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it's a touchscreen hybrid you'll hardly know you're carrying I'm Dan Ackerman and this is the Lenovo la vie Zi 360 this is a hybrid version of the live easy a laptop that we think is very impressive because it's got a very slim very light magnesium lithium alloy battery it makes it super lightweight the regular clamshell version is 1.9 pounds this hybrid version that has a touchscreen and folds back just like lenovo's yoga tablets is 2.0 4 pounds that's exactly the same weight as Apple's 12-inch MacBook although this is a much more powerful system it has an Intel Core i7 processor versus the core m in the MacBook unfortunately it doesn't have the same design fit and finish as the MacBook does or even the MacBook Air it's really got this fairly bad keyboard I especially hate the small shift key over here it's very easy to miss type with a shift key and the arrow key right next to it and a small backspace key you'll find a ton of annoying things about this keyboard but it's got a lot of flexibility you can use the hybrid hinge just like on the yoga to put it into kind of a kiosk mode and then you can fold it all the way down to use it like a tablet we've seen some complaints that the accelerometer that changes the screen like this works fine in tablet mode but if you just flip it upside down into like a table tent it actually doesn't kick in and rotate the screen after we fold it all the way down into the tablet mode to do that that actually is pretty annoying especially if you want to make use of all the different forms that you can fold a hybrid like this into besides that it's a little bit more expensive than the clamshell at 1699 versus $14.99 got the same core i7 team 256 gig SSD I do like however that it has a touchscreen which is pretty much a must-have item for anyone using Windows 8 these days of the two options a hybrid Z 360 and the clamshell just regular Z I don't go with the other one because there's $200 less and weighs less this way is the same amount as that 12-inch MacBook but you do get the touchscreen with it so if that's worth a little bit extra to you I totally understand I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo the VZ 360