The IdeaPad Yoga 13 was one of the aboriginal amalgam Windows 8 systems that consumers got a attending at. Lenovo apparent a near-finished ancestor at CES about a year ago – able-bodied afore Windows 8 was accomplished and accessible for prime time. Since that time we’ve abstruse a abundant accord about Lenovo’s flagship touchscreen convertible but conceivably the better catechism was whether or not a convertible notebook/tablet makes faculty at a time if committed tablets are arguably the hottest trend in customer electronics.
Despite assorted attempts from manufacturers over the accomplished several years, hybrids never acquired abundant traction, not necessarily because of accouterments issues but artlessly because the software to abutment such an ambiance hasn’t existed until just recently. Previous iterations of Windows did abutment blow in a bound accommodation but the UI was never congenital with blow in mind.
Evidently that has all afflicted with Windows 8 which adds a blow affable ambiance foreground and centermost (but not everywhere) and Lenovo looks to capitalize aboriginal and generally with the do-it-all Yoga 13. Priced from $999, this arrangement was one of the aboriginal carriageable systems to barrage alongside Windows 8. I’ve spent the accomplished several weeks acquirements the ins and outs of this amalgam Ultrabook and after jumping adapted to the cessation from the get-go, I will let you apperceive that it’s a actual able all-around arrangement that doesn’t accommodation on that it is aboriginal and foremost: a notebook.
Our appraisal assemblage accustomed with a third bearing Intel Core i5-3317U processor clocked at 1.7GHz, 4GB of RAM (systems in this chic now address with 8GB of memory), Intel HD Graphics 4000 and a 128GB solid accompaniment drive. True to its name, the Yoga 13 utilizes a 13.3-inch HD+ LED Multitouch affectation operating at 1,600 x 900 resolution –a bit bluff than abounding added 13-inch panels in its class. The amount for the arrangement amount as activated actuality today (with 8GB RAM) is $1,099.
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13" - $999
13.3" 1600x900 IPS LED multi-touch dis Intel Core i5-3317U (1.7 - 2.6GHz) Intel HD Graphics 4000 4GB of DDR3 RAM 128GB SSD SD/MMC agenda clairvoyant 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, HDMI, audio jack 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 1-megapixel webcam Chiclet keyboard Bottle trackpad with chip buttons 4-cell Li-Polymer array 13.4 x 8.85 x 0.66 inches, 3.4 pounds
Upon aboriginal glance there’s no adumbration that the Yoga 13 is annihilation alfresco of a accepted Ultrabook. The alien allocation of the lid is coated with a rubber-like actual that’s argent / blah in color. A Lenovo name bowl is added in one bend which gives the arrangement an all-embracing avant-garde and chic attending from the exterior.
On the foreground bend of the Yoga is a backlit ability button, array indicator and a tiny recessed displace button that absolutely didn’t do annihilation if pressed. On the adapted bend we acquisition a button to lock the awning circling if in book mode, an SD agenda reader, a USB 2.0 anchorage and a different searching charging anchorage that added resembles addition USB anchorage than annihilation else.
The aback bend of the Yoga is lined with detached blast slots amid the two athletic awning hinges. On the larboard ancillary of the Ultrabook is an HDMI-out port, a USB 3.0 anchorage and a aggregate headphone /microphone jack. Closer to the foreground of the larboard bend is a aggregate rocker and what appears to be a tiny aperture for a microphone.
There’s not abundant to see on the base of the Yoga 13 abreast from four baby elastic feet. Upgrading centralized apparatus will yield some plan as there are eight tiny six-sided screws that attending to authority the basal awning in place. You’d absolutely charge some array of adapted screwdriver to abolish them so if you are planning to add added anamnesis to the system, it ability be best to let Lenovo handle that if you abode your order.
Raising the lid reveals a awning that added articles would alarm an Infinity display. That is, the awning and the bezel are covered with a individual section of bottle to accord the apparition that the two breeze calm seamlessly. With the affectation powered on, however, you can see that the bezel about the awning is a little on the blubbery side. Normally this would be frowned aloft but accustomed the actuality that the Yoga doubles as a tablet, this in fact is acceptable because it gives you some allowance to authority the system.
A 720p webcam sits centered aloft the affectation and beneath it is a finger-sized button with the Windows logo in it. Acute this button performs the aforementioned assignment as acute the Start button which in Windows 8, switches you amid Metro-style appearance the acceptable Desktop UI. Its adjustment is abnormally accessible in if application the arrangement as a tablet.
The island-style keyboard sits hardly lower than the surrounding breadth /approach rest. This is done on purpose as to abbreviate key presses if application the arrangement in book approach (more on that in a bit). The keyboard itself has a nice all-embracing feel admitting a few of the keys (the adapted Shift key and to a basal extent, the Backspace key) are a bit beneath than usual. Neither of these ashamed me at all as I accomplished I never use the adapted Shift key and the Backspace key wasn’t abbreviate abundant to could cause any problems.
Unlike some added Lenovo systems I accept used, the aggregation absitively to abode the larboard Ctrl button in what a lot of would accede the adapted breadth – the basal larboard of the keyboard. The Fn button is just beside where, breadth a lot of would apprehend to acquisition it. And speaking of, the action keys just aloft the amount keys absence to their alternating use, acceptation you accept to authority down the Fn key to columnist F5 for a refresh, etc.
Lenovo adopted to use a bottle trackpad that integrates both abrasion bang buttons. I’m about not a fan of this implementation, instead preferring concrete buttons like those begin on the IdeaPad U260 but I accept to duke it to Lenovo as they accept done a accomplished job with the all-in-one trackpad on the Yoga 13. One of my better complaints with agnate setups is that beat the abrasion button aswell moves the cursor. That didn’t assume to arise actual generally on this arrangement thankfully. The all-embracing admeasurement of the trackpad seems just adapted too – there’s affluence of allowance to dispense the cursor yet I still had abundant allowance to blazon calmly after my award causing the cursor to go haywire.
The wrist blow and the surrounding breadth about the keyboard arise to be complete of a bendable leather-like material. The all-embracing attending is acutely chic although as I begin out later, this apparent is decumbent to acrimonious up blemish marks and added bits if it’s lying face down in book orientation.
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