Apple smart folio keyboard review portable#
Apple smart folio keyboard review windows#

One of the harshest jibes you could level at the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is that it’s a gimmick, a toy. Lenovo may have found the battery ran down too quickly with LED lighting, but key backlighting feels like something we should be able to take for granted at this price. The keyboard also lacks a backlight, which seems strange when it already has an integrated battery to power its wireless communication. For serious work we’re always going to recommend plugging in a mouse, thanks to the flawed feel of the on-screen virtual pad. It’s a shame there’s no touchpad, though. We love how it kinds slots into place on the lower screen thanks to the integrated magnets, and that you can move it around whenever you fancy as it’s wireless. This thing is pretty good, and we typed a few thousand words of articles on it, no issue. Similarly, virtual keyboards are no replacement for actual keys, because the feedback you get from a little vibration buzz just isn’t anywhere near as satisfying as a true keyboard’s moving bits.īringing in the Lenovo Yoga Book 9’s physical keyboard improves the typing experience immeasurably. Lenovo Yoga Book 9i review: Keyboard & touchpad Still, that giant doesn’t support a stylus, making it a no-go for pen-led digital art. This doesn’t slot into the bodywork, but does tamp up the Yoga Book’s design and art cred nicely, even if it doesn’t become a single giant canvas like the foldable Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED’s display. These screens also support a stylus, which is included.

Apple smart folio keyboard review portable#

Perhaps it matters less than you might initially guess, though, given the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i doesn’t shine in its most portable form, as you ideally want to be able to use the keyboard accessory when working outdoors.

But OLED laptop panels haven’t quite caught up with this kind of power level yet.

Apple smart folio keyboard review windows#

We’re starting to see Windows laptops with incredibly bright screens, such as the miniLED Lenovo Yoga 9 Pro. While the colour of one panel can look slightly different to another thanks to the varying angles you’ll sometimes view them from, it’s the sort of effect you’ll only notice if you go looking for it.īrightness is only the premium laptop norm, though. The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i has ultra-deep colour and black levels, for supremely poppy images that jump off the screen. These are two 2880 x 1800 pixel 13.3-inch OLED panels with glass-topped surfaces and touchscreen support.Īll the usual strengths of OLED are here to see. The Lenovo Yoga Book 9’s actual screens are great. The weight is also a thoroughly respectable 1.34kg, although that’s minus the keyboard and folio case part. Looking beyond the USP, the Lenovo Yoga Book 9’s metal and glass design is suitably expensive-looking, and has rounded off edges for a softer feel. Or maybe it is far outweighed by the whole Transformers-style appeal of the thing. One of the big questions you need to ask yourself is if this stuff will annoy you. That's because you have three parts rather than one - main unit, solid case, keyboard - and you can’t just push the thing closed, laptop-style, as you’ll slam the screen down onto the keyboard bit. However, for most of us it’s just not going to be as convenient as a normal laptop. Both have that landscape aspect ratio most applications expect. When the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is arranged like this, it can feel oddly close to a dual-monitor arrangement. Looks around the back, though, and you’ll see there’s a folio-style case holding the whole thing together. And your first reaction to this may be “how the hell does that work?” One of the panels appears to tower over the other, defying gravity.

The ideal scenario, though, is with one screen on top of the other.