Lenovo’s Yoga 9i 14 — the replacement for the Yoga C940 — is an incredibly innovative convertible 2-in-1 that comes in two distinct flavors distinguished by much more than color. The Shadow Black leather edition incorporates an edge-to-edge glass palm rest, haptic touchpad, and ultrasonic fingerprint reader to go with a leather cover on the lid. The Mica-colored model has a traditional palm rest and touchpad and a simple metal lid. And they cost the same — go figure. The Mica version is a more direct replacement for the Yoga C940 and offers up a more traditional 2-in-1 experience, which raises this question: Should you consider the Mica version without the extra innovations? We tried a nicely configured Mica unit, with a top-of-the-line 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake Core i7-1185G7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe solid-state drive (SSD), and a Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) IPS display. That configuration is $1,380 at <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bes...
Rock-solid build quality; Competitive productivity performance; Excellent battery life; Superior audio quality; Pen is included and conveniently docks;
Keyboard remains a little shallow; 16:9 display is yesterday's technology; Colors are a little muted and inaccurate;