The Lenovo Yoga 7i is a sleek and versatile 2-in-1 that performs equally well however you use it – and portable enough to make for a solid choice for students.

ZDNET’s key takeaways

  • The Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 sells for as low as $699 for the Intel Core Ultra 7, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD configuration.
  • It’s a sturdy 2-in-1 laptop with solid hardware that feels well-optimized however you fold it.
  • All the configuration swapping brings some quirks, and the display is a little dim

Lenovo’s Yoga line of laptops is designed to challenge assumptions about what a portable computer looks like and how you interact with it.

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The Yoga Book 9i, for example, throws the notion of a laptop with a single screen into the air, thanks to a dual-screen design, stackable displays, and myriad of flexible configurations, resulting in a product unlike anything else on the market. The Yoga 7i 2-in-1, its less-expensive cousin — and the device I’m reviewing here — has slightly less ambitious aims but is no less bold in its design.

The Yoga 7i is a 16-inch laptop, a tablet, and a tabletop screen in one device, and, notably, it works in all three of these configurations really well. All too often, ambitious design elements result in weird hybrids that are a jack of all trades, but master of none. The Yoga 7i, however, feels natural and functional in each mode.

This is partly due to the ease of swapping between configurations: Fold the keyboard back, and the screen swaps to portrait mode. Pop it into the “tent” position and it auto-adjusts accordingly. This snappy responsiveness is what makes the latest Yoga 7i feel like a truly flexible 2-in-1, something Lenovo seems to have spent a lot of time optimizing. (I did, however, encounter a few quirks that I’ll touch on shortly.)

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The Yoga 7i is sleek and quite thin, but it isn’t particularly light. At 4.6 pounds, it skews a little on the heavier side, with most of its weight coming from the 16-inch screen. Still, it feels solid and sturdy overall.

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