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The Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i is a 14 inch laptop with an Intel Lunar Lake processor, a 4K 120 Hz OLED display, and up to 32GB of RAM. It's also the first laptop to feature an under-display camera that's invisible to the eye when you're not using it.
First unveiled during CES in January, the Yoga Slim 9i is now available for purchase…. but it ain't cheap. Prices start at $1760 for a model with an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Customers can also pay $75 for more a Core Ultra 7 258V chip with 32GB of onboard memory, but all models currently ship with a 1TB M.2 2242 SSD.
Other features include a 75 Wh battery, 65W power adapter, a backlit keyboard, a fingerprint sensor, a 4-microphone array, and quad speakers (two 2W tweeters and two 3W woofers).
The laptop supports WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 and has two Thunderbolt 4 ports (and no other ports). The Yoga Slim 9i measures 14.55mm (0.57 inches) at its thinnest point, and weighs 1.25 kg (2.76 pounds).
But the features that really make this laptop stand out are its display and webcam. The Yoga Slim 9i has a 14 inch, 3840 x 2400 pixel, 120 Hz OLED screen with up to 750 nits peak brightness and bezels so slim that Lenovo says the notebook has a 98% screen-to-body ratio.
While most laptops have a webcam in the top bezel above the display (and a few have cameras below the display), the Lenovo Slim 9i has a 32MP camera under the top center portion of the display.
When the camera is off, you can't even tell that it's there at all. And when you want to use it, just press the "E Privacy Shutter" button on the side of the laptop and a set of pixels in the OLED display that cover the camera will become transparent, allowing you to snap photos or shoot video through the screen.
According to folks who've gotten an early look at the camera system, the display doesn't have the rough, pixelated quality near the camera section that you often see on smartphones with under-display cameras. But despite having a higher resolution webcam than most existing laptops, the camera needs to shoot through an OLED display and the result is imagery that looks a bit washed out and low quality, particularly in low-light environments.
So the true selling point of this laptop is the high screen-to-body ratio enabled by the under-display camera, not the camera quality. If you never plan to use the webcam, this effectively looks like a laptop that doesn't have one. But it's there if you need it (and you're paying for it when you buy this laptop, whether you need a webcam or not).
On the other hand, if you do expect to use a webcam on a regular basis, then you might be better off investing in a laptop with better photo and video recording quality.
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