#Linux reviews 2017 upgrade#
#Linux reviews 2017 windows 10#
#Linux reviews 2017 pro#

This time I wanted to keep a windows partition around so I could upgrade firmware and the like. With my previous yogas I had just wiped the drive entirely and installed Fedora off the bat. The speakers seem a bit better than the 900вЂ™s, but if you really want to listen to something, put on headphones, as all laptop speakers are likely to disappoint. If you press it with CPU intensive tasks you can get the fans to fire up, but they are not any worse than the ones in the 900, and it fires them up seldom in day to day use. ItвЂ™s just more relaxing to type on than the 900 or the yoga 2 pro. The missing pageup/pagedown and small up/down arrows has been anoying to get used to, but otherwise the keyboard actually вЂњfeelsвЂќ much better. They also shrunk the 2 dedicated up/down arrow keys to 1/2 height. The keyboard layout has changed a good deal: They removed the home/end/pageup/pagedown dedicated buttons on the right and lumped them into being Fn arrow keys. The top bezel is a little bit wider (to accoodate the webcam I guess) and the bezel on the botton is about an inch or more.

The screen is very lovelyвЂ¦ and side bezels are very very small. The top lid has a slight overhang over the bottom, which actually makes this laptop much easier than the yoga 900 to open. ItвЂ™s a slight bit lighter/thiner/smaller than the 900. Keyboard with 3 levels of backlight (low, high, off).

Touchpad (happily without the sort of chrome border the yoga 900 had).

1 very very tiny вЂњnovoвЂќ button to get into the bios or recovery or the like.

They are both on the left side next to one another

Lenovo active pen 2 (4096 levels of pressure), included in the bundle.

ItвЂ™s a pretty dark coppery bronze and it looks pretty nice. The copper and star wars models arenвЂ™t out yet, the vibes model didnвЂ™t seem worth an extra ~$300, and the platinum seemed kind of boring, so I went with the bronze model. The colors are вЂњplatinumвЂќ, вЂњbronzeвЂќ and вЂњcopperвЂќ and the glass ones have a gorilla glass overlay over the cover with a design on it: A fancy wave pattern вЂњvibesвЂќ, a star wars rebel logo and a star wars empire logo.

The 920 is supposed to come in 3 colors and 3 вЂglassвЂ™ editions.

#Linux reviews 2017 windows 10#

The dell xps 13 developer still definitely has some advantages, like firmware updates via fwupd seamlessly in Linux instead of needing to keep windows 10 around just to do that.ДЄs I usually do, I went for the top of the line model. I use a laptop as my primary machine, so I am sitting at it typing away for many many hours a day, which makes it well worth it to me to get something nice. This cycle I seriously considered moving over to a dell xps 13 developer edition, but in the end a few things drove me to the yoga 920: 8th gen cpu (which tuns out to be a pretty big deal, see below), higher screen resolution, and no вЂњnostil camвЂќ (webcam at the bottom of the screen looking up).

#Linux reviews 2017 pro#

Lenovo does come out with new models every year, but for me at least they donвЂ™t become compelling to jump to until another model, so I have skipped the yoga 3 pro and the 910 models (and all the other side models they have now like the yoga 700). First a yoga 2 pro in 2013, then a yoga 900 in 2015 and now the 920 here in 2017. This is now the third yoga laptop I have owned. Having just purchased a Lenovo Yoga 920, I thought I would offer the following (probibly too detailed) review for any interested parties.