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I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop

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<figure> <img alt="A 2-in-1 Lenovo Yoga 9n laptop folded over into tent mode." data-caption="The Lenovo Yoga 9n is a pricey workstation laptop, but being a 2-in-1 also makes it fun. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/268814_Nvidia_RTX_Spark_HP_Lenovo_Yoga_9n_ADiBenedetto_0001.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> The Lenovo Yoga 9n is a pricey workstation laptop, but being a 2-in-1 also makes it fun. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1013028/apple-second-october-product-launch-announcement">might actually get announced next week</a>, and after using the <a href="https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-9n-2-in-1-gen-11-16-inch-nvidia/len101y0076">Lenovo Yoga 9n</a> for <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012748/nvidia-rtx-spark-windows-arm-laptops-asus-hp-lenovo-impressions">our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark</a> platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is an Arm-based processor with a beefy integrated GPU and lots of unified memory. And the Yoga is the most fun RTX Spark laptop so far because it's a 16-inch 2-in-1 convertible <a href="https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/stylus-pens-and-supplies/pens/gxh1v16477">with a stylus</a>. Its Nvidia-powered compatriots also have touchscreens, like most Windows laptops, but they're conventional clamshell designs.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Lenovo Yoga does …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/report/1018131/apple-macbook-touchscreen-stylus-pencil-lenovo-laptop-analysis">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>
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