March 19, 2016 at 17:48Lenovo Yoga: A Brief History and Mini Review of the Yoga 900
For a couple of months now I have been using the Lenovo Yoga 900 as the main working device instead of the Yoga 11S and U410 Touch - a new ultrabook has replaced both gadgets. The Yoga 900 received a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 3200 x 1800 - just between 11.6 "and 14" of my old laptops, high performance - the latest sixth-generation Intel Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM, and low weight - 1, 3 kg In this post - a short digression into the history of Yoga and a brief overview of the Yoga 900.
Although transformers have a rich history, it is the popularity of the Lenovo Yoga form factor that led HP, Dell and Acer, and many smaller ones, to launch similar touchscreen gadgets. manufacturers, and the French Archos in August 2015 generally attached a photo of Lenovo Yoga to a press release about their own hybrid laptop.
Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Dell and Intel launched the first ever large-scale collaborative advertising in 2015. With this campaign, they wanted to talk about the new capabilities of the devices - battery life, use as tablets and good speaker systems.
Lenovo launched its Yoga laptops in 2012, with Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11 and 13. The first Yoga 11 was built on the Nvidia Tegra 3 1.3 GHz with an integrated graphics processor, had 2 GB of RAM and 32 or 64 GB SSDs - today this is more like the characteristics of an average smartphone or tablet. The device was running Windows RT, Microsoft Office 2013 was preinstalled on the laptop. The laptop was criticized for the OS, which did not run applications for earlier versions of Windows.
The 13-inch transformer Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 received a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. This is already a more serious machine: the 3rd generation Intel Core processor i3 / i5 / i7, up to 8G of RAM, a 13.3-inch LG display with a resolution of 1600x900 pixels and SSD up to 256 GB, Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro operating system . And the most interesting is the same turning mechanism and the very convenient AccuType keyboard, which will be used in new versions of IdeaPad Yoga.
In 2013, I wrote a review of the ultrabook-transformer Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S . This laptop came already with WIndows 8 Pro, and not with a truncated RT capabilities. And he received not the processor, Nvidia Tegra, which equipped mobile devices on Android, but a full-fledged 2-core Intel Core i7 1500 MHz, as much as 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD.
Three years later, I continue to use it. Rather, now it is mainly my wife and two-year-old daughter who use it. The laptop went through a lot, including three apartment renovations, repeated falls to the floor and a hammer falling from Ikea from a height of one meter onto it.
Specifications:
Processor: 2-core Intel Core i7 1500 MHz
RAM: DDR3L 8G 1600 MHz
SSD: 256GB
Screen:glossy multi-touch (up to 10 points) 11.6 ”HD LED TS
Video: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Webcam: 1 Megapixel
Sound: Dolby Home Theater v4
Battery : Li-Polymer 2840 mAh
Weight: 1.39 kg
Length x Width x Thickness (mm) - 297 x 204 x 17
Presented in two colors - orange and silver.
If the IdeaPad Yoga 11S can be called a hybrid of a tablet and laptop, then Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro is already an “ultrabook”. In the maximum configuration, the device came with an i7 4500U, 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB SSD and Intel Wireless Display technology. The device weighs from 1.39 kg, has a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 3200x1800. Of the ports - USB 2.0, micro-HDMI, card reader. According to the manufacturer, one battery charge can be extended for 9 hours. Colors are the same classic orange and gray.
At the 2013 IFA in Berlin, Lenovo showed off a new ultrabook - crossed the Yoga and ThinkPad lines to get the ThinkPad Yoga. With good characteristics and the same red trackpoint.
And this ultrabook has a stylus for the version with a 12.5-inch Full HD screen. Unlike other Yoga, the keyboard, when rotated 360 degrees, retracts into the body.
Processor : Up to Core i7
Display : 12.5 ”widescreen, 10 pixels, HD screen - 300 nits brightness, full HD - 400 nits brightness
Stylus pen : Included for configuration with Full HD
OS : Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.1 Pro
Video : Integrated Intel HD
Memory : Up to 8GB DDR3L 1600MHz (1x4GB or 1x8GB)
Storage : Up to 1TB HDD or up to 256GB SSD
Camera : 720p HD
Battery : Intel Core i7: 5.3 hours; Intel Core i5: 6 hours, Intel Core i3: 8.3 hours
Weight : 1.58 kg
Thickness : 19 mm
Accessories : Lenovo N700 Wireless Mouse
The ThinkPad Yoga 14 business laptop in 2014 received a 14-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, a swivel system and retained a trackpoint. The buyer can choose the version with Intel Core i5 with an integrated graphics card or with a discrete Nvidia GeForce 840M. The device is equipped with 8 GB of RAM and a terabyte hard drive with a 16 GB SSD cache.
In October 2014, I flew to London to present Lenovo new products to be the first to announce updates. One of the most anticipated gadgets at that time was the thinnest and lightest 13-inch ultrabook in the world - Yoga 3 Pro. It weighs only 1.17 kilograms, and a new swivel system allows you to deploy the laptop on the table so that it lies on it all the plane. From the experience of using both versions of the articulated systems - this one is better.
The main competitor of Yoga was considered the MacBook Air - and Yoga came out easier on one iPhone.
The device runs on Intel Core M-5Y70 with a frequency of 1.1 GHz, clocked up to 2.6 GHz. The display is 13.3 inches with a resolution of 3200x1800 pixels.
In October 2015, at a presentation in San Francisco, Lenovo showed the Yoga 900 with Microsoft .
Yoga 900 is an updated version of Yoga 3 Pro. The manufacturer worked on problems with overheating of the laptop and increased the duration of work on a single battery charge. My version of the transformer received an Intel Core i7 Skylake 2.5 GHz processor, 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of SSD. There are versions with 512 GB SSDs, Core i5 processors and 8 GB of RAM on sale. In addition to two USB ports, the gadget received USB 3.0 and a card reader for SD, MMC, SDXC, SDHC.
The screen is a very colorful, 13.3-inch QHD + (3200x1800). This is one of the thinnest ultrabooks on Intel Core i - the case thickness is 14.9 mm. The gadget weighs 1.3 kg.
Operating time on a single charge - up to 10 hours.
The turning mechanism consists of 813 individual parts and is similar to a wristwatch bracelet. At the same time, the dirt for some reason does not clog into the gears.
For comparison, the expanded Yoga 11S and Yoga 900.
The thickness of the 11S with an 11.6-inch display is 17 mm, and the 13.3-inch Yoga 900 is 14.9 mm.
If on other Yoga in the upper left corner on the outside of the screen there was a Lenovo logo, then this time the company decided to highlight the line itself and put the YOGA logo in this place, and the Lenovo logo moved the lower right corner. Because YOGA is now positioned as an ultrabook premium segment. In Russia, its price in this configuration exceeds 120 thousand rubles.
Lenovo has been working with Dolby for a long time. The laptop received stereo speakers produced by JBL premium with support for Dolby Home Theater technology.
The keyboard is still the same AccuType, for me familiar and very comfortable.
On the right side of the ultrabook there is a power button, a hard reset, image rotation lock, a headphone jack and a USB port. On the left is the input for the charger, USB, microUSB and a card reader.
A leather case, unfortunately, is not included.
The next model in the Yoga line will be the Ultrabook 900S. At the moment, this is the thinnest transformer laptop on the planet - its thickness is 12.8 mm, and it weighs 999 grams - a little heavier than my 13.3-inch Lenovo Tablet 2 Pro tablet , which my two-year-old daughter drags around with her on the apartment to watch cartoons on Youtube.
This ultrabook received a pen that recognizes 2048 degrees of depression. Display - IPS with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. Sound - Dolby Home Theater stereo speakers.
The laptop will receive a top-of-the-range processor of the 2nd generation Intel Core M7. On the site, the manufacturer writes that the battery will provide almost a day of battery life, and when watching HD-video from a memory card from the local storage at a brightness of 200 nits and Wi-Fi disabled, it will work for 10.5 hours.
Although transformers have a rich history, it is the popularity of the Lenovo Yoga form factor that led HP, Dell and Acer, and many smaller ones, to launch similar touchscreen gadgets. manufacturers, and the French Archos in August 2015 generally attached a photo of Lenovo Yoga to a press release about their own hybrid laptop.
Et voici l'ARCHOS Flip, un PC portable hybride pour 249 €! # IFA2015 http://t.co/GlyOSMq6hF pic.twitter.com/CmLvYWD2ie
- ARCHOS (@ARCHOS) August 26, 2015Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Dell and Intel launched the first ever large-scale collaborative advertising in 2015. With this campaign, they wanted to talk about the new capabilities of the devices - battery life, use as tablets and good speaker systems.
Yoga 11
Lenovo launched its Yoga laptops in 2012, with Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11 and 13. The first Yoga 11 was built on the Nvidia Tegra 3 1.3 GHz with an integrated graphics processor, had 2 GB of RAM and 32 or 64 GB SSDs - today this is more like the characteristics of an average smartphone or tablet. The device was running Windows RT, Microsoft Office 2013 was preinstalled on the laptop. The laptop was criticized for the OS, which did not run applications for earlier versions of Windows.
Yoga 13
The 13-inch transformer Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 received a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. This is already a more serious machine: the 3rd generation Intel Core processor i3 / i5 / i7, up to 8G of RAM, a 13.3-inch LG display with a resolution of 1600x900 pixels and SSD up to 256 GB, Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro operating system . And the most interesting is the same turning mechanism and the very convenient AccuType keyboard, which will be used in new versions of IdeaPad Yoga.
Yoga 11S
In 2013, I wrote a review of the ultrabook-transformer Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S . This laptop came already with WIndows 8 Pro, and not with a truncated RT capabilities. And he received not the processor, Nvidia Tegra, which equipped mobile devices on Android, but a full-fledged 2-core Intel Core i7 1500 MHz, as much as 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD.
Three years later, I continue to use it. Rather, now it is mainly my wife and two-year-old daughter who use it. The laptop went through a lot, including three apartment renovations, repeated falls to the floor and a hammer falling from Ikea from a height of one meter onto it.
Specifications:
Processor: 2-core Intel Core i7 1500 MHz
RAM: DDR3L 8G 1600 MHz
SSD: 256GB
Screen:glossy multi-touch (up to 10 points) 11.6 ”HD LED TS
Video: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Webcam: 1 Megapixel
Sound: Dolby Home Theater v4
Battery : Li-Polymer 2840 mAh
Weight: 1.39 kg
Length x Width x Thickness (mm) - 297 x 204 x 17
Presented in two colors - orange and silver.
Yoga 2 pro
If the IdeaPad Yoga 11S can be called a hybrid of a tablet and laptop, then Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro is already an “ultrabook”. In the maximum configuration, the device came with an i7 4500U, 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB SSD and Intel Wireless Display technology. The device weighs from 1.39 kg, has a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 3200x1800. Of the ports - USB 2.0, micro-HDMI, card reader. According to the manufacturer, one battery charge can be extended for 9 hours. Colors are the same classic orange and gray.
Thinkpad yoga
At the 2013 IFA in Berlin, Lenovo showed off a new ultrabook - crossed the Yoga and ThinkPad lines to get the ThinkPad Yoga. With good characteristics and the same red trackpoint.
And this ultrabook has a stylus for the version with a 12.5-inch Full HD screen. Unlike other Yoga, the keyboard, when rotated 360 degrees, retracts into the body.
Processor : Up to Core i7
Display : 12.5 ”widescreen, 10 pixels, HD screen - 300 nits brightness, full HD - 400 nits brightness
Stylus pen : Included for configuration with Full HD
OS : Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.1 Pro
Video : Integrated Intel HD
Memory : Up to 8GB DDR3L 1600MHz (1x4GB or 1x8GB)
Storage : Up to 1TB HDD or up to 256GB SSD
Camera : 720p HD
Battery : Intel Core i7: 5.3 hours; Intel Core i5: 6 hours, Intel Core i3: 8.3 hours
Weight : 1.58 kg
Thickness : 19 mm
Accessories : Lenovo N700 Wireless Mouse
ThinkPad Yoga 14
The ThinkPad Yoga 14 business laptop in 2014 received a 14-inch display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, a swivel system and retained a trackpoint. The buyer can choose the version with Intel Core i5 with an integrated graphics card or with a discrete Nvidia GeForce 840M. The device is equipped with 8 GB of RAM and a terabyte hard drive with a 16 GB SSD cache.
Yoga 3 pro
In October 2014, I flew to London to present Lenovo new products to be the first to announce updates. One of the most anticipated gadgets at that time was the thinnest and lightest 13-inch ultrabook in the world - Yoga 3 Pro. It weighs only 1.17 kilograms, and a new swivel system allows you to deploy the laptop on the table so that it lies on it all the plane. From the experience of using both versions of the articulated systems - this one is better.
The main competitor of Yoga was considered the MacBook Air - and Yoga came out easier on one iPhone.
The device runs on Intel Core M-5Y70 with a frequency of 1.1 GHz, clocked up to 2.6 GHz. The display is 13.3 inches with a resolution of 3200x1800 pixels.
Lenovo Yoga 900
In October 2015, at a presentation in San Francisco, Lenovo showed the Yoga 900 with Microsoft .
Yoga 900 is an updated version of Yoga 3 Pro. The manufacturer worked on problems with overheating of the laptop and increased the duration of work on a single battery charge. My version of the transformer received an Intel Core i7 Skylake 2.5 GHz processor, 16 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of SSD. There are versions with 512 GB SSDs, Core i5 processors and 8 GB of RAM on sale. In addition to two USB ports, the gadget received USB 3.0 and a card reader for SD, MMC, SDXC, SDHC.
The screen is a very colorful, 13.3-inch QHD + (3200x1800). This is one of the thinnest ultrabooks on Intel Core i - the case thickness is 14.9 mm. The gadget weighs 1.3 kg.
Operating time on a single charge - up to 10 hours.
The turning mechanism consists of 813 individual parts and is similar to a wristwatch bracelet. At the same time, the dirt for some reason does not clog into the gears.
For comparison, the expanded Yoga 11S and Yoga 900.
The thickness of the 11S with an 11.6-inch display is 17 mm, and the 13.3-inch Yoga 900 is 14.9 mm.
If on other Yoga in the upper left corner on the outside of the screen there was a Lenovo logo, then this time the company decided to highlight the line itself and put the YOGA logo in this place, and the Lenovo logo moved the lower right corner. Because YOGA is now positioned as an ultrabook premium segment. In Russia, its price in this configuration exceeds 120 thousand rubles.
Lenovo has been working with Dolby for a long time. The laptop received stereo speakers produced by JBL premium with support for Dolby Home Theater technology.
The keyboard is still the same AccuType, for me familiar and very comfortable.
On the right side of the ultrabook there is a power button, a hard reset, image rotation lock, a headphone jack and a USB port. On the left is the input for the charger, USB, microUSB and a card reader.
A leather case, unfortunately, is not included.
Lenovo Yoga 900S
The next model in the Yoga line will be the Ultrabook 900S. At the moment, this is the thinnest transformer laptop on the planet - its thickness is 12.8 mm, and it weighs 999 grams - a little heavier than my 13.3-inch Lenovo Tablet 2 Pro tablet , which my two-year-old daughter drags around with her on the apartment to watch cartoons on Youtube.
This ultrabook received a pen that recognizes 2048 degrees of depression. Display - IPS with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. Sound - Dolby Home Theater stereo speakers.
The laptop will receive a top-of-the-range processor of the 2nd generation Intel Core M7. On the site, the manufacturer writes that the battery will provide almost a day of battery life, and when watching HD-video from a memory card from the local storage at a brightness of 200 nits and Wi-Fi disabled, it will work for 10.5 hours.