Lenovo has a new dual-screen laptop out, the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i. This is no concept machine. It's not even a clunky beta-feelin' early stab that you can buy but probably shouldn't. It's a polished, slick, highly usable PC. Which begs the question, is this the future of laptops, even laptops for gaming?
Just to head the most obvious scepticism off at the pass, it really wasn't all that long ago that Blackberries with physical keyboards ruled the smartphone and the world scoffed at the idea of on-screen keyboards. Who would want type on one of those?
So, polling the plebs and finding they mostly reject the idea of an on-screen laptop keyboard doesn't mean much. They didn't think they wanted one on a phone, either, and look how that went.
Hold that thought while we cover off the Lenovo's specs. It runs dual 13.3-inch OLED panels, each with 2,880 by 1,800 pixels and capable of 400 nits. The chassis is very slick, with nearly symmetrical and super-skinny upper and lower clams, fairly slim bezels all round and a rather smartphone-esque vibe to the overall design, what with the curved and polished metal chassis edges.
Obviously both screens are capacitive touch, but the novelty beyond the simple fact of the two screens is at least in part in the bundled cover which doubles as a stand, plus a physical keyboard.
That opens up a range of options beyond the software on-screen keyboard (which also includes an on-screen trackpad). You can stick the keyboard on top of the lower screen or use the stand with the dual screens side-by-side or stack atop one another. There's a stylus, too, allowing for things like note taking on the lower panel while consuming content on the upper panel.
That aside, the internals are pretty standard PC,
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