Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Gen 10 (14in Intel)

A well-thought-out dual-screen laptop, offering strong performance and usability but limited battery life

- CHARLES JEFFERIES

Sci-fi filmmakers understand a simple truth: nothing says futuristic tech quite like a keyboard-free design. The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Gen 10 embraces that vision, greeting users with two stunning 14in OLED displays and not a button in sight – unless you include the bundled, detachable keyboard.

For those of us who live in the here and now, the question must surely be: why? Essentially, as with the first such Yoga Book 9i (see issue 347, p64), the more recent Asus Zenbook Duo UX8406CA (see issue 368, p52) and the various “Fold” designs based around a single, foldable OLED screen, the answer is to give you a laptop design when in cramped conditions and a mini desktop when you have the space.

For those Fold devices, the screen opens up to become a large screen with the keyboard floating below. For these cheaper dual-screen versions, it’s all about the screen setup. One can sit atop the other, they can go side by side or you can set them up in tent mode.

The “why” then depends on the mode: tent for sharing content, while the other two should make it possible to do your work faster. A coder or video editor might choose the vertical option to have the IDE/video editor on one screen and their output on the other. An office worker may have reference material on the left and the working document on the right, or merge the two into one screen and try to ignore the expanse of bezel in the middle.

Outstanding choice