Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here
So this is a Lenovo Yoga 920, and this is their
hybrid two-in-one device, their 14 inch screen device
And this is a product that's been very well received by the media by reviewers by critics
They enjoy this thing a lot, and I've actually been using mine for about three weeks
I didn't do a review earlier because I've actually been using this thing as
a required piece of equipment at work because I needed a two-in-one tablet there
and I've been using this one and...
I would agree that this is a good product overall I think there's a lot of stuff
I love about it, but there's one thing that really bugs me about this product,
And it's the tablet mode. Now,
I don't talk about things that I do like to but first, it's a very well-built device
I would say this is one of the best-built devices from Lenovo
especially at this price point. They went with good material choices
It's aluminum all-around and the design looks good
But there's a lot of sharp edges around this whole product and when you use it in tablet form
Those sharp edges are really pronounced like you're looking at basically,
edges on the top, the bottom, the sides
It's sharp all-around and I really don't like holding this device in a tablet form
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I feel like a two-in-one tablet device shouldn't be this sharp on the edges
Now, the hinge that they use is the classic
Lenovo watchband hinge and it's awesome
It's just built really well. This thing has two major benefits
First, it allows you to fold the screen all the way down to the back
I mean that's what makes it the hybrid two-in-one device that it is
And it's also a really stiff hinge in the sense that it doesn't matter
what angle you put the screen at. It'll hold its position and just won't flop down or whatever
It's also nice for like, artwork if you're using the pen on it. It doesn't wobble around too much
You can open it up on the bottom, it's just a bunch of Torx screws, but when you get in there
It's a little bit disappointing because the RAM and the drive are
extremely difficult, if not impossible to replace
The drive is super fast which is great but just make sure that you configure it the way
you want right on the factory because you won't be able to easily upgrade
the RAM and the storage. Now the ports on this thing are...
good, but limited, so you're getting one USB-A and two Thunderbolt 3 ports
You'll be charging the device using one of those ports
And they actually support four lanes of PCIe so if you have an external GPU,
you're getting maximum bandwidth on this device
Performance is really good
It's running the new 8th gen CPUs from Intel and
the multi-core applications really flex on these CPUs
But most applications won't feel too different from the older 7th generation CPUs
Just because a lot of applications aren't capable of taking advantage of the multi-core stuff
The GPU is capable of playing some lighter games, but nothing crazy
Fan noise and thermals are also really comfortable never gets uncomfortably loud, or hot
The performance is quite good on this thing
The keyboard is excellent. Lenovo is known for making really good keyboards, and this is one of them
I got used to typing on it really quickly and it's just a comfortable, spacious keyboard
The trackpad has good and bad. The tracking is good, Windows Precision drivers,
can't go wrong with that. The button mechanic is mediocre
It's not a bad click. It's just not as tactile as I'd like it to be. You can hear it,
It's just more hollow than I'd like my trackpad's to be. It's a fine trackpad, just not my favorite
Screen, 4K panel on this particular one
It comes at a 1080p panel in the base model, but the 4K panel is colorful with good viewing angles
But, it's not super bright. See, on laptops like dedicated laptops
I guess I'm more forgiving for not super bright screens, but on a two-in-one device
I kind of want to see a screen that's just brighter
because, you often use it as a tablet or as a tent mode thing and when it's in those modes,
You kind of need brighter screens because you're not always
sitting at a perfectly angled desk and stuff like that
I would have liked to have seen a brighter panel, but this was not bad
The 4K screens come with a pen and this feels actually
really similar to the Surface Pen's, at least the new ones
4096 levels of pressure, and it's a nice pen
The battery life is really good
It's a nine hour battery with the screen at 250 nits,
and that's with the 4K panel. If you're running the lower-res screen, the 1080p panel,
my guess is 11 hours, maybe 11.5 hours, so full day battery with ease
- The webcam looks like this, like the image quality is decent
It's not super high resolution, but the colors look okay
The image is actually shot from the top middle of the screen
which is rare because on a thin bezel screen like this, it usually shoots
in the bottom, looks up your nose this looks normal, which I like
The speakers are pretty mediocre. I don't love them
They don't sound bad. It's just that they're positioned poorly
So in laptop mode, they're positioned right on the bottom
They just literally fire right into the table with like a millimeter of gap.
It just distorts the sound really poorly. In tent mode, it's a little better,
but you basically have this echo chamber where the sound bounces back and forth and again
It just distorts the sound. It's also not great in tablet mode
because the speakers are right behind the screen and the sound just kind of gets
distorted and muffled by the position again. So overall,
I think this is a good device, a great device, if you use it as a laptop
predominantly, so if you just almost never use it for other things
other than a laptop, this is a great pick up
I think this is one of the best two-in-one hybrid devices
that I've used when it comes to a laptop device
But the moment you use it as a tablet, things just don't feel comfortable for me
I just don't enjoy the weight, I don't enjoy the ergonomics
I certainly don't enjoy the sharp edges like it's just something that...
Yeah, and I've been using this for three weeks now, pretty regularly
I don't think I'll ever get used to it so, if that bothers you, then you probably
shouldn't get this device, which makes it weird because
that's what this was for, the whole two-in-one thing, but...
Yeah, that's what we have.
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