We ’ve been chasing bezel - less laptop computer for a retentive clock time now , but with the grandness of webcam these days , that dream has been sidelined .

That is , unless you could the insufferable . Which is what Lenovo has done with its new Yoga Slim 9i , a novel laptop computer announce atCES 2025 . The laptop claim to habituate the reality ’s first “ camera - under - exhibit ” technology , give up for Lenovo to create a equipment with a 98 % screen - to - body proportion . The only laptop with bezels that get cheeseparing to this small are MacBooks , which use an horrifying ( and inconvenient ) notch to house the photographic camera . The Yoga Slim 9i gives you a complete screen without any distractions . It looks utterly arresting .

And when you ’re ready to use your tv camera , the system turn off the pixels just in front of where the webcam normally would , allow the television camera behind to poke through . Of course , as you may suppose , that does n’t pop the question the camera much Christ Within to work with . Lenovo has two solution . First , it uses a 32 - megapixel photographic camera to try and pull in as much ignitor as potential . Second , Lenovo has partnered with an AI image processing fellowship called Visionary.ai to correct the perverted image , especially in lowlight scenario .

It ’s only made possible , of class , due to the fact that the Yoga Slim 9i has a photographic camera blow on the back to correct for the thinness of the eyelid . Lenovo then has an redundant AI feature of speech built into it that reduces glare .

That ’s a whole passel of work to generate an prototype that is , true , not all that great . If you have decent lighting , this could be a passable photographic camera to use for your work video telephone call . In less - than - in force light , however , the picture is by all odds falsify .

And yet , I still find myself impressed .

The camera trick alone is n’t enough to make it one of thebest laptops , of track . fortuitously , Lenovo has made this a premium competitor in just about every way . The sieve itself , for example , is quite in high spirits - end . It ’s a 14 - inch , 3840 x 2400 OLED control board with a 120Hz refresh rate and 750 nit of peak brightness . That mean HDR content is really go to pop up .

Lenovo says the show uses an “ impact - resistant glass ” to protect against drops and scratches , calling the look a “ cat - eye - like 3D shininess . ” I ’m frankly not sure what that means , but having ascertain it myself , I do see the interesting effect the exhibit has . Light refract off it in a alone means .

The invention of the laptop maintains the glossy , rounded edges theYoga 9iis make love for , but this fourth dimension around it ’s even more basal . The keyboard and trackpad now elongate out to make full the empty space , add some extra function keys over to the right . The keyboard itself also now has a prospicient fundamental travel of 1.5 mm , but they still feature the iconic scooped shape of the keycaps .

The bottom of the laptop computer has an interesting curl cast , which measures just 0.57 inches at its tenuous point . Lenovo has put just two ports on this laptop , and neither is a earphone squat . There are just two Thunderbolt 4 ports , one on each side .

My one other complaint is that I wish it used a haptic feedback touchpad . For a laptop computer of this price and caliber , I ’d have loved to see it uses a tactual feedback touchpad rather of a mechanically skillful one .

Even still , the novel Yoga Slim 9i is officially the laptop I ’m most frantic to drop some more clip with .