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<\/p>\nI ordered this Ultrabook from Lenovo to replace my 2-year-old (how time flies!) Asus UX31E.\u00a0 The machine arrived in the office yesterday and I got my mitts on it this morning.<\/p>\n
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The major trick of the Yoga is that it is a touch-enabled Ultrabook first, with the normally great ThinkPad keyboard.\u00a0 But push that screen back and the stiff double hinges allow it to go back into \u201cstand mode\u201d for drawing\/touching on a table, \u201ctent mode\u201d for watching video, or \u201ctablet mode\u201d where you can hand hold the device.\u00a0 The keyboard rises up to avoid accidental touch when the screen reaches a certain point.\u00a0 I will probably use this machine as a laptop 99.99% of the time.\u00a0 The Yoga just so happened to offer the best mix of features that I required in my next Ultrabook.<\/p>\n
No, this device is not a tablet.\u00a0 Anyone who reviews the Yoga Ultrabook as a tablet is a moron.\u00a0 It\u2019s a laptop that happens to offer some use options.\u00a0 My Windows laptop is a Toshiba Encore and my Android machine for long distance entertainment is a Lenovo Yoga 8.\u00a0 They are<\/em> tablets and only a moron would review them as laptops.<\/p>\n The custom spec I went with is:<\/p>\n I wanted a digitizer pen.\u00a0 In early tests, it works well with the Shared Whiteboard app.\u00a0 That\u2019s my alternative to using whiteboards or flipcharts, and it\u2019s handy in OneNote for grabbing diagrams where a photo just won\u2019t do.\u00a0 The pen is one of the thin ones, allowing it to dock in the front-right corner of the Ultrabook\u2019s base.\u00a0 You hear that Surface, Sony, Toshiba, and a hell of a lot of others?<\/p>\n I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB so I could run Photoshop reliably.\u00a0 That\u2019s also why I switched from SSD to a 1 TB HDD with 16 GB SSD cache.\u00a0 Now I have room to store photos while on a vacation, meaning that a USB 3.0 drive is there only as backup.<\/p>\n Port-wise, there is an SD card reader (nice for photography), Mini-HDMI (more reliable than micro-HDMI), and a pair of USB 3.0 ports.\u00a0 There is also a Lenovo OneLink port for the OneLink dock.\u00a0 There is no VGA port.\u00a0 I have a USB \u2013 VGA adapter so that will continue to be used when connecting to projectors.<\/p>\n The power and volume buttons are on the side, cleverly placed if you go into \u201ctablet mode\u201d.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also find a Windows button on the base of the screen.<\/p>\n Touch works and works smoothly.\u00a0 The build quality is solid.\u00a0 I deliberately went with ThinkPad to get build quality to last for years.\u00a0 The screen is nice and stuff, something that other touch Ultrabooks have gotten badly wrong by having too much wobble after being touched.<\/p>\n There\u2019s not too much crapware onboard.\u00a0 Some Lenovo stuff and Norton 30-day trial.\u00a0 I was sad to see that the system update tool requires Adobe Air.\u00a0 That is a mortal sin in my books.\u00a0 I guess the Chinese military still wants easy access to everyone\u2019s computers.<\/p>\n No review yet \u2013 I\u2019ll need some time with the machine, and I\u2019ll probably post something on the Petri IT Knowledgebase in the new year.<\/p>\n I ordered this Ultrabook from Lenovo to replace my 2-year-old (how time flies!) Asus UX31E.\u00a0 The machine arrived in the office yesterday and I got my mitts on it this morning. The major trick of the Yoga is that it is a touch-enabled Ultrabook first, with the normally great ThinkPad keyboard.\u00a0 But push that screen … Continue reading “First Impressions: Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga S1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,110],"class_list":["post-15832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware","tag-windows-8-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
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