Lenovo Yoga 910
After sticking with the same design for two years, Lenovo is giving the Yoga 900 a dramatic makeover – so much so that it's fair to say the Yoga 910 is completely different 2-in-1 laptop. Lenovo has tweaked or completely changed every element of its flagship convertible with a slimmer chassis, larger 13.9-inch UHD screen, smaller bezels, revamped keyboard layout and Intel’s latest 7th generation processors.Laptops keep getting thinner, lighter and ever more stylish. Among our favourite convertible Windows-based laptops is the Lenovo Yoga series, which has been tweaking its 360-degree hinge-based formula over the years.
The age of giant bezels is almost over. That's the thing that immediately sets the Yoga 910 apart from most of its competition: the edge-to-edge display style which fills to the side and upper edges with mere millimetres of the black stuff.
Compared to the last-generation Yoga 900, the Yoga 910 is only a sliver thinner by 0.03 inches (0.01cm). Lenovo’s latest flagship convertible is also 0.2 pounds heavier than last year’s model, and this is due to its denser 79 Watt-hour battery and 0.6-inch larger display.
While it isn’t that much thinner, this new hybrid has a new sleeker and sharper styling rather than the slightly curvy frame of yesteryear. The Lenovo Yoga 910 exudes a starkly modern design with straight lines forming sharp angles, including places you wouldn't expect such embellishment. For example, the top and bottom half of the notebook meet to a slightly indented V-shape, aligning into a more prominent gap near the watchband hinge.
It lets you flip the screen round to turn the laptop into an insanely chunky 14.3mm, 1.38kg tablet or free-stand it in a tent mode.By laptop standards, the Yoga 910 is fairly thin. Nevertheless, Lenovo has managed to load the hybrid with a reasonable selection of ports. Along its right and left sides you’ll find USB 3.0 Type-C, USB 2.0 Type-C and full-sized USB 3.0 ports.
Another benefit of the Yoga 910's smaller-bezel design is that it allowed Lenovo to include a 13.9-inch display versus the 13.3-inch screen you'd normally get on a system this size. This results in a screen that's almost 10 percent larger than those on 13.3-inch systems. Although some people may not be huge fans of the 910's somewhat ungainly lower chin, I quickly forgot about that unsightly design choice after checking out the 910's big, colorful screen
Beyond the scale, Lenovo hasn't scrimped in terms of resolution in the Yoga 910. Even at its entry-level (for the UK market) it comes with a 4K panel (3840 x 2160 pixels; elsewhere in the world there's a Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) model).
There's an eye-watering amount of detail on display - we've really noticed the difference compared to our usual MacBook Air, with photos displaying that additional fidelity where available. However, such ultra-high resolution might see you need to adjust icon sizes within Windows, otherwise things can look tiny across the desktop and it makes using the touchscreen a little bit fiddlier. But it's easy to adjust as you please.
Brightness is ample and can auto-adjust, or you can tweak the levels using the shortcut hotkeys. Sometimes when at supposed maximum brightness, however, the system will suddenly kick in an additional notch of brightness rather than it seemingly being available via manual selection, which is strange. Reflections aren't to excess, but the screen is glossier than our day-to-day Air.
Lenovo Yoga 910 KeyBoard and TrackPad
Lenovo claims it has redesigned the Yoga 910’s keyboard and trackpad. The only difference We noticed was that the trackpad was slightly larger than that on the Yoga 900 and it’s Microsoft Precision Certified. The lack of significant changes to the keyboard isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
While the Yoga 910's backlit keyboard sports a somewhat shallow travel distance of 1.3 millimeters, it's balanced out nicely by a relatively stiff 65 grams of actuation weight required to depress the keys. This gives you a pretty snappy typing experience; We had no trouble hitting my typical 75 words per minute on my first try.The Yoga 910 is fairly slim its keys don't have a huge degree of travel, but we've found it sufficient and comfortable with a crisp action. The way the keys sit in a sunken tray and the backlight kicks in when it's dark is in-line with other high-end laptops with full-size keys. The only downside is the small-scale shift keys.
The trackpad is a responsive experience, too, but can misbehave from time to time. Its setup is unusual in the laptop world: its split down the middle from left to right, with each portion of the pad acting as a traditional left/right click on a mouse - so too often we would end up with pop-up menus on screen, rather than clicking through.
It's ultra-responsive for tracking, too, so navigating around the screen is fast and effective. However, sometimes mean the deftest touch will act as a click when not desired. Until you get used to it, this ultra-responsiveness might be initially irritating. Once you are used to it, however, going back to another trackpad will feel unresponsive by comparison.
Lenovo Yoga 910 FingerPrint Scanner
Lenovo has added a fingerprint scanner to the Yoga 910. It sits below the keyboard on the laptop’s ride-hand side, and can be used to unlock the laptop. The fingerprint scanner for use with Windows Hello for rapid login. It's a great idea with the potential to expand deeper into secure payments and beyond. Not an essential, but a nice-to-have that lacks on much of the competition.
Featuring a 2.7-GHz Intel Core i7 7500U CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB PCIe solid-state drive, our $1,200 Yoga 910 review unit was never hurting for power. Even when the Yoga 910 had upward of 15 tabs open in Chrome and a couple of HD YouTube streams playing in the background, I didn't notice a hint of lag. I just wish the storage speed were a little faster.
On Geekbench 4, which evaluates overall performance, the Yoga 910's score of 8,102 was quite impressive. The Spectre x360 (which also has a Core i7-7500U CPU) performed marginally better, with a score of 8,147.
The Yoga 910's two bottom-mounted JBL speakers are pretty decent, and can easily fill a room with sound. However, compared with the quad-speaker Spectre x360, the Yoga 910's mids and highs sounded shallower, and its bass didn't have nearly the same kind of punch as we heard on the HP.
The speakers are loud, clear, and crisp. The mid and high ends are the ranges that stand out the most. Bass/low end is quite weak, but I guess that’s expected with laptop speakers. If you want more bass you’ll definitely are going to want to plug in a good set of external speakers or headphones. In addition to playing videos and music, I demoed a few Serum presets as well, and all sounded very good, in fact, I was surprised at the clarity of the Serum presets. All the leads, pads, sequences, plucks, and basses (I used dubstep basses) sounded marvelous. The only weak spot was the sub bass which wasn’t very audible (which I expected).
The Yoga 910 also comes with Dolby Audio Premium, which enhances the audio and allows you personalize your listening experience. You can either choose one of the presets that come with the program (movie, music, game, or voice), or you can personalize your listening experience from scratch by using the EQ the app has. Of course, if you want an even better listening experience, you’re going to want to get a set of studio-quality headphones and either get a headphone amp or audio interface in order to be able to properly use the headphones.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Ports
The Yoga 910 features an older USB Type-A port as well as two USB 3.0 Type-C ports. One Type-C port supports video-out, while the other sports always-on charging for keeping devices like smartphones and smartwatches topped off. There's also a standard headphone/mic jack, as well as a built-in fingerprint reader, which you can use to sign in to Windows or other services.Unfortunately, the Yoga 910 doesn't support Thunderbolt 3, which means data transfers won't be as quick, and you won't be able to connect the Yoga 910 to a dock with a single cord if you want data, video and power all sent over one connection.
Alternatively, you could use the Yoga 910 in tent or tablet modes when making video calls, but then you wouldn't have access to the keyboard.
Thankfully, the camera's image quality is pretty decent, though a little grainy at times. However, unlike on the HP Spectre x360, there's no IR camera to let you log in using your face with Windows Hello.
The Lenovo 910 is set to hit stores later this year with a recommended RRP of £1,099 for the most basic configuration.
Conclusion
The choice really comes down to how much you value the Yoga 910's slightly larger 13.9-inch display, the option of a 4K screen (which the Spectre x360 doesn't offer) and its upscale design with a bezel-free screen and watchband hinge. If you go Lenovo's way, the Yoga 910 will not disappoint you.
The Perfect Blend of Power and Style
If you're looking for the perfect blend of power, style and adaptability, you'll find it hard not to love the Yoga 910. Lenovo's latest 2-in-1 (starting at $1,200) still wows with its elegant watchband hinge, but it now offers a nearly-bezel-free 13.9-inch display that gives you more to look at without taking up extra space. Even its battery life has seen a pretty big increase and will now last 10.5 hours on a charge.
After sticking with the same design for two years, Lenovo is giving the Yoga 900 a dramatic makeover – so much so that it's fair to say the Yoga 910 is completely different 2-in-1 laptop. Lenovo has tweaked or completely changed every element of its flagship convertible with a slimmer chassis, larger 13.9-inch UHD screen, smaller bezels, revamped keyboard layout and Intel’s latest 7th generation processors.Laptops keep getting thinner, lighter and ever more stylish. Among our favourite convertible Windows-based laptops is the Lenovo Yoga series, which has been tweaking its 360-degree hinge-based formula over the years.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Design
The age of giant bezels is almost over. That's the thing that immediately sets the Yoga 910 apart from most of its competition: the edge-to-edge display style which fills to the side and upper edges with mere millimetres of the black stuff.
From the outside, the 910 doesn't look much different from last year's Yoga, but that's not a bad thing. It has smooth, brushed-metal panels on the top and bottom; shiny, polished metal sides; and, of course, Lenovo's signature watchband hinge holding everything together. It's a classy, sophisticated look that puts the Yoga 910 on the short list of the best-looking laptops on the market.
Compared to the last-generation Yoga 900, the Yoga 910 is only a sliver thinner by 0.03 inches (0.01cm). Lenovo’s latest flagship convertible is also 0.2 pounds heavier than last year’s model, and this is due to its denser 79 Watt-hour battery and 0.6-inch larger display.
While it isn’t that much thinner, this new hybrid has a new sleeker and sharper styling rather than the slightly curvy frame of yesteryear. The Lenovo Yoga 910 exudes a starkly modern design with straight lines forming sharp angles, including places you wouldn't expect such embellishment. For example, the top and bottom half of the notebook meet to a slightly indented V-shape, aligning into a more prominent gap near the watchband hinge.
It lets you flip the screen round to turn the laptop into an insanely chunky 14.3mm, 1.38kg tablet or free-stand it in a tent mode.By laptop standards, the Yoga 910 is fairly thin. Nevertheless, Lenovo has managed to load the hybrid with a reasonable selection of ports. Along its right and left sides you’ll find USB 3.0 Type-C, USB 2.0 Type-C and full-sized USB 3.0 ports.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Display
The display has also undergone a pretty significant upgrade. Lenovo has taken a page out of Dell’s book here, designing the 910 to have as close to a bezel-less screen as possible – similar to the Infinity displays seen on XPS laptops.The move may not be terribly original, but it means the 910 looks way slicker than past Yoga laptops.
It will also be possible to upgrade the 13.9-inch touchscreen to feature a 4K panel, which would be a huge help to creatives looking to use the laptop for photo and video editing. The basic 1080p version We tested looked fairly decent as well.
It will also be possible to upgrade the 13.9-inch touchscreen to feature a 4K panel, which would be a huge help to creatives looking to use the laptop for photo and video editing. The basic 1080p version We tested looked fairly decent as well.
Another benefit of the Yoga 910's smaller-bezel design is that it allowed Lenovo to include a 13.9-inch display versus the 13.3-inch screen you'd normally get on a system this size. This results in a screen that's almost 10 percent larger than those on 13.3-inch systems. Although some people may not be huge fans of the 910's somewhat ungainly lower chin, I quickly forgot about that unsightly design choice after checking out the 910's big, colorful screen
Beyond the scale, Lenovo hasn't scrimped in terms of resolution in the Yoga 910. Even at its entry-level (for the UK market) it comes with a 4K panel (3840 x 2160 pixels; elsewhere in the world there's a Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) model).
There's an eye-watering amount of detail on display - we've really noticed the difference compared to our usual MacBook Air, with photos displaying that additional fidelity where available. However, such ultra-high resolution might see you need to adjust icon sizes within Windows, otherwise things can look tiny across the desktop and it makes using the touchscreen a little bit fiddlier. But it's easy to adjust as you please.
Brightness is ample and can auto-adjust, or you can tweak the levels using the shortcut hotkeys. Sometimes when at supposed maximum brightness, however, the system will suddenly kick in an additional notch of brightness rather than it seemingly being available via manual selection, which is strange. Reflections aren't to excess, but the screen is glossier than our day-to-day Air.
Lenovo claims it has redesigned the Yoga 910’s keyboard and trackpad. The only difference We noticed was that the trackpad was slightly larger than that on the Yoga 900 and it’s Microsoft Precision Certified. The lack of significant changes to the keyboard isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The trackpad is a responsive experience, too, but can misbehave from time to time. Its setup is unusual in the laptop world: its split down the middle from left to right, with each portion of the pad acting as a traditional left/right click on a mouse - so too often we would end up with pop-up menus on screen, rather than clicking through.
It's ultra-responsive for tracking, too, so navigating around the screen is fast and effective. However, sometimes mean the deftest touch will act as a click when not desired. Until you get used to it, this ultra-responsiveness might be initially irritating. Once you are used to it, however, going back to another trackpad will feel unresponsive by comparison.
Lenovo has added a fingerprint scanner to the Yoga 910. It sits below the keyboard on the laptop’s ride-hand side, and can be used to unlock the laptop. The fingerprint scanner for use with Windows Hello for rapid login. It's a great idea with the potential to expand deeper into secure payments and beyond. Not an essential, but a nice-to-have that lacks on much of the competition.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Performance and Spec
On Geekbench 4, which evaluates overall performance, the Yoga 910's score of 8,102 was quite impressive. The Spectre x360 (which also has a Core i7-7500U CPU) performed marginally better, with a score of 8,147.
Another high point for the Yoga 910 was 3D performance. It beat the Yoga 900 on the 3DMark Cloud Gate (6,815) and Fire Strike Extreme (425) tests, and topped the charts on the Heaven (21 frames per second, or fps) and Valley (24fps) tests at 1,366-by-768 resolution with the graphics quality set to Medium. While both scores fall a little short of the 30fps we consider smoothly playable, you can be assured that you can play casual 3D games like Minecraft on the Yoga 910.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Speakers
The Yoga 910's two bottom-mounted JBL speakers are pretty decent, and can easily fill a room with sound. However, compared with the quad-speaker Spectre x360, the Yoga 910's mids and highs sounded shallower, and its bass didn't have nearly the same kind of punch as we heard on the HP.
The speakers are loud, clear, and crisp. The mid and high ends are the ranges that stand out the most. Bass/low end is quite weak, but I guess that’s expected with laptop speakers. If you want more bass you’ll definitely are going to want to plug in a good set of external speakers or headphones. In addition to playing videos and music, I demoed a few Serum presets as well, and all sounded very good, in fact, I was surprised at the clarity of the Serum presets. All the leads, pads, sequences, plucks, and basses (I used dubstep basses) sounded marvelous. The only weak spot was the sub bass which wasn’t very audible (which I expected).
The Yoga 910 also comes with Dolby Audio Premium, which enhances the audio and allows you personalize your listening experience. You can either choose one of the presets that come with the program (movie, music, game, or voice), or you can personalize your listening experience from scratch by using the EQ the app has. Of course, if you want an even better listening experience, you’re going to want to get a set of studio-quality headphones and either get a headphone amp or audio interface in order to be able to properly use the headphones.
The Yoga 910 features an older USB Type-A port as well as two USB 3.0 Type-C ports. One Type-C port supports video-out, while the other sports always-on charging for keeping devices like smartphones and smartwatches topped off. There's also a standard headphone/mic jack, as well as a built-in fingerprint reader, which you can use to sign in to Windows or other services.Unfortunately, the Yoga 910 doesn't support Thunderbolt 3, which means data transfers won't be as quick, and you won't be able to connect the Yoga 910 to a dock with a single cord if you want data, video and power all sent over one connection.
Unlike the previous generations of the Yoga, there’s no SD card reader on the 910, so you’ll need an adapter if you find yourself needing an SD card reader.
Lenovo Yoga 910 WebCam
The Yoga 910 sports a pretty standard 720p webcam, but because of this system's nearly bezel-free display, it's located below the display instead of in a more typical top-mounted position. That puts viewers on the other end of a video in the awkward position of constantly looking up at the bottom of your chin, unless you train yourself to crane your neck down and look more directly at the camera. And that gets kind of painful pretty quickly.
Lenovo Yoga 910 WebCam
Alternatively, you could use the Yoga 910 in tent or tablet modes when making video calls, but then you wouldn't have access to the keyboard.
Thankfully, the camera's image quality is pretty decent, though a little grainy at times. However, unlike on the HP Spectre x360, there's no IR camera to let you log in using your face with Windows Hello.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Battery
One of the best things about the Yoga 910 is its significantly improved battery life, which, for a system that already lasted pretty long, is a welcome addition. On the Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi), the Yoga 910 lasted 10 hours and 36 minutes.That's 2.5 hours more than last year's Yoga 900 (7:57), and nearly 2 hours longer than the Yoga 900S (8:46). Compared to the Yoga 910.
The Yoga 910 has pretty impressive battery life. It can go a whole day without needing to plug it in.With the 4K screen, the 910 is capable of up to 10.5 hours of battery life, while with the FHD screen, it is capable of up to 15.5 hours of battery life. If long battery life is a big priority to you, We recommend getting a 910 with an FHD screen. Keep in mind that these are just averages and that battery life varies depending on how you use your system.
Lenovo Yoga 910 Price
Lenovo Yoga 910 Price
Conclusion
The choice really comes down to how much you value the Yoga 910's slightly larger 13.9-inch display, the option of a 4K screen (which the Spectre x360 doesn't offer) and its upscale design with a bezel-free screen and watchband hinge. If you go Lenovo's way, the Yoga 910 will not disappoint you.
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