The 13.3-inch YOGA Tablet 2 Windows Edition is the largest tablet on the market. At the same time, with a 12800mAh battery capacity and a total of 8W JBL speaker system, it is also the Windows tablet with the strongest sound effect and endurance on the market. But what about the actual use experience? Now let's have a look.
parameter
model: YOGA Tablet 2-1371F
Size: 324 * 221 * 3.8~23mm
Weight:~ 900g
Screen: 13.3-inch 16:10 full fit IPS
Resolution: 2560 * 1440
CPU：Intel Atom Z3745
Memory: 4GB LPDDR3
Storage: 64GB eMMC
System: Windows 8.1 Chinese version
Battery: 12800mAh
Camera: 1.6 million
Others: Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, 2.4/5GHz dual band 300Mbps Wi Fi
Unpacking and accessories
The machine is packed in a pure black paper box, with parameter nameplates on the back and disposable adhesive seals on both sides.
The right side of the package is the power adapter and power cord. The tablet and computer are placed in two layers. There is also a layer of transparent plastic packaging on the tablet.
In addition to the power adapter, data cable and warranty card in the manual, the most obvious accessory must be the keyboard protection cover.
Both the data cable and the power adapter have concave design on the side for easy holding. The adapter has a special specification and supports 5V1.8A and 12V1.8A output modes.
The keyboard has its own complete set of independent packaging. It also has its own warranty card, manual and charging data cable with magnetic ring. The keyboard is 5mm thick and supports intelligent wake-up and hibernation. The official standard has a endurance of 75 days.
Appearance and workmanship
The machine is also a traditional family mask of YOGA tablet, with a scroll shaped cylinder at the bottom.
The front of the body is completely black, the frame that fits the screen is very narrow, and the back edge has an arc transition, which makes it feel good to hold.
The thickness of the scroll side is 23mm, and the thinnest side is 3.8mm. The classic support frame design of YOGA flat panel series allows the flat panel to be placed in various ways.
The stickers on the two corners of the screen are simple descriptions of product features.
The top center of the screen is the camera, and the bottom is the unique Microsoft logo of the Windows tablet. The logo is also a touch button, and below it is the microphone opening.
There is a net pattern similar to soft plastic on the back, a huge brushed logo is in the center, and the stickers of Microsoft and Intel on the side are the identity symbols of bloody PCs.
The lower side of the back cover is a support frame made of aluminum alloy. Its surface is black matte coating, and the edge has beautiful chamfers.
The buttons on the upper side of the JBL speaker on the back have concentric circular lines. After pressing down, the support frame can be popped up as the support of the body.
TF memory card slot and product information sticker are under the support frame.
The rotation angle of the support frame is close to 180 degrees. In order to support the fuselage, its rotation damping is large.
In the middle of the left side of the fuselage is the volume key, below which is a 1.5W speaker with double openings and a micro USB interface. At the bottom is the power key, and there is a ring of backlight around it.
On the shaft at the bottom of the right side is a 3.5mm headphone connector, and on the top is a micro HDMI connector and another 1.5W speaker with double openings.
The keyboard cover is a Bluetooth fully supported keyboard with a touch pad.
In addition to the key area, the front of the keyboard and the touch pad are covered with leather like materials, and the screen will not be scratched when the keyboard cover is closed.
The keyboard is a metal frame with a full circle of metal chamfers on the side. The floating island (chocolate) key is a standard key stroke of 1.5mm, and its feel and shape are very similar to those of notebook keyboards.
The top side of the keyboard is the magnetic absorption shaft, and the right side is the power switch and micro USB charging interface.
The metal material on the back of the keyboard is similar to anodized aluminum, which is very flat. There is a horizontal logo in the center, with silicone pads around. As a protective cover, its overall thickness is 5mm, and its workmanship and design level are quite high.
The protective cover is equipped with magnetic adsorption, which can automatically align. Even with the keyboard, the thickness of the fuselage is still well controlled.
After the Windows tablet is equipped with a keyboard, it looks like an ultrabook.
Continuing the tradition of YOGA Tablet 2, the machine supports four working modes of "suspension, standing, touch and reading", and the scroll type side design gives it a good vertical grip experience.
screen
The resolution of the 13 inch YOGA tablet 2 has reached 2560 * 1440. In addition to the full fitting technology, the fineness and transparency are quite good. The content can still be seen clearly in strong light, and the font edge is extremely sharp.
However, the tablet is generally only used indoors, and the brightness of daily office entertainment is between 100-150 nits. The maximum brightness of the screen of this YOGA tablet 2 is 279 nits, which is enough for daily use.
100% brightness shows all black content, only the upper right corner and the upper side of the logo have slight light leakage, and the light leakage control is good.
The screen color temperature adjustment is slightly cold, which is more suitable for Asian tastes, while the color performance, grayscale transition and other indicators are quite good.
System and use
The machine is equipped with the Windows 8.1 operating system. Although it is only one version away from Windows 8, it has made considerable improvements in the optimization of touch screen.
Its most obvious feature is the Modern UI introduced by Windows 8. The application icon becomes a large color tile, which can pin favorite applications, website links and even dynamic tiles of contacts to the Modern interface. The tile supports the transformation and movement of four sizes, while the tile and system theme support custom selection.
In fact, the Modern interface is a new start menu. A detailed list of programs can be seen under the interface. All installed software and applications are here, and different arrangement and classification modes can be selected. The newly installed applications will be automatically arranged to the right of the list.
In order to cooperate with the touch experience, Windows 8.1 system also has many gesture operations: the left side of the screen can be crossed to the right to switch applications, and the right side of the screen can be crossed back to the edge to call up the task manager under the touch interface.
Scrawling down the top of the screen can directly close the program. If you move left or right in the process of scrolling down, different applications can be displayed in separate screens (up to 4 are supported). Sliding the partition bar in the middle can reassign the size of the application window, and even large-scale games such as Wild Racing 8 can run in half screen mode. It is also very convenient to run applications and desktop programs with the Modern interface at the same time, or hang up Q while listening to songs and watching movies.
Scrub left on the right side of the screen to call up the super button bar on the right side, which integrates five shortcut entries: "Global Search, Share, Start Menu, Device Management and Settings".
Wifi, volume and brightness can be quickly adjusted in the settings. Meanwhile, the notification center and power switch are integrated, which is very friendly to touch screen operation.
In addition, the Windows 8.1 system has optimized the search experience. The "Win+Q" shortcut key can call up the search sidebar for global search, which can be found no matter the web page, settings or local files.
The main body of the desktop is similar to that of Windows 7, but Wi Fi networking control introduces elements of the Modern UI for easy clicking. Touch screen operations such as task switching, right bar and application closing can also take effect naturally. At the same time, you can fix the applications in the Modern interface to the taskbar, and the open applications will also be automatically displayed in the taskbar.
For Windows tablets, the desktop part is the essence. All the original PC operations and desktop software can be used, and the functions, operations and interfaces are identical.
As the memory of this tablet reaches 4GB, it can not only run productivity software such as PS, AE, CAD, Office smoothly, but also play classic PC games such as Warcraft, League of Heroes, Acura, CS at will. This advantage is far from Apple; The iOS and Android platforms are comparable.
In addition, Windows 8.1 has its own OneDrive cloud storage service. After logging in with a Microsoft account, you can synchronize system and application configurations between different devices, and also achieve seamless synchronization of documents, photos and other files.
Windows 8.1 makes the mouse+keyboard experience more familiar and intuitive. The official standard keyboard cover is a Bluetooth keyboard with a touch pad, which is no different from a notebook. The touchpad supports multi touch, task switching, edge control, double finger zoom and other multi finger shortcut operations.
In addition, Windows 8.1 also has the same gesture operation artifact as iPad and Android GMD, which supports custom trigger gestures and trigger content.
performance
The CPU on the machine is Atom Z3745 of Intel BayTrail-T platform. It is a 64 bit four core four thread, 3D transistor 22nm process, Silvermont architecture, 2MB two-level cache, main frequency 1.33GHz, capable of reaching 1.86GHz, 2MB cache, 4GB dual channel LPDDR3-1067 memory. The GPU is Intel HD Graphic with a maximum frequency of 778MHz.
Compared with the previous generation, this CPU not only improves the performance, but also reduces the scenario design power consumption to 2.0W for the first time. The power consumption level has been similar to that of the mobile phone processor, which saves the heat dissipation of the tablet and greatly improves the endurance.
In terms of running score, the Manhattan scene of GFXbench 3 has 663 off screen runs, 361 off screen runs (2K), 1011 off screen runs and 609 off screen runs; The OpenGL of Cinebench is 6.85 frames, and the CPU is 1.23 frames. The high resolution screen puts a lot of pressure on the graphics card, but the score is good. In terms of CPU score, Geekbench 3 scored 786 points for single core and 2584 points for multi-core.
Game applications such as Wild Racing 8 run very smoothly, and the screen effects can be fully opened, but it seems that the game itself cannot use up 2K resolution, so there is little pressure on GPU.
The native player application supports 2K video playback. The CPU usage is not high, and the player can be dragged while playing, so there is a lot of performance margin.
With the reading speed of eMMC, the opening speed of daily applications such as Office and PS is higher than that of computers using mechanical hard disks. 4G memory allows the machine to open more software at ease, Office、PS、QQ、 Wild drag racing 8, Weibo application, video, finance and other applications are all open, and there is still 34% memory left.
This generation of Atom has shown unexpected performance. Whether it is CPU, graphics card or memory, the performance of the machine is quite good, and it can handle daily office and light game demands calmly.
Endurance&Heat&Sound Quality
In terms of endurance, the machine is equipped with four 18650 cells, with a single cell capacity of up to 3200mAh and a total battery capacity of up to 12800mAh (the highest capacity of all previous iPads is 11560mAh). Record the power every 5 minutes during the test, and the table is as follows:
With the exaggerated battery capacity, the machine can easily reach about 10 hours of use time. Even if you play wild drag racing 8, you can have more than 7 and a half hours of life. The charging time is about 4-5 hours, similar to the performance of the iPad. It is not easy for the 2560 * 1440 UHD 13.3-inch large screen.
Like other high-end models of Lenovo, the 13 inch Windows version of YOGA Tablet 2 also has a JBL sound system, with dual 1.5W 2.1 channels in the front and 5W subwoofer in the rear. It uses WOLFSON's music decoding chip to support Dolby sound effects.
There is no need to worry about the volume. The sound of the speaker is cold, and the sound field is large. The amount of information and analytical power are far beyond the conventional notebook. Thanks to the subwoofer, the sense of low frequency is enough to cope with daily music and movies.
The CPU with 2W scene power consumption, combined with the metal body, makes the heat dissipation performance of the machine quite good. When the ambient temperature is 23 ℃, the highest temperature on the front appears at the bottom left of the screen after the machine runs for 5 minutes, which is 30.7 ℃; The highest temperature on the back is only 32.9 degrees.
summary
The 13.3-inch Windows version YOGA tablet 2 is positioned as a PC tablet two in one device. Because of the existence of the Bluetooth keyboard cover, it can switch between tablet and PC modes at will. The design of the scroll shaped side and the aluminum alloy rotating bracket allows it to adapt to different use scenarios.
It chose the low-power Atom processor, which is naturally not as powerful as the Intel i series machines in performance, but can be separated from the cooling fan and achieve more than 10 hours of endurance, as well as exaggerated heat control. Fortunately, the new generation of Atom shows a performance level far ahead of the generation, which is enough for daily entertainment and office use.
The price of its 4499 is in exchange for excellent workmanship and appearance design, good performance and surprisingly strong endurance and sound effects. Whether it is worth it depends on your personal needs.
