I am looking for a laptop/convertible--and this one was "it"!! Not so much...
Cons:
The issues that I have encountered beyond the baffling world of Windows 8 are:
1. HEAT--it is so hot I have to put something under it, a towel isn't enough, it is still hot enough to burn my legs, a thick magazine works but I worry about the magazine possibly catching on fire. This ultrabook has a solid state harddrive and no internal fans to cool it. The heat builds over a period of 20 minutes. A laptop is designed to be held on the lap--so I wonder how it was engineered to be durable over a long period of time without a cooling system. I have had other laptops with cooling systems after 2 years the heatpaste dried up, the system began shutting down from overheating. I foresee the life of this system, with only a year of factory warranty, being very short. I actually called Lenovo after owning the computer for less than 2 days--their solution: We don't have a solution for this over the phone, I'll send you a return box, send the computer to us and we will see if we can fix it. (I didn't buy through Amazon, luckily, or I would be stuck, read return policy for computers, has to be unopened or dead on arrival, and may be subject to a 15% restocking fee--I'll return to BestBuy for a refund.)
2. Battery life--3 hours is about the maximum even though it says 7 hours.
3. Freezing--the computer freezes when working in various applications. It has a very small harddrive, 128G (which is seemingly the norm today).
4. Windows 8, FYI, is like learning a new language--very frustrating with little instruction. It is akin to sitting down at a computer with Windows 3.1 for the first time. FYI, I have an iPad and iPhone so the tablet concept is not foreign, those took about 2 days to learn, this is going on 3 weeks and still not comfortable with the system. There is nothing similar initially to the previous generations--all the standard operations you figure out are the same but getting to them is difficult, navigating from one screen/program to another is difficult, figuring out what apps are running in the background--everything that was easy is now a chore. The "charm" concept is assinine--bring back the start button..Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 13.3-Inch Convertible Touchscreen Ultrabook (Gray)
Pros:
1. Small
2. Lightweight
3. Great screen
4. Great keyboard
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