The IdeaPad Yoga 11 is an ultraportable 11.6 "IPS panel with a touch screen, coated with a thin layer of glass to increase its strength and can use up to five contact points at once. His definition is limited to 1366 x 768 pixels, which is fairly standard for a machine of this size. Finally, the screen is very faint, even when set to maximum.
It has the particularity of using a hinge allowing it to rotate 360 °. The keyboard can be used as a support to place the machine in inverted "V" or bend to compose a touch pad. The keys will be disabled automatically. Although the keyboard is slightly recessed to avoid contact it will still be careful where you will ask (avoid tables full of crumbs). We would have preferred that Lenovo offers a caching system.
As if on paper it seems like a very good idea, the contact buttons on the legs when you tripatouillez screen is not the most pleasant. In addition, one wonders how long the machine will paint does hold and hide the first friction. Finally, we will have a preference for solutions detachable shelves, even if it requires always have with you the two elements to recompose his machine.
Connectivity and convenient without a chip Tegra 3 "core Companion"
The keyboard is rather typical of Lenovo products with half rounded keys. Rather comfortable to use despite some small touches, such as arrows, for example, it is easily to hand. Note that the function keys (F1 to F12) are only accessible via the concurrent support of "Fn" key. The rest of the time they used to fly as shortcuts to adjust the volume, activation of Wi-Fi or the brightness of the screen. In addition, a multi-touch pad of 90 x 60 mm and is part of the two buttons (not visually delimited), still very useful on Windows.
Within this configuration, it is a NVIDIA Tegra 3 SoC that takes place. Unlike versions for Android entitled to four hearts one, here there are only four, the "Companion core" to be used only for small tasks is not present. They operate at 1.3 GHz maximum when all active and up to 1.4 GHz on a heart via a Turbo mode. The whole is accompanied by 2GB of RAM as well as 64GB of storage (44 GB available in practice).
On the left side of the machine, there is a button (+ / -) to adjust the volume, one HDMI 1.4 output, a USB 2.0 port and a 3.5mm jack for headphones and one microphone. On the right side, a switch allows you to lock the screen rotation, but there is also a second USB 2.0 port, an SDHC card reader and the power connector. We regret the absence of a port as fast as USB 3.0, but it will be the generation Tegra chips 4 to qualify for such a possibility.
Connectivity side, there is a Wi-Fi module from Broadcom 802.11n as well as Bluetooth 4.0. Some may regret the absence of a network port, even at 100 Mb / s. However, with dimensions of 298 x 204 limited x 15.6 mm (screen included), it was impossible to bring such a connector . The weight is rather light with 1.24 kg on the scale and recall some memories for fans of netbooks. This may seem to be a handicap against in tablet mode.
Confusing first moments, thank you RT Windows!
As we mentioned, it comes as Microsoft Windows RT, which includes Office 2013 and RT in its "Preview" again for the moment (but in French), which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. No other application is provided by the manufacturer. If the concept of the machine was already confusing use of the OS originally thought for touch pads may surprise.
Indeed expected to have a conventional notebook and we are left with the various limitations imposed by Windows RT. The almost exclusive use of the home screen and applications Modern UI tends to give us the feeling of being restrained. In practice, Office 2013 RT 10 and Internet Explorer File Explorer can be used in desktop mode, everything happens in full screen.
In this regard, note that the Windows Store has some applications stamped "For Lenovo" and if we could believe for a moment that this statement would be sufficient to be able to buy / install on any machine manufacturer, in the end it n 'nothing is because the majority of them are only available for the x86 architecture, which is obviously not the case with our Yoga 11. Damage.
For games, by cons, it is possible to use the NVIDIA TegraZone (it will install) and filter the content for you. However, you will find some titles that have been designed to take advantage of the NVIDIA chip by small developers. No chance to find titles developed by big players like Electronic Arts or Rovio (Angry Birds) for example. Hopefully that will change soon.
Good performance, but less than a Atom solution
In terms of performance measurement, our choices were quite limited for the moment. 3DMark for Windows RT is indeed not yet available and no special tools are really at the moment. So we had to settle on measures via the browser.
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