Some laptops sing. Some laptops dance. Some laptops, like the Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1, do it all and somehow are still looking for the best stage to strut their stuff. There is so much about this convertible laptop that makes sense and even offers an ounce of innovation. It’s still an odd performer, not the least because its performance may not live up to its massive price point.
The Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 is one of the newfangled RTX Spark laptops making use of an Nvidia-made N1X chip. The laptop starts at $3,000 for the base model with a lower-end 18-core CPU and a 5120-core GPU. The model Lenovo sent me for review contained the full 20-core CPU and higher-end GPU, plus 64GB of memory and 1TB of storage, and it currently costs $3,750. It’s the same model you can get from Best Buy. That’s not cheap by any standard. It means whoever buys this PC needs it to be their main device for everything. That’s for watching content, making content, gaming, and more.
It's a creative laptop that actually puts creators first with unique pen capabilities. It also sacrifices RTX Spark's peak performance.
You can say the same thing about the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra , the first RTX Spark PC I reviewed. That PC came with 128GB of unified memory and cost $5,900. That PC is a slightly cleaner experience and offers better performance than Lenovo’s latest high-end Yoga PC. In either case, the ARM-based N1X chip is still new, and that means there are still minor bugs, including awkward stuttering when using browsers, that make the experience feel worse than a $3,750 device should.
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