Lenovo has recently announced its holiday lineup of premium convertibles under the Yoga series, the Yoga 9i, and the Yoga Slim 9i.
The former is available in 14-inch and 15-inch displays and has up to 10th Gen Intel Core i9 HK-Series processor and up to NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti GPU with Max-Q Design.
The 14-inch variants of the Yoga 9i and the Yoga Slim 9i come with a black leather cover bonded with an aerospace-grade, aluminum chassis that finalizes its premium look, edge-to-edge Glass Palm Rest, a fingerprint-resistant Smart Sensor Touchpad for a clickable area, an Ultrasonic Fingerprint Reader (for Yoga Slim 9i), as well as two Thunderbolt 4 ports and 18 hours of battery life (for Yoga 9i).
Embodying its name, the Yoga Slim 9i has a thickness of 13.9mm and weighs at only 1.26 kg. It is equipped with up to 14-inch 4K touchscreen IPS display with VESA DisplayHDR 400, 90 percent DCI-P3 color spectrum, and a maximum peak of brightness up to 500 nits. It adopts yet improves rotating soundbar design from the Yoga C940, optimizing the speakers’ placement in the hinge and adding a larger sound tunnel. It has an electrical shutter switch, built-in IR camera with Windows Hello and Lenovo Smart Assist for hands-free log-ins and automatic screen-locking when you walk away, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, 63.5WHr battery with Rapid Charge Express that can last up to 20 hours, Bluetooth 5.1, and Wi-Fi 6.
The Yoga 9i, on the other hand, has up to 15.6-inch 4K IPS VESA DisplayHDR 400 or 3D Curved-Edge display options with 500 nits of brightness. It is equipped with up to 16GB LPDDR4 RAM, up to 2TB PCIe SSD storage, dual-front speakers, discrete graphics, Lenovo Q-Control’s AI-powered Intelligent Cooling, Smart Sense Keyboard that automatically adjusts backlighting based on ambient light, TrueBlock Privacy Shutter, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and up to 13 total hours of battery life.
Both are equipped are powered by the next-gen Intel Core processors with graphics based on the Intel X architecture, as well as features Dolby Atmos-tuned speakers, Dolby Vision, Windows Ink, a garaged active pen (with an elastomer nib on the Yoga 9i), supports Super Resolution 2.0 for auto-upscaling videos up to 4K, as well as voice assistant Alexa.
Check out the official trailer for the Yoga 9i series below:
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i is available in Shadow Black (leather) while the Lenovo Yoga 9i has three colors: Mica Grey (metal), Slate Grey (metal), and Shadow Black (leather).
Pricing and availability are yet to be announced. However, the convertibles are slated to launch on or before Holiday 2020.