today's unboxing is going to be all
about yoga so I'm going to get up on the table here and do like no no no no no
none of that none of that no no actually we're going to be having a look at the
Lenova Lenova the Lenova yoga the Lenovo
Yoga this is a tablet it's a
notebook it's uh extremely flexible and
versatile oh 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 what you should
call your new product the yoga no I get it okay okay I I got that before uh this
one right here is the yoga 11 so this is an 11 in Tegra 3 2 gig 64 uh so 2 gigs
of RAM 64 gig SSD 11.6 in touchscreen
running Windows RT so what this is meant
to do is bridge the gap between oh 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-in 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-in 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-in model is that it's not an Ultrabook
whereas the 13-in one is so remember to be an Ultra Book 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 tablet notebook things in
the past has always been well they're 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 cuz 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 um 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 Ultra
Book 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 know so it's meant to be used a number
of different ways uh number one is notebook style so there you've got a
multi-touch pad you've got a chicklet 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 uh no cardinal
sins committed on the keyboard so we have a wide backspace a wide shift we
have all of our alt and enter and control see this shift is a right 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 it is sort of a tablet and I did try to power it on and that didn't work for
me so I'm going to 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 to turn it on using the Windows key which obviously won't
work so so this is the power button right here as well as a charging
indicator on the other oh this is so nice it's like a rubberized finish here
that just between the sandwiched metal just ah feels really good uh this guy
right here is the uh oh portrait lock or the rotation
lock here's USB 2 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
going one 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 closeup in a moment here's a headphone microphone Jack USB HDMI which
is nice to have fulls size HDMI reset
another speaker and volume up and down
so pretty standard fair for a tablet but
uh 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 the way that it comes out of the box but the screen is 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 um 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 it's 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 oh right again for
a very good reason 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 uh 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 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 2 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° 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° 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 feelable 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 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 uh Windows UI so yeah it dimmed
itself again so let's just go settings and brightness is on oh is that
as bright as it gets there must be an auto brightness thing going on here
that's adjusting it so uh so there you go and then the last one of course is
fullon 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
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videos so slick made a good point this is really cool when you're in this mode
the keyboard's 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 a 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 uh so when you're in this Mode
keyboard's still off yep there's our on screen keyboard uh when you're
in oh so it probably it's probably triggered by that second hinge so here
we go let's try this okay so we go to to our search box
so when we go back there we go yep so
it's triggered by uh 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