Lenovo YOGA 310-11IAP-80U2006HSP
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Reviews for the Lenovo YOGA 310-11IAP-80U2006HSP
Source: Ricks Tech
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 12/01/2021
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Source: Mi Mundo Gadget
ES→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/03/2018
Rating: Total score: 72% features: 70% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%
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Model: Small and convertible. Short summary of Lenovo Yoga 310, well its brother Yoga 300 is also available, but not the topic of this review.
In today’s market, almost everyone is rushing for mobility, which in terms of dimensions means smaller cases, which then causes manufacturers to go for trade offs in either performance or thermal management etc. Here I have a 11.6-inch device. It is as small as it can get, weighing around 1.3 kg or so. If it were not to be a convertible, I would have called it a netbook back in 2010s. But well, it is a convertible. The real question is, how usable it is. When I do my reviews, my main concern as a user is, how much value I am going to get from the given device. With Lenovo Yoga 310 in my hands, I lower my expectations and think of it as a nice to have or give it to my mum or father for their daily usage.
For my editorial works, at home I have a mini-PC connected directly to my display. It has a N3160 processor with 8 GB of RAM and 120 GB SSD. The Lenovo Yoga 310-11IAP-80U2006HSP comes with 4 GB of RAM, 500 GB HDD, and N3360 processor. It’s bottleneck is mainly the HDD and 4 GB of RAM. Is this specs even enough for something? Let me tell you this, if you disable Windows defender, antiviruses, don't run dropbox and disable useless Chrome extensions, you'll get something in your hand. But I definitely suggest to replace the HDD by an SSD, otherwise it will be too slow to even fire up something.
With a little bit of waiting time, you can run office programs, watch movies, all the daily stuff you can think of. I think Yoga 310 is good for connecting to external displays and running presentations or taking it to meetings to show basic stuff. But operational wise, it is not for hard working, since the system already reaches its limits when a few apps are open at the same time. Maybe you can switch to Opera just to reduce the amount of RAM is being used by the browser, but well, with 4 GB there is not much room to spare.
I know, I sound a bit pessimistic. But as I have written, this device is for people that would like to go outside, do some typing or browse the Internet. Speaking of typing, the keyboard is not very satisfactory, so lets call it light typewriting. Would I buy it to my mum? Sure why not. It’s price tag is around 400$, it can fit in a bag, 1.3 kg of weight can be considered light. So, she will definitely use it. Here comes the question, if all I can do is basic stuff, should I go for a Chromebook instead? Well, that is a choice you have to make. I am always in the middle and can't make a pick. I am close to picking ChromeOS, because, well, it won't cause much of a trouble. With Windows 10 used with 4 GB of RAM, I can already hear my mom complaining how slow it is and she does not want to use it that much.
Hands-on article by Ümit Yılmaz Güneş
Intel HD Graphics 500: Integrated low-end graphics adapter with DirectX 12 support, which can be found in some ULV SoCs from the Apollo Lake series.
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Celeron N3350: An Apollo Lake family, dual-core, ultra-low-power processor (SoC) that saw the light of day in 2016. Its two cores run at 1.1 GHz to 2.4 GHz; these are not Hyper-Threading-enabled meaning there are no additional threads. This chip has a fairly competent integrated graphics solution, the Intel HD Graphics 500, and eats very little (~6 W). The Celeron N3350 is based on the Goldmont CPU microarchitecture that came to replace Silvermont (2013), bringing with it several welcome improvements. The CPU is Secure Boot-compatible; technically, it will have no issue running 64-bit Windows 11. The average N3350 in our database is just as fast as the venerable Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 is in multi-thread loads; the two cores of this Celeron trail behind a single core of any half-decent CPU such as the Intel Core i3-7130U.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
11.60":
This is a standard display format for tablet computers or small convertibles. You see more on the screen than on a smartphone but you can't use big resolutions well. On the other hand, mobility is not a problem.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
72%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
