Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 Review: Great Performance at a Surprisingly Low Price

The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 is a stylish and slim laptop that stands out with unique design details without sacrificing elegance. There are other Yoga computers in the same style, from tablets to ultralight laptops, and they all exude quality and personality.

This model is in a 16-inch format and is intended for creative hobbyists. It is, after all, a typical consumer computer for all-around use with Windows 11 Home and no special business or gaming features. Just a good computer – but one that can handle more than just surfing and streaming.

It is not as powerful as some of the competitors I tested this spring. The Core Ultra 155H is from the previous generation of processors and does not have as powerful an NPU for AI as the second-generation processors that have come on the market this year.

Powerful Enough for Most Things

But otherwise, it’s actually refreshingly fast. Not in the same class as the Apple M4 Pro or AMD Ryzen 9 AI, but it is absolutely fast. You will rarely experience a lack of computing power. You get 32 GB of soldered RAM, so it cannot be upgraded.

The SSD, on the other hand, can be both replaced and doubled with a free slot. The installed one is one terabyte and is not the fastest in its class, so occasional loading times can be noticeable. But it is definitely not slow.

This is accompanied by a GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, which gives many programs and even many AI applications a performance boost. They can often utilize the graphics card to boost computing power. Especially media creation programs like Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

With GeForce graphics, the Yoga Pro 9 is also a decent gaming laptop if you don’t have too high demands. Not for a real enthusiast, but it works great to relax with non-demanding titles occasionally.

Professional Quality in the Screen

Here it is supported by a real top-notch screen. A high-resolution 3K IPS with mini-LED backlighting that gives it both OLED-like contrast and high peak brightness, resulting in intense dynamics and a very vivid image. It is Vesa Display HDR 1000 certified and also has Dolby Vision support.

It has a color range that exceeds the usual standards and has been factory calibrated to match sRGB, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB to 100 percent. You avoid reflections thanks to an excellent matte surface treatment of the screen surface. This usually leads to diffusion and lower contrast in bright rooms, but that is minimal with this problem here. Hats off!

It has excellent speakers with detailed, powerful, and rich sound that complements the media experience. A sharp and well-balanced webcam and good microphones for online meetings, but you do not have access to Windows Studio effects to refine the image.

Traditionally Smart, but AI Lags Behind

There are no Windows Copilot functions in the computer at all. At least not upon delivery. The only thing that is Copilot is that Microsoft 365 Copilot is pre-installed. There is a Windows Copilot button on the keyboard, but it literally goes to nothing. You can manually choose for it to start Microsoft 365 Copilot, but that requires a subscription.

Lenovo’s own software in the computer is otherwise excellent. There is good cooling control, battery routines, security, and much more in Lenovo Vantage, and there are useful programs you can download. For example, AI Now, which contains a local AI chat that helps you manage the computer and handle documents.

And Creator Zone, which lets you AI-generate images and texts with prompts. Whether this happens locally or in the cloud is unclear, but I have to be online and logged in with a Lenovo account. So it feels like at least a hybrid function. The result is quite okay, but nothing remarkable.

The computer has relatively muted cooling and can go for long periods without active fans. When it kicks in the most, however, there may be some hissing. Certain situations, such as installing system updates or long video rendering jobs that benefit from the graphics card, can significantly increase the noise level.

Class in the Details

A well-built but slightly compact keyboard with a separate numeric keypad, good mechanics, adjustable backlighting, and Lenovo’s concave key design gives a high-quality feel when I write on it. The touchpad is also high-class.

However, it is crowded, and I wish Lenovo had moved the upward-facing speaker elements on either side of the keyboard to get more space. Even if it might not have sounded as good.

A fingerprint reader would also have been a plus. But with IR in the webcam, biometric facial recognition works well, so it’s not a big loss.

Battery Life Gets a Thumbs Up

An 84 Wh battery lasts surprisingly long, with over two hours under stress and up to almost a full day when it is used sparingly. It can handle a mixed eight-hour workday, but make sure to bring the included 170-watt charger just in case.

Even though some of the Yoga Pro 9’s promised AI magic does not occur, it is, in every other way, a very good laptop. The screen is among the best you can get in a laptop, it is well-built and fast enough for creative productivity. There is nothing in particular that I feel the need to complain about.

Not even the price. It costs about $2 372 Considering that many competing – and not so much better – computers are between $3 163 and $5 272, it is well worth its money if you don’t absolutely need the very latest and most powerful in your laptop. And let’s be honest, you don’t have to.

Specifications

• Product name: Yoga Pro 9 (83DN001NMX)
• Tested: June 2025
• Manufacturer: Lenovo
• Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 6 P-core up to 4.8 GHz + 8 E-core, 2 LP-core
• NPU: Intel AI Boost, 11 tops
• Graphics: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060
• Memory: 16 GB lpddr5x
• Storage: 1 TB ssd, space for sd-card
• Screen: 16-inch semi-matte mini-led ips, 3200 x 2000 pixels, 165 Hz, 1200 cd/m2, Dolby Vision
• Webcam: 1440p, ir
• Connections: 2 thunderbolt 4, 2 usb-a 3 gen 1, hdmi 2.1, headset
• Wireless: Wifi 7, bluetooth 5.4
• Operating system: Windows 11 Pro
• Other: Backlit keyboard, numeric keypad, facial recognition
• Sound level: 0-39 dBa
• Battery: 84 Wh, 2 hours 10 minutes (high load, high brightness, 120 Hz), approx. 19 hours (low load, low brightness, 60Hz)
• Size: 36.27 x 25.37 x 1.39 cm
• Weight: 2.19 kg