Lenovo - Yoga 710 15 2-in-1 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Black

After many hours of searching, I came to the conclusion that this computer- the Lenovo Yoga 710 15.6" was the best option on the web. You can find the specs sheet here: http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Export/20160801/182810918/YOGA%20710%2015%20single%20model%20201608011828.pdf. Note- I've had this laptop for 2 days at the time of writing the review. Pros: 1. The physical design and footprint of the laptop is smaller than what you'd normally expect from a 15.6" computer- the bezels on the sides and on the top of the screen are less than or equal to 0.5" in width- with the side bevels being around 0.3"- this is apparent from the photos in the product description. The laptop is quite thin and only weighs 4.4 pounds- a stark contrast to other 15.6" laptops, which typically run from 4.6-5.2 pounds in weight. 2. The screen is bright with a maximum output of 300 nits. Of course, the color balance and contrast can be changed. 3. The computer runs relatively quietly, even when running heavy applications. This is good because loud fans can be distracting and annoying to roommates who are trying to sleep, or to fellow students in lecture halls. 4. The keyboard is crisp and responsive to touch- no mushiness is observed. 5. The laptop is quite quick of course- it has an i7 6500u processor, 16 gb of ddr4 2133 mhz ram, a 256 gb ssd, and a discrete nvidia geforce 940mx graphics card which can be switched on when the integrated intel graphics 520 starts to get overloaded. Time from power-on to login screen is around 3-5 seconds and shutdown time is around 10 seconds. 6. Sound quality from the speakers is quite good in the low and medium ranges, though like with many laptop computers, higher registers can be a bit weak. 7. The 720p web camera works well. 8. Battery life, considering the discrete graphics card, the bright screen, and the powerful microprocessor, is good. In my experience, 7 hours of moderate-heavy use. Cons: 1. Like other laptops of the 510 and 710 line, the right shift key is interestingly placed- instead of it being to the direct right of the / or ? key, it is to the right of an up arrow key- a departure from standard laptop keyboard arrangements. This change will take a bit of time to adjust to- even I sometimes accidentally press the up arrow in lieu of the right shift key when using capital letters. 2. The touchpad tracks my finger motion well, but the lower- right side of the touchpad will actually go down about 0.5 millimeters before it hits resistance and starts the clicking process. In other words, it seems like there is a two-stage click on the right side of the touchpad. However, the actual clicking sound the touchpad makes is not very loud- a plus. 3. Because of the thin bezel, the touchscreen might take some time to get used to, especially when you're making contact with the corners of the screen. Sometimes I'll have to press an area twice before I can get the screen to register, though once I enabled visual feedback of my touches on the screen this occurrence dropped to about 5% of the time I used the screen. 4. I believe this is the fan, but the interior of the computer makes a static-y/buzzing sound when it is operating. 5. No RJ-45 ethernet port, but this is a minor con at least for me. 6. The metal chassis that makes the design of this a pro can attract fingerprints- clean them off every once in a while. Overall, a great computer for the price. Rate 9/10 and would recommend to anyone. Hope you found this helpful

I purchased this laptop on sale through the Best Buy website as it was sold out in all stores within 250 miles. The online Best Buy shopping experience was a disaster to say the least. Their customer service system was completely incompetent and no help AT ALL! I eventually had to resort to having a friend order the laptop for me because Best Buy had locked out use of my Best Buy Visa account. I'm still waiting to have someone call me to unlock my account.... four days later. Regardless, I have received the laptop. The feel is very premium. It is larger than my previous Lenovo x220 which I am retiring after 6 years of rigorous use. The screen on this laptop is extremely vivid and bright. Color contrast is great! The display is a glossy display, so if you work in a bright space, you will have to turn the screen to full brightness and learn to deal with glares.... which is just an issue with glossy screen (the x220 was a matte finish screen). The size an weight of the laptop is great for a daily user. Not the most portable laptop (but no 15" laptop is going to compare to a 13" laptop). However, it is very reasonable to throw this in my bag and go to the coffee shop to work. I was very surprised with the minimal amount of bloatware installed on this laptop. I took the time to clean it off a bit as soon as getting it. I highly recommend taking a few hours to just sit down and take time to get this set up and backed up right from the beginning (just general good practice for a new computer). This computer is also really quick. The I7 processor coupled with the SSD allow this computer to start up and shut down much quicker than my last computer. This in addition to the 16 gb of high speed ram make this computer a serious workforce (as far as laptops go). If you are coming from a quadcore workstation, you probably will be stepping back, but as far as a laptop goes, this one comes very close to the most premium units out there for a budget price. There are a few quirks about this model that you will have to get used to. As well documented here, the right hand shift key is terribly placed. I'm still trying to get used to it. In addition, there are only 2 USB ports. I will have to couple this with a powered USB hub to be able to use it at home. In addition, there is no ethernet port. Which may be fine for most people as it supports the newest wifi formats. However, when I was in college, there were still spaces in the dorms which did not get wifi and required ethernet connection to the wall or installation of your own router. So, this may be something to keep in mind for students. But it can be an easy remedy. You may also need to purchase an external USB CD/DVD drive for making backup disks or software installation. However, this is becoming less necessary with almost all major software available for download. In addition, the battery life isn't the best.... just average. I seem to be able to get about 6 hours out of it on regular use. But if you are running power hungry applications, this may be significantly reduced. Especially if you are taxing the video card in addition to the processor. I highly recommend giving this laptop a strong consideration if you are looking for a powerful laptop with respectable battery life on a budget.

I bought this computer on Christmas Eve, 2016. After reading the reviews for this computer, I thought it was a solid buy, had impressive specs - especially because a comparable computer/tablet was significantly more expensive - and I decided to pull the trigger on it. Rather than going with a tablet with a blue tooth keyboard, I opted to go for a touch screen lap top. First, the good: The resolution on the screen is quite good, and the display is glossy with crisp colors. Processing speed is wonderful, and there were no issues running programs. The touch screen was responsive, and precise. In short, it ran exactly as it should. The not so good: The high gloss finish of the screen, and even the matte black of the shell of the laptop, are fingerprint magnets. If seeing fingerprints on your items is a "thing" for you, then I would say stay away. It's unavoidable. A nit-picky thing is the location of the Shift key on the right side of the keyboard, which is literally driving me crazy. In order to squeeze in all of the keys that needed to be squeezed into he full sized keyboard, the arrow keys are located just below the shift key. The up-arrow is located directly to the left of the Shift key. I use this shift key when capitalizing letters as I type. Having the up arrow next to a smaller shift key means that 90% of the time, I try to capitalize a letter, the cursor moves up one line, to the wrong sentence. If you're typing quickly, this can mean that you are typing a sentence mid-way through the sentence preceding it. It's very annoying, but it's personal to me - so I'm not sure if you will experience this. The wifi connection is also not good. I have no idea why, but the machine is poor to pick up a wifi signal. If you're in an area where the signal strength is below excellent, good luck getting online at a speed we would consider reasonable in 2017. If it's a low signal, just use your phone for the internet. Seriously. It's that bad. Windows 10: I just don't like it. Maybe it's the learning curve, maybe it's the layout - but I'm not a fan. It just doesn't seem intuitive, and when you're into tablet mode, it's even worse. This could change in time though, we'll see. The bad: Battery life. Horrible. The thing burns through a charge like nothing I've seen. I think my first IBM laptop in 1999 had better battery life. That's not hyperbole. If you don't have this machine plugged in while you're working you could probably hold your breath longer than this holds a charge. Ok, maybe that last part was a bit of hyperbole, but you get the point. It's not good. It doesn't work: So I've had this machine for about three months. Two months in and the monitor goes from crisp and sharp to this weird purple plaid color. . . then to this strange green/purple plaid pattern . . . then just some stripes and mostly grey. I guess the whole "yoga" theme where you can turn the monitor backward (you know, it's intended usage) can wreak havoc on the monitor connections. Mine came loose. Best Buy's Geek Squad was very reasonable, and within about 14 days, they had my machine shipped off, fixed, and sent back to the store - and kept me apprised of the updates the whole way. Great! Literally 6 minutes after I get the computer home, my wife is using the touch screen and the plaid screen of death is back! Naturally, I look at it to see what's the matter, and what-do-ya-know - same exact thing. So, I take it back to Best Buy for the 2nd time in three months because it's not working. Allegedly, the monitor cable was bad, and so was the display. Still waiting on parts to come in. At the end of the day, I bought this computer because of the specs, the touch screen, and the price. What I should have done is buy a Mac Book or iPad Pro, ate the difference in price, and had a functioning and intuitive product. Live and learn I guess.

I give this laptop 5 stars, not because it's perfect but because it's the best value one can get for the budget. As the matter of fact there are some serious concessions that you'll have to make but I think it's more than worth it. I picked this one up at the 849 discount week, with 150 college discount and an open box discount, so I ended up paying a little over 650 including tax. That being said, even at 899 (the current discount) this is still the best value. Why? read on. First of, 16GB Ram, 256GB SSD and a dedicated (albeit DDR3 version) GPU for less than 1000, combined with the portability of this machine is great. The footprint of this laptop is almost identical to a macbook pro. Second and for me more important is the reason why I chose this laptop. I'm a UX designer and use Illustrator & Photoshop on a daily basis. I needed a second macbook pro but since Apple hasn't realeased anything new in a long time, I couldn't justify spending $2800 on a machine that has a Broadwell chip in it, which is just slightly better than the Haswell Macbook Pro that I already own. I decided that I wanted a laptop for the interim and was willing to spend around $500 for it. I didn't care if it would break in a year, I just needed it to run Photoshop and Illustrator and was willing to sacrifice speed for budget. Now, when I saw the specs on this laptop, I banked out a little bit more money and ordered this machine. It's a signature edition (or very close to it) since it has almost no bloatware. quickly installed some of my programs on it and decided to do a head to head test with my macbook pro. It's a Haswell Macbook Pro with 8GB of Ram and 256GB of SSD and a quad core i7. I was pleasently surprised that photoshop started about 1 second faster than my macbook. I expected it to be slower. Illustrator, however, was a huge difference. On the Lenovo it started 10 seconds faster. It didn't just stop there, saving files, exporting files and actions were faster as well. Pretty good for a interim laptop, right? Third, everything is absolutely beautiful about this laptop. The minimal bezels are beautiful, the keyboard types nice a fast, The whole body is made out of aluminum and the presenter mode is perfect to watch a movie in bed. Turning the speakers upward and dispersing the heat a bit better so the fans don't spin that much. I've played simple games like Dota2 and smite with no problem. Streaming from my Xbox for more demanding games is flawless. Now, I read some complaints about the right shift button and indeed, it's pretty annoying but I remapped the up key to also be a shift key, done. One big thing is the fan noise however. It is really loud, even while idle. The community however is pretty active and I'm confident that TPFC will bring out a fix for it so we can control our fans. Because the CPU temp is pretty cool under load. So I don't really understand why the fans are spinning. If you're looking for a quite laptop, don't get this laptop. Some other small cons: *wifi card is not as good as my old macbook pro *touchpad is weird but I come from apple so I bought a bluetooth mouse. solved. If you're looking for a good laptop under 1000, this is by far your best companion.

There's a lot to like here, though one major flaw (and a few minor flaws) really kill this laptop for me. Pros first: -The laptop feels well built and sturdy overall. -The fingerprint reader is fast and accurate. -The keyboard is backlit and pretty great to type on (except for the terrible right shift key). -4k screen is pin-sharp (with serious downsides, however). -The i7/16gb RAM/256 SSD/discreet graphics add up to strong all around performance. (But not a robust gaming machine; if that's what you want you need a quad-core i7 and a better graphics chip.) -Battery life is plenty long for my purposes. -Runs very quiet. I have seen multiple customer reviews that complain about a loud fan. Mine rarely turns on, and when it does it is very quiet. There was a BIOS update about a month before I purchased mine. Maybe that fixed the issue. Or maybe the loud units are simply defective. If you have one with a fan that runs often and loudly, I would return it while you can rather than deal with Lenovo's customer service looking for a fix. Cons: -The screen (part 1). Yes, it is 4k, and yes it is very sharp. But it is dimmer than many other laptop displays. I have turned off auto-brightness and looked over the pre-set power plans to no avail. Your stuck with the a max brightness that in a well lit room is enough to get work done but not enough to really cut through the reflections on the glossy screen. Not terrible. Not WAY too dim. But man an extra 15% brightness would go a long way. -The screen (part 2): the color accuracy is way off, especially the white point, which has a constant blue-gray tint. I've tried calibrating the screen myself (which is not easy, btw), and getting a truer white results (for me) in washed out primary colors. Perhaps professional calibration software could help, but that's 200+ dollars. What good is a super sharp picture of snowy countryside when the perfect fresh snow looks like the gray snow alongside the highway after cars have driven on it? Know what I'm saying. There's more to a good screen that pixel-count. I have seen some people write that they use this for photo editing; that seems a bit absurd to me with this flawed color palate. WHAT DO YOU SAY LENOVO, HOOK US UP WITH SOME FREE CALBRATION SOFTWARE TO CLEAN UP THIS MESS. -While the build quality feels sturdy, my laptop lid (like many other users' lids) is on crooked. Seriously. It does not line up correctly with the base of the laptop. You can see it if you are looking for it, and you can definitely feel it when you run your fingers along the seams; there's a pronounced lip where there should not be one. It still feels sturdy, and the hinge operates perfectly fine. But you have to wonder about the quality control standards if this is happening with lots of units. And you have to wonder what else they might have screwed up and what might break right after your warranty expires. -That shift key. Holy moly, is it annoying. I have cursed under my breath many times while typing this review because of it. It is half the size of a normal shift key and in the wrong place. If you touch type, you will routinely hit the up arrow key instead of the shift key, then you will find yourself typing one line up from where you want right in the middle of an existing sentence. Stupid. Dumb. Why Lenovo? WHY? So, all said and done, it comes down to a few things. Performance is solid. Build appears solid (despite the crooked lid). But the screen is very disappointing and that shift key is maddening. Good luck.

I bought this laptop for photo editing. The light weight and sleek design, is very appealing. Not to mention, the screen clarity is very nice. I haven't had any issue with the keyboard function itself, but the shift key was a little hard to get used to, especially when 90% of all other shift keys, are a standard placement and size. But, that's not my issue with this computer. My issue is with the touchpad. Plain and simple, Apple has it right. The functionality is pretty spot on with the MacBook's. And going from that brand to this brand, is going to be a night and day difference. First off, if you're going to use Lightroom on this laptop, you had better buy a blue tooth mouse. The touchpad is very glitchy, and after contacting Lenovo 2 times, the problem was never resolved. They will try to tell you to go to their website and check for driver updates, but their website doesn't have the newest update! I spent an hour in an online chat with a technician on trying to get across to him that synaptics offers a new update for the touchpad driver, but the Lenovo laptop won't install it, and that I wanted to know how to install it properly.....Well that didn't work out. Pros: -Light Weight -Fast load time from start up -Great Resolution -Plenty of RAM for photo editing in Photoshop and Lightroom -2 GB of dedicated graphics -The design is great! Cons: -Touchpad is sketchy in Lightroom (when the pointer highlights a hyperlinked item in LR, and you let it hover, you cannot scroll through that menu until you move the pointer off of that hyperlink -Touchpad response to clicking- I constantly have to click twice for something to open (yes these are hyperlinked items) -Touchpad- When using two finger scrolling, the scrolling is suppose to stop when you lift one finger off of the touchpad. This doesn't happen with this touchpad, because it continues to scroll which is stupid annoying -Touchpad- When you turn off the option to use the lower right side of the touchpad as a way to click and open up your menu options, it renders that side useless to clicking and selecting anything. Meaning, if you disable the right side click option, you will not be able to use the right side for clicking, AT ALL. -Touchpad- Other 2-1 laptops are offering more options in their touchpad settings, but that is not the case in the Lenovo setup. The Lenovo customized settings are very minimal. -Touchpad- I turned off the ability "Touch to click" in the settings menu, which worked....until I restart my computer or turn it off and then the ability to touch to click is operating again....but, and here's the kicker...I go to the setting menu and that option is STILL TURNED OFF....go figure.....ghost in the machine?????? -USB Port ejection- It seems to be happening a lot more lately that I have to turn the laptop off, or even restart it, to get the drive to eject. I have updated every driver and it still has problems. Oh by the way, I've only been using this laptop for 12 days. If you don't believe me about these issues, go to a best buy and try them out for yourself.

I purchased this laptop for college and it has done everything i've asked of it and has done it flawlessly. It's sleek, thin, and very portable which makes taking it to and from class extremely easy. The screen on this thing is gorgeous as well, its bring, vivid, and has really thin bezels which makes it stand out even more. While i was just looking for a laptop to take to and from class, i was presently surprised to see that my version of this laptop came with a separate nvidia graphics card which allows me to play games on it at a decent resolution and frame rate. One small issue is that if you do plan to use this for gaming a lot, you better have a charger handy because it drains the battery pretty quick; gaming with a graphic intensive game drained my battery in about 2 hours. The flip around touch screen is very nice too and its come in handy a lot when i have ebooks for my classes because i can flip the screen around, rotate it into a portrait orientation, and then write directly on the screen to take notes. One gripe i have about the touch screen is that you can't use a pen like the Microsoft surface, you can only use a stylus which typically are bigger and not as precise as a pen would be, but it still works just not as nicely as i would have wanted. Another small issue i have with this is that the shift key is positioned very weirdly on the keyboard; its about the left arrow key and to the right of the arrow up key which means that if you use the arrows or the shift key a lot, you're probably going to be mixing up the two for a few weeks until you get used to it. Once you get used to it its not bad at all. The battery could also be bigger, i get around 8 hours on a charge with the brightness at mid-high and running programs like one note, power point, and a browser. One thing i read before purchasing this laptop was that people were complaining that the power button was on the side of the laptop and they feared that they were going to turn the laptop off accidentally. This has never happened to me and i have been using this laptop for about 4 months so i dont think its an issue at all. So overall a fantastic laptop and i would highly recommend it

I just recently purchased this 2-in-1. I was debating between this and an HP Spectre, but when I saw this had double the RAM, and a better graphics card I figured I'd give the Yoga 710 a go. Pros: -Very lightweight for a 15" laptop -The display is amazing! -Very quick thanks to the i7 and the SSD Cons: -The fan. The very first time I booted it up, I heard the fan humming away. It's not really a true "hum" sound, but more of an old motor sound. It's very obnoxious. It constantly runs, even when I'm doing nothing. -The speakers are on the bottom of the laptop. I tested out some songs and videos and thought "This is kind of muffled sounding." After putting my ear up to the laptop, I discovered the speakers were on the bottom, like really?? They sound great if you lay the YOGA back on it's screen so the speakers face out, but otherwise it's very muffled. -As others have said, the shift key on the right side is very small. Even while typing this I managed to hit the "up arrow" many times causing me to type on the previous line. To truly use the right shift key, I need to basically remove my right hand from the keyboard to make it work. While everything about it is very nice on a first glance, it has far too many issues for me to want to keep it. I'd only recommend this if you were to buy other external speakers, and another keyboard to go with it, but that defeats the purpose of a laptop.