![]() As a guide, in Geekbench 3 multicore tests, the new model scores 2570, while the older one is over 20 percent faster with 3135. Unusually, this has a much slower base speed: 1.6GHz vs 2.16GHz for the older Pentium N3450. The latest Yoga 300 has 4GB RAM and an Intel Pentium N3700 (or 3710), a quad-core 1.6GHz (2.4GHz Turbo) processor from the new Braswell range. If that’ s all you can afford, expect to have to put up with basic lag, slow-feeling browsing and an experience that requires some patience. You can also still buy the old Celeron N3050 version with 2GB of RAM, a setup that in our experience will never fail to get you poor performance with Windows 10. This has only 2GB RAM and an Intel Pentium N3450 CPU. Unfortunately, Lenovo sent us the slightly older version of the Yoga 300 for review. It’ s going to be a chore to use outdoors on a sunny or overcast day. The glossy, low-contrast isn’ t a good place to start from anyway, and max brightness of 208cd/m is low too. We also wouldn’ t recommend this device for outdoors use. This is what happens when a touchscreen like the Yoga 300’ s is implemented without having enough budget to use air gap-busting screen lamination. ![]() The Yoga 300’ s native display contrast is very bad at 200:1 anyway, but this dated screen architecture makes the perception of contrast even worse. Even when the Yoga 300 is turned off, the display will look grey-ish as long as you’ re in a reasonably well-lit room. ![]() This is nothing to do with traditional LCD screen contrast, which is more about how dark the display backlight can appear while the rest off the screen is lit, but that tiny air gaps in the display construction reflect ambient light. Thanks to its rather dated screen architecture, the actual base tone of the screen appears grey rather than black. This is something that needs to get better, and that's not Lenovo's fault.The most obvious screen limitation here is one that isn’ t explained with figures and display benchmarks, though. I know it seems crazy that a 50% boost in refresh rate knocks the battery life by so much, but that's been my experience with high refresh rate displays on Windows. Finally, 2.8K at 90Hz only lasted four hours and 11 minutes. The next best is the 4K screen, which lasted seven hours and four minutes. As expected, the 2.8K machine at 60Hz lasted the longest, at an excellent 13 hours and 25 minutes. First of all, I streamed Netflix nonstop on the 4K machine, the 2.8K machine at 90Hz, and the 2.8K machine at 60Hz. I didn't have Geekbench or Cinebench results for last year's Yoga 9i, but in the Surface Laptop 4, the Core i7-1185G7 scored 1,551 / 5,829 in Geekbench 5 and 1,295 / 5,194 in Cinebench.Īs far as battery life goes, I ran it a couple of ways. I actually included test results from the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro 360 just to note that the Yoga 9i tests better. Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro 360Core i7-1260P The former is in the Oatmeal color, while the latter is Storm Grey. One of them has a 2.8K OLED display and the other has a 4K OLED display. 12th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1260P (2.1 GHz / 12 Cores / 18M Cache)ġ4”, 2.8K OLED (2880 x 1800) IPS, 400 nits, 100% DCI-P3, 90 Hz, 16:10 (WQHD+), Touchscreen14”, 4K OLED (3840 x 2400) IPS, 400 nits, 100% DCI-P3, 60 Hz, 16:10 (WQUXGA), Touchscreenĥ12GB, 1TB (One M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4x4 slot, supports M.2 2242/2280 SSD)ġx USB 3.2 Gen 21x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (support data transfer, Power Delivery 3.0 and DisplayPort 1.4)2x Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 40Gbps (support data transfer, Power Deliver圓.0 and DisplayPort 1.4)1x Headphone / microphone combo jack (3.5mm)Ģx 3W (woofers on the side), 2x 2W (front-facing tweeters on hinge bar), optimized with Dolby Atmos, Bowers & Wilkins SpeakersĦ-row, multimedia Fn keys, 1-click function keys, LED backlightīuttonless glass surface multi-touch touchpad, supports Precision TouchPad (PTP), 80 x 135 mm (3.15 x 5.31 inches)ħ5Wh Li-Polymer, supports Rapid Charge Boost (2 hrs runtime with 15 min charge)Ģ.0-megapixel IR & RGB hybrid, FHD 1080p webcam with privacy shutter, fixed focusģ18 x 230 x 15.25 mm (12.52 x 9.06 x 0.6 inches)Starting at 1.4 kg (3.09 lbs)ĭue to an issue that's immaterial at this point, Lenovo actually sent me both of the models above.
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