Lenovo launches the plush Yoga 900S convertible, X1 series notebooks and more
Lenovo today launched a veritable slew of hardware for their ThinkPad, ideapad and Yoga series notebooks across a variety of form factors ranging from convertibles, tablets, all-in-ones and more.
The most interesting piece of hardware on offer was their Yoga 900S notebook which made its debut at CES earlier this year. The Yoga 900S looks exceptionally bespoke up close with a polished metal external finish and unique watch-band style hinges that lets you flip the display all the way around to turn it into a slate or prop it up as a display for movie watching duties or even tent-style if so needed.
The Yoga 900S is light enough to comfortably hold one-handed
The banded watch-style hinges are sturdy and fetching, allowing you to flip it all the way around to turn the Yoga 900S into a tablet as needed
The mechanism itself and by extension the notebook itself is remarkably slim, allowing the chassis to be just 12.8mm thick, mking it the world’s thinnest convertibles on the planet. It’s also surprisingly light too at 999g.
In terms of hardware, the Malaysian version of the Yoga 900s will come with a 6th gen Intel Core m7 processor running Windows 10 Home, Intel HD graphics, up to 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. The display on the Yoga 900s is a 12.5-inch QHD touchscreen with 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution with a front-facing 720p videocall camera up front. The battery is rated for 12 hours of 1080p video playback. In terms of ports, the Yoga 900s comes with one USB 3.0 port, a USB Type C port with video out and a DC-in along with the obligatory audio combo jack. The Yoga 900S is now available in the market with prices starting from RM5,999 depending on configuration.
The slimness of the Yoga 900S makes it one of the best looking laptops in Lenovo’s inventory
At the same time, Lenovo also launched an array of X1 series hardware in the form of the ThinkPad X1 Yoga, the ThinkPad X1 tablet, the ThinkPad Carbon, the ThinkCentre X1 All-in-One and the Thinkvision X1 Visual Monitor. The highest end and best specced out of the lot, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga notebook costs a rather impressive RM9,799 but what you get for your money is a nippy Intel Core i7 vPro processor, up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM, a 512GB SSD, Intel HD Graphics and a 14-inch 1080P touchscreen crammed into a casing that’s just 1.2kg light and 16.8mm thin, making the ThinkPad X1 Yoga one of the thinnest 2-in-1 business laptops on the planet.
The ThinkPad X1 Yoga sports the Yoga’s flexibility with a 360-degree hinge and the ThinkPad’s sturdiness in one form factor
It also sports a fingerprint reader and a trio of USB 3.0 ports along with a reversible double-hinge that lets you flip it all the way around and back to turn it into a slate or use it as a display. It also has an upgunned variant with a 14-inch WQHD 2,560 x 1,440 pixel OLED touchscreen for a slightly higher price tag though the availability of this variant wasn’t announced at launch.
Also at the launch was their MIIX 700 detachable which comes as a tablet with a detachable folio-style keyboard. The slate portion comes with a 14-inch, 2,160 x 1,440 pixel resolution touchscreen running a 6th gen Intel Core m7 processor paired with up to 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD and integrated graphics with a battery rated for nine hours of video playback time. Plunk on the folio keyboard case and you can get some serious paper crunching work done. The tablet itself weights 780g while the case itself weighs 330g, with a combined weight of just over a kilo or so combined. The whole affair, including the case retails for RM4,199 and hits stores sometime in June this year.
The Lenovo MIIX 700 features a detachable keyboard that lets you use it as either a tablet or a notebook
While it wasn’t as heavily touted as the rest of the notebooks on display, Lenovo’s Pocket Projector nevertheless still drew in a crowd. The whole affair is the size and thickness of a chunky palm-sized deck of cards weighing 288g and lets you throw a 110-inch 480p resolution image on your wall from three metres away. A pair of built-in 1W speakers means you can get the party started with a portable movie watching experience and the integrated battery offers three hours of juice away from the mains; enough to watch your average feature movie. The Pocket Projector costs you a bit over a grand at RM1,099.
