Your average 13.3-inch laptop is easy to transport, but the limited screen real estate can be a pain for productivity. How about two screens in a 13.3-inch form factor? That’s the new Lenovo Yoga Book 9i, which has been unveiled at CES 2023. This unusual form factor supports computing setups that other laptops could never dream of, but it won’t come cheap.
A traditional clamshell-style laptop body has the keyboard on one half and a display on the other, but the Yoga Book 9i sports a pair of 13.3-inch OLED touch screens. For typing, there’s an origami-like Bluetooth keyboard with an integrated stand bundled with the laptop. You can prop the laptop up in either portrait or landscape orientation, both of which have their charm but make the Yoga Book 9i stand out like no other laptop on the market. It also comes with a stylus for handwriting input.
This is still a Yoga laptop, so you can put the keyboard and stand away to prop the Yoga Book 9i up in tent mode, or you can set it flat on a surface like a traditional laptop. In this mode, you have the option of launching a virtual keyboard and trackpad on the “bottom” monitor for entering text. That’s probably not a great typing experience, but it sure does make for an interesting demo. The included ultra-thin keyboard is magnetic, and you can drop it on top of the lower screen to make the Yoga Book 9i look and work more like a traditional laptop. Our friends at PCMag got a peek at the Yoga Book 9i, which you can see in the video below.
This laptop has more going for it than a unique form factor. Inside, the Yoga Book 9i has a 13th Gen (Raptor Lake) Intel Core i7 CPU and Intel Iris Xe graphics. Lenovo says the laptop offers 10 hours of battery life in dual-screen mode, which is impressive given the 2.8K resolution of the panels. That rating probably assumes you’ll have the brightness turned down from its 400 nits peak. Lenovo has cleverly integrated the speakers into the Yoga hinge, which will be pointing right at the user most of the time. There are four speakers in there with support for Dolby Atmos.
Lenovo says it will begin selling the Yoga Book 9i in June 2023 with a starting price of $2,099. It’s unclear if that’s the price for the Core i7 model on display at CES, but it’s going to be a spendy laptop no matter what.
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