Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Review

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What makes this laptop so unique is it's 2 screens. It's a cool gimmick but what makes it work here is the bluetooth keyboard that gives you a ton of flexibility.

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[VanBurenPhilips]

Please glue on a pair of joycons and show us some giant DS emulation 🙏

[ZALHERA]

The dual monitor mode is 100% what I want for work, as my portable work setup already includes an external kb/m and an extra monitor. Idk about using it for art, but spreadsheets looking tasty on that.

[RyanParreno]

Thanks for the review, it's a shame Lenovo still hasn't improved their pen for artists. I'm now rooting for Samsung to poach this idea and do it right

[ettepet]

TIP: I received mine on Monday, and by great luck ordered the perfect mouse for it: “Microsoft Surface Mobile Wireless Mouse, Ice Blue”. Light-weight, curved, slightly magnetic, and very close to matching in color. Super happy with both!

[AurelTristen]

This would rock for in-person D&D! Flip it over and you have a screen to show stuff to your players. Hand-write notes if you prefer that on your side of the device.

[annanda_dandi]

I came here just to say that your courses are SO FUN! I am following "Learn to Drawn in 60 Days" (Day 16) and having so much fun. I've bought many other courses over time, but every time I feel like having fun while learning, I go to some of your courses. They are just the best, I always have a great time with them. Very well done! Love how you teach. 👍🏼

[ei..]

I understand why phones remove the headphone jack as bluetooth headphones while more expensive does what 99% of people need them to do. On a productivity laptop, that's an entirely different story. You need accurate sound without latency for long periods of time. Sure wireless headphones will get there, but they're not there yet, so it's still too early to remove the headphone jack in my opinion.

[ettepet]

One benefit of using this kind of pen is that this device now has a beautiful, clear screen. All the “Wacom” touch + pen oled screens made by Samsung for laptops currently have an annoyingly visible grid, masking all the beauty of the oled. I was so happy to see this one is close to perfect.

Not everything is perfect though: The screens have not been calibrated and are somewhat over-saturated. A review found theirs to be very similar so it could be that a few settings and an averaged calibration file can do wonders. They are also glossy and easily get smutched I find.

[tahnmeep]

I've been eyeing this notebook a LOT lately, was super thankful to find your review because you just saved me a ton of money! I'd use it for art direction and animation and thought a pen with Wacom tech meant Cintiq-quality displays. NNnnnnope, this would be unusable to me, glad the one I had in my cart went out of stock! The form factor is incredible though, I really really really really want to believe in it. Like you said, maybe in a few gens.
Again, super duper appreciate the line art demo and honest review for artists! I'll stick to my XP Pen Pro and iPad Mini for portable work when I'm not around my anchored-at-home Cintiqs...

[koinijikoimizu]

Thank you. This helped me make a decision about the Yoga Book 9i. Headphone jacks are a must for me.

[cammiluna]

Lenovo USED to have Wacom EMR pen screens. 2015 was their last model, the Thinkpad Yoga 12 2nd gen. Screen calibration was kinda garbage, but it did the job and it ran Windows 8 so there wasn’t any of that Windows Ink nonsense deal with. After that, they went with Wacom’s AES pens that were battery powered. Those, I’ve never tried, but essentially, if you have a surface pen and it works on the screen, it’s an MPP pen display.

I’ve been looking at this lenovo laptop for a while because I really love the concept, but nobody mentioned what kind of pen it had. Also, everytime Lenovo makes something this different from the standard laptop fare, it ends up being kinda short-lived with terrible support once a major update makes it buggy. Happened with the first Lenovo Yogabook that ran Android.

[Wraith]

Definitely not designed for Artist but seems great for students.

[aashishbadhan]

Hey Brad, the xiaomi pad 6 came out and your reviews are almost picture perfect for us artists! Please review it if possiblee!!! Keep the great content up and always a fan!

[codecthelios]

I really really like that the first thing you do is show us diagonal lines slowly drawn on the screen. Seeing the amount of stairs it created told me everything that I need to know about it. Ill stick with my iPad Pro for now.

[giannisozo]

Its nice to see the Surface Neo finally being released

[tamjeanell]

If you get direct from Lenovo...make sure you get your mouse from the carton! I almost missed it and was about to throw the box away...They should have included a 'what's in the box' note!

[Thanatos--]

I watched your previous video and was going to ask for a review of your sponsor product, but self edited that out. I really appreciate the video as far as being 'straight up.'

[GrantSR]

If this laptop uses the same AES 2.0 sensor technology behind the screen as the Lenovo Yoga C940 15.6" laptop, then: I have found that the Wacom Bamboo Ink Plus stylus WITH the special nib (the one with the blue ring) smooths out about 90% of those wobbles AND adds tilt and rotation sensing, which the original stylus does not. In other words, the sensor is pretty good, but they shipped it with a crappy stylus. The sensor is AES 2.0 compatible, but the original stylus is not. Go figure.

Anyway, I'm sure you have a Wacom Bamboo Ink Plus lying around. Give it a try and see if that doesn't fix the problem.

[XJLCA]

That pen is not intended for drawing, but for productivity work on Word and Excel, and signing PDF documents.

[benjamina]

It’s odd that the pen has a lot of wobble. I’ve got a Lenovo Flex 5 and it’s using Wacom AES 2 technology, hardly any wobble at all. My pen works with MPP protocol too, but thankfully the laptop doesn’t support it. This looks like the same pen, but might indeed use the ‘wrong’ protocol, that’s a shame. I was considering this, but now I’m glad I went with the single screen one instead.