(upbeat music)
- We are here at Lenovo Suite with the YogaBook 9i,
and I have not been this excited
for a laptop in a really long time.
This is a dual screen foldable laptop,
there is a 13.3 inch screen on the top
and a 13.3 inch screen on the bottom.
They are both OLED 2.8K screens
and then there's also a keyboard
and a kickstand and a stylist,
and they all come included, so it's not like Microsoft
where you have to buy them separately.
So the YogaBook 9i is shipping in April,
hitting shelves in June,
it's going to start around the $2,000 mark.
And the really cool thing about it
is that there're a ton of gestures
that you can use to really optimize the two screens
for whatever work that you're trying to use it for.
In terms of specs, there are gonna be three USB ports,
you can get up to 16 gigabytes of RAM,
and there's a 5 megapixel main camera
for video conferencing.
What you can do if you're strolling through a website
such as the TheVerge.com,
is you can put your finger on it, and flick it,
and throw it down there.
And if you want it back up there, flick, flick, flick.
Now, if you want it to just to be really long
and just scroll endlessly, you can do a five finger tap.
And this is called waterfall mode,
look at that scroll, that's fun.
Now, you can also detach this,
you can take it off the stand, and you can fold it
into just being a regular 13 inch laptop.
So this would be good if you're gonna be on a cafe
or on a plane and you need just like a smaller device.
Now, you're gonna use eight fingers down here
and that makes a keyboard appear.
And below that there's a little fake touchpad
that you can use to navigate.
And the coolest thing is there are these two buttons here,
and these actually click like I'm clicking,
and it really feels like I'm clicking an actual button.
I'm really impressed with the haptic feedback on these,
it really feels like a real touchpad.
And the touchpad is not delineated,
but the buttons do make it pretty clear
where the touchpad is.
So I'm not worried about not knowing where I'm gonna click
or clicking in the wrong place,
which is sometimes an issue you can have
with non-delineated touch pads
especially if you're clicking with your non-dominant hand.
Now, if I wanna type, I can type up here.
(keyboard clicking)
There's haptic feedback on this keyboard
which is very cool.
It is a little weird to type on a totally flat surface,
but I think this is something you get used to over time.
And if you don't like that keyboard,
you can pup the magnetic keyboard right onto there,
touchpad remains, oh, and you can just type as normal.
Now, if you want to keep the keyboard here,
but you also wanna do some navigation on the bottom half,
you can use eight fingers to drag it down.
And then there's some cool stuff up here that pops up,
so we have a weather app here, you can check the weather.
And here there are a bunch of things,
so there's one window where you can see your CPU,
and GPU, and RAM usage.
And that can be particularly useful if you're playing a game
or if you're doing some really intensive tasks
and you want to keep an eye
on how much strain you're putting on your hardware.
If you scroll through here,
there's news, there's a calculator,
there's Outlook, schedule, so this is just neat.
If you don't think you're gonna be using a touchpad a ton
'cause here you don't have touchpad access,
but you wanna get rid of that,
eight fingers, get rid of that.
Let me get rid of this keyboard and put this back up here.
(soft music)
You can also navigate with the stylus,
so the stylus lives in this little pocket back here,
it's very secured.
I'm not worried about it falling out or anything.
But if I tug it out, I can use this to scroll.
(soft music)
And that's pretty smooth, it's very comfortable.
So here we have smart notes.
(soft music)
You can write with us, draw with it,
pretty smooth, comfortable stroke.
And the coolest thing is if you wanna use it this way,
but you don't wanna use a stylus, you wanna use a touchpad.
They have this software here
called the YogaBook 9 User Center.
And here they have all this different dual-screen stuff
where you can play with the virtual keyboard,
the widget bar, and this is my favorite part,
virtual touchpad, if you set that up,
if I tap with three fingers here, I have touchpad.
Now, I can use this to navigate.
I can click and drag these buttons here,
have haptic feedback,
and they do feel scarily like real buttons, it's very cool.
And I can put this touchpad anywhere I want.
You can put it up there, I can put it over here.
I can put it down here.
And if I want to use it this way,
I can use it flat down here.
So this is running Windows 11,
but it's actually not a special version of Windows 11
that's made for dual screen devices,
or anything of that sort.
It's just regular Windows 11,
but Lonovo has built all these shortcuts in
to make it easier to use the two screens together.
So that's the YogaBook 9i.
Thank you guys so much for watching,
let me know in the comments
if you're excited for this device.
Do you think there are even more shortcuts
that you would like to see added?
How do you think you would use this?
I'm really excited to do a full review.
For more news coming out of CES 2023,
keep an eye on our YouTube channel,
and check out theverge.com
where we'll have all kinds of other announcements
from Lenovo, from Dell, from Acer,
from every company out here.