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#AIRBOOK VS ZENBOOK BLUETOOTH#
Wireless connectivity is handled by Intel’s increasingly common AX201 card, which supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5. On the right-hand side, there’s just a power button. Parading along the left side of the Yoga 9i you will find one USB Type-A 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbits/sec) and two Type-C ports, both of which support Thunderbolt 4 and one of which you will need to charge the laptop.
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Cleverly, Lenovo has built the Yoga 9i’s speaker array into the lid hinge so it faces towards you in laptop mode and points up when in ‘tent’ or tablet mode. The screen bezels could be slimmer, too: 5mm at the side is great, 8mm at the top is OK but 13mm at the bottom is nothing to write home about. It feels more like plastic which rather undermines the point. Detracting from the modern, minimalist styling is the lid’s leather covering. It feels very solid.īest laptop 2021: The finest Windows, Apple and Chrome OS laptops to buyĬompared with the somewhat baroque HP and Asus machines the Yoga 9i is a little plain. There’s no doubting the underlying structural integrity of the Lenovo, however. Lenovo Yoga 9i 14in review: Design & key featuresĪt 210.9 x 318.4 x 15.3mm (WDH) and 1.34kg, the Yoga 9i isn’t the lightest or thinnest 2-in-1 we’ve looked at – that accolade goes to the Asus ZenBook Flip Z – but the differences between it and the rest of the competition are pretty marginal. Outright performance can't match the 2-in-1s listed above but, if having a reasonable size (12.3in) screen in a super-portable form is your priority, it is a solid choice.
#AIRBOOK VS ZENBOOK PRO#
Right now, the 10th-gen Core i7 Surface Pro 7 with a 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM is on offer for a mere £1,200. At less than 800g it makes regular laptops feel positively lardy and the optional Type Cover adds little to the size and weight. If you want something to use more as a tablet rather than a laptop then either Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7 or Surface Book 3 are worth considering. It is the most costly device here, the only (admittedly high-end) model costing around £1,800 but also the lightest of the bunch at 1.2kg. With a vibrant OLED display housed in a slim and light body, it gives the Spectre a run for its money in the aesthetics department thanks to a gorgeous black and red-copper colour scheme, and it uses the latest 11th-gen Intel chips.īattery life was less impressive though and our review raised some worrying issues with thermal management. If you want a stylus then Dell’s Premium Active Pen will cost you an eye-watering £90 but there is nowhere to stow it.Īsus’ 13.3-inch ZenBook Flip S is another strong contender. Prices range from £1,400 for the Core i5 machine with 8GB of RAM to £2,200 for an i7-based version with 32GB of RAM, a UHD display and a 1TB SSD. The slightly squarer screen makes the XPS more usable as a tablet for creative work than the 16:9 Yoga 9i, too. You still get a fine keyboard and a 16:10 display with very narrow bezels. Generally considered the best of the breed, the 13.4in Dell’s XPS 13 2-in-1 has also just been revamped with the addition of 11th-gen Intel chips.
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Add an 11th-gen Core i7 and 1TB SSD into the deal for £1,700 and the x360 is a compelling offering.
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The Bang & Olufsen-branded sound system is not as impressive as the name would suggest though. Compact, lightweight and stunning to look at and packing a glorious OLED UHD display it also comes with a stylus like this new Lenovo. The obvious competitor is HP’s 13.5-inch Spectre x360, which is little short of a masterclass in laptop design. The model we’ve been sent is the top of the line Shadow Black machine but with a 512GB SSD. Top of the line is the £1,700 Shadow Black model which adds a 1TB SSD into the mix and a leather lid cover. Up that to £1,549 and you also get a 512GB SSD, 16GB of RAM and a UHD display.
#AIRBOOK VS ZENBOOK FULL#
The new Yoga 9i 14in range with 11th-gen Intel silicon starts at £1,099 for the Core i5 model with 8GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and a Full HD display. Cough up £1,469 and you get the Core i7 model but with a 256GB SSD. READ NEXT: The best laptops to buy right now Lenovo Yoga 9i 14in review: What you need to know But does it have what it takes to beat the opposition around the laptop Nordschleife? The Yoga 9i 14in convertible is Lenovo's latest effort to seize the crown in this hotly contested segment of the premium laptop market. Just as BMW, Audi and Mercedes want to brag that their car is best, so the likes of Lenovo, HP, Asus and Dell want to claim their sub-£2,000 2-in-1 (that’s a laptop that can be folded back on itself through 360 degrees to form a ‘tablet’) is the leader of the pack. For a laptop manufacturer to be awarded an unqualified recommendation for its flagship 2-in-1 machine is akin to a German car maker clocking the fastest time around the Nürburgring for its compact executive sports saloon.