Lenovo yoga 900
The
Lenovo Yoga 900 keeps the slim watchband-style hinge from last year's version,
and adds major upgrades to performance and battery life. Even the lowest-cost
version includes a big 256GB SSD.
Dispplay It has a bright, super-sharp multi-touch display, with
a resolution of 3200 x 1800 pixels ("QHD+"). It has a thick bezel
running along the bottom, giving it a 16 x 9 aspect ratio, which is great for
watching video but makes just about everything else a little awkward. Position
another 13-inch laptop next to the Yoga — whether it’s a MacBook (16:10) or the
new Surface Book (3:2) — and the Yoga’s display will look slightly compressed
in comparison. The Yoga 900 weighs 2.8 pounds and measures 0.59 by 12.75 by 8.96
inches. All of the standard ports are there, with the addition of a USB Type-C
port. It is slightly heavier and thicker than last year’s Yoga
3 Pro laptop. But it never felt heavy to carry around. And when you consider
the new stuff included in this one, it’s forgivable.
That "stuff" includes Intel’s sixth-generation Core i5
or i7 Skylake processor, a new chip touted for its speed, efficiency and
graphics support; along with an Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU. The previous Yoga
model got dinged for slowness; that wasn’t my experience with this one. In
everyday use, the Yoga 900 was more than capable of running multiple apps,
switching between tasks, and streaming video without any stutters.
The Yoga 900’s battery life is definitely improved
over last year’s Yoga 3 Pro, but compared to other laptops in this class, it’s
still not the best. In a Verge battery test, the Lenovo Yoga 900 lived up to
the company’s claim of nine hours. During a more normal day of use, running
multiple apps, checking email, and browsing the web with some battery-saving
settings turned on, it was inconsistent. Some days it lasted around five and a
half hours, and other days closer to seven and a half. In either instance it
doesn’t match the new Surface Book or recent MacBook Pro models. Performance
This is where the 900 really does the
job. As mentioned previously, the review model I was using was the top-end
version of the 900 series. As you'd expect, Windows 10 ran perfectly smoothly
in both Tablet and Desktop mode, with programs loading extremely quickly and no
sign of any slowdown or crashes.
Whether or not you have the
super-boss level version of the Yoga 900, with the new i5 and i7 processors
backed up by SSDs and at least 8GB of RAM in each model, this device is
sufficiently equipped to deal with pretty much anything you throw at it – short
of hardcore gaming.
In terms of exact configurations, you
can choose between the Intel Core i5-6200U or i7-6500U processors, 8GB of RAM –
which can be upgrade to 16GB – and either a 256GB or 512GB SSD.
The integrated Intel HD Graphics 520
also does enough for the average user. The 900 scored fairly well on the PCMark
8 test, clocking in at 2,403. This puts it ever so slightly ahead of the
Surface Pro 4’s 2,396 and somewhat behind the Dell XPS 13 Skylake’s 2,543.
In the Geekbench multi-core scores,
the 900 beat both the Surface Pro 4 and theXPS 13. While the 900 had a score of 6,786, the
Surface came in at 6,727 and the XPS at 6,242.
In 3DMark: Fire Strike test, the 900
scored a respectable 834. This puts it in the range of the Surface Pro and XPS
13 (Skylake), with scores of 853 and 838 respectively. And in the Cloud Gate
test it came in at 5,860, behind the Surface Pro with 6,109 and the above the
XPS 13 with 5,844.
Essentially, you won’t notice much
difference between the Yoga 900 and similar Ultrabooks. The device is more than
capable of handling most tasks, but it obviously isn't a gamer’s dream in terms
of graphical performance.
But,Because of the change to more powerful processors, the body adds a
little thickness. A few keys on the keyboard suffer from awkward placement.
THE BOTTOM LINE Lenovo clearly listened to feedback about last year's
high-end Yoga, keeping the excellent overall design but boosting the specs to
match other premium 13-inch laptops. Specifications
·
Processor: 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U
(dual-core, 4MB cache, up to 3.1GHz with Turbo Boost)
·
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
·
Display: 13.3-inch QHD+ 3,200 x 1,800
IPS display, 10-point multitouch, 300 nits brightness
·
Storage: 512GB SSD
·
Memory: 16GB LP-DDR3 RAM
·
Camera: 720p front-facing
·
Ports: 2 x USB Type A 3.0, 1 x USB
Type C 3.0 with video out, 1 x DC input with USB 2.0 functionality, 4-in-1 card
reader, audio combo jack.
·
Weight: 2.84 pounds
·
Size: 12.75 x 8.86 x 0.59 inches
Price :$1199.00
VS Apple MacBook Pro
with Retina Display (13-inch,2015) The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display adds
the Force Touch trackpad from the new MacBook as well as fifth generation Intel
processors, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 graphics, and up to 10 hours of battery
life.Apple adds new Intel CPUs, faster memory, longer battery life and
its new Force Touch trackpad to the standard 13-inch MacBook Pro, which keeps
its generous selection of ports. When compared to last year’s
13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, the new models are only 7 percent faster than the
older laptops they respectively replace. In order to see gains over 10 percent,
you have to compare the new laptop to models released in 2013.
The
graphics improvement is much more impressive: The new 13-inch Retina MacBook
Pro had a 29 percent increase over last year’s models in the Cinebench OpenGL
tests. It’s not the 40 percent that Apple touts, but Apple’s testing was done
with a different benchmark that includes three video games.
In the Black Magic Disk Speed Test, the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro
posted an average write speed of 1156.1 MBps and an average read speed of
1299.9 MBps. The 13-inch Macbook Pro hasn't had
a radical redesign, and its shape, dimensions, weight and port configurations
are identical to the outgoing model. That means two Thunderbolt 2 ports, a USB
3.0 port, a headphone jack and a MagSafe 2 port on the left, and a second USB
3.0 port, SDXC card slot and HDMI 1.4 port on the right. The screen
resolution is 2,560 x 1,600 pixels, but you actually get the screen real-estate
of a 1,280 x 800 pixel-resolution display due to the pixel-doubled effect that
provides Retina-like sharpness. Apps like SwitchResX allow you to access even
higher resolutions than OS X allows, stretching all the way up to 3,360 x
2,100.
Text is too tiny to be legible at that setting, but opting for one
in-between, such as 1,920 x 1,200, lets you fit much more of spreadsheets and
other apps into the display than any of the default screen resolutions at the
expensive of clarity.
but,The 2015 updates make only a minor difference to the hands-on
experience, while similar high-end 13-inch laptops continue to get thinner and
lighter.
THE BOTTOM LINE While the
upcoming 12-inch MacBook has all the buzz, this 13-inch system gets a handful
of updates to remain a top choice for combining power and portability. Specs Display:13.3-inch Processor: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed Standard :2.7GHz Memory
(RAM):8GB Solid State Drive (SSD):128GB Processor
Speed Maximum: 3.1GHz 3D: Intel Iris 6100 Display
Finish : Glass Ethernet: No Wi-Fi: 801.11ac
Mobile Broadband/3G: No Bluetooth: 4.0 Webcam: Yes HDMI: Yes DisplayPort: 2 (Thunderbolt)
Audio Connections: Single multi-jack
USB 3.0 : 2 Price:$1299:00,
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