Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review

Everyone building premium laptops these days seems to be focused on two markets: high-performance gaming laptops and thin-and-light convertible Ultrabooks. Lenovo hopes to dominate the latter category with the Yoga 3 Pro, a lightweight Ultrabook that transforms from a laptop to a tablet just by flipping the screen back. Available in Clementine Orange, Platinum Silver, or Champagne Gold, this stylish looking laptop is aimed squarely at those professionals who want a Windows laptop that looks good … and maybe even looks better than an Apple MacBook Air.

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I thought the yoga 3 pro had a fan??

 

It does have a fan. It also has vents. More details here.

 

Man, that's a tiny fan.

 

I like to call keyboards like the one on this Lenovo "Facebook" keyboards because that seems to be what they're designed for. Why remove the Function key row?

 

I like to call computers like the "Yoga 3 Pro" "consumption tablets with attached keyboards." I could elaborate and rename all consumption tablets "Facebook Tablets" and then we'd come full circle as to why they have "Facebook keyboards," as Chairman Jeffries has so aptly christened them. One doubts the buyers of these truly lovely pieces of work (overpriced by $200 as Jerry Jackson has identified, but I expect the market to create that discount to near $1K in short order) will have any use for function keys or the, er, functions they enable. Rather, I would expect these to be largely Facebook, Twitter, email, web surfing video-watching devices which, in truth, make far more flexible traveling companions than, say, a 64GB iPad Air at, what, $800?

At 58, with congenital disabilities, I'm the first one to celebrate weight reduction, but since I need everything I travel with to go in a bag with wheels it doesn't too much matter to me if the main computing device I bring weights 2.6 lbs or 3.75-4.0lbs, but I sure do value the ports, keyboard key travel, space for heat dissipation of more powerful components and self-serviceability that the marginally extra weight and attendant thickness bring to the equation. I haven't found the "perfect" compromise so I'm "getting by" with a Samsung Ativ Book 9 but have been eyeing tradeoffs of the additional "burdens" of +1.4 + lbs and +0.3 inches the Dell XPS 15 seems to offer, and it seems an awful lot for the "sacrifice:" Quad core i7, nVidia GM750 gpu, 3 more USBs, Ethernet, displayport, HDMI, 91WH battery (for 6-8 hr run time), 15.6" screen, one-click maintenance cover to maintain/upgrade, well, pretty much everything...

Oops, got carried away again Point being: Models like the XPS 15 2013/Haswell model is available with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and everything else top of line for $1,200 refurbished while my Samsung Ativ 9 3.0 lb i7-4500U/4400 2 USB ports and nothing else, 8GB/256 built in/soldered-glued in, 13.3" screen (an entirely beautiful piece or work and a joy to work on, as much work as it's capable of doing) available as refurb for around $1,050. So is it the 1.4 lbs or the $150? For me, moe the former than the latter, but one thing the Dell XPS-15 is not (along with not being a business class machine and suffering from all the downsides of a Dell/HP, etc consumer class product - even if a top-end one): it's also not a Facebook computer. It's even more computer than I need, but that's no problem at all for me. It may or may not be the best way to trade my lovely Ultrabook for a serious computer without refinancing the kids . Thanks to Charles J, I'm thinking of my laptop as a Desktop Replacement (DTR) again, 5 years after I last owned a functional desktop to replace!

Thanks for the indulgence. Great catch Mr./Dr. J. It's surely a place I'd rather be than where I've been for the last 5 yrs,