Lenovo Yoga Book review: the unbearable lightness of computing

The "Halo" keyboard might just wow you enough, at least temporarily, to forget about that. Once you put the Yoga Book into normal laptop mode, the matte black lower panel turns into a glowing touchpad keyboard. It also vibrates when you tap on it. This gives a sense of haptic feedback, though it feels like the whole panel itself is moving, not the isolated keys you’re tapping at.

the halo keyboard really takes getting used to

After a few days of using the Yoga Book’s keyboard, I still don’t feel completely used to it. I wasn’t kidding when I said my text is filled with typos. (And I didn’t attempt to write this review solely on the Yoga Book.) But just like typing on a touchscreen, I’m getting there. It’s at least more comfortable than typing directly on a virtual keyboard that forces you to prop your hands up and blocks half of your display.

The keyboard panel also doubles as a Wacom surface, which requires you to use Lenovo’s "Real Pen" stylus (included in the box). And you can put a real pen tip in and write on a piece of paper or thin notepad over the panel. As a journalist, I liked the idea of opening up a physical notebook, slapping it on top of the Yoga Book, and taking notes that way, but in reality this surface is probably more appealing to designers or people who use styluses and digitizer pads more often.

Its battery life is impressive in terms of everyday usage. Lenovo is attaching a 15-hour claim to the Yoga Book, which seemed ridiculously long to me, especially after I ran Verge’s official, continuous battery test on it and it lasted about half of that. But my Verge colleague Dan Seifert, who also had a loaner unit, was able to use it for most of a work day and some of the next morning without charging it.

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