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i'm dan ackerman we are here taking a look at the lenovo ideapad yoga 2 pro now that pretty complicated name means that this is a sequel to last year's lenovo ideapad yoga which is one of our favorite of the first generation of Windows 8 touchscreen hybrid laptops now for the yoga too besides adding the pro name they've done a couple of other really cool things number one they've added a backlit keyboard something i always appreciate but much more importantly this system now has a better than HD resolution is a 3200 x 1800 screen and that puts it in the same category as things like that retina macbook pro the toshiba kirabook the google pixel Chromebook or even the samsung 8 of book 9 plus all those complicated names basically mean these are laptops with higher than 1080p screen resolutions which is something we're seeing a lot more often the big difference in this case however is that you can get that for 999 in a configuration that's otherwise a basic ultrabook configuration with an intel core i5 processor 4 gigs of ram and 128 gig SSD all those other systems i mentioned with the higher res screens there are a lot more expensive 1299 1399 1499 and more now why would you want a higher resolution screen well if you go into a web browser or anything with text you can see you can zoom in super tight on the text and it looks really amazing if you do a lot of reading especially in tablet mode you're going to appreciate that and if you go back to the traditional desktop mode you'll see that this is kind of weird doesn't scale maybe as well as it does in the windows 8 i'll screen or on OS 10 everything is kind of small over here and if you launch something like photoshop you can see the icons here are super super Tiny's they're gonna have to work your way around that but it's still a nice piece of future proofing to have this new generation of super high res screens that we're going to see popping up more and more often now if you're not familiar with what a yoga does the basic concept is it looks like an ordinary laptop and if you're just use like this you might even never notice that there's anything unusual about it but if you pick it up you can bend the screen back like this and then you keep going and then you get kind of this kiosk mode here that's what I kind of called this and you can just you know photos and videos without having the keyboard in the way if you wanted to you could tilt it up like a stand like this I'm not sure how super useful that is but then you keep going and then you have a tablet the folds down into a slate on the back is still have the keyboard and touchpad but they're deactivated in this Mac mode so it's a little awkward to have it against your fingers but it's not really a deal breaker and still a fairly thin fairly light fairly powerful tablet that works just as well as any other Windows 8 tablet which is to say it's not quite an iPad but for a tablet OS it's pretty darn good so what no one else is doing right now is giving you you know very good ultrabook performance and design plus the super high risk screen for anything approaching this price so at 999 I think this guy is a real steal i'm dan ackerman that i did the lenovo ideapad yoga 2 pro