The touchscreen is a slightly oddball size at 14.5 inches diagonally, offering a 16:10 aspect ratio at a resolution of 3,072 x 1,090 pixels. The display is backlit by the newish mini LED technology (same as on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro), which uses thousands of tiny LED light sources to create individually controllable dimming zones. The impact is powerful: Not only are images incredibly lifelike, with impressive contrast, the machine is so bright it’s painful to look at at full strength. I’ve been regularly cataloging laptops with “record” brightness levels all year, one after another, but the Lenovo Slim put them all to shame, beating the next-highest brightness benchmark I’ve measured by 38 percent. I’m confident that this new record is going to stand for some time.
The Slim Pro 9i puts up the performance numbers to back that up, too. With an overclockable CPU and…
