The newly launched Lenovo Yoga Book may be a road warrior’s ultimate dream machine
In the ever elusive quest for performance, lightness and versatility, Lenovo’s new Yoga Book may have just had it beat.
The whole affair straddles the lines between a convertible and a tablet, albeit one that is ridiculously slim at 4.05mm and weighs 690g. Whereas other convertibles integrate a detachable keyboard, the Yoga Book has its touch Halo Keyboard permanently attached to it via a 360-degree hinge akin to their higher end Yoga notebooks.
It appears at will, allowing you to swap between a backlit keyboard which has haptic feedback for better tactility or acting as a stylus pad at will for the provided Real Pen stylus that has 2,048 levels of sensitivity so you can doodle and sketch on the Halo Keyboard like real paper. The Real Pen stylus also has an interesting trick: you can clip on a piece of paper on the Halo Keyboard section and write down notes which will end up digitised onto the Yoga Book.
The slate’s display is a 10.1-inch touchscreenwith 1,920 x 1200 pixel resolution, a brightness of 400 nits and a 70% colour gamut. This ought to make it a treat for artists and doodlers combined with the stylus. Hardware clocks in with an Intel Atom x5-Z8550 processor, 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage with a microSD card augmenting it by 128GB while a single Nano SIM slot lets you use it in the field without being tethered to Wi-Fi.
From a bird’s eye view, what you have is essentially an ultra light paperwork cruncher with a full keyboard and the ability to offer full use of a stylus too in a form factor that makes it compact enough to tote anywhere without having to worry about weight or portability concerns. Till we test it, this may just be the road warrior’s grail for a productivity workhorse. The Yoga Book comes in your choice of either Windows 10 or Android Marshmallow as an OS and, will retail for RM2,599 inclusive of GST. The Yoga Book will be available from the end of December onwards at all Lenovo exclusive stores in Malaysia.
