Lenovo introduces Yoga laptop with narrow bezels

Lenovo has announced two new convertible laptops in its Yoga lineup: the Yoga 710 and the Yoga 510, the former of which has narrow bezels. In addition, the Chinese manufacturer releases the ideapad Miix 310 tablet with a 10″ screen and detachable keyboard.

The Yoga concept of laptops with a flip screen has traditionally been the category for high-end products from Lenovo, but now there are also mainstream models in the line of convertibles. Lenovo has now added the Yoga 710 to this. This model is available in two variants: one with 11″ and one with 14″ screen.

Both models feature full HD resolution and offer a claimed battery life of up to eight hours, measured when playing video and with screen brightness at 200cd/m². The IPS screen of the 14″ version of the Yoga 710 also has very narrow screen edges. Not many laptops have narrow bezels yet, the Dell XPS 13 was the first laptop to have this. The Yoga 710 14″ is also 17 .3mm thick and weighs 1.6kg. The Yoga 710 will be available in May; the price of the 11″ version starts at 799 euros, that of the 14″ variant at 899 euros.

The Yoga 710 is 14.9mm thick and weighs 1.04kg. Lenovo releases models with processors up to the Intel Core m5, up to 8GB and SSD storage with a maximum of 256GB. The 14″ version of the Yoga 710 is equipped with Intel Skylake processors up to the Core i7 and the manufacturer also places Nvidia GeForce GPUs in the larger models.

The Yoga 510 comes in a 14″ and a 15″ variant, and features Intel Skylake processors, up to 8GB LP-ddr4 and up to 1TB HDD storage or 256GB SSD storage. It is striking that Lenovo uses AMD Radeon R5 M430 and R7 M460 cards for the 14″ and 15″ laptop respectively; AMD has not officially announced these mobile cards yet. The 14″ laptop is 20.9mm thick and weighs 1.75kg. The 15.6″-version is a bit thicker at 21.4mm and it also weighs a bit more: 2.08kg. The Yoga 510 will be available in April. The starting price is 479 euros, but the 15.6″ version will be available from 699 euros.

Finally, Lenovo comes with the ideapad Miix 310, a 10″ tablet with Windows 10 and a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The processor is up to an Atom X5 8300 and the 2-in-1 contains up to 4GB memory and up to 64GB emmc. The tablet weighs 580 grams and the accompanying keyboard weighs 520 grams.The starting price is 269 euros and the Miix 310 will be on the market in June.