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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a first look at the Lenovo IdeaPad yoga 11s this is a laptop you've actually been waiting for for a long time when Windows 8 first came out we had the yoga 13 and that was actually pretty popular for that first generation of Windows 8 laptop tablet hybrids Lenovo also made a smaller 11 inch version of the yoga mat that had Windows RT I really nobody wants that everyone was waiting for the Windows 8 version of it and now it's finally here and I'm going to show you why it's called the yoga looks like a fairly standard ultra portable 11 inch laptop but then you can take the lid and tilt it back like this and then you can keep going and you end up with first sort of a kiosk mode that's what I kind of call this where you want to display something you can also hold it as like a tabletop sort of cut and I don't really feel that's terribly useful but you can take it all the way back like this and now you've got a touchscreen Windows 8 tablet it's a little thick for a tablet and you've still got this keyboard here on the back which is a little weird but it turns off the keyboard and the touch pad when you start folding it so at least the stuff is is deactivated while you're messing around with it a little bit thick and heavy for a tablet but I like it unlike a lot of other windows 8 hybrids and there you can see you can just flip it right back into laptop mode it this system knows it's a laptop first and doesn't compromise that clamshell form factor it gives you all the tablet and kiosk stuff it's sort of an extra now there are a lot of other 11 inch laptops coming out right now it's an oddly popular size you get Sony's vaio 11 you've got the new revamped 11 inch MacBook Air if you want something that has a touchscreen and converts into a tablet this is still one of my favorites in this size the one caveat is even though it's very reasonably priced eight hundred nine hundred dollars depending on the configuration you're stuck with the last generation of Intel processors for right now if they added the new fourth-generation they call those Haswell chips you'd see a huge jump in battery life and now we'd make this a much more appealing system I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo IdeaPad yoga 11s