![]() Bass was surprisingly legible during this listening experience, which is rare for laptops, and I was impressed to notice what sounded like surround sound on a recurring clicky sound throughout the song, with the Yoga 7i making it sound like it came from different source areas than the rest of the music. On max volume, the song easily carried across my two-bedroom apartment and even through doors, and I had to lower the laptop to around 30% volume for comfortable listening. I tested the Yoga 7i’s audio with Life Goes On by BTS, which has a good mix of vocals, high-pitched melodies, drum beats and general bass. The Lenovo Yoga 7i has two top-firing Dolby Atmos speakers on either side of its keyboard that can get loud and surprisingly bassy, but also have an issue with tinny vocals and melodies. When making large, sweeping motions across the laptop’s whole screen, I usually had to lift my finger off the touchpad a few times to finish. While it registered multitouch input well and had a comfortable amount of friction, its small footprint made it feel cramped. In contrast to its excellent keyboard, the Yoga’s precision touchpad felt lacking. This made touch-typing easy, and I regularly scored 80 words per minute on, which is my average.ĭuring these typing tests, I found the travel distance to be comfortable and felt cushiony rather than bottoming out. The Microsoft Surface Go (which has a sub-1080p 1536 x 1024 resolution) is also brighter, at a 319.4 nits average.Īside from their flat surface, the Yoga 7i’s keycaps have the same unique curved bottom shape as what you’ll find on a ThinkPad, which not only looks slick but also gives your fingers more grip when navigating the keyboard. That’s far lower than the 375 nits average you’ll find on the Zenbook Flip S, and even further below the 488 nits average on the XPS 13 2-in-1. The reflectivity might be due in part to a low max brightness, which our tests found topped out at a 266 nits average. This also affected viewing angles, which didn’t stretch beyond 45 degrees on either side due to reflections. Even in low light, I had difficulty finding positions where my own reflection wasn’t visible. But what was most damning was how reflective the screen was. This was most noticeable during space scenes, where ship thrusters tended to cause artifacting and pixelated halo effects that weren’t present on my other displays. Colors were vivid, but blacks also lacked depth. To test out the Yoga 7i’s screen, I watched the trailer for season 2 of The Mandalorian in both normal and low light. The Lenovo Yoga 7i config we tested came with a 14.4 inch IPS touchscreen, though anecdotal testing left it feeling more like a cheaper LED display. Like many convertible 2-in-1s, the power button on the Yoga 7i is also on the laptop’s right side and activates with a single press, so you’ll want to be careful not to accidentally hit it during use. The laptop’s left side has just 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports and a single 3.5mm combination headphone/microphone jack, while the right side is home to a sole USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 1 port. We’d hope that this small touch of extra size would let Lenovo add more ports to the Yoga, but this laptop is also short on connections. The XPS 13 2-in-1 is 2.9 pounds, by comparison, while the Zenbook Flip S is 2.7 pounds and the Surface Laptop Go is just 2.5 pounds. The Yoga 7i is also heavier than rivals, coming in at 3.1 pounds. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go ultraportable is even smaller, at 11 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches. Given that Dell’s recent XPS 13 2-in-1 is only 11.7 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches and Asus Zenbook Flip S is just 12 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches, that makes this convertible potentially thicker than some other 2-in-1s. The review unit we tested was 12.6 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches, though other configurations might differ in height, getting as tall as 0.7 inches. The Lenovo Logo is also on the Yoga’s inside, tastefully rounding out the bottom-right corner thanks to its metallic silver plating. In a nice touch, the keyboard matches the case’s color, though the screen’s bezels are surprisingly thick, measuring between a quarter of an inch to almost half of an inch depending on which side you’re looking at.
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