Confusing name, great laptop - Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i

CORRECTION: Text on screen at 0:13 is supposed to say *This isn't the first non convertible yoga". Silly Autocorrect. We're working on updating the on-screen text!

Alex found out the way to take Linus' place is to drop and smash things as much as possible

I am glad Alex is testing the durability of the packaging and products.

I actually have a Yoga Slim 7 2020 and it doesn't have the folding gimmick either. This is definitely not the first yoga to not fold completely.

4:30 You need to resize the Task Manager's window to see the RAM specs. This is a bug which Microsoft engineers don't hurry to fix.

I do miss socketed RAM and CPUs in laptops, as it really helped with keeping the few that people want to keep going alive and keeping them out of landfills for a good bit longer.

This looks nuts. I have 0 use cases for such a thing but the engineering put into this is impressive

I love when big companies mix up the names like this, thinking it wouldn’t create confusion because they think the customers are idiots and international information or reviews are a thing lol

Man Alex is so much fun as a host. My favorite is always the shop projects.

Fun to see the Yoga series get some love. I bought a Yoga Carbon Slim 7 about a year ago and I'm super happy with it. I came from a Lenovo Yoga X1 4th gen that retailed for 28k SEK, to the Carbon Slim 7 that with a discount only cost me 12k SEK. And yes it is plastic, yes it feels like a toy, but it ticks all my boxes for a travel laptop.

Love the audio effects, and editing for the boxes making nice little rythms!!!

Numpads are basically a necessity for languages that use the number row on the QWERTY primarily for diacritics or special characters, I myself couldn't work without it. However, my gripe is the absence of full-size up/down arrow keys, which I also couldn't work without. So I'd have to pass on these if I'd considered them for on-the-go work.

Thank you for finally forgoing the desk mat for the smush / deck flex test. It helps a lot in being able to see how much of the movement is the laptop frame itself. Please keep doing this for that (admittedly not exactly scientific but still helpful) test

16:28 This is the "Novo Button", it boots you in to menu where you can choose either to enter bios or boot manager and etc but your laptop should be turned off first

No price information, or did I miss it? Great presentation by Alex as per usual, and the cuts/edit was top notch!

I love my second hand Yoga. It's way under-spec'd compared to my newer gaming laptop, but it's just so much easier to use as a daily driver, especially if I'm taking out of the house.

Loved the review, Alex. Just as a side note, the links at the top DO take you to the Lenovo site, and even tease the YOGA 9I, but the first goes to the same as the second, and there is no 9I available on site (just yet, I imagine). Great laptop for just about anything graphics intensive, but the 16" lends itself more towards drafting and 3D CAD with the integrated numpad. Because of the addressing of a keyboard with a numpad vs one without, the more robust software titles are able to incorporate more functionality via the numpad, streamlining their process trees. Overall, I do look forward to this offering becoming available, although I would like to see a comparison of what the 9I compares to a similarly kitted out Framework, as it sounds like there are some exciting options becoming available for it as well.

Numpads are so damn important when using 3D softwares, as some of the features require you to use the numpads.

Wow this might be my first personal laptop upgrade in years, very excited for this!

I would love to see an updated review of the production model once that's released. This looks like an incredibly promising laptop!