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My old laptop (2010 Toshiba Satellite A660) finally croaked last night as I powered it up to work from home, so I ran up to Best Buy and had a look at everything they offered. I finally settled on the Lenovo Yoga 7i which is a laptop and tablet 2-in-1, and had the best specs of the value laptops on the floor. Priced at $649, I thought it was a steal compared to some of the other laptops with lesser specs going for over $1200.
Processor: 12th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1260P (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
Operating System: Windows 11 Home
Graphics: Intel® Iris® Xe (1080p 60FPS, 8K with 4x4K HDR)
Memory: LPDDR5 16 GB
Storage: PCIe SSD Gen 4, 512 GB
Display: 14" 2.8K OLED (2880 x 1800), 400 nits, 100% DCI-P3, 90 Hz, 16:10, Low Blue Light
Camera: 2M IR RGB with Privacy Shutter
Audio: Dolby Atmos® Speakers X 4 (2 x 2W Tweeter, 2 x 2W Woofer)
Battery (71WHr): MobileMark® 2018
Does anyone have this laptop and care to comment on its performance? I haven't unboxed it yet, in case I find something better while I have time today to do some digging.
It's last year's model which is always the thing to do. The only thing to double check is the display. They do a 1080p IPS and the 2K OLED. Honestly for $650 even the 1080p model is a solid pickup. With the OLED it's actually a best buy from Best Buy.
With the OLED it's actually a best buy from Best Buy.
It has the 2K OLED. I am definitely enjoying it, however it is so sensitive to the touch that using the trackpad is cumbersome, so I'm getting a small mouse for it.
Modern touchpads are fantastic, Clevergirl. 2 fingers to scroll webpages...I love it so much I have an external touchpad for my laptop when it is docked.
Have you tried playing with the settings?
Admittedly, no. I've fixed some settings but not the touchpad. I think for me, it's that there are no longer two dedicated buttons for right or left clicks. Now they are down in the corners. But if you happen to have a lazy finger that gets too close, it clicks anyway. I pinned and unpinned Spotify from my taskbar about 10 times before I gave up and left it there for now LOL
ETA: I had no idea I could right-click with two fingers or that I can add special features for three and four fingers!
...and double-tap does a left click. I don't need to go "down in the corners" for regular use.
I figured that out pretty quick, but you have to really click quick and hard. I'm messing around with it.
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