Lenovo's folding Yoga Book C930 features the first E Ink keyboard

Lenovo Yoga Book C930

Lenovo's Yoga Book from 2022 was a jaw-dropping look into the futurity of mobile computing. But where it excelled in designed, it lagged in performance.

For 2022, Lenovo is redoing the Yoga Book, making the insides match the exterior. While it comes at a higher starting price, it finally appears to deliver in performance. It should be released later this autumn with a starting cost of around $i,000.

A real Intel processor ... just no Qualcomm

The biggest complaint Lenovo heard about the original Yoga Volume was performance. Those complaints were due to the lackluster Intel Atom x5-Z8550 processor, which is merely underwhelming.

To address that problem, the Yoga Volume C930 has upwardly to a total Intel Core i5 processor. Granted, these are Y-serial chips with just four.5W TDP versus the standard 15W power plant in a standard laptop. Only the leap in performance is substantial.

Likewise, the internal storage is now a full PCIe solid-state drive (SSD), which when combined with 4GB of RAM and Intel Hard disk drive 615 onboard graphics makes the Yoga Book C930 experience every fleck like a existent Windows 10 PC.

Lenovo Yoga Book C930

Interestingly, Lenovo opted not to utilise the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850, even though it plans to launch the Yoga C630 just a month later in November. Lenovo's hesitation comes from performance concerns, simply it still seems an odd fit for such a small PC. The choice is besides reflected in the just 8.6 hours of estimated battery life for the new Yoga Book – using ARM would undoubtedly have doubled those estimates. On the flip side, going with Intel means no fuss and excellent all-around functioning.

Lenovo Yoga Book C930 tech specs

Category	Lenovo Yoga Volume C930
Processor	seventh Gen Intel Cadre i5-7Y54 7th Gen Intel Core m3-7Y30
RAM	4GB LPDDR3
Storage	Upwardly to 256GB PCIe SSD
Display	LCD: 10.viii" QHD (2560x1600) IPS touchscreen E Ink: 10.8" FHD (1920x1080) touchscreen
Graphics	Intel Hd 615
Ports	ii x USB Type-C 3.i Audio Jack SIM card holder
LTE	Optional (Europe)
Biometrics	Fingerprint reader
Sound	Dual speakers with Dolby ATMOS
Pen	Yes 4,096 force per unit area level Wacom Bluetooth Supports dual display
Battery	Upwardly to 8.6 hours 35.8WHr
Dimensions	10.25 in ten 7.06 in x 0.38 in 260.4 mm x 179.44 mm x nine.9 mm
Weight	1.71 lbs (775 g)
Toll and availability	$999.99, October

Lenovo Yoga Book C930 display, virtual keyboards, and more

Lenovo Yoga Book C930

Lenovo is boosting the brandish in the Yoga Volume from the original 10-inch 1920 x 1200 to a larger 10.eight-inch screen with 2560 ten 1600 resolution. That screen also at present supports Lenovo's active Wacom pen for inking, which was missing on the original. With back up for 4,096 pressure levels, it should be an splendid inking experience. It also sticks to the dorsum of the brandish, which is fun.

The existent magic, though, is the lower ten.8-inch full Hard disk drive E Ink display that also doubles as a keyboard or notepad. That keyboard can change betwixt keyboard layouts on the fly to accommodate different regions and languages.

To address the virtual-ness, Lenovo has the buttons slightly shift when typing to simulate movement. When combined with haptic feedback (vibration) and sound cues (both of which are configurable), typing on the Yoga Book is much amend than the previous Halo Keyboard. While it is not nearly as expert as a "existent" typing experience, it is getting closer.

Another neat feature is the trackpad. The virtual ane appears when you lot tap the dot beneath the spacebar, giving yous a decently large target for moving the cursor. To save space, however, that trackpad goes away when you showtime to blazon and turns back into a spacebar.

Besides inking on the master brandish, users tin also use the East Ink side every bit a notepad or to read PDFs. Inking on E Ink is not every bit fluid every bit the IPS color brandish, but it saves tremendously on battery life. Because the Yoga Book flips around either display tin can be turned off to save on battery.

Currently, the Due east Ink side does non back up books from the Microsoft Store, but that could change after.

Lenovo Yoga Book C930

When closed, a user tin double tap on the Yoga Volume's hat, causing the device to open automatically. The feature uses a combination of gyroscopes and magnets so that it only works when laying flat on a table versus being carried in a pocketbook.

Lenovo too now hides a fingerprint reader in the power push giving users access to Windows Hello. And dual-firing speakers with Dolby Atmos deliver decent quality sound from a device thinner than many smartphones.

Lenovo Yoga Book C930

Lenovo is offering an pick for LTE on the Yoga Book, but during our briefing, the company told us it's not going to be available in the U.S. due to low market demand. The option for no LTE seems similar a tremendous missed opportunity

Yoga Book C930 folds into the futurity (again)

Lenovo Yoga Book C930

It is ironic that the original Yoga Book was an Android-only project that at the last infinitesimal picked up support for Windows x. For its return in 2022, at that place is no version for Android, because the Android version did non sell while the Windows 10 ones did.

This time around, Lenovo decided to make the Yoga Book a existent PC. Non but does it look like something from the future, information technology doesn't perform like something from the past. All of that comes at the price of seemingly mediocre battery life, selective availability of 4G LTE, and a higher starting price of $999 – but information technology is at to the lowest degree now a true aspirational device.

How that E Ink keyboard and inking holds upward remains to be seen, merely the Yoga Book C930 is hands the almost exciting PC we take seen this twelvemonth. Expect information technology to hit markets later in October.

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