Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11.6" Touch Ultrabook Price: $269.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 1-2 business days (Wednesday, Apr 13 to Thursday, Apr 14) + transit Condition: New
I think you’re confusing this with the standard 11e model. Only the non-Yoga version of this machine can be found for 238.35 on Amazon. Woot’s price is very good.
The Military doesn’t buy Lenovo because the company is owned by the Chinese government and is suspected of installing software with backdoor accessibility.
i bought this one and a regular thinkpad 11e. They are the same guts but the yoga has the 2 in 1 feature and a SAMSUNG ssd drive, whereas the thinkpad 11e had a liteon. so for the money this machine can’t be beat. i took out the 4GB ddr3L ram and installed an 8GB and the machine flies. The 4GB i put into other machines which i build for a charity in San Francisco (ahem… if you cant use them, I can get you a non profit receipt for tax deductions)… The only thing I can’t figure out is if there is WiDi support for miracast. there is an option in the settings for wireless display, but I can’t seem to get it to work.
other than that… this machine is one amazing deal…
I bought this earlier this year… I am STILL amazed! I maxed out the ram (8GB) and added a 500GB SSD. The thing sails!!! I love it! The only thing I don’t use it for is photo processing with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop the processor just won’t.
I bought one several weeks ago, and I love it. It does everything I want it to do. I did upgrade the RAM as was suggested by other users here so I can’t speak to it’s stock abilities, but it has no problem handling my work load withave the eXtra RAM. The battery does only go for about 5 hours that’s been sufficient for my needs. I haven’t had any b issues with the WiFi as I’ve seen some people report on.
I have run into the bug where switching from tablet mode to laptop mode causes key strokes to repeat them selves but I just switch back to tablet and then back to laptop and it fixes it.
All in all, this is honestly the first laptop I’ve bought in a long time that I’ve been really happy with. That’s my 2 cents. All though I do wonder why woot has a seaming endless suply of them…
I’ve had mine for a few weeks now and am very pleased with the features (SSD!) and build quality for the price. A bit too small to be my one and only, but as a 2nd laptop, tablet and travel companion this is perfect. I can feed the HDMI via a DVI adapter to a 19" for an extended desktop and it looks great for HD video streaming on one. There’s not enough CPU power to play video on both screens simultaneously without stuttering on one though. I’ll have to look into those renewed Lenovo spyware charges - thanks for that link joecoool.
Disappointing: I purchased this device a few months ago ago, becasue the old IBM Thinkpad I had was awesome, probably the best laptop I’ve ever owned. So, I originally thought this was a good deal for the price. However, I’ve decided to plug it into the TV and only watch videos on it, not good enough for anything else. For the price buy an ASUS, the old one I was going to replace is still being used because this is not even a close comparison!
I sometimes wonder about some of the posts about these products, too many of them are really glowing. I’ve had a computer of one type or another since 1983, all but one was a ‘laptop’ of some kind. Doesn’t make me an exert but makes it easy to spot bull excrement when I see it.
We got ours in a week or so ago. It is a bit disappointing. Keys seem to be delayed sometimes as well as repeating. Slow and sluggish. I would not buy again. I would definitely have sent it back if that would have been an option.