Lenovo Yoga 710 Review and Ratings

Lenovo Yoga 710 Review and Ratings

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You've seen products advertised as "often imitated, never duplicated." It's debatable whether the second claim applies to Lenovo's Yoga series of convertible laptops, whose flip-and-fold design has, for all practical purposes, been duplicated by 2-in-1 models from the likes of HP, Dell, and Asus.

But there's something to be said for sticking with the original.

Certainly, no one has made a better multimode portable than Lenovo. The latest midrange Yoga 710 ($799 for the 14-inch model seen here) with adapter such as IBM Thinkpad G40 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad Y550 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad Y710 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad Y730A AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad U450 AC adapter, Lenovo 3000 Y510 AC adapter, Lenovo 3000 G430 AC adapter, Lenovo 3000 G550 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad S10 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad S9 AC adapter delivers solid value with a premium design, discrete graphics, and impressive battery life—all while fixing many of the grumbles we had with its Yoga 700$999.99 at Amazon predecessor.

Previously, we'd noted how we disliked the plasticky feel of the chassis and the shallow keyboard travel. Both of these issues are fixed, thanks to a system redesign that introduces a stylish aluminum body and a roomy, comfortable keyboard.

Like the earlier Yoga 700, the Yoga 710—or model 710-14ISK, to give it its full name—has a two-hinge design. The angled, solid hinges aren't as elegant as the full-width "watchband" hinge of the flagship Yoga 900 series, but they give you the same flexibility of positioning the display at any point along its 360-degree arc of travel. As with all Yogas, you can flip the screen fully around and use the system in tablet mode, too.

The Lenovo Yoga 710 we tested sported a 6th-Generation Intel Core i5-6200U—a 2.3GHz dual-core with Hyper-Threading and 2.8GHz turbo speed—along with 8GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 940MX discrete graphics, and a 256GB M.2 SSD. The system delivered perky performance in everyday applications, and it held up well against the four other convertibles we chose for our objective benchmarks: the Asus ZenBook Flip UX360CA, the Lenovo Yoga 900S£999.95 at PC World, the Acer Aspire R 14 (R5-471T-52EE)$699.99 at Acer, and the VAIO Z Flip$1,797.48 at Amazon.

Of the bunch, only one—the Acer Aspire R 14—was a 14-inch model, and that machine also happened to be the only one that had the same family CPU as the Yoga 710, just at a slightly faster clock speed (2.4GHz versus 2.3GHz). The rest had 13.3-inch displays. The Asus ZenBook Flip packed a 1.5GHz Core m3-6Y30, and the Lenovo Yoga 900S had a 1.1GHz Core m5-6Y54; the VAIO Z Flip was the hot rod of the group, with a 3.3GHz Intel Core i7-6567U. Here's a breakout of the CPUs and GPUs for easy reference...

After fully recharging the laptop, we set up the machine in power-save mode (as opposed to balanced or high-performance mode) and make a few other battery-conserving tweaks in preparation for our unplugged video rundown test. In this test, we loop a video—a locally stored MP4 file containing the full The Lord of the Rings trilogy—with screen brightness set at 50 percent and volume at 100 percent until the system conks out.

All of these 2-in-1 convertibles showed impressive stamina, easily surpassing the eight-hour mark used to signify an average workday. The Yoga 710 lasted for 12 and a quarter hours, close to the class-winning time of the Core M-based Yoga 900S and a significant improvement over the previous-generation Yoga 700, which made it through eight and a half hours.

When all is said and done, the Lenovo Yoga 710 strikes an attractive balance among price, features, and performance, and it does so without compromising on weight or design. While there are other, more portable ultraportables, this 14-inch convertible has the benefits of a larger screen in a footprint not unlike those of typical 13-inch-class notebooks. That convenience, coupled with the multi-angle flexibility of the display, make it a strong value.