Customer Ratings & Reviews

See above. Even when I installed Firefox, it was locked into Bing.

I really liked this computer, and I got it at a double discounted price, clearance and open box (sweet!). It was not "certified" by Geek Squad, but it was approved for sale. I got it home and tried to set it up, and could not get windows to activate. I took it back and Geek Squad had the same problems, for two days and three different technicians! Finally, they said it was a no go, that they would have to send it back to the Lenovo factory because a Lenovo installed floor demonstration software was blocking the windows activation. I did not have two to six weeks to wait for a computer, so I returned it and bought an HP. I would buy a Lenovo again at the same price, but NOT a floor model, unless I stayed in the store to set it up.

Product had to be returned due to defective WiFi card

Poor battery life, screen doesn’t work fine specially when switching between camera mode, windows always been in update causing to slow performance

Excessively loaded with Lenovo branded software, horrible battery life, poor memory capacity, screen flashes on and off, power supply gets too hot. Just an awful experience.

Very excited buying the Yoga 2 Pro. Great value for specs! But it feels very cheaply made. Keyboard lighting uneven, even distracting where brighter at N key. Keyboard fair. Display excellent but lagged when used with touch. Most frustrating was failure of Pro 2 to hold a wifi signal. I couldn't get through. 2 or 3 screens of a website without dropping the wifi connection. Nothing else in the home dropped connection like this piece. This problem was addressed with Lenovo service. They made setting changes and downloaded new software. Still didn't work well. Returned it and bought MacBook Pro. What a difference!! Spend the $ if you can. The difference in quality is obvious.

The power cord connector is flimsy at best. The adapter is temperamental in terms of providing a secure and reliable connection, which left us with a discharged batter when we thought we were charging.

The computer on the surface is attractive. But it develops motherboard problems very easily. Motherboard costs almost the same as the computer. Not recommended for reliability.

I bought this pc from ny and came to turkey the next day otherwise i would return it back. Terrible wifi modem, i tried everything but it is still cutting off all the time. it turns himself off. i called lenovo turkey and did everything they said, still i have the problem. intel modem is always up to date ichanged the battery life settings so that it doesnt turn it off etc etc i still gave the same problem. i came to best buy to purchase a mac or a sony vaio and your customer represantative made my buy this one. and iregret everyday that i listened to him.

After only three years of very little use and the motherboard went for not reasons . It supposed to be the vest for being Lenovo , but it is not true

Do not buy the Yoga 3. Except for slightly less weight and thickness, it is worse in every way. The Yoga 2 Pro is actually better than the ultrbook designed to replace it. Definitely the best ultrabook you can buy in the $1000 price range as of this writing. I did not even know Best Buy offered the Yoga 3 until I saw it in the store...but I am glad I didn't buy it. The only thing the Yoga 3 will give you is slightly thinner/ligher, and the 500GB SSD...in every other way the 2 is as good or better. This is probably the closest you will get to a Windows Macbook-quality product right now. The build quality is the first thing you will notice. It is not quite as good as a Macbook IMO, but it is very close. And in some ways it is better. The keyboard is excellent for an ultrabook...the keys are backlit and covered in a soft-touch plastic coating that are a pleasure to type on. They are quiet but still feel clicky. The interior is coated in a denser textured version of that which feels "leather" like, and also very durable, resisting fingerprints very well. The touchpad is smooth and responsive, but really prone to attracting fingerprint grease. It has embedded left/right buttons, and you can use it with smartphone-like gestures (spread to zoom for example). The laptop feels light, but you can pick it up by the keyboard and it will feel very solid. I am never worried about breaking it when I pick it up by one corner. The display is beautiful, with better-than-retina-quality resolution and excellent view angles. Brightness and black levels are not the best, but what I would consider good. Some people have complained that the resolution is too high...but you can make it whatever you want in Windows display settings. I have mine set at 1080p, and windows will treat this setting as native unless I change it (for example, games will recognize 1080p as my laptop's "native" resolution, while still allowing me to use up to 3200x1800 if I want). Because the native resolution is insanely high, there is no risk of pixelation when using lower-res modes. This completely fixes the scaling issues that a lot of Yoga users have complained about. More is never a bad thing. The display will bend completely back, and always feels solid. The soft-touch plastic coating the inside extends to the edges, making it grippy when using it in tent mode. This bendy display is where the Yoga gets its name, and while I would not call it a gimmick (it is genuinely useful), it is not something I use every day. The hinge feels extremely solid though, no matter what position it is in. Performance-wise, it is faster than most desktops I have used. Though it says 2ghz in the specs, it will actually scale up to 3ghz under load. The GPU is an Intel HD 4400, which by desktop standards is awful. By laptop standards, it is pretty decent. It will run many modern games on low or medium settings over 30fps. I was able to run Team Fortress 2 at 1080p with all settings maxed at 60+ fps. This is not a gaming laptop, though it will handle games far better than most non-gaming laptops. The i7 is actually a dual core CPU, with each core split into 2 "virtual" cores to aid in multi-tasking (don't be fooled...more cores is not always better). The i7 is also used in the best Macbooks, and is better than the "M' processor used in the Yoga 3. Performance is awesome. Everything is fast and fluid and feels more like a desktop than a laptop. The 8GB of RAM is embedded and non-upgradable. The speakers are remarkably good for a laptop...much better than I expected. Sound is loud and clear with good bass and without distortion even at high volumes. The laptop does have a fan, but it is so quiet I never noticed it until I read the specs. The vents curve up the back edge from the bottom, so they are exposed even if the laptop is sitting flat. It does get warm under load (like playing games) but otherwise runs fairly cool. Battery life is decent. That is not a code word for "awful"...it really is decent. It is only bad compared to Macs (but that is true of all non-Mac laptops). The SD slot will hold up to (at least) 256GB cards. It is a half-depth slot, meaning that the full sized cards will stick out about 1/3 when inserted. You can buy half-sized cards (they sell them for Macbooks). Between the 256GB SSD and the 256GB card, you should have plenty of room for anything business related. There is no optical drive, though you could always add an external one via one of the two full size USB ports (blue one is 3.0, other is 2.0). I have no tested the mini HDMI port. Some reviews will tell you the wifi does not support 5gh...but mine does. So they must have added it in newer models. Windows 8 has taken a lot of undeserved flak. It really is better than Windows 7 in virtually every way except the lack of a Start menu. I use both on a daily basis...windows 8 is more stable, faster with a smoother UI, and handles drivers much better. The Start menu is very easy to add back if you want, with programs like the free Classic Shell (google it). The Start menu will be back natively with Windows 10 next year anyway. Windows 8 is also much more flexible than OSX, and I am able to navigate much faster on it (not to mention the better software selection on Windows). You can do things on Windows that would take a lot more clicking and scrolling to do on the Mac. For a productivity laptop, thats important.

Hard drive crashed on me within 6 weeks while traveling in middle east. Machine currently under warranty repair What a mess never again

I bought this Yoga Pro 2 from Best Buy and absolutely love it! Perhaps there were all of the issues people have mentioned previously in the beginning but all of them seem to have been corrected by Lenovo. My box has an FG_Date of 11/19/2014 and almost all the updates to correct the issues (i.e. mustard yellow, wifi connectivity, and I guess some scrolling issue) were already installed and good to go. Excellent display! Super fast! Extremely portable! I would recommend purchasing this computer. I am not a gamer. I use it for business, office, browsing, music, videos, etc. Lenovo is a fantastic company. No one makes a PERFECT computer. Lenovo has done a great job listening to their customers to correct the known issues thus far....at least this has been my experience.

I've had lots of lightweight laptops and this is by far the worse one. It's hard to use, the screen changes all the time because it is too sensitive. It locks up, error messages appear right in the middle of a document (just a simple Word Doc) and it says, "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart....." It never restarts, you have to hold the off button and bring it back up. NEVER buy this!

gets hot on the under side, slow loading, comes with a lot of apps to sort through. it's suppose to be the latest greatest, not sure what would be a better option.

Colors are sometimes muddy like yellow - Color gamut not correct- and the tablet to laptop mode is flakey. Does not know which end is up at times.

I have found very little overall to complain about with this computer. The specs are top notch. 1 thing I recommend is go to the Lenovo site and update the BIOS and any drivers (wifi in particular). This will fix probably 90% of the system complaints I have read about in various reviews. Pros - The display is a little beyond its time at this point. It looks fantastic, but there are some applications, older ones in particular that do not scale well. That said, many are now updating to scale to this ultra high resolution. You'll be glad you future proofed once the application world catches up. - Very fast processor will handle most computing tasks. - Touch pad is very responsive, works well. - Backlit keyboard is nice, with the exception of the right Shift key, which is too small - I find the various modes very useful. I primarily use the laptop mode (for general computing) and table top mode (watching movies) the most. The tablet mode I use if I am reading an E-book. I haven't used the tent mode at all, but have read that people like to use that on a table for young children to use the computer. All in all, the way this laptop hinge works is by far the best in class of the hybrids. - Comes with a minimum of bloatware. Just a few Yoga utilities and a couple included programs. The few that run at start-up are easily disabled from the system tray. If you have ever had a computer loaded with bloatware, you will immediately appreciate this. - Surprisingly good sound from internal speakers for such a small system. Cons - I was a little surprised that such a loaded ultrabook has a wireless-n adapter that only supports the 2.4Ghz channel. No 5Ghz, no Wireless-AC. Just for reference, 2.4Ghz isn't as fast, but goes through obstructions like walls better. 5 Ghz is faster if you are relatively near the router, but will not travel as well through obstructions. - Only 1 USB 3 and 1 USB 2. I understand the space is limited, so I think it should have just had 2 USB 3's. - I don't like the power plug. It looks almost like a USB, but its colored yellow so you won't confuse where it goes. Again, to me, this goes to the high-end ultrabook. Someone by now should have found something like the MacBook break away plug. I feel like if I am not careful it might break. - Battery life is pretty middle of the pack considering the Intel Haswell processor (which use less power). You'll get about 6 hours of heavy use....less than half what you'd get on a Macbook. Summary Even with the minor Cons I listed, I still peg this at 5-stars. This is a really fast, very useful machine. Definitely one of the best laptops I have owned. I think moving from hard drive based computers to an SSD is an eye opener in terms of speed. I have owned I7's and 8GB RAM machines, but this is my first SSD and the speed increase is very noticeable. I have also had a hybrid laptop that I nearly never used as anything but a laptop. The hinge mechanism on this machine make the various modes truly useful. If you are looking for a hybrid computer, I recommend this machine. Windows still has some work to make the tablet totally useful, but it continues improving. Final thought, if you are a parent buying this for a kid that plays computer games, this is not the machine for you. The integrated video card is decent for integrated graphics cards, but it is not good for high end gaming.

I am not a big computer know it all . I researched for over 4 months and felt like this one was the right choice. After several weeks of setting up the yoga 2 lap top (which was my only computer) for my business come back , the touch screen and some other functions quit working. I tried to take it and exchange it at a Best Buy but was told there were none in the whole south east. So needless to say have been very disenchanted with Lenovo as a whole!

Brand new and already had to Factory reset it, doesn't connect to Internet at school or at home. Worst mistake of my life! Stay away! Best buy refused to allow me to return it! Stick with cheaper laptops, those work way better than this Lenovo and they actually allow you to do homework unlike the Lenovo! College students save your money and stay away from this laptop! The laptop over heats spazes out, and more issues come up all the time.

I purchased this primarily for software development using Visual Studio 2013 and wanted the convertible tablet mode for occasional use. I debated between the Yoga 2 Pro and the ThinkPad Yoga. The ThinkPad Yoga is more durable and comes with more USB 3.0 ports and an option for a dual-band Wireless-ac card (not just Wireless-n like the Yoga 2 Pro). I went with the Yoga 2 Pro because: 1 - Best Buy carried it and they provide a hassle-free return option should it not work out 2 - It had a thinner/lighter profile than the ThinkPad Yoga 3 - Slightly larger screen compared to the TP Yoga, although I'm not sure how much of a difference a 1/2" would make Good: The Y2P is quick with the SSD. I do find that it occasionally stutters when working, but overall performance is fast. It does takes some time getting used to the way the keyboard is laid out (Del, Ins, Home keys on the right side), but I do like the feel of the keyboard. It is thin, lightweight and easy to carry around. The screen looks great for most apps that I use. Sound appears to be pretty good for a laptop. Touch really shines on Windows 8.1. Not so good: From the start, I couldn't connect to my home wireless router. After installing Lenovo's updated drivers that problem went away. However, from what I can tell, their single-band 802.11-n wireless adapter appears to cause problems with my Bluetooth mouse (Arc Touch Surface Edition). When downloading larger files, the mouse freezes. From what I've read that is to be expected with a single band card, as the mouse competes with the wireless signal. Battery life: Almost all reviews I've seen on the Y2P note the poor battery life compared to other Haswell devices. I'm getting through most of the day, but I don't use it constantly and I have the brightness set around 50%. Screen Resolution: 3200x1800 is a bit much for desktop apps on a 13.3" display. The DPI comes defaulted to 200% zoom, and it is needed. From what I've heard, a number of traditional desktop apps don't support the high DPI setting. However, Visual Studio 2013 does mostly fine with 200% DPI, as do MS Office apps and IE 11. SQL Server Management Studio appears a little small, but I can get by. In summary, it seems to be a good laptop that I'd recommend for others to try.