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Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Overview
The Yoga 700 series is Lenovo’s mid-tier equivalent notebook line. It’s a step up from their Ideapad Mix series in both high quality and efficiency, and a move down from the premium Yoga 900. We found the Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch supplied great battery life, useful ability, and was thin and light-weight to take just about wherever. However, its upper-tier configurations were costly, and its keyboard wasn’t the perfect. We did, however, find sufficient substance to send it off with a suggestion. Read this Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch review to see why.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Specification
| RAM | 4GB |
| CPU | Sixth Generation Intel Core m3-6Y30 |
| Hard Drive Size | 256GB SSD |
| Display Size | 11.6 |
| Graphics Card | Intel HD Graphics 515 |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 4.1 |
| Measurement | 11.07 x 7.67 x 0.59 inches |
| OS | Windows 10 Home |
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Design
The “Yoga” part of the name provides away the device’s high feature. The Yoga 710 is a laptop with a 360-degree hinge, similar to each other laptop in the Yoga series. It’s not the single laptop with this silhouette. Lenovo has made newly both. The Yoga 700 is less than a year old. However, the 710 makes significant improvements to the build. The 11-inch Yoga 710 is a beautiful wedge of a laptop. It is thinner than an iPad Pro encased in its keyboard cover, at 14.9mm, it’ll fit into most bags and its overall size and weight, it’s unsurprisingly ultra portable.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Keyboard and Touchpad
Given the amount of space Lenovo needed to work with, the keyboard and trackpad combo are beautiful. The re’s no backlight, although, so you will be tapping blind if it’s dark.
All the main keys are full-size, with only those sprinkled around the edges being cut-down to fit in. Typing is a cinch: we have written thousands of words with no problems.
The buttonless Synaptics touchpad was offset to the left in the Yoga’s palm-rest. That was situated this way to line up with the main keyboard space, centering it between your wrists whereas typing. That makes full use of the convenient height. The smooth surface was excellent, although the clicks required a tad too much effort, and made too much noise.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Display
The Yoga 710 11.6-inch Full HD IPS LCD strikes a good stability between portability and visibility. The text seems sharp thanks to its 190ppi, and it packs an attractive color gamut (although we want it was wider). Overall brightness tops out at 300nits, that feels a little dim paired to the 710’s reflective panel, however, save for extremely bright conditions, you shouldn’t run into too many issues with it.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Graphics and Audio
Lenovo has even found some space for stereo Dolby Audio speakers, which have good high quality and are powerful. Wherever the battery lasts for 8 hours, as Lenovo says, Yoga 710 should be an excellent mini multimedia notebook. The Yoga 710’s built-in Intel HD 515 graphics chip isn’t able to support demanding games. However, it can support around of the pre-loaded Candy Crush Soda Saga or a series of laps in the casual racer Asphalt 8.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Hardware and Performance
We don’t expect high performance from a passively-cooled system. However, the latest Intel Core M5 processor and the M.2 SSD should deliver excellent responsiveness for everyday tasks and still some business work. The CPU runs at 1.1 – 2.6 GHz and has an integrated Intel HD Graphics 5300 GPU. You’ll have the chance to select from configurations with up to 8GBs of RAM and up to 256GB SSD, and that seems “future-proof,” at least for the next couple of years. Our Yoga 710 has a 128GB Samsung SSD and 4GB RAM, and it its Windows 10 home runs extremely quickly.
The drawback of the Lenovo Yoga 710 has just one USB 3.0 port, and that’s the sacrifice for its thinness. We really would have loved at least an additional USB Type-C. Oh well, in addition to the complete measurement USB, Yoga 710 also provides mini HDMI, DC-in, and an audio jack. Yes, that’s all.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Battery Life
Lenovo says the Yoga 11-inch 710 will last for eight hours on a single charge. However, we have had it lasting even longer. Only utilizing it as our day-to-day work machine, we can get virtually eight hours with the brightness maxed out half the time. While running inside with office style lighting, we could keep the screen brightness at just 40 per cent without assuming like you’re scrimping and like that we have been getting over 10-hours of light use from a single charge.
Lenovo Yoga 710 11-inch: Configurations
The entry-level Yoga 710 prices $480 and comes with a Pentium 4405Y processor, a 128GB SSD and 4GB of RAM. The exclusive Platinum Silver version of the Yoga 710 features the same specification and prices $400.
The $550 model we tested upgrades the base model to a Core m3-6Y30 processor and a 256GB SSD. The top-of-the-line model function a Core m5-6Y54 processor, a 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM, all for $700.
Conclusion
The Lenovo Yoga 11 710 is an excellent little device for those who travel a lot or who have no want for a big laptop. This is one of the greatest alternatives to the 12-inch MacBook, a tiddly machine that gives good value than Apple, not to mention a touchscreen and an ultra-flexible hinge. It’s not very efficient. However, that’s not the point. While affordable Windows 10 laptops go, the Yoga 11-inch 710 has got virtually everything right. At this price, it’s bending the rules and winning.The trackpad, like several of Lenovo’s latest models, shouldn’t be perfect. However given the high value on offer here it’s worth persevering with.
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