Lenovo "Yoga 3 Pro" mentioned in Indonesian-equivalent of FCC

Incomplete teaser page for the Yoga 3 Pro is up at Lenovo Australia!

Tag-line will be, "Yoga. A bendable laptop or a flexible tablet? It's whatever you want it to be. But could we make it more beautiful or useful?"

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The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro just popped up at the Indonesian version of the FCC (direct source; article). Looking at Intel's staggered release of Broadwell, we should expect the Yoga 3 Pro (Y3P) to release in early 2015:

"...while Core M will ship in time for the holidays, the rest of the Broadwell lineup [including the Ultrabook chips] will not appear until 2015." ( Anandtech | Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview)

I just want ONE update, Lenovo: longer battery life. IMO, Lenovo really squandered Haswell's efficiency improvements. Other OEMs took up the opportunity, but, crazily, the Haswell-toting Y2P has the same efficiency as some Ivy Bridge ultrabooks:



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That's ridiculous. Look at what Acer did with its S7 w/ Ivy Bridge (6.86 min/Wh) -> S7 w/ Haswell (10.96 min/Wh).

What Lenovo can do:

• Optimize idle power draw (normalized to battery capacity, the Y2P is just 56% as efficient as the Sony VAIO Pro 13, ).
• Switch to more efficient components (like Sony, Microsoft, and Acer all did by using LPDDR3 vs. Lenovo's stagnant choice of DDR3L; consider an IGZO panel like Apple did with the iPad Air)
• Offer resolution choices on the screen
• What about panel self-refresh that Intel bragged about last year?

I'm harking on the screen because, as always, screens are the biggest power draw of most laptops in light usage.

Come on, Lenovo. You can do it.

 

Panel self refresh is available in the latest Intel video drivers and it does work on the Y2P. I see at least one additional hour of battery use. More if only reading or using the web.

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Oh, fantastic; I'm glad to hear about that improvement. Huh, PSR needs special hardware (DRAM embedded in the LCD panel); so, I guess, the Y2P has had it, but it was just never enabled?

1 hour: that's not bad at all. I wish some sites would run their battery tests with it on vs. off; I'm curious, as, Anandtech stated, " For years Intel has been talking about Panel Self Refresh (PSR) being the holy grail of improving notebook battery life." But, from my Google'ing, though, enabling PSR the Y2P can cause the screen to blank out every once in a while. :-( Since PSR is only available in Intel's drivers (not Lenovo's), I wonder if it will be fixed. :-(

Maybe we will see a Lenovo-backed solution in the Y3P.

 

I have panel self refresh enabled and have never experienced the screen blanking.

 

Nice! That's good to hear.

For a few people, though, the feature isn't working perfectly just yet:

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Idea-Wi...n-Flickering-and-Screen-Blanking/td-p/1331137

Actually, Lenovo posted an update and they are looking into it!

 

Where is the lenvo update? I actually sent my yoga in to have them fix the flickering screen. I get it today, hopefully they fixed it.and I had adaptive brightness, etc off

 

A little off-topic, but here: Re: Yoga 2 Pro - Screen Flickering and Screen Blan... - Page 9 - Lenovo Community

It was a while ago, though, in April. No official replies since then.

 

It's coming!!! ​

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro | Lenovo Australia

On Lenovo's Australian site, they now have a teaser 404 page for the Yoga 3 Pro.



I can't get the two images on the page to load. The bottom one, "notify-me", shows a sign-up page for Lenovo's newsletter. The middle one (images/promotions/new-product-teaser/btn_sign-up.jpg) doesn't show anything.

However, I did some digging in the page's source and found an interesting line:



"Yoga. A bendable laptop or a flexible tablet? It's whatever you want it to be. But could we make it more beautiful or useful?"

More beautiful? Re-design incoming?

More useful? Hmmm...I hope that means battery life, lol.

 

more details are emerging today further details regarding specs have been leaked confirming previous rumors

 

here is the complete specs details