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日本Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023) – Top 5 Pros and Cons
In the world of convertibles, it doesn’t get better than the Lenovo Yoga 9. It’s the premiere 2-in-1 notebook from Lenovo, which has been good for a few years, an admirable achievement, considering how easy it is to mess up with convertibles. While the laptop is pricy, starting at $1,445, you get tons of features on it, including the crispy OLED displays and the latest Core i7-1360P, as well as plenty of ports and sensors all around to make for one of the best user experiences that you’ll ever have with a laptop. Is there anything that can dissuade you from buying it, except for the price? Stick around to see what we find.
Today we’re presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023).
Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023): Full Specs / In-depth Review
reasons to BUY the Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023)
1. Design and build quality
With a fully aluminum chassis and a passion for style, the Lenovo Yoga 9i is definitely an eye-catcher. The rounded corners and edges make it really comfortable to carry around, while the glossy finish on the sides makes it stand apart from the competition. Durability is really good, with no noticeable flex from the lid or the base. This is due to the aluminum, as well as the glass cover over the OLED panel. What’s more, you get a stylus pen as well as a laptop sleeve in the package of the laptop, which really gives the impression that Lenovo cares about its customers. In terms of dimensions, the laptop weighs around 1.40 kg, while having a profile of 15.25 mm, which is hefty, however, it also further rounds out the premium feel of the notebook.
The lid opens with one hand, showing off the goods on the base and around the display. The top bezel houses a Full HD webcam, a privacy shutter, an IR sensor for facial recognition, and a Time of Flight camera, which improves the focus capabilities. On the base, there’s a well-sized keyboard. While it lacks a NumPad, it makes up for it with a row of function keys for adjusting brightness, volume, and more. The keyboard is comfortable to use, as there’s still plenty of key travel to extract from the thickness of the laptop. The board is also backlit, while the touchpad is covered in glass, for supreme smoothness and excellent response.
2. Display quality
The OLED panels come in two resolutions, either 2.8K or 4K. The 2.8K variant that we tested also has a 90Hz refresh rate, which makes for a very snappy and smooth usage when you’re swapping through apps or just scrolling around. There’s not much to say for OLED displays, since they’re the best thing you can get. The unit here gets bright up to 392 nits, while fully covering the sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamuts.
Paired with our Design and Gaming profile, you can certainly have a Creator station to work on, draw, edit videos, and whatever else you imagine. With the profile, the dE value that’s used to measure color accuracy goes down to 1.8, which is below the 2.0 standard that’s widely used. The panel is also very snappy, with a response time of 1.9 ms, which is on the level, if not better than some gaming machines out there.
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Office Work
Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.
Design and Gaming
This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.
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3. I/O
The port selection of the Yoga 9 includes one USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 2) port, one USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2) port, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, with both Power Delivery and DisplayPort 1.4 support, as well as an audio jack.
4. Performance and Cooling
The performance coming out of the Core i7-1360P is admirable, scoring higher than its predecessor, the Core i7-1260P in last year’s Yoga 9i. However, we also have to highlight the Ryzen 7 6800U inside the more affordable Yoga 7, which performs similarly, while bringing a more powerful iGPU to the table.
Results are from the Cinebench R23 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
Results are from our Photoshop benchmark test (the lower the score, the better)
The Core i7-1360P gets treated to a very good cooling solution, with two heat pipes and two fans that allow the chip to meet and exceed its power targets and clock speeds. It goes as high as 64W in the first few seconds, which is mental.
| Intel Core i7-1360P (28W TDP) | 0:02 – 0:10 sec | 0:15 – 0:30 sec | 10:00 – 15:00 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023) | 3.45 GHz @ 2.71 GHz @ 81°C @ 64W | 3.00 GHz @ 2.37 GHz @ 92°C @ 50W | 2.17 GHz @ 1.68 GHz @ 72°C @ 28W |
In terms of comfort, the laptop can get loud, as with two fans there’s a noticeable amount of noise. On the other hand, the base remains cool. What’s more, in normal day-to-day use you’ll hardly hear the noise from the fans, as we’re showing you the worst-case scenario with the CPU working at 100%.
1 reason NOT to buy the Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023)
1. Upgradeability
The upgradeability of the machine isn’t exactly ideal, with soldered LPDDR5 memory and only one M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.
Here’s our teardown video, which shows how to access the single SSD slot.
