All keys have a consistent and relatively good amount of travel. Whether you use the machine for browsing the web or typing for long hours the keyboard won’t strain your fingers. However, if we come down to the machine at hand, the bottomline for the keyboard is that it is tactile and comfortable to work on. There are subtle differences in the keyboards of the mentioned machines, but those subtleties, in the end, amount to bigger significant differences. That said, HP’s Elitebook 1030G2 ( review) came really close and the keyboard on the Yoga 720 is not exactly far behind. The pitch is perfect and the actuation force required on each key is precise and reassuring. It retains that spot since it offers superb feedback, both audibly and physically. If we talk about thin and light notebooks only, the best keyboard currently available to type on is the one used by the Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Keyboard and Touchpad: comfortable to work on While we do get that USB type-C is a future-ready port, Lenovo and even other companies should provide some essential dongles for the still in use accessories we generally use with our laptops. Hence, you are required to buy dongles for your SDXC card, ethernet cable or even if you have to attach more than one Type-A USB. One of these ports support Thunderbolt and one is used by the machine for charging. You get a USB 3.0 Type-A port on the right and two USB 3.0 Type-C port on the left. There aren’t that many stylus-focus apps to make the best use of the stylus.Īs for I/O we are not happy with the selection right away. Although, our usual crib about Windows continue. Hence, Lenovo does provide a stylus with the laptop, which offers sketching capabilities, which are an added extra.
The touch response is good as well and there is support for Windows ink. That said, the glass display is a bit reflective under bright lighting conditions. The colour fidelity is good and so are the viewing angles.
Featuring a 13.3-inch display with a 1920 x 1080p resolution, the display on the Lenovo Yoga 720 is just as good as we saw last year and at par with its peers.
Lenovo’s 700 series laptops always had good displays and this one is not any different. Note: Opening the back cover will void your warranty.
This can be an issue if you plan to upgrade the RAM in future. The PCI based M.2 SSD is user replaceable, but the 8GB RAM is soldered to the motherboard itself. Opening the back panel, we saw almost half of the machine is taken up by the battery and the Intel Core i7 is being cooled by two rear exhaust fans and a dual heat pipe system. The hinge is now sturdier and holds the display at any angle you desire, better. Even the dual hinge mechanism which has been carried forward from the last generation has been slightly revised. The metal shell also makes this machine quite sturdy and we did not find any flex issues in the machine. The subtle chamfered edges, the slightly rounded corners, the all-glass front combine to give it an air of quality without being too blingy or sophisticated. It uses an aluminum shell, which is not just sturdy but in this soft-gold colour, looks quite pretty.
Like its predecessors and most ultraportables we have seen in the past year, this machine also weighs 1.3 kilograms and is just as portable. Last year’s Lenovo Yoga 710 was the winner of our prestigious Zero 1 Award, but this year’s revamp of the machine lost to the HP Spectre x360 by a whisker.