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hey this is Jake with the verge and we're here with Lobos new yoga 7:30 which I've right here in front of me and the Flex 14 the yoga 7:30 comes in two models a 13-inch that I have here and a 15-inch model they are pretty identical to last year's 720 but there are some slight design tweaks kind of all over it there is a really nice change in back here where you have these rounded edges which look much more modern and sleek and this angular design on the the hinges also since a yoga you can of course flip it around into tablet mode but there's a nice difference for when you hold it in one hand there's an angle here now too which makes it a little bit easier when you're holding it one-handed and yeah it's a little bit easier so that's nice but otherwise the hardware is pretty much the same is still no windows hello camera but there is a fingerprint reader I also really love this copper color but unfortunately it's only available in Europe in the US you're only gonna get gray and silver which every everybody has a gray and silver laptop the computer start around $900 for that price you'll get an eighth gen I 5 processor and a 1080p display but you can also spec them way up you can go up to an i7 processor 16 gigabytes of RAM on this model you can also get a 512 gigabyte SSD and on the 15 inch you can go up to a one terabyte SSD and add in a gtx 1050 GPU which would be great if you're doing some serious video editing or even some gaming lenovo is estimating around 11 hours of battery life on the 1080p model and one thing that is really cool this year is that logo has built Alexa into these laptops so they have far-field mics and when you have the laptop open and you have to be logged in you'll be able to say Alexa and get your answers so you can choose between Alexa and Cortana if you want it's basically just Amazon's app built in but it's pretty cool that they have built the hardware into this so that you can use Alexa properly computers have a mix between USB C and USB ports it's for rapid charging and they're gonna be available in April it's a really nice looking computer and the real difference between this and the higher-end 900 series model is mostly the design and the design this is pretty nice as it is if you like to spec it up you can get a pretty good laptop inside this shell when area it would have been nice to see Lenovo change this a bit is the display while this play looks pretty good it has a really large bezel on the bottom and it's too bad because we've been nice to see them bring that down a bit and give us a different aspect ratio with a bit more screen space in addition to the yoga 730 Lenovo is also announcing the flex 14 which I have here in Europe the flex 14 is actually gonna be known as the yoga 5:30 which is a little bit confusing but also is kind of helpful because it lets you know that this is a little bit below the 730 as far as specs and build quality go now that's basically what you're getting this is a very similar design for the 730 very similar specs if you pay enough but you're not getting all the same features so you don't have alexa you don't have far field mics and the build quality is not quite as nice but you just still see some of the changes here you have these more rounded edges here and the sloped hinge one thing that I don't like about this computer already is that it is extremely hard to open I have - you definitely can't do it with one finger and I really have to get my fingernail in there and kind of pry it open it's like it's it's a little bit of a workout it's like doing one of those ham squeezy things it's very strange but you do get more ports in this laptop you have USB see USB a HDMI and a full size SD card slot which is pretty nice this laptop is gonna start in the $500 range we don't know exactly the specs that you're gonna get for that price but if you're willing to pay more you can spec it up to an eighth gen I have a processor 16 gigabytes of RAM you can even add a geforce MX 130 GPU unfortunately though you're gonna be stuck with the 1080p display just like the 732 flex 14 will be available in April for more you can check out the verge calm and be sure to subscribe to YouTube calm the burger