have to worry about that anymore, great.
Five T5 screws later and we are in.
Let's have a look under here.
Haha, I found you!
Now, one thing that's unfortunate about this laptop
is that after it leaves the factory,
you cannot upgrade the RAM.
But they at least have a decent reason for that.
So they have their X Power,
which is, you know, your regular software stuff.
It optimizes thing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But also, there is hardware behind it too.
So your RAM chips are right beside your CPU.
They are pretty much as close as they can get,
which means signal path is a lot shorter,
which means it goes faster.
In here we have 6,400-mega-transfer-per-second RAM,
which is fricking rapid.
Now, for the storage,
you can replace it right here. (bubble pops)
And we have a 75-watt hour battery.
Let's see how the 16" compares.
It's pretty fun that all of the screws
are also Tidal Turquoise.
There we go.
Color-matched screws, that's fancy.
Mmm.
(grunts) Oh, this 100% just woke up.
(ethereal music)
Oh, yep, hello! (crew laughs)
(upbeat music)
What do you guys think this's cooling?
We've got a big 'ole heat pipe right here,
and I don't particularly feel
like taking all of this off.
Well, CPU's there, GPU's there.
Is this all just memory cooling?
(Bell laughs) Okay, yeah!
That's all memory cooling,
must be the same as what's right here,
but just more chonk.
So in both of these,
you get a 75-watt-hour.
For the 14", that is awesome.
In a laptop of this size,
fitting 75 watt hours is darn impressive.
What's not as impressive is cramming that into a 17".
You can see there's, sort of,
space right here that's sort of underutilized,
and, sorta, space right here that's not doing a whole lot.
And also, some space
right here that fortunately,
it at least has a bit of utility.
So we have our first SSD right here.
And then if you want a second one later,
you can chuck it right there, nice.
Now, of course, this being a product aimed at Gen Z,
it means that it needs to be
good for the environment as well.
And this one right here does not let us down.
So this right here uses recycled aluminum,
not entirely, but most of it.
And of course, the package materials
are all nice and good for the whales and (beep).
What does this do?
Do I have a pre-production switch
that people normally don't get?
Mystery switch, what's the mystery switch do?
- [Bell] Press it.
(mouse clicks)
(mouse clicks) (explosion booms)
(upbeat music)
(air whooshes) The mystery malware switch.
(Bell laughs)
You'll definitely be getting rid of McAfee,
but what you won't be getting rid
of is Adobe Creative Cloud.
Because every 2023 Lenovo Yoga Pro comes
with a complimentary two month of Adobe Creative Cloud.
Overall, I think these are great.
It's a creator laptop that has taken the stuff
that everyone's learned in the past, what,
like, 10 or so years
to make excellent gaming laptops
and apply those learnings towards a creator laptop
in a way that just makes it better for everyone.
Excellent job, guys.
Huge thanks Lenovo for sponsoring this video,
and huge thanks to you for watching it.
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Just have a great old day.