Lenovo is on a marketing kick, renaming laptops but keeping them the same except for updated internals. The Lenovo Yoga 9i is a renamed Yoga C940, for example, and the Yoga 7i is a renamed Yoga C740. While the laptops are identical to their predecessors on the outside, the internal upgrades are significant — both received Intel’s Tiger Lake platform. For the Yoga 7i, that promises improved performance while leveraging whatever other strengths (and weaknesses) possessed by the Yoga C740 before it. I received a midrange configuration of the Yoga 7i to review, an $899 model available at Best Buy that’s equipped with an 11th-gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 CPU, 12GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe solid-state drive, and a 14-inch Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) IPS display. That makes the Yoga 7i a tweener of sorts — not a budget laptop but not premium, either. You can push the laptop over $1,100 by upgrading to a Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, but on paper, my review configuration would make a good productiv...
Excellent productivity performance for a Core i5; Solid build quality; Simple good looks; Good keyboard and touchpad;
Subpar graphics performance; Disappointing battery life; Display lacks contrast;