Enlarge / Lenovo's Yoga Book 9i 2-in-1 laptop connected its included kickstand.

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Like it oregon not, companies are acceptable connected making foldable PCs a thing. Asus' Zenbook 17 Fold OLED turned retired to beryllium 1 of 2022's astir adventurous laptops, and Lenovo is readying its 2nd foldable, the 16-inch ThinkPad X1 Fold for this spring. Assuming an operating strategy and apps that play good with the signifier factor, foldables excite multitaskers, workers, and creatives who tin payment from larger, yet inactive portable, show options, particularly those who don't request a keyboard and touchpad astatine each times.

But foldable PCs are precise caller and person their faults, from durability and compatibility concerns to the crease that tin visibly tally down the display's middle. Lenovo's Yoga Book 9i announced contiguous astatine CES successful Las Vegas aims to boost pixel number successful a mode that feels some much and little obvious: replacing the keyboard and touchpad with different laptop-size screen.

It's the dual-screen PC for radical who privation each the pixels but nary of the fold.

Dual 13-inch OLED screens

Lenovo's property merchandise calls the Yoga Book 9i the "first full-size dual surface OLED laptop" among vendors selling astatine slightest 1 cardinal units a year. Targeting originative consumers who besides privation a instrumentality with beardown productivity that's besides acceptable for entertainment, the laptop has 2 13.3-inch OLED panels connected by the soundbar hinge that Lenovo has been utilizing successful its Yoga convertible lineup for a while.

Enlarge / The galore looks of the Yoga Book 9i.

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Each OLED surface has 2880×1800 pixels successful a 16:10 facet ratio. That's 255.36 pixels per inch (ppi) for each sheet and 10,368,000 pixels total. That's 12.5 to 25 percent much full pixels than a 4K screen, depending connected whether it's 16:9 oregon 16:10.

Each surface runs astatine a 60 Hz refresh complaint and claims a max brightness of 400 nits. Each screen's brightness is individually adjustable. Lenovo besides claims 100 percent DCI-P3 coverage, and each surface supports Dolby Vision HDR.

Hands-on

I concisely played with a highly functioning prototype of the Yoga Book 9i, which I utilized arsenic some a monolithic dual-screen laptop wholly reliant connected interaction and successful a much accepted signifier factor, by mode of wireless and virtual keyboards.

Enlarge / You tin usage Windows widgets alongside the virtual (pictured) oregon carnal keyboard.

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The Yoga Book 9i volition travel with a carnal Bluetooth keyboard that you tin usage detached from the strategy oregon magnetically docked to the bottommost two-thirds of the little screen. Alternatively, you tin usage a virtual keyboard connected the confederate screen.

With a carnal oregon virtual keyboard docked, you tin usage the remaining apical 3rd of that show for Windows widgets, specified arsenic the Weather, News, and Sticky Notes. But if you don't usage Windows widgets, the country is benignant of useless due to the fact that you can't usage it for thing else, similar a shrunken window.

With the virtual keyboard connected display, I was besides capable to rapidly bring up a virtual touchpad by sliding the virtual keyboard up with my fingers. If this touchpad works well, it's a clever inclusion for times that you privation much accepted navigation but don't person a rodent connected hand.

Enlarge / The virtual keyboard and touchpad adjacent to a Sticky Note widget.

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