Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Lenovo’s new Yoga Book: almost a laptop”.
Hello, I’m Vlad with the Verge here at IFA 2018, and this is the new second generation of the Lenovo Yoga book.. This has always been quite a particular and peculiar device because it’s never been quite a laptop. It’S never been quite a tablet. It’S a thing in between.. What Lenovo has done now is they’ve enlarged it. They made it 10.8 inches instead of 10, so it feels more substantial and now I would really classify it as a laptop., But once you open it up and the way you open it up is pretty cool. They have a new mechanism where you do a double knock on the top and the magnets that hold the thing together. They reverse the polarity. They do some cool magnet magic and it pops it open.. So you don’t need notch.
You don’t need to like fiddle around to open it up. Once you do open it up. You still have an LCD, but Lenovo has upgraded. The resolution now, like I said, 10.8 inches, but now it’s 2560 by 1600 resolution, Quad HD and then you have an E Ink display at the bottom, which doubles as the keyboard.. The original Lenovo book had a Wacom digitizer down here.
It didn’t have an E Ink display, and now it has an E Ink display. And the new keyboard. I’Ve just been trying after being testing it out. It’S really good, like shockingly good for a touchscreen keyboard.. Usually, these things are really quite atrocious, but this is a massive upgrade from the original Yoga Book.. It has haptic feedback and it has little animation feedback which really makes it feel realistic..
I am able to type on it really quickly and I’ve picked it up pretty quickly, and I’m surprised by that. I’M shocked by that even.. The hinge is that watchband style hinge that Lenovo has used on its Yoga Books previously. Inside the hinge. Lenovo has woven the WiFi antenna so they’re, actually somewhere in here in the hinge..
It’S super sturdy. I’Ve had one of those Lenovo Yoga Books, four or five years.. I’Ve had members of my family using and abusing it, and it has survived so I’m impressed with this hinge.
It’S sturdy. It has a nice bit of traction and friction to it. In terms of design and engineering as usual with the original Yoga Book. That was never a problem to be honest.. These were really well made, really solid devices again made out of aluminum top and bottom.. It has an 8.6 hour battery life Lenovo promises, which is extremely reasonable for a device of this thinness, and this lightweight.
And speaking of the battery. You can now charge it with the USB-C port.. There are two USB-C ports, one on either side, which is brilliant. It should have been like this from the original.
Really have it stood up from Lenovo.. Also over here on the front. Lenovo has added a new fingerprint sensor: it’s not a power button, it doesn’t have any sort of indentation, it’s just flush with the device, but it’s an infrared fingerprint sensor which compatible with Windows, Hello. And the point of the infrared part is that it should make your Fingerprint easy to recognize when your finger is maybe a bit wet or dirty or whatever.. Predictably, the main display’s a touchscreen, but you do get plenty of other things that you can do with the E Ink panel down here at the bottom.. It can function as a keyboard and that’s really that’s the main use that you have for it, but also it can accept pen input so Lenovo ships, the Yoga Book with its on stylus..
Unfortunately, because it’s such a slim device there’s nowhere to stash the stylus, which is quite substantial, it’s the size of an actual pen, but it works well and you can get an accessory. You know you can get a case and stash the two things together. It’S not such a big deal and it’s good that the stylus comes in the box., So you can do pen input, you can do keyboard input or you can use it as an E-reader. As soon as this thing is launched, which I’m told is going to be Around October time it will only support PDF files. After that, it’s going to support ePub, MOBI and TXT files in terms of reading.. There is a bit of lag.
I’M not gon na lie. It’S an E Ink display. You always have a bit of lag and a bit of redrawing time with it, but still it works well. And because of the portability of this device, I can actually see myself using it in this flipped mode like this, whether it’s on the LCD display or on The E Ink display.
One really cool and neat thing that Lenovo has also done is because it’s a larger screen, you get more space for the keyboard and they’ve also made the trackpad minimizable. So if you want the trackpad you tap down here, you have it, but then, as soon as you start typing, it goes away.. It’S such an intuitive and simple thing, but Lenovo has really had the time to sit down and think for its design and improve of things. And on the inside.
The company has upgraded things in terms of specs. You can now get up to a Core i5 7th generation Intel Core processor. You can get four gigabytes or eight gigabytes of RAM 128 to 256 gigabytes of storage. And it only comes with Windows.
There used to be an Android version originally, but apparently the Windows version out sold Android by a lot and Lenovo has just chosen to go with Windows all the way.. I was impressed with the original Yoga Book when I was here two years ago with EFA, and it didn’t turn out to be quite so good as the final product, But this one I can’t not be impressed with it again. It’S done so many good upgrades across the board with the device.. The one thing, though, the one huge difference is that the Yoga Book, the original Yoga Book, was really super affordable where, as this is now into straight laptop territory, it’s priced at $ 999 in the U.S.
When you’re, considering this you’re, considering this versus actual laptops.. What I would say is wait for the review to find out if it’s worth it. See we deal with the staging, and then it just feels awkward. So I’ll, just whisper for this video, so it can feel more natural.. It’S gon na be an A as in more hands on with the Verge first time. I’Ve ever done.
It., Eva 2018, there’s still a Lenovo Yoga Book. I might actually keep going with this .