Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 user reviews

Pros Intel core i7 8gb ram
Very functional conversion to tablet.
Motion control for hands free use.
Now Win8 actually makes sense.
Great video resolution.
Good battery life on balanced setting.

Cons Keyboard not backlit.
Stylus not included
Needs one more USB port. (the external DVD drive requires both ports, one for data and one for power)
Lenovo has a driver update for their Wi-Fi issue but isn't shipping with it preloaded.

Summary The hinges are nice and stiff.
Tent mode is great especially for video chat or watching videos. It makes it very portable. Makes for great business presentations. Hdmi connection for external monitor and Bluetooth. Full windows operating system so you aren't stuck with using mobile apps. Office 2013 Pro installed and linked to SkyDrive. (Would have been nice if Lenovo offered a larger SSD.)
For personal use for example, my home group is set to share my music collection and have Media Monkey installed so I can share my catalog notes between my yoga upstairs and my desktop downstairs.
Might be a bit pricey for some folks, but I don't have kids. ;)

Word of advice, buy your copy of office locally, Lenovo will just ship you an activation card and separately at that.

Pros Battery, Speed, flexibility, a tablet and a laptop.

Cons No complaints at all.

Summary I spend about 75% of my time in laptop mode, but the tablet mode stops having the need for an additional tablet. Windows 8 took me about an hour to get used to, now its just natural. Got to youtube and watch a video there. F4, Windows-X key are your friend. Best personal computer I have ever bought. Wifi drivers are updated. I added another 256 gig hard drive for 512 meg SSD, get the i7 with 8 gig also. If your wanting to save, get a refurb off of lenovo, they sell out quick and people resell on ebay so don't over pay, just stalk the outlet site and get a loaded one for 900$. I looked hard at the XPS 12 but this one beats it.

Don't believe the low ratings here, the wifi drivers are updated and the partition issue. Mine works great.

Pros Light, Fast, Good battery life, great build quality, nice design, great touch screen, love the convertible screen and use it more than I thought,

Cons My right palm keeps hitting the large touchpad which usually causes the mouse to jump and it messes up where I'm typing. Wish it had a 256GB SSD...right now using a 64GB SD card as a D drive.

Summary Once I installed Classic Shell, I had a great Windows laptop that can easily be a large tablet. Windows 8 interface is a start, but it needs more evolution to be efficient. I don't like the tiles since if they have active info in them, it's hard to identify them...I'd rather have a start menu and active widgets that show me the info I want.

Pros I can find no pros that outweight the cons.

Cons Wifi issues from day one with difficulty connecting. It is not facile in connecting even when it works.
Feels like it has a sturdy build but screen cracked within 3 weeks while in my car, in a bag, in a case. Absolute crap build.

Summary In essence, I think this is a poorly built model. If the flexibility afforded by a yoga is met with fragility, then the computer is worthless. This is worthless.