lugging the Yoga 700 around
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You don't have to break the bank to get a great 2-in-1 laptop for work. Lenovo's Yoga 700 is much more affordable than its more premium counterpart, the Yoga 900, although it's also noticeably thicker and heavier. There's still a lot to love about the Yoga 700, which starts at just $529 with a nice 14-inch display, fast performance and a sturdy, flexible design that lets you use the machine like an oversize tablet. But are there better options at this price point?
The Yoga 700 is all business, with a black matte plastic lid and a matching keyboard deck made from black plastic. It's a forgettable design, especially compared to the flashy Yoga 900. At least I like the look of the laptop's silver hinges with adapter scuh as Acer TravelMate 7730 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate 8572 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate TM5330 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 5551 AC adapter, Acer Aspire 7740 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One A150 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One A110 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One D150 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1810TZ AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1680 AC Adapter, Acer Extensa 5630 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate 290 AC Adapter, and its gently rounded corner makes it easy for users to hang on to it.
And you'll have little trouble lugging the Yoga 700 around, thanks to its relatively light weight and thin design. At 0.72 inches thick and weighing 3.5 lbs., it's noticeably more portable than rival 14 inchers like the Acer Aspire R 14 (0.73 inches and 4 lbs.) and the Toshiba Satellite Radius 14 (0.86 inches and 4.5 lbs.). But while the Yoga 700 won't weigh you down too much on your daily commute, it's still a lot heavier than the Yoga 900 (2.8 lbs.), as well as other superlight laptops like the 13-inch Dell XPS 13 (2.7 lbs.).
As its name implies, the Yoga 700 sports a flexible, folding hinge that allows the screen to flip back a full 360 degrees, so you can use it like a large tablet. Workers will probably get more mileage out of the intermediate modes, especially Stand Mode, which lets you use the keyboard as a base for easier access to the touch screen.
Unfortunately, the Yoga 700 lacks digitizer pen support, so you can't write on the display with a pressure-sensitive stylus. For that functionality, you'll have to shell out your dollars for a more expensive system such as the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 14. The omission makes the Yoga 700's folding design less useful overall for workers.
The Yoga 700 sports a 14-inch display that's roomier than what you get on the 13-inch Yoga 900, which helps with screen-intensive work tasks like viewing large documents and editing spreadsheets. The full-HD panel on our review unit produced sharp text, though colors could be more vibrant.
The display is also pretty bright, topping out at 197 nits of brightness, which beats the Satellite Radius 14 (182 nits), and is about on par with the Acer Aspire R 14 (199 nits). The Spectre x360 offers the brightest display of the bunch, though, at 339 nits. Brighter displays are easier to view outdoors or in direct sunlight; all of these screens are fine for typical indoor use.
The Yoga 700's keyboard is relatively shallow, resulting in a mediocre typing experience. The keys have a short 1.2-mm travel distance (1.5 mm is average for laptops), and they also don't feel quite as snappy as what you'll find on pricier machines like the Yoga 900 and HP Spectre x360. And there are a few other quirks that will annoy touch typists, like undersized backspace and right-shift keys that are easy to miss.
To be fair, most competing midrange models like the Acer Aspire R14 and Satellite Radius 14 offer similarly subpar keyboards.
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