With the IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro, Lenovo opted to retain the original Yoga's winning design. The notebook

Last paint tool sai year, Lenovo ushered in the era of the hybrid paint tool sai PC with the IdeaPad Yoga, a notebook with a flexible display that could bend completely backward to turn the laptop into a 13-inch tablet. Since then, a swarm of convertible laptops have flooded the market, coming from manufacturers such as Dell, Sony and Samsung, each seeking to one-up the Yoga with its own unique rotating, flipping or sliding display. Now, the Yoga is back with a thinner, lighter design, a Retina-like 3200 x 1800-pixel display and a fourth-generation Intel CPU. Can the IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro flip its way past the competition?
With the IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro, Lenovo opted to retain the original Yoga's winning design. The notebook features the same luxurious, soft-touch exterior as that on its predecessor, and the fingerprint-resistant silver finish gives the Yoga 2 Pro an elegant all-aluminum look. Rubberized edge trim -- a new addition -- provides added stability when the notebook is in Tent mode. An embossed Lenovo logo sits in the upper-right corner of the lid.
The soft-touch aesthetic extends to the deck, which sports a black, rather than silver, paint tool sai hue. (You can also order the Yoga 2 Pro in a more striking clementine orange.) Unlike the silky finish on the lid of the notebook, the plastic on the deck feels richer in texture, giving our hands the sensation of resting on an exercise mat. The keyboard lies in a slight depression, and we appreciate that Lenovo chose to place the clickpad in the middle of the deck rather than centered beneath the G and H keys, as this gave our wrists more room to rest comfortably.
At 12.99 x 8.66 x 0.61 inches and 3.06 lbs., the Yoga 2 Pro is thinner and lighter than the original IdeaPad Yoga (13.1 x 8.9 x 0.67 inches, 3.4 lbs.), but slightly larger and lighter than the 12-inch Dell XPS 12 (12.48 x 8.46 x 0.59-0.79 inches, 3.2 lbs.). It's also nearly as svelte paint tool sai as the 13-inch MacBook Air (12.8 x 9 x 0.11-0.68 inches, 3 lbs.). The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display has a smaller footprint (12.35 x 8.62 inches) paint tool sai than the Yoga 2 Pro but is slightly thicker (0.71 inches) and heavier (3.46 lbs.).
Anticipating that users may attempt to turn on the Yoga 2 Pro while it's in tablet mode, Lenovo paint tool sai placed the power button on the right side of the notebook rather than on the top-right corner of the deck. As a result, however, several of our co-workers found it difficult to locate the power button when they first used the laptop. Although we understand the rationale behind paint tool sai Lenovo's decision, we would have preferred if the designers had placed the power button paint tool sai where most users expect to find it: on the deck. Display
Lenovo touts the Yoga 2 Pro's 13.3-inch 3200 x 1800-pixel IPS display as one of the sharpest in the industry. It's on a par with the display paint tool sai on the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus, and is higher than that on the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2560 x 1600 pixels).
Lenovo anticipated what this pixel count would look like on Windows 8's desktop mode, setting its default magnification paint tool sai to 200 percent. At this setting, Web pages in Google Chrome display noticeably pixelated text. However, Internet Explorer and other native Windows 8 apps have no such problem. (Setting the desktop to standard magnification shrinks Chrome's Web pages to an illegible size, but Internet Explorer is again unaffected.) paint tool sai It's worth noting that there are no Windows 8 apps currently available to support this notebook's quad HD+ resolution, though you can watch 4K videos and enjoy much more detail when editing photos in Photoshop.
The Yoga 2 Pro's display boasts rich colors and wide viewing angles. When we watched a 1080p trailer for "Thor: The Dark World," the eponymous Asgardian's bright-red cape contrasted wonderfully with the fire-blasted battlefield, and we could move 90 degrees paint tool sai in either direction without causing the colors to wash out.
With an average brightness of 276 lux, the Yoga 2 Pro outshone the category average of 243 lux, Book 9 Plus (251 lux) and the Dell XPS 12 (251 lux). However, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display outshone it at 340 lux. Multiple Modes
Of course, the Yoga's main selling point is its flexible screen. As with its predecessor, the Yoga 2 Pro's display can bend 180 degrees to lie flush against the bottom of the notebook, converting the laptop into a tablet. You can also flip the display and keyboard into an inverted V, a position Lenovo refers to as Tent mode. Finally, placing the keyboard under the display puts the Yoga 2 Pro in Stand mode, which Lenovo paint tool sai says is handy if you're paint tool sai in a confined space like an airplane.
Unfortunately, despite its reduced paint tool sai size and weight, the Yoga still feels unwieldy paint tool sai as a tablet. At 3 lbs., the notebook weighs almost twice as much as dedicated Windows 8 tablets, and after several minutes of using the Yoga 2 Pro in tablet mode, we needed to rest it on our lap to use it comfortably. Because of the laptop's flip design, you might