Battery Life, Pricing, and Conclusion
Battery Life
While we just saw that performance for ultrabooks is very similar, battery life is one place where these machines can really differ.
Unfortunately for the Yoga 700, it's at the bottom of the pack when we compare it to similar notebooks. Scoring just under 5 hours isn't necessarily a bad result on our web browsing battery test, but when we look at battery capacity we begin to see an issue.
The Microsoft Surface Pro 4, with a 39Wh battery as compared to the 45Wh found in the Yoga 700, adds almost an additional hour of use over the Lenovo competitor. Given these machines are equipped with nearly identical Skylake-based Core i5 processors, this is a very disappointing result. We would love to see Lenovo do some more optimization here to start to reach similar levels as the Surface Pro 4.
Pricing
The Lenovo Yoga 700 is one of the cheapest ultrabooks we have ever seen at this specification level.
You can get the model we tested in this review for just $840 on Amazon right now, or $899 directly from Lenovo.
Compared to notebooks like the Dell XPS 13, and Lenovo's Yoga 900, this is quite the bargain at $250 and $300 less respectively.
Conclusion
Ultrabooks and 2-in1s have always been more of a niche in the notebook market. While subsequent generations have made you give up less and less for the thin-and-light chassis, there are still some trade-offs.
Traditionally the largest trade-off for these more portable designs has been cost. In the past, what we have considered "good" 2-in1s have come in at around $1200. With the Lenovo Yoga 700, it is refreshing to see a solid performing machine come in at under $900. You might sacrifice a bit of battery life, but for most users I would highly recommend the Lenovo Yoga 700.
How many gaping security
How many gaping security holes does this laptop come with? It’s a rather pertinent question given Lenovo’s recent history regarding the matter.
Good question. Honestly, I
Good question. Honestly, I don’t think they took nearly enough bad press for that whole debacle. Personally I don’t know that I could ever buy another Lenovo machine. Trust broken.
You would figure it would be
You would figure it would be a point of interest for reviewers of Lenovo’s PCs ever since, but it seems they’re inclined to brush it off as a non-matter.
Not sure why you think that
Not sure why you think that the SuperFish issue is so bad. I buy Lenovo laptops so I can run Linux on them. They usually make great Linux machines so SuperFish and the derivatives dont affect me.
Someone should get that
Someone should get that Carrizo FX8800P Based Lenovo Y700 gaming laptop and test it with a Steam OS/or Linux Mint build. I would purchase this SKU, but I need more information about its ability to run a Linux/Debian or other Linux based full OS.
You should note that even a Linux OS image installed can not protect users from any spyware baked into the firmware of the OEM’s device, should the OEM go as far as installing the spyware in the UEFI/BIOS that can get around even the Ring 0 OS level of security.
Some gaming laptop readers need Pcper to test under Linux the only AMD Carrizo(FX8800P) based gaming laptop that uses Carrizo/Excavator and a discrete GCN latest generation GPU(Non Polaris graphics) based System/APU(with latest GCN non Polaris integrated graphics). So some testing of this Lenovo Y700 with a Linux Build would be gratefully appreciated. Polaris discrete mobile based laptop SKUs are still not going to be out in great numbers until 2017 and hopefully there will be some Zen based APUs to pair with some Polaris based discrete mobile SKUs into 2017.
Has any one heard of any Excavator/Bristol Ridge Carrizo refresh Laptop SKU design wins that offer any DDR4 dual memory channel options, as I would be seriously interested in that also. I very interested in any Linux Based OS tests for Bristol Ridge based SKUs also and Hopefully Phoronix will be testing some Bristol Ridge laptops under Linux because Phoronix has not tested the current Carrizo/FX8800p Lenovo gaming SKUs for under Linux.
Lenovo is the only one with
Lenovo is the only one with an (600$) affordable 17″ IPS laptop on the market.
The next cheapest, big laptop that doesnt have SHIT SCREEN, costs 1200$.
That alone makes Lenovo the BEST laptop maker around. Fuck your child porn security.
I always wipe and install a
I always wipe and install a clean windows when I receive an machine. My only concern is the recent drop in quality from Lenovo. the new dell to me.
It doesn’t matter if you
It doesn’t matter if you reinstall Windows or not, the malware was in the BIOS (the call-home helper utility) and if it detected the OS didn’t have it, it reinstalled itself from the BIOS. Superfish could be removed by reinstalling, but the Lenovo driver utility thing couldn’t be removed.
+1 that, does it come with
+1 that, does it come with malware installed? You could go to grc.com and use a few of Steve Gibson’s free online tests to see if Lenovo replace the root cert and other nonos.
The trackpad looks like the
The trackpad looks like the one on my Dell Inspiron 3000 which is pure garbage. You hit the right button and it registers as a left click half the time.
Good Day,
Is the sacrifice in
Good Day,
Is the sacrifice in pciexpress ssd vs sata ssd noticeable.
Thank you
WHere is the oled model?
WHere is the oled model?
Does anyone buy Lenovo
Does anyone buy Lenovo Chinese malware shit?
Hi
Lenovo Yoga 700 laptop is
Hi
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