Lenovo Yoga 910 (13IKB)
SUPER EXPENSIVE BUT WITH THE GOODS IN NEARLY EVERY DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a convertible with the best of everything — and money is no object — then the Lenovo Yoga 910 is the nuts. It’s beautifully designed, specced out to the max and as close to the dream convertible as we’ve seen.
Internally, it has about the fastest processor you can find in a convertible, the Core i7-7500U, and that showed in the benchmarks. And lest you think that driving so powerful a processor is going to drain the battery life too fast, you need not worry: Lenovo also put a huge 78Wh battery in there, which actually kept the laptop running longer than most of the competition.
And then there’s the screen. Yes, you read the specs right: it’s a full 4K UHD packed into 13.9-inches. It’s absolutely gorgeous, with near perfect colour and excellent brightness. Like the screen of the Dell XPS-13 2-in-1 (see our full review in issue 61, page 8), it pushes right to the edge of the case, with minimal bezel (which does, unfortunately, necessitate that the webcam be below the screen, which is a bit weird). To add to the goodness, the speakers are good as well, though perhaps not quite as good as HP’s. The overall design of the convertible is lovely, and the watchband hinge is just right. The keyboard and touchpad are also top notch, with well-regulated travel and sensitivity, and there’s a fingerprint reader built in for corporate users. Its one real flaw is the lack of HDMI and DisplayPort, which may be a deal breaker for some users. It also has no SD card reader.
Given how much we’ve raved about it, you’d probably expect the Yoga 910 to cost the bomb, and you’d be right. We should note, however, you can save a lot of money ($500) by dropping back to a 512GB SSD, and more by going for a Full HD screen instead of UHD... but then you wouldn’t be getting everything the Yoga 910 can offer.