Lenovo is widely known brand for its great Solid build quality laptops and their battery life. Today we take a step forward and review and new design laptops/touchpad which is Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. When I saw Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 from a little distance I looks like a touchpad but it’s a laptop which looks like a touchpad.Lenovo's turned to bendy gym bunnies for inspiration with the IdeaPad Yoga 13. It looks like a standard laptop, but the 13-inch screen folds back on itself, allowing you to use it as a tablet.Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga 13, which starts at $1,000, is just one attempt to take advantage of Microsoft’s dual-sided operating system. Out of the box, it looks like a traditional notebook, but keep tilting the 13-inch touchscreen back along its hinge, and it folds all the way around until the clamshell is closed again. Only now, the screen is face-up, and the keyboard hangs from the underbelly. You can also open the Yoga partway, keys down, so the screen is facing outward, or stand the device on both of its edges in a tent-like configuration.This approach is simple and logical enough, but after spending a week with a Lenovo Yoga review unit, I think it’s a better laptop than it is a tablet.The Yoga is clad in plastic, but it’s a soft-touch material that doesn’t feel like the cheap shells of budget laptops, and the area where you rest your palms almost has a leathery feel. Among Windows laptops, it’s the rare high-end design that doesn’t feel ripped off from Apple‘s MacBooks, yet its keyboard and trackpad are just as good.The trackpad is generously sized and covered in glass, so your fingers glide over it smoothly, and the entire surface clicks with ease. It also supports multi-touch gestures, such as two-finger scrolling, pinch-to-zoom and the ability to simulate right-clicks by depressing the pane with both fingers. The Yoga’s keyboard is also a pleasure to type on, with island-style keys that let out a satisfying clack. One particularly nice touch is the rounded edge on the bottom of each key, which seems to leave just a bit more room for your fingers to land.The display isn’t too chintzy, either, though it does beg for the occasional swipe of a cloth as fingerprints build up. Although some users may pine for a higher resolution than 1600-by-900, this pixel density strikes a happy compromise, where text is fairly crisp but the desktop elements remain large enough to tap on, should the modern interface of Windows 8 fail to suit your needs.As for performance, the Yoga’s Intel Core i5 processor provides more than enough power for ordinary tasks such as word processing, web browsing and streaming video. It can even handle some newer PC games; I loaded Guild Wars 2 on it, and had no trouble adventuring through its massive world.The Yoga has a 13-inch glossy touchscreen with a native resolution of 1600 by 900 pixels. This resolution is better than what you usually see on what is essentially a 13-inch Ultrabook, and it definitely stands out – the screen is a pleasure to look at and to touch. Text and images are crisp and clear, and colors are bright and vibrant. The screen gets very bright, though it’s still a little difficult to use in bright or direct sunlight.Unlike some of the other Windows 8 touchscreens I’ve used, the Yoga’s 10-point multi-touch touchscreen is a pleasure to use. It’s responsive and accurate, and multi-touch gestures are extremely smooth. It feels much more like a tablet screen, rather than a touchscreen that’s been tacked onto a laptop. Because of this, using the Yoga in tablet mode is very easy, though it can be a little awkward because of the size and weight of the machine.The Yoga can be used in multiple positions, not just in straight laptop or tablet mode. For example, you can lay the entire thing flat and still use both the keyboard/trackpad and touchscreen input methods. You can also flip the screen about 300 degrees around the hinge and use the device in what Lenovo calls “Tent Mode.” In all the positions I tried during my tests, the Yoga felt sturdy and tough,I must admit that on a few occasions, the Yoga achieved hybrid greatness. The hinged design is so easy to flip around that I’ve gotten into the habit of switching to tablet mode just to read a long article — usually in portrait mode, like some futuristic broadsheet newspaper — or to scroll through Twitter. If I had this device for longer, I could imagine using its outward-facing screen to check recipes while cooking, or to play games while reclined with a controller in-hand.
Now lets take a look at BenchMarks result......
- Excellent Design.
- Excellent Keyboard and Touchpad.
- Nice touch Screen.
- Smooth, responsive Display.
- Nice Speakers.
- Battery life is Poor.
- High Price.
