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hey everyone that's PC world again from lenovo's booth at CES 2019 and here
we're taking a look at a couple of more consumer-oriented notebooks we've got
the yoga s 9:40 and over here on the left we've got the yoga C 730 with a
special AMOLED screen oh nice it is it's a beautiful machine I thought we're
gonna start start first though with a yoga s 940 now the yoga s 940 has a
couple of things both from a physical and from a software perspective that
make it a little bit unusual the first one is actually the fact that it's got a
little bit different display and it's got something that they call contour
glass looks a little bit like a smartphone if you zoom in really close
there you can see the glass kind of Wow wraps around the edge of the subway
isn't that pretty it is yeah and in fact definitely it doesn't do anything
functionally but it does look aesthetically it looks really really
nice now this particular machine or this potato display I should say is either a
1920 by 1080 but it does go all the way up to 38 40 by 2400 now this is again a
consumer display sorry the thirteen point nine inch display as well now this
is actually going to be shipping in May for $14.99 so it's actually quite
affordably priced and there's one more thing that I really think is really cool
about this particular machine and this is in fact part of the software package
that will novo includes now we can't actually see that because it's not
actually it's not actually enabled right now but this is something that Lenovo
calls smart assist and in fact it's actually a software package from Mira
metrics called glance but what this does is it actually uses not exactly eye
tracking but sort of face tracking to do a couple of interesting things now if
you followed PC world in the past you probably are familiar with a company
called Toby and Toby does eye tracking and they have a little bar in front of
the PC or laptop and it actually sends infrared beams into your eyes and it's
design is sort of an eye Mouse it really is designed for to sort of you look the
compute the computer jumps or teleports the cursor to where
you're looking what they're doing here is a little bit more coarse but it's
also a little bit more useful what Toby doesn't do at least through now is it
doesn't actually allow you to sort of jump the cursor from one monitor to the
next this does which is actually pretty cool because if you have a big huge
monitor and a big huge monitor next to you and you're sort of hauling the mouse
back and forth now again now you can go ahead and look at another screen wiggle
the mouse and I cook when the cursor jumps to it there's a couple other
things that does too now it does presents attack which is what Toby
there's as well - but if you're in a coffee shop for example and you're sort
of sitting down and working and then you get distracted your coffee is ready for
example you can stand up walk away and the display will notice that you're not
there and blank or lock the screen so that's this is really designed for again
sort of consumers who are working in various environments and might have to
jump back and forth between a sort of a business environment or a work
environment but again it's a good feature for something a system out in
the public there's a couple of other things that it does as well if you are
in a video call it can actually blur the background so you can see for example it
has lenovo and intel and some of the other things behind me as well but if
you're in a video call maybe that stuff's distracting so it
what I'll do is I'll automatically blur that background and sort of make you the
focus it'll actually also do the same thing with the audio as well they've got
four mics sort of on top here sort of scattered around this is actually sort
of common to some of the other ThinkPad designs as well and those mics will
actually serve to filter out background noise and make you easier to hear at a
video call nice yeah so this is actually there's a final thing too and I don't
know too much about it but supposedly there's actually some technology in here
that'll actually understand how you're working so if you're working with a high
performance application of course some windows will sort of scale it up but it
sort of just really just will sort of automatically recognize that you are
high performance user scale up the CPU or conversely scale it down to mountain
to maximize battery life again I'm not really sure how it works but it sounds
great and concept now otherwise we're seeing 8th generation core
processors in here whiskey Lakes specifically and again
sort of a mixture of things you'd normally expect to see in a laptop 8 to
16 gigs of memory up to a terabyte of PCI Express SSDs and your complement
supports oops much of them there but we've got a
couple of USB see and specifically Thunderbolt 3 ports on this Lenovo made
the wholesale switch to Thunderbolt 3 and USB C which honestly I would to be a
little more critical a year ago but now looks sort of right on right on time so
that happens to be the yoga s 940 now there's not a whole lot to say about
this next machine but just look at the display this is the yoga C 7:30 with
AMOLED and boy AMOLED is just one display technology that if you have a
chance to use and have a chance to own highly recommend it so one of the things
that LED displays do is that even in a dark screen or in dark environment it's
still gonna sort of blast light out of this play what AMOLED does is it
actually reduces the amount of light coming out of the display and that helps
create deeper blacks and scenes that actually have it this is again the yoga
C 730 it's going to be real it's gonna be priced at sixteen hundred and forty
nine dollars and to be released in May unfortunately we were just told that it
may not come to the US the plan of record right now from Lenovo and
hopefully as changes is that it will not be released in the United States however
plans change so and hopefully it will because again I'm a LED screen we want
to see it so brief rundown of the specs 15.6 inches on that screen that's a big
huge screen it goes all the way up to 30 40 by 2160 16 gigs of DDR 4 512 gigs of
PCI Express SSDs also has Dolby Atmos also has Thunderbolt 3 and weighs in at
four point one six pounds so what we've seen here are two really lovely yoga
machines from Lenovo we expect to see more from Lenovo as well as other man
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