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日本Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023) review – fantastic build quality, efficiency, and performance
Verdict
Once again, the Yoga 9 proves to be a fantastic laptop for your money. Indeed, it comes at a premium, but it offers more than one can digest. The features include a fingerprint reader, a Full HD Web camera with IR face recognition and privacy shutter, as well as a proximity sensor. This allows you to use the zero-touch functions, which can be enabled through the Vantage app.
By the way, the same app will give you control over the performance of the notebook. With the highest available preset, you will be able to extract a fantastic desktop-grade level of performance from your convertible. The cooling is good enough, as it supports 64W and 28W power limits, respectively.
Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023)’s touchscreen OLED display has a high resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and super fast pixel response time. This and the 90Hz refresh rate make the user experience extremely smooth. In addition, the screen covers 100% of the sRGB color gamut and 100% of the DCI-P3 one. P3-D65 colors are pretty accurate with our Gaming and Web design profile, but sRGB ones are not.
The reason for that is the lack of a limiting factor (emulation) in the software. This means that colors are unrealistically vibrant for the aforementioned color space. On the other hand, the true blacks provided by the OLED panel’s exceptional (practically infinite) contrast ratio make the image look really attractive. We have to mention that there is a high level of gloss, which might be an issue in a bright outdoor environment. Thankfully, the maximum brightness of the laptop is accordingly high.
Running your display at high brightness will have a negative impact on your battery life. However, it is good that this notebook has some headroom. Its 75Wh unit lasts for 11 hours of Web browsing, or 10 hours and 30 minutes of video playback on a single charge (set at 120 nits of brightness).
There are a couple of things that we didn’t like about this machine. First – the memory. It is soldered to the motherboard, which leaves you no option to upgrade it in the future. Secondly – the port selection. Although you get two Thunderbolt 4 connectors and a fast USB Type-A port, we do miss the LAN port, HDMI connector, and SD card reader.
Some business users might not like the fact that the laptop lacks WWAN support. On the other hand, the build quality of the device is simply fantastic, while the speakers are dynamic and loud.
Not in the last place, you get a stylus inside the box. This will let you use the laptop to draw and take notes more easily. In our view, the Lenovo Yoga 9 (14″, 2023) is definitely worth it.
You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/lenovo-yoga-9i-14-2023/
Pros
- Strong and stylish aluminum chassis
- Decent cooling and performance
- Full sRGB and DCI-P3 coverage
- Super-fast pixel response time
- Infinite contrast ratio
- High resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio
- IR camera + fingerprint reader
- 2x Thunderbolt 4 + USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 2)
- A protective sleeve and a stylus inside the box
Cons
- Soldered memory
- No SD card reader
Are the transistors on the board till poor as they were with previous ‘chinayogas’ ?
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So the Yoga 9 (in this article) comes before the Yoga 7 (your buying advice)?