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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is the Lenovo yoga book starts at $500 for the Android version and if you want to pay an extra $50 you can get a Windows version same hardware just the Windows version is running Windows now I've used both of them pretty extensively if you're going to get one of these I would highly recommend the Android version now the build quality is top-notch it feels very similar to something that would normally run you 800 or even up to $1,000 it has that watchband hinge good materials not much chassis flex it's very well built the ports are limited but it's expected given the size of the device you get micro USB micro HDMI and micro sd so the internal storage is 64 gigs you'll need to rely on SD cards if you need to store a lot of stuff locally there's also a pair of speakers located on the sides so I had a pre-production review unit before that one had really mediocre speakers but this retail version is much improved surprisingly clear and loud it makes the yoga book an excellent media consumption device the 10.1 inch screen runs at 1920 by 1200 it has a good color gamut and it gets bright it's not perfectly calibrated out of the box but it's a really solid screen the yoga book also comes with the stylus but it doesn't work on the screen you can't draw on it directly so the stylus is a two-in-one pen slash stylus you can change the nib to either be a plastic tip stylus or it can be a fully functional pen it comes with three pen refills and you can easily get more now it doesn't work on the screen but it interacts with the create pad which is this whole area down here so the create pad is the main feature of this product it's the feature that drew everyone's attention when it was announced it's a glass surface that can function as a full keyboard or as a Wacom tablet for creative work and they've designed it to keep the profile of the product super thin so you can use it like a regular art tablet for illustrations and artwork it's a good tablet and it feels very similar to a mid-tier Wacom tablet just a little bit smaller but there is a little bit of input lag and you can also write on it or put paper like the included notepad on top and then use the pen to write on that paper and it'll keep track of all your stroke so that has a digital record of anything that you write down you do need to use the pen that they've included you can't just use any regular pen but even though it's a really cool feature it's not something that I personally found myself ever using over the past few weeks it's something that I mean it's cool to look at it's fun to play with but unless you're someone who writes regularly you probably won't use this very often the keyboard function is the important thing for me and I think this is the feature that has to be awesome if it's going to be universally appealing but I don't love it okay when you type on a regular keyboard the physical feedback is really important your fingertips can kind of feel the different keys to help you figure out your location even without looking at it but on this keyboard there's no sense of location there is haptic vibration when you type and you can see the glowing keys with your peripheral vision but that's it it's like typing on an iPad the keyboard learns your typing habits over time but I've been using this for over two weeks at this point and I still can't touch type effectively on it the trackpad also isn't amazing the glass surface isn't smooth there's a lot of friction when you use it and it only has a tap function for clicking so there's no buttons to physically press my unit is running Android marshmallow 6.0.1 and so let's be updated to nougat relatively soon I kind of wish it was running Chrome but that's another conversation I prefer the Android version over the Windows version just because Android gives a better touch experience than Windows 10 does right now and also using this trackpad in Windows isn't ideal the 2 megapixel webcam looks like this it's decent quality and there's also a rear facing camera when it's in tablet mode if you want to use it performance is more than sufficient it's an Atom processor with 4 gigs of RAM it's fanless so it doesn't generate much heat even if you're stressing it out pretty heavily on benchmarks Atom processors aren't designed for any kind of heavy duty stuff like raw photo editing but it'll handle light and moderate tasks without a problem so I can play a youtube video while having four or five chrome tabs open pretty comfortably battery life is great I was consistently getting around 9 hours of regular use and that's a full day of battery life so you can leave the charger at home ok if you're a student who types a lot or some who needs a really good keyboard you probably can't use the yoga book as your primary device but if you're someone who just touches occasionally and you want to have a device can use for creative work as well as some productivity work as well as being awesome for media consumption this is a really cool device I mean it's not for everyone but I think that Lenovo did a really good job on their first execution of this whole kind of genre of product I think that future versions of this can be awesome especially work out the kinks with the keyboard but as for right now I would reserve this for people that want to purchase it for me to consumption primarily and then productivity and creative work as a secondary thing hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time