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today's unboxing is going to be all about yoga so I'm gonna get up on the table here and do likes no no no none of that none of that no no actually we're gonna be having a look at the Lenova lanova ananova yoga the Lenovo yoga this is a tablet it's a notebook it's extremely flexible and versatile that's where they got the name I get it I thought one of the executives wives was really into yoga and she was all like oh you know you should call your new product the yoga no I get it okay okay I got that before oh this one right here is the yoga 11 so this is an 11 inch Tegra 3 2 gig 64 so 2 gigs of ram 64 gig SSD 11.6 inch touchscreen running Windows RT so what this is meant to do is bridge the gap between now look at that there's an external box that's horrible and then the one that would look great on a retail shelf is actually inside so let's get into the details of this tablet notebook thing that actually doesn't have a lot of information on this outer box but main selling point is the unique and patented hinge design that makes it one of the most flexible devices out there there's also a 13 inch model that will be available at some point that has a core i7 processor and actually runs fully fledged Windows 8 but having a look at the 11 inch model here should give you some idea of what the form factor is capable of and the RT model running Tegra 3 should be significantly more power efficient giving you much better battery life it's also obviously more portable and you know stuff now the thing about the 11 inch models that it's not an ultrabook whereas the 13 inch one is so remember to be an ultrabook you have to run an Intel processor you have to be within a certain form factor but either way it should give you guys some idea what to expect in terms of the form factor so my biggest complaint about these convertible let notebook things in the past has always been well there's so much thicker than regular notebooks that it sort of becomes pointless in my in my opinion so if as long as it's something that can fit into a regular sort of more normal form factor than I don't mind it for size comparison I've got an HTC 8x because I'm not using an iPhone anymore and so that should give you some idea how big it is compared to a Windows Phone which hopefully actually there is some comparison there to be made that is meaningful on the bottom here we've got four rubber feet for making it not slip around the entire construction is metal and I'd expect that out of a product like this that is I mean it's lenovo for one thing so you just sort of expect it to be extremely solidly built you can see there's very little flex to the chassis even though it's a thin ultrabook and you'd expect that from something that's meant to be used like this where it actually has to you know sit up against itself on the back and it has to maintain its rigidity no matter what you're doing so that is that is the hinge design right there it looks like a notebook it walks like a notebook but is it a notebook well yes but is it just a notebook the answer is no so it's meant to be used a number of different ways number one is notebook style so there you've got a multi-touch pad you've got a chiclet keyboard you've got a very rugged see see little things like this nice like rubberized textured grip here that just feels awesome and feels extremely durable and hopefully Slick's getting a good shot of that you got the texture going on there okay awesome looks like no cardinal sins committed on the keyboard so we have a wide back space a wide shift we have all of our alts and enter and controls here this shift is a write space as well so they haven't really changed around the format as much as some guys do you'll find things like an airplane mode on it because it's running Windows RT is sort of a tablet and I did try to power it on and that didn't work for me so I'm gonna go ahead and plug it in and we'll be back in a moment yeah you know what maybe what I should have done is a tour of the buttons on the yoga before I tried it on using the windows key which obviously won't work so this is the power button right here as well as a charging indicator on the other half this is so nice it's like a rubberized finish here that just between the sandwiched metal just feels really good this guy right here is the a portrait law are the rotation lock here is USB to SD card reader power in the power in looks suspiciously like a you know USB port when you look at it just like this but it isn't and does it go in both ways yeah look at that it's reversible that's handy okay on the back you have the special hinge which will show you more close up in a moment here's a headphone microphone jack USB HDMI which is nice to have full size HDMI reset another speaker and volume up and down so pretty standard fare for a tablet but oh yeah the screen looks the brightness is very low right now so we'll have to show you guys again when the brightness is higher so that's just the way that it comes out of the box but the screen is that has a great viewing angle the colors don't distort no matter which angle you're looking at it from so these actually serve two purposes on this notebook number one is they act as a notebook you know anti-slip thing the other is they protect the top cover when you're using it in tablet mode so this is how its intended to be used now when you're holding it as a tablet there's only going to be a couple different ways that you can hold on to it so this is rubber I'll write again for a very good reason let us see that's what I like about Lenovo they think about stuff it's rubberized so that you can hold it like this without your finger slipping or without not being able to hold on to it it's also you know so that you can hold it with one hand here comfortably with your thumb and your palm on the edge and the rubberized grip on the back making it so that you actually don't just drop the thing so let's show you the hinge up-close so this is what it looks like it's metal it's strong it feels robust like when you move it it's not like those convertibles where they have a hinge in the middle that rotates and then you turn the thing around I mean what I like about that design is that you don't have the keyboard on the back when you're when you're using it as a tablet but what I like about this design is it doesn't feel like it's going to break in two seconds like those other ones whether they do or don't break I don't know I've never actually used one for an extended period of time but it just doesn't feel right to me so the hinge bends here so here if you can get in close you can see it bends this way like that and holds itself still until it gets to about 180 degrees then it rotates the other way okay now you can see it's not bending here anymore so both of them so both of these two hinges have 180 degree rotations but the way that it works is very smooth so it goes one as you fold it back one then the other and then when you bring it back to notebook mode it goes one back to here where it kind of snaps into place well not snaps but like there's a bit of a field will click there and then the other until you actually close it so the way it's meant to be used number one notebook mode number two you can use it in a stand mode like that so you can actually sort of just go did it did it the other way that it's meant to be used is tent mode so it can obviously flip over there we go now we got our Windows Windows UI so yeah it didn't itself again so let's just go settings and brightness is oh that as bright as it gets there must be an auto brightness thing going on here that's adjusting it so ah so there you go and then the last one of course is full-on tablet mode so that's like that so there you go that's pretty much our hands-on with the Lenovo yoga 11 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos so slick made a good point this is really cool when you're in this mode the keyboard is actually completely disabled so you don't have to worry about just touching the rubber grippy parts you can just mash the entire back and you can see I'll bring up the text prompt here nothing's actually going to happen at all I think I reduced the brightness though somehow I oh right I took out the power plug however let's see so when you're in this mode keyboard still off yeah there's our on-screen keyboard when you're in Oh so probably hits probably triggered by that second hinge so here we go let's try this okay so we go to our search box so when we go back there we go yep so it's triggered by by that second hinge so that's why it's so important that it goes one hinge than the other that's an extremely expensive hinge design