Looking for a stylish, sleek, and conveniently portable laptop that also happens to be a perfectly capable gaming rig ahead of Black Friday? It’s going to be hard to beat this Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i laptop that’s currently on sale at Best Buy for $1,599.99 shipped after a $300 instant discount. The exact same configuration would run you about $2000 at Lenovo. The Yoga Pro is perhaps the best overall consumer laptop to come from Lenovo. Sure, it might not be as powerful as a Legion Pro, but it’s more practical for daily use, has better build quality, a better display, more premium aesthetics, and can still reasonably play most games at 1080p resolution with its RTX 40 series GPU.
Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Laptop
The Yoga Pro 9i is a laptop you wouldn’t mind carrying around with you, since it weighs in at 5.07 pounds and measures just 0.81 inches thin. The chassis consists of an aluminum unibody frame that gives it durability without added weight. It also features a gorgeous high-resolution 16″ 3200×2000 Mini-LED display with touchscreen capability and a very high 1,200nits of brightness that makes it usable even in sunlight.
Under the hood, the Yoga Pro 9i is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor – the most powerful Meteor Lake mobile processor currently available – and an RTX 4060 mobile graphics card with a 100W TGP rating. The RTX 4060 is no slouch and performs right in between last generation’s RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti, however you’ll have to keep your expectations in check. The native 3.2K resolution is a very demanding resolution and the RTX 4060 will struggle with newer, more demanding games, so I would strongly recommend dropping it down to 1080p and enabling DLSS in order to hit a consistent 60fps frame rate while gaming. Older games like League of Legends and Fortnite should run fine.
If you’re looking for an even more powerful gaming laptop and portability isn’t a priority for you, there’s currently an Alienware m16 R2 gaming laptop that’s equipped with a RTX 4070 GPU for the same price as the Yoga Pro. For even more options, check out the best gaming laptop deals we’ve found for today.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
