Ultrabook with a real stretch

The Yoga 13’s hinge design allows it to rotate through a 360-degree angle and switch between laptop and tablet in one simple motion.

Yoga 13 can also be used in two other modes in addition to laptop and tablet. You can convert it into a stand by flipping the keyboard behind the screen to comfortably watch movies or view pictures up close or you can bend it upright like a tent to bring games or video chats to life.

The Yoga 13 tested was powered by 3rd generation Intel Core i5-3317U processor, running at 1.7GHz. It had 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB storage using a solid state drive (SSD) and ran on Windows 8 64-bit operating system. Its graphics horsepower cames from Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA HD 4000, which is good for most casual games.

Super slim at just 16.9 mm thick, weighing a mere 1.54 kg and with the long battery life of about eight hours, the Yoga 13 is very mobile.

Its 13.3-in high definition IPS display with 1600 x 900 pixel resolution is very good for viewing photos, videos and surfing web sites. You can easily flip the hinge to transform Yoga 13 into a media-friendly tablet for enjoying multimedia functions. 

You can gesture to flip through photos with Yoga 13’s special Motion Control technology or you can simply use your fingers on the ten-point multi-touch screen. And its touch screen was very responsive during the test, served the Windows 8’s swiping design well.

During the test, Yoga 13 had good performance for general applications and casual games.

The Yoga 13 started up very fast, using only 9 seconds after the power button was press to show the start screen and be ready for use. It took about nine seconds to shut down.

Benchmarked by Windows 8’s internal benchmark tool, the Yoga 13 got good scores in most categories, except the desktop graphics performance, which it got only 4.7 points.

On the scale from 1 to 9.9, Yoga 13 got 7.7 points for the disk data transfer rate.

It got 6.9 points for the processor’s performance of calculations per second.

Despite the average performance for the desktop graphics, Yoga 13 got good point of 6.2 for 3D business and gaming graphics.

It got 5.9 points for the performance of memory operations.

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 has a starting price of Bt39,990, VAT included, and a two-year warranty.