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Lenovo's new Yoga Book: almost a laptop

2018-08-30
hello I'm fly with a virtue at E for 2018 and this is the new second generation of the Novo yoga book this has always been quite a particular impecunious device because it's never been quite a laptop it's never been quite a tablet it's a thing in between what I know has done now is they've enlarged it they've made it ten point eight inches instead of ten so it feels more substantial and now I would really classify it as a laptop but once you open it up and the way you open up is pretty cool they have a new mechanism where you do a double knock on the top and the magnets the whole thing together they reverse the polarity there is some cool magnet magic and it pops it open so you don't need a note you don't need to like fiddle around to open it up once you do open it up you still have an LCD but lenovo has upgraded the resolution now like I said 10 14 inches but now is 2560 by 1600 resolution quad HD and then you have an e display at the bottom which doubles as the keyboard the original Innova book had a Wacom digitizer down here you didn't have anything display now has an eating display and the new keyboard I've just been trying it I've been testing it out it's really good like shockingly good for touch my keyboard usually these figs are really quite atrocious but this is a massive upgrade from the original yoga book it has haptic feedback and has little animation feedback which really makes it feel realistic I am able to type on it pretty quickly and I've picked that up pretty quickly and I'm surprised by the chop on the hinge is that watch band style hinge that lenovo is used on his yoga books previously in inside the hinge no one has woven my antennas so they're actually somewhere in in the end it's super sturdy I've had one of those in over yoga books four or five years I've had members of my family using and abusing it and he has survived so I'm impressed with this hinge it's sturdy it has a nice bit of traction and friction to it in terms of design and engineering as usual with the original yoga book that was never a problem to be honest these were really well-made really solid devices again made out of aluminium top and bottom it has an eight point six hour battery life the novel promises which is extremely reasonable for a device of this thinness and this lightweight and speaking of the battery you can now charge it with the USB C port there are two USB ports one on either side which is brilliant you should have been like this from the original really happy to see that from the Novo also over here on the front we know has added a new fingerprint sensor it's not a power button it doesn't have any sort of indentation it says flush with the device but it's an infrared fingerprint sensor which is compatible with Windows hello and the point of the infrared part is that it should make your fingerprint easy to recognize many fingers maybe bit wet or dirty or whatever predictably the main display is a touch screen but you do get plenty of other things that you can do with the ink panel look down here the bottom it can function as a keyboard and actually that's the main use that you have for it but also it can accept pen input so an oval shape see yoga book with its own stylist unfortunately because it's such a slim device there's nowhere to stash the stylus which is quite substantial it's the size of an actual pen but it works well and you can get an accessory you know you can get a case and stash the two things together it's not such a big deal and it's good that status comes in the box so you can do pen input you can do keyboard input or you can use it as an e-reader as soon as this thing is launched which sometimes is going to be around with so over time you only support PDF files after that is going to support epub mobi and text files in terms of reading there is a bit of lag it's an eating display you always have a bit of lag and a bit of redrawing time with it but still it works well and because of the portability of this device I can actually see myself using it in this flipped mode like this whether it's on the LCD display or on the eing display one really cool neat thing that a number has also done is because the larger screen you get more space for the keyboard and they've also made the trackpad minimize abaut so if you want the trackpad you tap down here you have it but then as soon as you start typing it goes away it's such a intuitive and simple thing but ANOVA has really had the time to sit down and think for his design and improving things and on the inside the company has upgraded things in terms of specs you can now get up to a core i5 seventh generation into a core processor you can get four gigabytes or eight gigabytes of RAM 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage and it only comes with Windows they used to be an Android version originally but apparently the Windows version also Android buy a lot and the novel he just chose to go with Windows all the way it was impressed with you original yoga book when I was here two years ago with Eva and it didn't turn out to be quite so good as a final product but this one I can't be I can't not be impressed with it again it's done so many good upgrades across the board with the device the one thing though the one huge difference is that the yoga book the original yoga book was really super affordable whereas this is now in two straight laptop territory its price at $999 in the US when you're considering this you consider this versus actual laptops what I would say is wait for the review to find out if it's worth it so you do all the staging and then it just feels awkward so uh I'll just I'll just Whisperer for this video so it can feel more natural it's gonna be an ASMR hands-on with average first time I've ever done it for 2018 there's still no yoga book I might actually kill her with this
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