Lenovo Yoga 14-inch Touchscreen Laptop

Lenovo has put a largely useless dedicated graphics card in its new 14-inch convertible. Thankfully, the other components ensure the device can do its job as a mobile office companion. In our detailed review, we will check this model and see how its limited battery life and other flaws stack up in comparison to the competition.

 14-inch convertible? That is quite unusual. There are few convertibles of this size in our database and those, that do exist, have to compete with a disproportionately higher number of 13-inch or smaller convertibles. The Yoga 510 uses the 360-degree hinge which other manufacturers, such as, Asus, also use. This allows the convertible to transform between various modes: notebook, stand, tent or tablet. These models differed in various aspects: CPU, memory, storage capacity and color. Our test model is listed with 15 different prices, whereas the other models have a maximum of three.

The Yoga 510 is designed as an office notebook, which, thanks to the dedicated graphics card (AMD Radeon R5 M430), can also be used for multimedia work. The CPU is a brand-new Kaby Lake dual-core processor, the Intel Core i5-7200U (2x 2.5-3.1 GHz, Hyperthreading, TDP 15 W) and the model is equipped with 8 GB of DDR4 RAM. The shiny IPS touch display has a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels and the SSD has a capacity of 256 GB. At the time of testing, Lenovo was asking for 799 Euros (~$847) for the Yoga 510-14IKB and we did not find any other shop, which offered it for a significantly lower amount.

We selected three convertibles for our comparison. For the purpose of this review, we decided to ignore the minor size difference (13.3 to 14-inch) and focus rather on the similarities in connectivity, performance and price, which make these models closer competitors to our test model than other 14-inch convertibles. This list includes:

Lenovo Yoga 14-inch Touchscreen Laptop 

• 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-7200U 7th Gen processor
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 500GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
• 14-inch screen, Integrated Graphics
• Windows 10 Home operating system
• 3.5 hours battery life