X'mas Gift Idea 8: A sexy 2-in-1 notebook that has no physical keyboard
Only 4.05mm thick at its slimmest edge and weighing just 690 grams, Lenovo's Yoga Book has an amazing design and a digital slate that doubles up as a "Halo" keyboard. How cool is that? And yes, it's a great gift for anyone.
On the Lenovo Yoga Book, the keyboard doubles as a digital notepad.
Lenovo Yoga Book
As much as people like to think a smartphone is the only device needed all day, the limitations of its operating system and more notably its screen size are obvious pain points that need a larger companion like a notebook to complete productivity processes with ease. While ultrabooks are getting thinner and lighter by the day, they are still sizable devices. There are cheaper and smaller Intel Atom based products, but their form factors and features leave a lot to be desired from a mobility and aesthetical point of view.
Enter the Lenovo Yoga Book, a 10.1-inch 2-in-1 notebook that is probably one of the first of its kind on the market to dump a physical keyboard for a multi-purpose digital slate that also doubles up as a touch keyboard on-demand with haptic feedback that's dubbed the Halo keyboard. It also leverages artificial learning technologies to adapt to your typing style. This is analogous to how predictive text input on your smartphone works, and could help ease some teething pains when switching from a physical keyboard.
The Halo keyboard is able to adapt to and learn your typing style.
The bundled stylus, or real-pen as Lenovo calls it, uses passive EMR technology, and boasts up to 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity. It's not your average stylus however, and can write in real ink as well. The typing area doubles as a notepad – placing a paper notepad here and writing on it with the pen-tipped stylus will automatically digitize and save your notes to the Yoga Book thanks to the pressure sensitive slate below.
The S$849 Yoga Book can also be considered a feat of engineering. Thanks in part to its aluminum and magnesium body, it is only 4.05mm thick at its slimmest edge and weighs just 690g, making it one of the most portable convertibles out there. Powered by a modest Intel Atom x5-Z8550 SoC (1.44GHz, 2MB cache), 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and 64GB of flash storage, the display uses a 1,920 x 1,200-pixel IPS panel. It is available in both Windows 10 and Android powered OS editions. For more experiential details, check out our hands-on article.
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