Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13 Simple Review

Ever wished you could control a computer by waving at it? You can with the Yoga, whose clever webcam recognises hand gestures. That's not the only bright idea it has, either: its bright 13-inch display offers superb viewing angles and accurate colours in an innovative, shape-changing case. Need a tablet? The Yoga's a tablet. Need a notebook? The Yoga's a notebook. Need something to display your photos? The Yoga can do that too.

The Yoga's secret is a clever hinge that enables it to change its shape to suit what you want to do. In addition to the traditional notebook mode - with a touch-enabled screen - you can also twist the device into tablet mode, with the keyboard hidden away, or use it in tent mode - an inverted V shape that's ideal for slideshows.

The Yoga uses a speedy solid-state drive, and with a choice of third generation Intel Core 13, 15 and i7 processors and 4GB or 8GB of speedy DDR3 memory, it's a very fast machine - something you'll appreciate if you like to work on very high resolution images, or with complex Photoshop filters. There's an integrated SD/MMC card reader for quick photo transfers, fast Wi-Fi for effortless uploading and HDMI output for connecting to external displays. The Yoga's USB 3.0 port offers super-speedy connections for kit like external drives, too.

It's an excellent and very flexible device, but if you'd rather buy something a little smaller then Lenovo has good news for you: it's about to release an 11-inch Yoga packing a quad-core Tegra 3 processor and running Windows RT.

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