5 Reasons YOU SHOULD BUY (or NOT BUY) the 2024 Yoga Pro 9i

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Discover the top five reasons to consider or skip the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i in 2024, a powerhouse laptop built for creators. From its impressive RAM and display quality to its graphics power and efficient features, this review dives deep into everything you need to know before making your purchase.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i (Expectations)
0:10 - Top Five Reasons to Buy or Not Buy
0:22 - Reason 1
1:23 - Reason 2
2:53 - Reason 3
4:55 - Reason 4
6:13 - Reason 5
7:42 - Audio and Webcam Quality
8:52 - Trackpad and Keyboard
9:22 - Manual Click Trackpad Discussion
9:48 - Reasons Not to Buy
10:15 - Touchscreen Limitations
10:45 - Upgradable RAM
11:11 - Max GPU Performance
12:28 - Keyboard and Numpad Position
12:57 - Performance Benchmarks
16:03 - Conclusion (Should YOU Buy?)
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[@BenGKaiser]

Thanks to Lenovo for sponsoring this video! 💻 Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i *RTX 4060* - geni.us/YogaPro9i-RTX4060-P 💻 Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i *RTX 4050* - geni.us/YogaPro9i-RTX4050-P Purchasing through the links above will give me a small commission but at no extra cost to you.

[@keirux]

BTW in Europe there is a 64GB RAM + 4070 version of this

[@dimitridovgan6364]

Bought it. The battery endurance is not great at all. Just coding stuff - about 2 hours of battery life. 😢

[@ray19950914]

Last week purchased a 2023 slim prob 9i (i9+4050+32RAM+MiniLED) for only $850 before tax through Lenovo eBay store. can’t be more excited. It is refurbished but when I received it is like brand new, only 7 battery recycles.

[@karikaru]

Dude nice snag! Congrats

[@user-ob4cc2hy4l]

My country takes 50% taxes lucky guy

[@PKperformanceEU]

Thats a steal everything in US is dirt cheap its crazy

[@Reaper31292]

I'm confused by your comment about this being an IPS display. It seems most of these, including the standard 4060 version usually available at Lenovo and Best Buy are Mini-LED displays.

[@BenGKaiser]

Forgive me for NOT clarifying. The RTX 4050 is IPS the RTX 4060 is Mini LED.

[@bd2378]

@@BenGKaiser Which is preferable? I'm curious how much better battery life is for the IPS.

[@djbigsak4266]

Hello Folks, just a tip I learned before Best Buy pulled the plug on the Memorial Day deals. The 4050 version does not come with the mini LED, so you'll have to pony up the extra $200 for the better screen on the 4060 model.

[@BenGKaiser]

Correct!!

[@ray19950914]

It was only $ 1050 before tax. I saw that and I regret not placing the order. The deal only lasted for an hour or so.

[@Drivenby]

I bought the same 4060 model for 1700 on Best Buy

[@Burbanana]

"under 2000 dollars", its funny and interesting how people in NA look at the price "before tax" when this is never the reality of a price. In Europe, most countries sit around 20% VAT and prices are always shown with VAT included since thats what goes out of your wallet at the end of the day. I ordered this laptop and returned it, mostly because it was too expensive. Without an OS, 32GB, RTX 4060 and CU9, it came to about 2070 euros with a student discount of 9 or 10%. I think the original price was about 2300~ euros. Anyway, thanks for the video.

[@MaxiHartlieb]

I got it for 1830€ with windows and rtx 4060 3.2 k display and 32gb ram 1 tb ssd. I was thinking about paying 1920€ for rtx 4070, but i dont need it i guess

[@tn-qh6mu]

@@MaxiHartlieb Where did you buy it? I can only find for 2.3k

[@ProgressiveSoundAudio]

Hi Ben what is the fan noise like? Would it too much for an Audio Engineering focused laptop?

[@iz723]

Its very quiet.

[@ProgressiveSoundAudio]

@@iz723 brill thank you

[@scottdpeterstv]

There is an option when configuring this to have the PureSight display that it is MiniLED and can get around 1100 nits and they claim 100% coverage of the 3 color gamuts.

[@legendren160]

Just wondering, with the Yoga Pro build that comes with Mini-LED, do those suffer similar burn issues to OLED?

[@adequatequality]

I purchased this but really did not like the track pad. For the price they charge for this laptop, I expect a haptic track pad no questions asked. The clicks were so loud and felt really cheap. Had to immediately return it.

[@aakash.__.bhagat]

What are its alternatives? We want a full comparison with lenovo ideapad pro 5i asap❤

[@MorganBunkley]

Da'faq. I called lenovo earlier today and they said it did work with the pen. I gave them a model number and everything. I just ordered the 4060 8gb card. I guess I'll just have to invest in another tablet for drawing. I needed to design but i do a lot of photo editing and wanted to get into video editing. Needed power but not full on gaming power and price.

[@mathmans]

Do you have a review on new legion pro 5i 2024?

[@BenGKaiser]

Coming soon!

[@mathmans]

@@BenGKaiserthanks. looking forward to that

[@katierapley2076]

Am I right in thinking that the premiere pro benchmark on this 4060 laptop is outperforming even the ASUS Zephyrus ROG 4080? If so that is incredible

[@iz723]

In what world did you get 8 hours of battery life out of this? What were your settings?

[@esjaimecota]

silent mode, low brightness, 60hz. If it doesnt work try use only the igpu and disable de 4060

[@potato_burner]

Loud and noisy under any decent load. Battery drain under heavy load or gaming while on charging. All the benchmark results in all videos are always at maximum performance mode. This mode makes the laptop extremely annoying due to the fan noise. In the balanced power mode the results are kinda 35% lower.

[@Drivenby]

The mini led in this laptop is both amazing… and bad. It is by the brightest screen I’ve ever seen in a laptop . It’s like almost 700 nits in sdr (not sure where he got that 400 nits in the video) and 1200 on hdr . In sdr mode it uses single zone dimming . There’s no blooming at all . In hdr the contrast ratio just goes up by a million . The blacks are imho almost pitch black . Very oled like . But the blooming is baaaaad. I only use hdr mode in things that officially support it like KZbin or movies . Don’t bother with auto hdr. Even in sdr single zone dimming the screen is like A+

[@iz723]

AutoHDR is awesome in games that dont support it. I've tried it in Titanfall2 and Ori on this laptop.

[@Stermling]

Considering the 4060 version of this. anyone have it and can vouch for the use cases? I'd like to do Blender, graphics work, CAD software and potentially Visual studio / Android studio with emulation. Might be a big ask from a laptop but cannot find anything on the use of this besides some gaming.

[@y2j11]

X elite version of this.

[@aras_aras_aras_aras]

How does this compare with ASUS Zephyrus G16 in terms of build quality, speakers, and fan noise? They both have a 4070 option, and they are both thin and light. The Yoga Pro has a MiniLED option with a higher brightness and resolution, but less vivid colors than the OLED in G16. Yoga Pro has a numpad with Home/End/PgUp/PgDwn keys at convenient positions, whereas G14 has a centered keyboard and touchpad without a numpad.

[@arnulforamirez4836]

the top grilles house the tweeters

[@bogdanpoliatychko2901]

but this laptop has a Mini-LED and 4070 version

[@TheNeel555]

With performance of course Battery life is horrendous

[@CatchavistaAerial]

does not have 2 usb c ports only 1

[@iz723]

2024 version has 2 USB-c

[@kagunmarx5914]

Kreative Devices

[@PKperformanceEU]

The dosplay is MiniLED, lot of wrong details in video. Speaker grills as well