I Love How Quiet This Laptop Is

[00:01] Yoga and Intel for CES. When it comes to laptops, the math is usually very simple. If you want a high performance laptop that's thin, you have to deal with shorter battery life and higher fan noise. You just can't beat physics. But

[00:14] this one is different. This is the new Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition. It's running Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip. You have strong CPU and strong GPU performance, 16-inch high refresh screen, excellent energy efficiency, and

[00:29] it's super quiet. This comes in at under 20 dB in quiet mode. I actually think this is one of very few laptops on the market that was built specifically to be powerful and quiet. So, the past two generations of Yoga products have

[00:42] This one takes it to another level. So, they're running new heat pipes that are increase the surface area. But also, if you'll notice on these heat plates here, call it the 3D mesh plate. But this is again designed to increase the surface

[00:57] area so that all of this middle section can be cooled off just more effectively without increasing fan speed and consequently fan noise. So, the fans the new thermal bump in the rear. And

[01:10] off heat really well while being quiet even under load. Now, if you look at the laptop, you'll notice a very sizable grill. It's interesting to look at, but you'll notice that a lot of it is just taped off. They seal off the vents so

[01:26] precisely. Like you create pressure zones and now the air flows exactly why they made such a large grill because it's all taped off. Anyways, uh the quiet is because of the new chip. It's Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip.

[01:43] it's so early on in the launch that I can't show benchmarks or frame rates or first chip that seems to actually combine really good single core, multi-core, and really capable integrated GPU performance in a really

[01:58] energyefficient chip. So, we're finally looking at an onboard solution from GPU workloads. Now, if you want devices can be configured up to an RTX 5070. Uh but just the presence of such a

[02:12] powerful integrated GPU solution in a device like this is awesome particularly for STEM students. So so this is something that just never existed before. So if you have like I don't know let's say you're working with 3D models

[02:25] or like computational workflows things that could make use of a powerful GPU. this to school or to class, you have to bring your AC adapter or you're leaning GPU, and you're just sucking battery life out of the laptop. This allows you

[02:41] to do it with the integrated GPU, and still get great performance and battery life, but it also has the flexibility of the Nvidia GPU when you need it. The 5070 in here is capped at 100 watts. So, there's a part of me that wishes they'd

[02:53] would have increased the fan noise on the system and would have lost that entire like quiet system characteristic. The battery in here is a 92 and a half watth pack, and that's combined with the energy efficiency of the new chip. They

[03:05] estimated battery life yet, but if I had to throw a guess, you know, very energy efficient components, big pack, my guess is like 15 hours at a minimum for real use on this device. Uh the ports, we have a pair of Thunderbolt 4 USBC, we

[03:21] have a pair of USBA along with HDMI 2.1 and a full-size SD slot, the port selection is really good. And if you have a workflow that's really demanding creative and you have to plug up a bunch of drives, this should be able to handle

[03:33] it. The build quality very solid. It's a modern-day yoga, like they just do really well. And the back panel, even with this massive grill back here, is still really solid. Uh the other components that got a really big upgrade

[03:45] this year is the screen. So this is now running their new 3.2K Purite Pro OLED that uses tandem OLED tech. So it's two OLED layers stacked on top of each other. It hits 1,000 n its peak in SDR. Like check how bright this thing gets.

[03:59] If you just crank it all the way up, like it's a super bright screen. Uh and it goes to 1,600 nits in HDR. So it's a very bright panel. And when you have don't have to drive each layer as hard to achieve a certain brightness. So, you

[04:12] just have reduced risk of burn-in for like, you know, static UIs in sound good. Even though these are early high quality and they're tuned nicely. It's a six speaker system. The keyboard

[04:25] is also really nice this year. So, it's a yoga keyboard. They've typically been the tech from the ThinkPad keyboards, but this year it's got a little bit more travel. It's 1.5 mm and this types so nice. It's tactile. It's responsive. 1.5

[04:40] mm of travel. There's also a new coating on the key caps. It's this soft touch almost silky texture to it. And there's also no more number pad. I've always preferred the symmetry of number padless keyboards. And finally, it's come to

[04:53] this device. The new trackpad is a haptic force pad. It has little motors feedback when you click around. And it's a glass surface, but there's also the ability to use this glass large trackpad as a drawing pad. So, included in the

[05:07] box is a pen. And you can use it for more granular control in certain apps. drawing tablet if they need to in a pinch. It comes with a rubber case. The pen fits in there magnetically. And then you can attach it to the top lid of the

[05:21] device also with magnets. There are some unique features for the Aura edition laptops. There's their new Smart Share that lets you tap your phone to the side res photos and videos to your PC from your phone, even an iPhone. And the Yoga

[05:34] product line now has a whole ecosystem now. They have silent mice. They have And they also have this Yoga Pro monitor. It's a 4K 120 Hz OLED panel that will automatically color sync with this Yoga laptop. So, typically when it

[05:48] comes to Windows laptops, if you connect it to an external screen, the colors made by the same company, it's super frustrating. Like the laptop will be be cooler and you have to go into the OSD and tweak things. But the Yoga Pro

[06:02] monitor automatically syncs colors right out of the box. You connect it up and the colors just automatically match one another. It's really useful for content thing, but no other company that I've seen does this and it's like this is the

[06:15] chunky webcam that comes with it. It connects up top with USBC and it's a nice device in that yoga ecosystem. Uh so there you have it, the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition. It's a really good device this year. Very capable, great

[06:29] device this year. Very capable, great performance, super quiet.