Lenovo Yoga 11 Windows RT Notebook & Tablet Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips By Linus Tech Tips

Today's unboxing is going to be all about yoga, so I'm going to get up on the table here and do likes no, no, no none of that. None of that! No, no! Actually we're going to be having a look at the Lenora ANOVA Casanova yoga, the Lenovo yoga. This is a tablet. It's a notebook! It's extremely flexible and versatile! That's where they got the name. I get it I thought one of the executives. Wives was really into yoga, and she was all like.

Oh you know, you should call your new product, the yoga, no I get it. Okay, okay, I got that before. Oh this, one right here is the yoga 11. So this is an 11 inch, Terra 3, 2, gig 64, so 2 gigs of ram 64 gig SSD 11.6 inch touchscreen running Windows RT. So what this is meant to do is bridge the gap between now.

Look at that there's an external box, that's horrible, and then the one that would look great on a retail shelf is actually inside. So, let's get into the details of this tablet, notebook thing that actually doesn't have a lot of information on this outer box, but main selling point is the unique and patented hinge design that makes it one of the most flexible devices out there's also a 13-inch model that will be available at some point that has a core i7 processor and actually runs fully fledged Windows 8. But having a look at the 11-inch model here should give you some idea of what the form factor is capable of and the RT model running. Terra 3 should be significantly more power efficient, giving you much better battery life. It's also obviously more portable, and you know stuff.

Now the thing about the 11-inch models that it's not an Ultrabook, whereas the 13-inch one is so remembered to be an Ultrabook. You have to run an Intel processor. You have to be within a certain form factor, but either way it should give you guys some idea what to expect in terms of the form factor, so my biggest complaint about these convertible, let notebook things in the past has always been well. There's so much thicker than regular notebooks that it sort of becomes pointless in my, in my opinion, so if, as long as it's something that can fit into a regular sort of more normal form, factor than I don't mind it for size, comparison I've got an HTC 8x, because I'm not using an iPhone anymore, and so that should give you some idea how big it is compared to a Windows Phone, which hopefully, actually there is some comparison there to be made. That is meaningful on the bottom here, we've got four rubber feet for making it not slip around the entire construction is metal, and I'd expect that out of a product like this, that is I mean it's Lenovo for one thing, so you just sort of expect it to be extremely solidly built.

You can see, there's very little flex to the chassis, even though it's a thin, Ultrabook and you'd expect that from something that's meant to be used like this, where it actually has to. You know, sit up against itself on the back, and it has to maintain its rigidity, no matter what you're doing so. That is, that is the hinge design right there. It looks like a notebook. It walks like a notebook, but is it a notebook? Well, yes, but is it just a notebook? The answer is no, so it's meant to be used.

A number of different ways: number one is notebook style, so there you've got a multi-touch pad. You've got a chicle keyboard. You've got a very rugged, see little things like this nice, like rubberized, textured grip here that just feels awesome and feels extremely durable and hopefully Slick's getting a good shot of that. Furthermore, you got the texture going on there. Okay awesome looks like no cardinal sins committed on the keyboard, so we have a wide backspace, a wide shift.

We have all of our alts and enter and controls here. This shift is a White space as well, so they haven't really changed around the format as much as some guys do. You'll find things like an airplane mode on it, because it's running Windows RT is sort of a tablet and I did try to power it on and that didn't work for me. So I'm going to go ahead and plug it in, and we'll be back in a moment yeah, you know what maybe what I should have done is a tour of the buttons on the yoga before I tried it on using the Windows key, which obviously won't work. So this is the power button right here, as well as a charging indicator on the other half.

This is so nice. It's like a rubberized finish here that just between the sandwiched metal just feels perfect. This guy right here is the portrait law are the rotation lock. Here is USB to SD card reader power in the power in looks suspiciously like a know, USB port. When you look at it just like this, but it isn't and does it go in both ways? Yeah, look at that! It's reversible! That's handy! Okay, on the back, you have the special hinge, which will show you more close up in a moment.

Here's a headphone microphone, jack, USB HDMI, which is nice to have full size, HDMI reset another speaker and volume up and down so pretty standard fare for a tablet, but oh yeah, the screen looks the brightness is very low right now, so we'll have to show you guys again when the brightness is higher, so that's just the way that it comes out of the box, but the screen is that has a great viewing angle. The colors don't distort no matter which angle you're looking at it from so these actually serve two purposes on this notebook number one. Are they act as a notebook? You know anti-slip thing, the other. Are they protect the top cover when you're using it in tablet mode? So this is how It's intended to be used now, when you're holding it as a tablet, there's only going to be a couple different ways that you can hold on to it. So this is rubber.

I'll write again for a very good reason. Let us see that's what I like about Lenovo. They think about stuff, it's rubberized, so that you can hold it like this. Without your finger slipping or without not being able to hold on to it, it's also you know so that you can hold it with one hand here comfortably with your thumb and your palm on the edge and the rubberized grip on the back making it so that you actually don't just drop the thing. So let's show you the hinge up-close.

So this is what it looks like it's metal, it's strong. It feels robust like when you move it. It's not like those convertibles where they have a hinge in the middle that rotates, and then you turn the thing around. I mean what I like about that design is that you don't have the keyboard on the back when you're, when you're using it as a tablet. But what I like about this design is.

It doesn't feel like it's going to break in two seconds, like those other ones, whether they do or don't break I. Don't know, I've never actually used one for an extended period of time, but it just doesn't feel right to me. So the hinge bends here so here, if you can get in close, you can see it bends. This way like that and holds itself still until it gets to about 180 degrees, then it rotates the other way. Okay, now you can see it's not bending here anymore, so both of them.

So both of these two hinges have 180 degree rotations, but the way that it works is very smooth. So it goes one as you fold it back one then the other, and then, when you bring it back to notebook mode, it goes one back to here where it kind of snaps into place. Well, not snaps, but like there's, a bit of a field will click there and then the other until you actually close it. So the way it's meant to be used number one notebook mode, number two! You can use it in a stand mode like that, so you can actually sort of just go. Did it? The other way that it's meant to be used is tent mode, so it can obviously flip over there we go now we got our Windows UI, so yeah it didn't itself again.

So let's just go settings and brightness is oh that as bright as it gets, there must be an auto brightness thing going on here, that's adjusting it! So, ah, so there you go and then the last one, of course, is full-on tablet mode. So that's like that. So there you go. That's pretty much our hands-on with the Lenovo yoga 11, don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxing reviews and other computer videos. So slick made a good point.

This is really cool when you're in this mode, the keyboard is actually completely disabled. So you don't have to worry about just touching the rubber drippy parts. You can just mash the entire back, and you can see I'll bring up the text prompt here, nothing's actually going to happen at all I think I reduced the brightness, though somehow I, oh right, I took out the power plug. However, let's see so when you're in this mode keyboard still off yeah there's our on-screen keyboard when you're in Oh so probably hits triggered by that second hinge. So here we go.

Let's try this okay, so we go to our search box. So when we go back there, we go yep. So it's triggered by that second hinge. So that's why it's so important that it goes one hinge than the other. That's an extremely expensive hinge, design.

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