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Lenovo - Yoga 2 Pro 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Silver
Lenovo - Yoga 2 Pro 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Silver
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro - 59418309 Convertible 2-in-1 Laptop: Take charge of your day-to-day life with this convertible laptop. The screen folds back a full 360° so the unit can also function as a tablet, or as a touch-screen display. Command your apps with the touch of a finger or with your voice, and see every detail of your high-res photos on the QHD+ screen.Learn more about the New Windows
 
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4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: Ritergeek
from Pittsburgh, PA
on August 22, 2014
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5.0
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What's great about it: Stunningly gorgeous display, featherweight, back lit keyboard, touch screen, 360 hinge
What's not so great: Terrible touchpad, microscopic text in some key software, touchscreen drawing input wiggy, lacks third USB port
I bought the Yoga Pro specifically for the display, planning to use it for editing photographs and to use in place of paper for editing PDF versions of word docs as I have been doing with a tablet. The larger screen lured me. I have not had the Yoga Pro long enough to have fully put it through its paces, but although early results are exciting in some areas, they are disappointing in key areas.
For starters, I'm excited about the weight of this baby. It's half the weight of my previous laptop. And the display is like looking at a glossy print with stunning color and crisp detail. Depending on source quality, some video is so clear it's like looking out the window at real life. The adjustable-spread easel display works well to pop the Yoga Pro in a small area to play music -- speakers are super! -- or show recipes and instructions. The reverse stand feature works well in my lap for reading ebooks, positioning the screen at a nice angle. And I love, love, love the backlit keyboard. I can work in a totally dark room now without a light.
On the downside, the touchpad is terrible. Lenovo could do WAY better on this, and I hope for updates. I could get used to the two finger scroll that's backward from my four previous touchpads -- you move fingers up to scroll down. But double-tapping to drag? No. Double-tapping on scroll bar to move it? No. Spread and pinch zoom control is nice.
Far worse than the touchpad is the fact that the bleeding-edge, better-than-retina display is so far ahead of its time that especially Adobe software, but others as well have type three times smaller than phone screens on controls. Several installation windows are unreadable. Lenovo points the finger at developers who haven't caught up. Whatever the case, I am unable to use Windows LiveWriter to prepare blog posts, and Photoshop controls are so tiny I must use a magnifier to see them and a mouse to select them. A stylus is not precise enough.
Stylus. This is the third disappointment. A rubber-tipped stylus such as one uses with an iPad works well and prevents a screen full of finger smudges. But how I miss the precision of the digitizing Samsung S-pen! I'm not throwing out my tablet just yet. Especially because controlling PDF docs on the touchscreen is difficult with both Adobe and Foxit readers, and writing with the stylus as I do on my tablet is virtually impossible. Letters deform as I write and input skips. I have similar results drawing in Photoshop. Perhaps later updates will improve this. I hope so!
Finally, I actually do use three USB devices now and then. Sad that I'll have to carry a hub.
I recommend this device with reservations. The more people who kick and scream about software that doesn't support these pixel-rich displays, the sooner that problem will be solved. But if you have vision problems, it's not time! And don't count on writing on the touchscreen as I did. Otherwise, it's splendid.
This product is... Good sound quality, A nice compact size, easy to set up, lightning fast, stunning display
About me... Budget Conscious, Technology guru, photographer, writer
I would recommend this to a friend!
My Best Buy number: 2274181911
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Lenovo - Yoga 2 Pro 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Silver
Lenovo - Yoga 2 Pro 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Silver
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro - 59418309 Convertible 2-in-1 Laptop: Take charge of your day-to-day life with this convertible laptop. The screen folds back a full 360° so the unit can also function as a tablet, or as a touch-screen display. Command your apps with the touch of a finger or with your voice, and see every detail of your high-res photos on the QHD+ screen.Learn more about the New Windows
 

how to eject sd card or external drive properly?

Look for the wee white up arrow to the left of the system tray (those icons on the right of the task bar). "Show hidden icons" displays when you hover over it. Click that to open a small window with other running software. Look for the green icon with a tiny USB plug. Cliick that to open a menu and select the device or media you want to remove.
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Lenovo - Yoga 2 Pro 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Silver
Lenovo - Yoga 2 Pro 2-in-1 13.3" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Silver
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro - 59418309 Convertible 2-in-1 Laptop: Take charge of your day-to-day life with this convertible laptop. The screen folds back a full 360° so the unit can also function as a tablet, or as a touch-screen display. Command your apps with the touch of a finger or with your voice, and see every detail of your high-res photos on the QHD+ screen.Learn more about the New Windows
 

Is there an expansion slot for additional SSD storage?

Was reading a link here
http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/adding-a-second-ssd-to-my-lenovo-yoga-amp-8gb-ram/
about a guy who updated his Yoga and added a second hard drive. I was wondering if the Yoga Pro also offered this same expansion slot because I cannot get by with 256GB, and do not want to hassle with my external HDDs.
You can add an SSD card in the card reader, but right now those max out at 64 GB, so that won't give you the capacity of another drive.
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