Lenovo - Yoga 730 2-in-1 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Iron Gray

After months of research and comparing products, I made the decision to go with this model. After one month of use, I do not regret this decision. **DISCLAIMER** I did not purchase a pen so there is no review of the laptop's pen abilities. To start, the unboxing was great. The Yoga 730 series has an amazing design. The bezels are not too invasive, the 360 flexibility is great and its not hard to move back and forth. The aluminum chassis makes the laptop look sturdy and it does hold up. Its sleek, sophisticated, and most of all it remains light and easy to carry. Even with it being on the heavier side as far as ultrabooks go, it is not a hard device to lug around. Lenovo, as they always do, SERIOUSLY delivers on the keyboard and mouse pad. It is arguably the best features of the Yoga 730. The mouse pad in particular, is the best one I have ever used hands down. Its incredibly responsive and it almost eliminates the need for a mouse if you don't plan on using it. The touch screen itself is good. Where I ran into the only issues I have overall with the laptop is tablet mode. The automatic rotate and switch feature is rather slow at times. At one point, it would stay in tablet mode and not auto rotate, which was annoying. I would highly suggest going into your tablet mode settings and set it to "Never switch and don't ask" and then switching to tablet mode manually as you wish to use it. Above everything else, I absolutely love how versatile this particular model is. Although I dislike the increasingly annoying trend of preventing self upgrading the RAM, this model allows you to upgrade the SSD which is necessary if you are easily strapped for storage space. It has 2 USB 3.0 Ports, an HDMI output, and best of all a Thunderbolt 3 USB port. I have a Razer Core GPU enclosure and I am simply amazed by how well the Yoga 730 takes to it and can run games (with external monitor). Of course most of the hard work is being done by the external enclosure, and there are FAR better options for gaming laptops, the PC still holds up incredibly well for gaming with the right amount of help. This is a well put together machine, and for anyone who needs a new laptop, don't sleep on Lenovo. I am very happy with this product. I am more than certain, you will be as well!

It should be known that I registered the default Windows OS it comes with to my Microsoft account and then immediately formatted the PC with Linux (Fedora). IT comes loaded with some vendor software that I did not bother to look at. Overall, it performs very admirably. I am quite impressed with it. Quick, decent battery life, touch screen with a pen is awesome. and it folds into tablet mode. What's not to love? It's a great ultrabook style laptop. I highly recommend it. For anyone considering loading Ubuntu or Fedora on this laptop from personal experience I can tell you I had a few issues I needed to deal with to get it working. Firstly, you will need to disable Secure Boot in the BIOS (WARNING THIS WILL ERASE YOUR HDD COMPLETELY!!!) to get wifi working. You can install Linux with it enabled but it will likely affect your wifi hardware and prevent it from working. The next thing, on Ubuntu 18.04 I had to blacklist a kernel module ideapad to get WIFI working, this was not the case on Fedora 29 (dunno why). This was accomplished by running the command sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ideapad.conf <<< "blacklist ideapad_laptop" The fingerprint reader does not work in Linux. Synaptic refuses to release drivers for it. Which I think Lenovo, being a supporter of Linux, should change hardware vendors in that case. The pen however works fantastic if you load on xOrg and not Wayland. Wayland is still to young to work properly IMHO on just about any device.

We purchased our Lenova Yoga 730 i7 on 9/23/18 at a Best Buy in Castleton, IN. The Salesman at Best Buy said it was a great laptop computer. We were purchasing a new laptop for my daughter as she is Pre-Med at IUPUI. I received a text from my daughter 3 months later showing me a picture of the screen on her new laptop. There were a series of black and white vertical lines that totally disrupted what you could see on the screen. This was just before finals week. She shut the computer off and restarted and it was okay. I received a call 2 weeks ago and she sent me a video of what here computer screen was doing. Again, wide vertical white and black strips with a loud static noise coming from the computer. I couldn't make out anything on the computer screen. I had her take the computer back to the Best Buy Store in Castleton, IN and they told here that they've seen this before with this computer. They told her that it would be 2-3 weeks to send the computer back into Lenovo for warranty. They said that if Lenovo couldn't duplicate what the computer has been doing when they went to evaluate it that they would not fix it and it would get sent back. So I just spent over $1000 for a computer that can't work more than 3 months and to find out that they only way it can be fixed is if it stops working. Really!! I'm furious!! This is my first time purchasing a Lenovo PC and it will be my last!!! I won't hesitate to tell everyone I know!

I was quickly impressed by the sleek design and 2-1 functionality especially with the pen. But immediately after unboxing. I realized that was all it had going for it. Returned within days. WiFi issues. Yes they exist. Your connection will drop every 5 minutes or less. Immediately checked in the settings to see if the driver was up to date, which it was, restarted and the issue persist. Finally I was able to find a newer driver online that I had to manually install. Once installed, the WiFi worked consistently but was slow. My 4 year old Acer is faster. There is a severe lack of software support from Lenovo or Realtek (the wireless chip manufacturer) to correct this issue. Lenovo was trying to skimp out by using a cheaper less supported chip and it shows. Hardware issues Screen flickering. By the end of day 4, the screen had flickered twice. Not a huge issue but I'd imagine it would get worse if I kept it for longer. Keyboard issues. Keys randomly stopped working all the time. Lag is present when you type. At first I thought it was a software issue as one second it would work and the next it would not. So I tried updating drivers, factory resetting, resetting bios, disabling keyboard settings, etc. Nothing worked. I concluded it was a hardware issue. Do NOT buy this laptop if you want to type or go online. It is worthless. Due to Lenovo spending extra money on the sleek all metal design as compared to other manufacturers. They use cheaper less reliable components. Very disappointed.

Bought the Lenovo for work. Seemed like a great device with the option to be able to use it as a tablet too. However after I had it 17 days (past the 15 return date) the battery wouldn't charge. Contacted support and they have me try new drives, updating etc. When that doesn't work they tell me to mail it to their repair center. I told them no I spent over $1000 and that isn't going to happen as I use it for work and can't just send it out for repair. AND it is brand new I should not have to do that. So they charge me another $84.00 and someone will come to the house to fix it (I guess you get this option 1 time under warranty? not sure) Anyway they took my $84.00 8 days ago and still no one has shown up or contacted me to fix the battery. So I contacted them again yesterday to ask when someone is going to come fix it. Well seems they are out of the parts (what no batteries???) so i need to wait until they get the parts to have someone fix it. So here I sit attached to the wall when I want to use my brand new expensive Lenovo. Also no idea if when they fix it if it will actually be repaired correctly and work with no issues going forward. I should have probably bought a regular laptop from a different company as this one doesn't seem to care that a brand new machine has issues. So right now the way I am feeling about this probably won't buy their brand again in the future.

I purchase the Lenovo Yoga 730 15 a few days ago and I am very happy with it. I think a lot of the negative reviews come from people who don’t update their drivers and such, as I to had some problems with it out of the box, but they were all resolved once I updated my drivers. I purchased this laptop for school work and light web browsing. And I couldn’t be happier. I purchased it for about 830 dollars after tax, and I got 100 dollars off with the student discount. For the price, this laptop is amazing. I’ve been seeing a lot of people complain about the battery life, which I get up to 10 hours on battery saver mode and average about 7-8 hours on performance mode. Which is perfectly fine especially when it has lightning fast charging, I can get 2 hours of battery life in 15 minutes of charging, and it is fully charged within 45 minutes to 1 hour. The trackpad is excellent, probably the best I’ve ever used on a laptop. The i7 core is incredibly fast and is great for music production and photoshop. It’s also light as feather and has a great screen. I’m not thrilled about touchscreen and tablet support, but they work great and though I never really use them, their still a cool option to have. Overall, if you’re a student on a budget, you cannot go wrong with this laptop. I compared it to other laptops In the same price range and they were less powerful and more expsnive. I give the lonovo 730 15 i7 model a solid 8/10.

I purchased this computer and loved it at first. It is designed very nicely, light weight, beautiful big screen. The first laptop I received had an issue with the laptop screen staying open. Because it can turn into a tablet you can move the screen, the problem is it will move on it’s own. I tried to lay back on my sofa with it and it will fall forward or back. It’s not in a stiff position so it moves too much. A few times it just randomly closed from a slight movement I made. I took it back in hopes I had a defective laptop and exchanged it for a new one. After one hour of using the 2nd computer my screen started flickering. I got scared and thought maybe it was my lights that flickered not the computer. Then the next day it flickered non stop. Lines all through the computer flickering. A few times it had a black screen, then flicker, then a white screen with static. I finally just returned the computer and got a full refund. I’m not the only one with a flickering screen issue. If you simply google or YouTube this problem, you can see examples of others having this issue. It’s a good looking computer but after 2 that didn’t work well right out the box, no thanks!

I just bought this yesterday and today, it is not detecting Wifi networks. Well, that isn't quite true. It detects them for a total of 5 seconds and then says that there are no wifi networks available. There are 2 very strong networks here at my work and about 10 others very close. I uninstalled the antivirus thinking it might be interfering. No luck. I upgraded the drivers. No luck. I downgraded the drivers. No luck. I disabled and reenabled the card. No luck. I have just about run out of things to do. It doesn't even pick up the signal when I am standing right under the access point! I have read Lenovo's responses to similar issues about making sure that the routers have the latest firmware. This is pretty much garbage advice as it is impossible to know what level of firmware a particular router is on unless you own it, so forget using wifi anywhere else than home. That pretty much makes the unit worthless for the average person. Lenovo has a good reputation and I would have expected better. Needless to say, it is going back as soon as I can get my original packaging back together. I may or may not try another unit. I am seriously thinking of trying a different brand altogether.