Sep 05
Last year’s Lenovo Yoga was one of the better laptops we’ve ever used, and certainly right at the top of Windows 8 convertibles. This year’s Yoga 2 Pro refines the hell out of that notion, and adds a super high res screen on top.
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Sep 05
Out of last years selection of fledgling Windows 8 convertibles, Lenovo’s Yoga was our favorite by far
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Sep 05
Lenovo announces Yoga 2 Pro with 3,200 x 1,800 screen, slimmer design (hands-on)
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We think we can all agree the Lenovo Yoga has been long due for an upgrade: while every other flagship Ultrabook got refreshed with Haswell, the Yoga 13 stuck around with Ivy Bridge and a relatively low-res 1,600 x 900 display. It was getting so long in the tooth, in fact, that we almost didn’t recommend it in our most recent laptop buyer’s guide. Well, Lenovo’s finally giving us the upgrade we’ve been asking for, and if specs are any indication, it might have actually been worth the wait.
The new Yoga 2 takes a big step up to a 13-inch, 350-nit, 3,200 x 1,800 touchscreen, putting it well ahead of its peers, most of which max out at 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. As you’d expect, this new model runs on fourth-gen Intel Core processors (all the way up to i7), with the battery life now rated at up to nine hours. The Yoga also adds Intel Wireless Display, in accordance with the current Ultrabook spec. Equally important: the new model measures 15.5mm thick (versus 17.1mm on the original) and sheds about half a pound so that it now weighs a little over 3 pounds (3.06, to be exact, or 1.39kg). And believe us when we say that half-pound makes a difference: chalk it up to muscle memory, but we could instantly feel the difference when we picked it up for the first time. We don’t remember the original ever being this thin or light. %Gallery-slideshow73818%%Gallery-slideshow76615%
Aug 19
Microsoft has not been shy when it comes to attacking the competition, namely Apple, in their series of advertisements. Well the latest ad this time features Apple’s iPad up against Lenovo’s Yoga hybrid device. Once again the video takes pot shots at Apple’s iPad and some of its “disadvantages”, namely how the Yoga comes with a built-in keyboard while the iPad does not, indicating that the Yoga is better at productivity tasks compared to the iPad. It’s a pretty funny video as it takes place in the classroom and you can see a mad scramble as students start digging into their bags for their keyboard cases for the iPad, or going the more traditional route, the pen and paper. In any case we expect this will not be the last of many Microsoft ads to come, but if you have a minute to spare, you can check it out in the video above. So what do you guys think? Is this a fair comparison between the Lenovo Yoga and the iPad?
New Microsoft Ad Pits Lenovo Yoga Against The iPad original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jun 03
It’s Computex week, which means the technology world is ready to talk up the PCs it’ll be pushing out between now and January. Dell’s Kirk Schell has let it slip that the company will be beefing up its mobile offerings with an 11.6-inch laptop that should arrive in time for the holidays. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Dell XPS 11 will come with a high-definition display that can be folded backwards to use as a tablet — which would have been exciting, but for the fact Lenovo got there first.
Source: WSJ
Apr 29
The Daily Roundup for 04.29.2013
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Feb 13
Promoting Lenovo’s range of Yoga transforming devices requires a certain amount of original thinking. That must be the reason the company installed a rotating chair wheel into a glass-sided bus and forced unsuspecting users to use the new transforming Ultrabook while dangling upside down. Still, the participants don’t seem to disturbed by all of the gravity-defying computing, and if you’d like to watch their travails, you can catch it after the break — albeit with a soundtrack that’s a little on the salty side.
Via: M.I.C. Gadget, ZOL
Source: Lenovo China
Jan 06
Lenovo announces the IdeaPad Yoga 11S with Ivy Bridge, Windows 8; arrives in June for $799+
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That headline says it all, doesn’t it? The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S is like the Yoga 11, except instead of an ARM chip, it has a laptop-grade Ivy Bridge processor. That means it’s more powerful, of course, but more importantly, since this is an x86 system it runs full Windows 8 instead of Windows RT. Hello, legacy application support! As a full-fledged PC, the 11S also steps up to a higher-quality display: a 1,600 x 900 IPS screen, compared with a 1,366 x 768 LCD on the Yoga 11.
Other than that, this has fundamentally the same design as the other Yoga laptops, which is to say its screen can fold all the way around into tablet mode (with in-between options, like Tent and Stand modes). As you can see in those press shots, it has the same look and feel, too, including a soft-touch finish and a relatively cushy keyboard. As you’d imagine, though, it’s a bit heftier than the lower-powered ARM version: it measures 0.68 inch thick, instead of 0.61. On the inside, it can accommodate up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of solid-state storage, with the top processor option being a dual-core Core i5 CPU. Just what you were hoping Lenovo would make? Today’s your lucky day, but you’ll still want to hold your horses: the 11S won’t actually go on sale until June. When it does, though, it’ll start at $799.
Gallery: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S hands-on
Gallery: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S
Dec 07
Gift Guide: Lenovo Yoga 13
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When Lenovo first announced the Yoga in October nobody knew what to think. A laptop that folks fold over to turn into a big tablet? With Windows 8? Meh. However, after some extensive usage I’ve come away thinking that the Yoga might be the coolest Win8 laptop I’ve used. And at $999 for the entry-level model I’m willing to recommend it to folks who are looking for a little something different in a touchscreen device.
The laptop has a Core i7 ULV processor, a 1600×900 16:9 screen resolution, Intel HD 4000 Graphics, up to 256GB SSD storage and up to 8GB of RAM. The model we tried was snappy, speedy and quite a bit of fun. While I think the folding feature is kind of a gimmick, the screen is surprisingly responsive in both modes and well worth a look.
You’re not going to be able to buy a single device without Windows 8 this season so I’d recommend getting something good and holding onto it for a while. This may just do the trick.
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