Lenovo Yoga 3 14" Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review, and it is yoga time again actually with a Lenovo yoga. This is the yoga 314 inches, and it does well the yoga thing so what's neat about this well, its Intel fifth-generation, Broad well CPUs and its full core i5 and i7 CPU, so it's actually faster than the Lenovo yoga 3 Pro that only had the cord and inside you're looking at noon. So here it is for a third generation, the Lenovo yoga 3. This is the not pro model, so you know you're not actually giving up a lot when you're doing is in some ways gaining things, but you're gaining is some thickness in some way. The Lenovo yoga 3 Pro is while the light and fit especially convertibles tend to be heavier. That beefy hinges is kind of whole mechanism right here and while the yoga 3 Pro is 2.6 pounds, this one is three and a half pounds, and it's a bit thicker at 0.7 inches. The three pro is wildly skinny, but what you do get here is faster full Intel, Core, i5 and i7.

CPU is Broad well fifth generation the latest there so faster than the court ham. That's used in the yoga 3, probably isn't that a little confusing, also much as this looks a lot like the yoga 2 pro, which had the matte black finish soft touch plastic over some magnesium. This one has only a 1080p display. That's not a bad thing.1920 by 1080 on a 14-inch IPS display, that's actually a very good resolution. Those always get pretty decent eyes.

You don't even have to run it with any sort of scaling. The icons are big enough to see. So you avoid all that problem with windows and third-party programs, not always supporting scaling. Well. Everything in the Metro live tile area always handles scaling.

Well, it's on the desktop where you might find some programs really don't support it. So, with a super high resolution, displacement of tiny text, then you scale things up, and then you get fuzzy text. So here not so much of a problem. I think it's a pretty sweet spot of resolution, and it's not a bad. I PS display I have seen wider viewing angles.

I am IPS displays come in grades like everything else, so you can see it dimming a bit as you move off angle in the colors mute, but not so bad at all, and you want something pretty decent viewing angle wise because well, this is a yoga. You can use it like a tablet. You can put it in tenth and yes, see yoga, so the keys will always show on the backside. Computer will ignore them, so you don't have to worry about that. We're looking where the trackpad, so a variety of ways that you can use this.

Obviously, a three and a half pounds you're not going to use this like an iPad right, it's a bit heavy for that. But if you want, if you want to rest it on the table while you're using it, you can set up in your lap and presentation mode, which is one of my favorites. You just do this with it. Bring the display up automatic rotation handles things, and then you know you can watch movies surf the web and all that sort of thing you keep keyboards not in the way. So it's much easier to reach the screen.

That's the idea behind this here, you're not reaching over the display. You can move it closer to you, so that works pretty nicely as well too so inside here that the top deck were kind of reminds me of the Lenovo y50 series, which is a pretty popular series of 15 inch gaming, slim and light laptops. Here you got the brush kind of metal finish that Lenovo does on the consumer line. This is not a ThinkPad model. This is a consumer line model.

Pretty large trackpad hear behaves very nicely, really pretty happy with that backlit keyboard here Lenovo usually does a very nice keyboard now. The only problem with this one is key. Travel is on the short side. I mean this is a skinny laptop, not as skinny, obviously as the yoga 3 Pro, but it's not like the awesome, fine pad experience exactly in terms of feel and tactile feedback as a result of that, it's not a terrible keyboard. It's not springy or anything like that, there's a little flex in the deck.

If you push down, you can see it moving, but you have to it pretty well. Ham. Finger type is probably to really get much crush going on this keyboard. So it's an ok keyboard. It's not the Super-duper best of Lenovo's keyboards, it's certainly usable and serviceable, and I'll always, but think pads to turn the backlight on press FN and hit the space bar and there's our backlight coming on hit.

It again goes off single-stage backlighting there and something Lenovo likes to do with their consumer line. We have the page up, page down and home buttons over here on the side that takes a little getting used to, so you don't accidentally, go reaching for the Enter key and hit page up every time, but I find it's not too hard to get used to trackpad like I, said good synaptic trackpad, it works perfectly well, the little crow surround for a little stylish look, and so you really can feel if you've wandered off the side. That is always a good thing, as we all track PES these days, it is the buttonless so-called the whole trackpad moves and clicks at the bottom. Not too loud here a little, nothing annoying there so that part's all good. The hinges are just like the yoga two style hinges, and they're sturdy.

I really haven't heard anybody having any problems with them. I never have fee, not the fancy. Watch band style hinge of the yoga 3 Pro. If that floated your boat I, don't know, I think this kind of everyday normal serviceable hinges are good. Obviously, you can use a flap if you want to as well imagination.

It's all up to you. That's how you want to use this guy on the side over here. There's our power button, typically with convertibles and two and ones the buttons are on the side, because you might be using in tablet mode where you can't actually access something. That's on the keyboard deck. Likewise, there's volume controls over here as well, so you don't have to open it up just to change the volume.

The lid of a one key recovery button here that you press with them say paper clip or something like that rotation lock button. We have our in the HDMI port micro, rather HDMI port. Right there s USB, 3.0 port on that side and on this side here, another USB 3.0 port. We have aha dual duty: USB and charging port I'll show you the charger in a minute there, our combo headphone mic jack and an SD card slot. Now, let's take a look at that charger, because Lenovo's been doing something differently.

If they do with the yoga 3 Pro notice, it has a little notch over here. That's how you can use the special charging. Cable that it comes with, which is mat tingly short, looks like a USB. Cable has a little extra notch on it, so that port does two things in one. If you like, and here's the compact charger, no complaints about that, except for the cord, is pretty darn short.

If you're one of those people who are an at Starbucks a lot you're going to be hogging the outlet, because you don't have a lot of length to work with here. So as you can see, I usually mean touchscreen. Laptops do have glossy displays, but this one is one of those things you could just about used to light a campfire. If you had to it's that reflective, if you were tried to reflect the Sun or something like that- oh well, at least it's fairly bright, and so it mitigates some of that. Now you can see how the color saturation is at first blush.

It's at wow, that's a really vivid orange right. This is a Lenovo desktop images that they provide for us, but you can see. The color is actually blue, mean you're, losing some detail for those who are wondering what wider color gamut gets. You, instead of colors blooming into an indistinct kind of over saturated blob. If it has a higher color gamut you'll, see more detail, and they look really nice and sharp.

First, it's a little of blooming there, so that tells that this is tells us. This is not a super high color gamut display, and here is our color gamut. We use our spider for pro color ribbon, err, which is a hardware device in conjunction with software, to measure color right there. You can see 65% of RGB and 49% of Adobe RGB. Typically, four products are priced around thousand dollars like this.

Are we see something like 95% to 99% of RGB, so this one is a bit lower? It's still nice-looking, like I said now. You know what the differences some colors are going to bloom. Instead of actually showing more detail and more different shades of a particular color. Now for brightness, you can see it got. Two hundred and 5.5 nits of brightness for a reigning black levels are pretty good at point. Three two lower numbers are better with black levels and the blacks are indeed pretty black.

Like the background right, there contrast ratio of 640 to one is pretty darn respectable and the white point from the factory was 67 hundred degrees, which is actually not so far off. Calibration helps get this to be more accurate for those you who do care about that. Alright. So how much is it cost? What do you get inside we're? Looking at the nine hundred and forty-nine dollar configuration, which is pretty much at the lower end of the line by the way for those of you who care about colors? This is available in black, which obviously we have here. It's matte black silver or white costs, fifty dollars more for some reason currently sold out on Lenovo's website, also but anyway, 949 unless you like white, and for that you get Core, i5, ? 5200, you again, fifth generation CPU running at 2.2 gigahertz base clock right, of course, all the core i5 and i7 s have turboboost. You get eight gigs of ram and a 256 gig SS here and that's a two and a half inch SATA form factor SSD your average little.

You know miniature hard drive that goes in a laptop. It's not one of the em ? gum sticks or anything like that. So it's pretty easy to find a replacement, a bigger capacity. If you want to do that down the road, and it's pretty easy to do we'll splice in a photo of the internals, so you can see it and unusually Ram is pocketed. It has one Ram slot and currently, since generally speaking, the eight gigs is the largest s.

Odom Ram module you can get. Eight gigs is the functional max for this. We will be looking at a company who does make sixteen gig modules kind of experimental wild new thing there, and we'll test it with us to see how it works. The fourteen-inch IPS Full HD display is the only display option. That's a touchscreen! No active pen support.

You could use a capacitive stylus if you on 14 inches is nicer for those who say 13.3 inch. Well, things are a little too teeny. I want some more space there. If you want to spend more money and get a core i7, that's going to run you about eleven hundred dollars right now on Lenovo's website, and these are actual selling prices. Their list prices are higher, but you know how Lenovo goes.

They always have some discounts of some sort. If you like the 11.6 inch model better, that's going to have a core Jamal, less powerful CPU, but for 11.6 inch, not a bad thing that one starts at 679, and it also has a full HD IPS display, no matter which one you get. What Lenovo calls their Lenovo Wi-Fi. You know to live in 8c Wireless, it's actually a Qualcomm at the Rose card, it's a little narrower than we've seen for cards, and you can see that in the splice in picture that we provided for you there. What that looks like- and it also has Bluetooth, 4.0 and board. It's behaved just fine for us of no complaints there, 45 watt hour battery nominally sealed inside I, say anomaly because undo some Torn screws on the bottom, and you can access the battery.

It's not like this thing is sealed for life, difficult, like a MacBook, Air, MacBook Pro to actually service a take off a bunch of those Torn screws here and that's how you get inside. Obviously, we have ventilation here where it sucks in it shoots the air out the backside. Our stereo speakers live grills over here, so they're down firing side firing, they're they're pretty adequate, so they don't sound too bad rubber feet. Keep it from sliding away on you. So how does it perform? We have the core i5 2.2, gigahertz models, 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig SSD, which is a Samsung 851 SSD by the way nice fast, SSD there. Here's our Geek bench 3 score, I, know.

There's somebody out. There that's been screaming to see screenshots of the benchmark. So here you go this one's for you, geek bench 2656 for the single core 5313 for the multi-core. That's a pretty respectable score right there, and now we'll take a look at how the SSD didn't notice. We have the regular old windows photo viewer here, and this is Lenovo photo master photo viewer Lenovo puts a lot of software.

There I know something you're going to make jokes about them, putting adware on and stuff like that. No, that's not the case, they're not doing that anywhere no super fish, but they do put a lot of stuff on here, including the harmony that's supposed to help you with the screen rotation by suggesting programs. You should use I, don't think we really need that stuff anyway, it's up to you, you can remove it, but this is how the SSD did here and that's that's. A good set of numbers for an SSD, it's a pretty zippy SSD. Given the price point of this I'm not going to complain at all, and here we actually have PC mark 7 still running.

We've got our benchmark score of 45 98 now anywhere from about usually 48 to 5,000 is where we see the core, i5, fourth or fifth generation CPU. So just a hair lower. There I think it's brought down a little by graphics, which is a little just a hair slower than normal egg. It's a matter of tuning. This is the same Intel, HD, 5500, graphics.

It depends on the graphics driver, build more than anything else and how much power and heat management Lenovo's trying to do for w. Prime, a computed PI in 21 point four seconds, usually somewhere in nineteen to nineteen point. Nine would be normal, so just a hair slower there as well PC mark 8, the home accelerated test. It scored 27 47, which is pretty good, that's about par for the course for a core i5 Ultrabook. So in terms of performance, just fine where we'd expect it battery life.

On this pretty good about seven hours or so for 45 watt hour battery and a core i5, that's actually good, believe it or not. So for those who are looking for the miraculous, 9 or 10 hours, Energizer Bunny, this isn't it. It has pretty respectable battery life, and you can see this is all the software that Lenovo preloads on here and yeah I would whack some of that personally. I'm tell you the truth right there as an effective performance at all, McAfee is pre-installed. I generally remove that and just use Microsoft's own antivirus software.

It's free! It's lightweight! Furthermore, it doesn't intrude a lot. So what else can you get for around nine hundred dollars or so a thousand dollars? Well, there is competition in the convertible space we just looked at the really lovely HP Specter x-360 starts at 895 for a core i5 with four gigs of ram in 128 gig SSDs, it's $9.99 for eight gigs and a 256 gig SSD. This is a stunning looking machine, so in terms of which one is flashier, which one is prettier metal everywhere, I have to say: HP is really doing a good job of fighting back. This one is also available with either full HD 1080p IPS display or 2560 by 1440 display supports both touch and active pen. Sumo Lenovo has some competition these days.

There's a lot of folks doing that whole yoga hinge thing and that's what this one does as well. You can do all the same, bring it around slap it like. So it gives you an idea of the competition in the convertible space. Of course, there are other models as well, but looking at the ones that are shooting around the same price and that just came out at the same time. The specter x360 certainly comes to mind first.

So how about speakers- and was it look like when it plays video? Of course, we're going to test one of our YouTube videos, but there we are in web browser by the way this machine has more than that horsepower to handle your everyday productivity task is going to be office, photo editing. Even RAW files, some HD video editing web browsing many tabs open video playback to an ATP video. It can do all that stuff all right. So here's our Specter x-360 review, and we will test video playback, and we are at 60% volume right now. This uses WAV smacks audio.

This is Lisa from humble tech review and here's a Windows convertible laptop that you guys have space on board. This is the HP Specter x-360, don't confuse with me and shouldn't facility. Hp. Does a lot simpler bit differently? This is a spectrum, so not bad. Sorry, not super loud, but it's not his see or a shrill or anything like that.

It's not bad sound at all and the screen looks quite good. You don't need super wide, color gamut just to have a decent video, playback experience and photographs. Here. Look pretty nice, the red background laptop. There is looking pretty nice and vivid.

So it's a very pleasing looking display. So that's a little Nova yoga, 314 inches available now again as configured here pretty much. The model I would recommend getting Core i5, eight gigs of ram 256 gigs SSD is 949 dollars, and it's not a bad laptop. It's got an understated design, but it's nice enough. Looking nice soft touch finish that feels good.

It's pretty drippy. You won't drop it fast. SSD inside pretty decent 1080p IPS touch the screen, not bad, not bad at all. Of course, there's a lot of competition out there, even if you're looking for a convertible design like this with the swivel hinges. As you see, there's a lot of concern nowadays, cloning Lenovo's own yoga, 3 Pro for those who don't need full core i5 performance and want lighter weight and a fitter, more Stalin, looking design.

So that's the Lenovo yoga 314 inches again also available till 11.6 inch if you'd like for a little less money, a little less horsepower inside, but still same design and general fit and finish, and it's a very likable laptop at 9:49. It has a lot of stiff competition, though, and you know a lot of other function, making a yoga style hinge now, including the HP Specter x-360, that we show do a little comparison moment there, but as ever, and looks a lot like the yoga pro 2, which isn't a bad thing. It has a nice soft touch finish a decent full HD, IPS touchscreen, and it's available now, unless you're from mobile tech review visit our website for the full written review and hit that, like button.

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