Gadgetory

when was the last time you saw a laptop that was really fundamentally different the yoga book C 930 from Lenovo is certainly different will you like the differences well that's up for debate it starts with a quick double knock on the lid to pop it open it's a pretty simple party trick but everyone I showed it to was impressed once you open the lid you'll find one standard LCD touchscreen and the plates of a keyboard a second e-ink touchscreen nope physical keys no touchpad so how do you type on this thing on the e ink display a keyboard pops up on demand complete with a built-in touchpad there are a few different keyboard layout and design options including one where the touchpad appears and disappears as needed giving you room for larger keys you can also turn on fake keyboard clacking sounds and some haptic feedback but I'm gonna be honest it's really nothing at all like typing on a real keyboard after some warming up I actually got pretty good at using the on-screen keyboard but the touchpad is tougher to use it's way too easy to slide off it and start hitting the spacebar instead what else can you do with an e-ink screen well a stylus lets you sketch or take notes which then can be copied onto any other Windows app and you can flip it around into tablet mode and turn off the LCD making this a giant eating creature which should keep the battery going for days and days but if you're thinking of using the yoga book as a super premium Kindle reader now that's where we run into the biggest roadblock at least for now the eating display only reads PDF files I asked one novo if Kindle support was coming and they were non-committal but said software and feature updates may be coming sometime next year for now I genuinely enjoy testing this very inventive laptop which dared to break some norms in to search for something new and unique but as a whole the eating keyboard just won't work for most typists and the lack of kindle support under cuts would could be the system's biggest selling point you you