One complaint is that the hinge is quite tight and requires two hands to open, but it does remain in place through its four 2-in-1 modes (clamshell, tent, media, and tablet). But that’s picking nits - you won’t notice that flex in real-life use. I noticed just the slightest bit of give when I twisted the display with a good deal of force, and the keyboard deck had the slightest amount of flex. Like all Lenovo midrange or better laptops (and even its budget machines like the Yoga C640), the Yoga 7i is well-built, with an all-aluminum chassis that mostly resists bending, twisting, and flexing. In terms of its build quality, the Yoga 7i is well worth its price - and more. My review unit was the Dark Moss color (the other option is a darker Slate Gray), which to my eyes was a bit on the brown side with a hint of copper. That’s been Lenovo’s thing for a few years now, to design laptops that don’t stand out, but are nevertheless attractive in their own simplicity. That means it’s a rather conservative design with simple lines and angles and absolutely no bling except for the metallic logo on the lid’s upper-left corner. The Tiger Lake upgrade worked out well for the Yoga 9i - will it do the same for the Yoga 7i? Design Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsĪs mentioned earlier, the Yoga 7i is exactly like the Yoga C740 before it. 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 productivity workstation for the money.

That makes the Yoga 7i a tweener of sorts - not a budget laptop but not premium, either.

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. For the Yoga 7i, that promises improved performance while leveraging whatever other strengths (and weaknesses) possessed by the Yoga C740 before it. While the laptops are identical to their predecessors on the outside, the internal upgrades are significant - both received Intel’s Tiger Lake platform. The Lenovo Yoga 9i is a renamed Yoga C940, for example, and the Yoga 7i is a renamed Yoga C740.

Lenovo is on a marketing kick, renaming laptops but keeping them the same except for updated internals.

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