Lenovo Yoga 11 Windows RT Notebook & Tablet Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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today's unboxing is going to be all
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about yoga so I'm going to get up on the table here and do like no no no no no
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none of that none of that no no actually we're going to be having a look at the
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Lenova Lenova the Lenova yoga the Lenovo
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Yoga this is a tablet it's a
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notebook it's uh extremely flexible and
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versatile oh that's where they got the
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name I get it I thought one of the executives
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wives was really into yoga and she was all like oh you know what you should
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call your new product the yoga no I get it okay okay I I got that before uh this
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one right here is the yoga 11 so this is an 11 in Tegra 3 2 gig 64 uh so 2 gigs
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of RAM 64 gig SSD 11.6 in touchscreen
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running Windows RT so what this is meant
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to do is bridge the gap between oh look
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at that there's an external box that's horrible and then the one that would
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look great on a retail shelf is actually
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inside so let's get into the details of
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this tablet notebook thing that actually
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doesn't have a lot of information on this outer box but main selling point is
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the unique and patented hinge design that makes it one of the most flexible
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devices out there there's also a 13-in model that will be available at some
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point that has a core i7 processor and
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actually runs fully fledged Windows 8 but having a look at the 11-in model
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here should give you some idea of what the form factor is capable of and the RT
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model running Tegra 3 should be significantly more power efficient
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giving you much better battery life it's also obviously more portable and you
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know stuff now the thing about the 11-in model is that it's not an Ultrabook
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whereas the 13-in one is so remember to be an Ultra Book you have to run an
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Intel processor you have to be within a certain form factor but either way it
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should give you guys some idea what to expect in terms of the form factor so my
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biggest complaint about these convertible tablet notebook things in
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the past has always been well they're so
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much thicker than regular notebooks that it sort of becomes pointless in my in my
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opinion so if as long as it's something
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that can fit into a regular sort of more normal form factor than I don't mind it
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for size comparison I've got an HTC 8X cuz I'm not using an iPhone anymore and
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so that should give you some idea how big it is compared to a Windows Phone
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which hopefully actually there is some comparison there to be made um that is
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Meaningful on the bottom here we've got four rubber feet for making it not slip
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around the entire construction is metal and I'd expect that out of a product
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like this that is I mean it's Lenovo for one thing so you just sort of expect it
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to be extremely solidly built you can see there's very little Flex to the chassis even though it's a thin Ultra
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Book and you'd expect that from something that's meant to be
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used like this where it actually has to
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you know sit up against itself on the back and it has to maintain its rigidity
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no matter what you're doing so that is that is the hinge design right there it
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looks like a notebook it walks like a notebook but is it a notebook well yes
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but is it just a notebook the answer is know so it's meant to be used a number
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of different ways uh number one is notebook style so there you've got a
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multi-touch pad you've got a chicklet keyboard you've got a very rugged see
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see little things like this nice like rubberized
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textured grip here that just feels awesome and feels extremely durable and
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hopefully Slick's getting a good shot of that you got the texture going on there
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okay awesome looks like uh no cardinal
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sins committed on the keyboard so we have a wide backspace a wide shift we
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have all of our alt and enter and control see this shift is a right space
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as well so they haven't really changed around the format as much as some guys
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do you'll find things like an airplane mode on it because it's running Windows
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RT it is sort of a tablet and I did try to power it on and that didn't work for
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me so I'm going to go ahead and plug it in and we'll be back in a moment yeah
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you know what maybe what I should have done is a tour of the buttons on the
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yoga before I tried to turn it on using the Windows key which obviously won't
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work so so this is the power button right here as well as a charging
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indicator on the other oh this is so nice it's like a rubberized finish here
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that just between the sandwiched metal just ah feels really good uh this guy
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right here is the uh oh portrait lock or the rotation
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lock here's USB 2 SD card reader power
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in the power in looks suspiciously like a you know USB port when you look at it
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just like this but it isn't and does it
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going one both ways yeah look at that it's reversible
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that's handy okay on the back you have the special hinge which will show you
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more closeup in a moment here's a headphone microphone Jack USB HDMI which
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is nice to have fulls size HDMI reset
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another speaker and volume up and down
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so pretty standard fair for a tablet but
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uh oh yeah the screen looks the brightness is very low right now so
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we'll have to show you guys again when the brightness is higher so that's just
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the the way that it comes out of the box but the screen is has a great viewing
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angle the colors don't distort no matter which angle you're looking at it from so
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these actually serve two purposes on this notebook number one is they act as
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a notebook um you know anti-slip thing
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the other is they protect the top cover when you're using it in tablet mode so
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this is how it's intended to be used now when you're holding it as a tablet
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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
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a very good reason see that's what I like about Lenovo they think about stuff
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it's rubberized so that you can hold it like this without your finger slipping
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or without uh not being able to hold on to it it's also you know so that you can
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hold it with one hand here comfortably with your thumb and your palm on the
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edge and the rubberized grip on the back making it so that you actually don't
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just drop the thing so let's show you the hinge up close so this is what it
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looks like it's metal it's strong it feels robust like when you move it it's
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not like those convertibles where they have a hinge in the middle that rotates
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and then you turn thing around I mean what I like about that design is that
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you don't have the keyboard on the back when you're when you're using it as a
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tablet but what I like about this design is it doesn't feel like it's going to
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break in 2 seconds like those other ones whether they do or don't break I don't
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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
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bends here so here if you can get in close you can see it bends this way like
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that and holds itself still until it gets to about
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180° then it rotates the other
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way okay now you can see it's not bending here anymore so both of them so
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both of these two hinges have
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180° rotations but the way that it works is very smooth so it goes one as you
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fold it back one then the other and then when you bring it back to notebook mode
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it goes one back to here where it kind of snaps
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into place well not snaps but like there's a bit of a feelable click there
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and then the other until you actually close it so the way it's meant to be used number one notebook mode number
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two you can use it in a stand mode like
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that so you can actually sort of just go the other way that it's meant to be
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used is tent mode so it can obviously flip over there we go now we got our
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Windows uh Windows UI so yeah it dimmed
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itself again so let's just go settings and brightness is on oh is that
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as bright as it gets there must be an auto brightness thing going on here
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that's adjusting it so uh so there you go and then the last one of course is
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fullon tablet mode so that's like that
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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
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the keyboard's actually completely disabled so you don't have to worry
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about just touching the rubber grippy Parts you can just mash the entire back
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and you can see I'll bring up a text prompt here nothing's actually going to
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happen at all I think I reduced the brightness though somehow I oh right I
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took out the power plug however let's see uh so when you're in this Mode
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keyboard's still off yep there's our on screen keyboard uh when you're
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in oh so it probably it's probably triggered by that second hinge so here
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we go let's try this okay so we go to to our search box
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so when we go back there we go yep so
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it's triggered by uh by that second hinge so that's why it's so important
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that it goes one hinge than the other that's an extremely expensive hinge
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design