CES: Lenovo Yoga Laptops Include One with Invisible Camera
January 9, 2025
Lenovo’s new laptops include the Yoga Slim 9i, on display this week at CES 2025. Its 14-inch PureSight Pro OLED screen is essentially bezel-free, with 98 percent screen-to-body ratio made possible by the world’s first camera-under-display technology in a laptop. “Hiding the camera under the display panel until it is needed means a pure, uninterrupted screen with no camera notch,” Lenovo claims. When the 32-megapixel camera is activated, the laptop deactivates the pixels where the camera lens is positioned behind the screen. To correct image distortion and lowlight issues, Lenovo is tapping technology provided by Israel-based Visionary.ai.
“The Yoga Slim 9i has a camera bump on the back to compensate for the thinness of the lid” and uses AI to reduce glare, writes Digital Trends, concluding “that’s a whole lot of work to generate an image that is, admittedly, not all that great.”
Calling the camera-under-display (CUD) “passable” for work calls, Digital Trends says the “image is definitely garbled” in low light, but nonetheless considers the invisible camera and bezel-free achievement “impressive.”
Visionary.ai explains its “real-time algorithms remove video noise and blur, overcoming hardware limitations.”
Weighing only 2.62 pounds, the Yoga Slim 9i is a Windows 11 Copilot+ PC whose high-end is an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor with a 48 TOPS NPU. “Lenovo AI Core utilizes the NPU to supercharge creative apps, and dynamically adjust settings with real-time adaptive power management” that provides up to 17 hours of battery life, Intel notes in a press release.
At CES Lenovo also unveiled a Yoga Book 9i dual-screen laptop that has two 14-inch displays and a convertible notebook, the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition.
Lenovo calls the new dual-screen 9i laptop “a portable creative studio” that “unlocks unique use-cases such as using one screen as a canvas while the other is used as a sketchpad or to run AI image generation software that can be quickly and easily dragged onto the canvas.” It also lets you use one screen for a video call image while the other is deployed for productivity.
“Intel is also updating the Yoga Book with the latest Arrow Lake 255H processor,” writes The Verge, noting “you can max out the Yoga Book with up to 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 1TB of internal storage.” Features include three Thunderbolt 4 ports and Wi-Fi 7. Plus there are four Dolby Atmos speakers joined by a 360-degree rotating soundbar.
“The Yoga Slim 9i starts at $1,849, while the 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition starts at $1,599,” shipping in February, says The Verge, adding that “the Yoga Book 9i dual-screen will set you back at least $1,999 and will ship beginning in May.”
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