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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is my review of the Lenovo yoga 700 so there's quite a few good tune 1 devices out there to choose from but most of them are kind of geared towards productivity or media consumption very few of them are capable of playing 3d games well mostly because they don't have like a discrete GPU inside them but this one does let's take a look ok the laptop comes in the box protected in foam bumpers and it comes with an AC adapter it's a pretty plain looking laptop the entire device is in case in this black plastic and it has a very slight rubbery feel to it it's not like your regular soft touch finish but it has some grip to it the bottom has the air intake vent here and the exhaust is in the back and if you remove some screws you can access the internals so you can upgrade the storage drive and RAM but keep in mind it only has room for a single stick of RAM around the sides we have a USB 2 port that doubles as the charging socket a USB 3 port and audio jack and a pretty shallow SD card slot and on the right we have another USB 3 mini HDMI a volume rocker and rotation lock for the tablet mode and there's also a recovery button to reset the device with the power button the build quality is great I mean the screen is really sturdy with very little flex and the keyboard air is also really rigid mostly because it's metal and the hinge is also very well made it's not as cool-looking as like the watchband hinge on the more expensive yogas but it has the same positions and the build quality is fantastic it's heavier than the yoga 900 or the yoga 3 Pro at three-and-a-half pounds and it's not super comfortable to hold one-handed for long-term use but if you're using while you're seated or if you're lying down it's no problem so this unit here has a skylake i7 running a 2.5 gigahertz a 14 inch 1080p screen GTX 940m eight gigs of ram 256 gigs of solid-state storage and it goes for around $900 now there's some low respect models without the Nvidia chip that started around $800 on the inside the palm rest is a brushed aluminum now Lenovo normally make some of the best keyboards in the business but I don't love this one so the layout takes a little time to get used to the enter key is missing that segment that makes it a little wider at the bottom so you'll often be hitting this instead and key travel is a little shallow at one point two millimeters it's not a bad keyboard overall the backlighting is nice and it's not cramped but I've come to expect really good keyboards from Lenovo and this one is just pretty good the texture of the plastic trackpad is a little too smooth for my liking and the buttons need quite a bit of force to trigger at least more than most laptops but the tracking is good and that's the thing if it's responsive and it doesn't skip around I'm good with it the screen is a 14 inch 1080p touchscreen it's an IPS panel so the contrast and the viewing angles are really good but it's not a very bright screen it's not bad indoors but when you using it outdoors or just in a really bright environment you might have a tough time with the screen especially with that glossy finish the color gamut is also not great even after calibration the screen isn't particularly color accurate okay let's talk performance the drive speeds are pretty good it's just like your standard high-end SATA Drive and gaming performance is pretty solid for a two-in-one device keep in mind it's a GT 940m so it's not as powerful as your standard mid-tier gaming laptop with the 960m but it's still very capable for light to moderately demanding games so csgo and MOBAs will comfortably play at medium settings you'll hover around 50 frames per second net medium and it'll drop once in a while so if you need to have 60 frames per second or higher you're going to need to run on low with everything turned off but it's a pretty fluid gaming experience at medium rainbow 6 siege is a little more demanding and depending on the map you'll get around 55 60 frames per second on low graphics but only around 45 frames per second on medium settings and if you want to play stuff like GTA 5 or witcher 3 yeah this isn't that kind of laptop even at lowest settings and running at lowest res it's not a comfortable gaming experience it has a 45 watt hour battery inside and battery life isn't bad just remember that the screen doesn't get that bright so I often had it at a hundred percent brightness when I used it then I got around four and a half hours of regular use like browsing the web and media consumption and playing games I got a little more than an hour also the lenovo devices that use these like shaped USB 2 ports for charging they always take a long time to charge so a full charge takes almost 3 hours and the other thing is that the AC adapter is like a real estate hog at the wall you can't use a second plug at the wall socket the speakers are located underneath and they sound pretty average for a laptop they have a weak base the numbers cloud but they don't sound terrible and the fans are quiet they're silent at idle and around mid-30s on load and the thermals are also very reasonable nothing uncomfortably hot even at sustained maximum load ok the yoga 700 for $900 you get a tune one with excellent build quality with a plastic exterior and a metal frame but it's a little heavy for a tablet use you get a screen that isn't very bright or color accurate but for the price it's not too bad the keyboard is okay but it doesn't live up to the Lenovo legacy the trackpad however is pretty good it doesn't miss inputs or clicks inside the skylake i7 and the GT 940m are sufficient for most kinds of basic work and it handles light gains reasonably well the eight gigs of ram and the SATA storage are really good but upgradable if you need and lastly the 45 watt hour battery will last you around four or five hours of regular use okay I really like the yoga 700 it's certainly not a device that's for everyone but for all the two and one devices that I've seen this is actually one of my favorites mostly because of that GT 940 inside of it now it's not the most ergonomic device when you use it as a tablet so if your primary reason to get this thing is to use it as a tablet like if you wanted for media consumption in tablet form or if you want to use it for work in tablet form I wouldn't recommend this there are probably better devices out there for you than this but if you want to use it for just a regular computing stuff and you like to play 3d games like light 3d games and you want something I can double as a tablet once in a while this is a really cool machine that's the end of this review hope you guys liked it thumbs if you did subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time you