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Hands-on with the Lenovo Ideapad Yoga

2012-01-10
i'm dan ackerman here at CES 2012 what I've got in my hands is the ideapad yoga from Lenovo and you can see this looks like a regular 13-inch laptop except you take the the lid you flip it back around itself and now it's kind of like a tablet and I know you're saying we've seen convertible tablets before those have all had kind of a centre games that swivels around and folds down that's kind of a point of weakness year by having the hinge on either side here it's actually a lot sturdier and what the yoga does is it deactivates the keyboard so once it's folded over the tablet form the keyboard is not going to work you can just use the on-screen keyboard and it deactivates the touchpad and it's actually got a little bit of a leather cover right here so you can put it down on your desk it's not going to damage it and it gives you from the front something it looks like a tablet and you can fold it in kind of a tent mode if you like that or you can tilt it up backwards like this or of course if you're like me you can just use it as a traditional laptop I think that helps people sort of adapt to sort of a tablet environment by saying it's a product you could also just use like a regular laptop you're going to see this later in 2012 I think hobby around 1399 for the 13 inch version hopefully with windows 8 and hopefully with the latest generation of Intel processors at CES 2012 I'm Dan Akron and that is the lenovo ideapad yoga you
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