Lenovo Yoga 9i leads convertible laptop refresh, introduces 1-Click Function Keys

(Pocket-lint) - The Lenovo Yoga scope is the laptop community's convertible stalwart, arsenic the merchandise enactment to present the convertible 2-in-1 hinge a afloat decennary ago.

The 2022 refresh of the Yoga 9i sticks with the top-end look but adds a enactment of 1-Click Function Keys to the right-hand borderline of the keyboard. This enables speedy toggling of show boost, your amusement profile, inheritance blur effect, acheronian mode, on with a fingerprint scanner beneath those 4 keys.

Enough of a crushed to upgrade your laptop? Perhaps not. But the 9i has a full batch of top-end features that are worthy getting excited about. The 360-degree hinge is its superior appeal, which besides houses a soundbar that's user-facing whichever format - tent, stand, tablet oregon accepted mode - the laptop is positioned in.

The 2022 refresh besides debuts an all-new design, with afloat rounded edges to guarantee manus and wrist comfortableness and nary of those crisp edges that you'll find connected immoderate laptop competitors. The trackpad is besides immoderate 45 per cent larger than its predecessor.

The display, which is simply a 14-inch AMOLED panel, houses a 4K solution crossed its 16:10 facet ratio and is touch-enabled too.

A measurement beneath the 9i is the Yoga 7i model, disposable successful 14-inch and 16-inch variants, which houses up to a 2.8K OLED sheet and shares a akin rounded-edge plan arsenic per its top-end bigger brother.

The Lenovo Yoga 9i convertible laptop volition beryllium disposable from Q2 2022, priced from $1,399.00. The Yoga 7i, meanwhile, volition beryllium disposable from $899.

Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 5 January 2022.