Lenovo Yoga 920 Review
Specs
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8550U |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Windows 10 Home |
| RAM | 8GB |
| RAM Upgradable to | 16GB |
| Hard Drive Size | 256GB SSD |
Design
The Yoga 920 is one suave-looking 2-in-1, with its all-aluminum chassis, slim sloping slides and attractive watchband-style hinge that lets you bend the lid back into tablet, tent or stand modes. As on the Yoga 910, there's a very thin bezel around the display, but thankfully, on the Yoga 920, the webcam is located above the screen, not below it.
However, the real star of the show is the laptop's stunning bronze color, which was not present on earlier models. The color is pleasantly consistent on its lid, hinge, deck and even its keys. If you look at the laptop in the right light, you'll notice that the sides, while also bronze, have a shiny metallic luster, which frames the matte lid, deck and bottom. Lenovo also offers the Yoga 920 in platinum, but that silvery shade seems boring by comparison.
At 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.55 inches and 3.05 pounds, the Yoga 920 is extremely light and easy to carry. However, both the HP Spectre x360 (0.54 inches thick, 2.85 pounds) and the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (0.54 inches thick, 2.7 pounds) are a bit lighter.
Ports
The Yoga 920 has a solid combination of ports for a system this slim. The left side holds two Thunderbolt 3 ports, which can be used for charging or connecting to high-speed peripherals and docks. The right side contains a USB 3.0 port for connecting to traditional USB devices, along with a 3.5mm headphone jack. There's also a single-touch fingerprint reader on the deck, so you can use Windows Hello to log in to the OS with just one press.
Display
The Yoga 920's 13.9-inch display comes in both 1920 x 1080 and 3840 x 2160 resolutions. The 1920 x 1080 panel on our review unit offered bright, sharp images. When I watched a trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, the green in the Hulk's skin and the red in Thor's cape really popped. The panel was fairly bright, with wide viewing angles that stayed true at up to 60 degrees to the right or left and faded only slightly as we moved farther off-center
According to our colorimeter, the Yoga 920 reproduces a strong 105 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which is slightly more than the ultraportable-notebook category average (101 percent) and the HP Spectre x360 (102 percent). The Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (107 percent) was ever-so-slightly more vibrant.
At 284 nits, the Yoga 920's screen offers brightness that's about on a par with the category average (289 nits). Both the HP Spectre x360 (318 nits) and the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (314 nits) were brighter.
Audio
The Yoga 920 offers impressive audio quality that's free from distortion, loud enough to fill a small room and rich enough to dance to. When I played AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock, We Salute You," I could hear a clear separation of sound, with some instruments coming from the left and others from the right. There was none of the tininess we hear from so many laptop speakers.
The Lenovo Settings app lets you choose among music, movie, voice and gaming audio profiles. You can also turn off the Dolby audio enhancement, which is enabled by default, but doing so made the music sound completely flat and lifeless.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The Yoga 920's keyboard is a mixed bag. The keys have only 1.3 millimeters of vertical travel (1.5 to 2 mm is typical) but require a solid 68 grams of force to actuate (65 to 70 grams is typical). The keys were fairly snappy but didn't offer enough resistance to keep me from bottoming out (hitting the base with a lot of force) several times.
I achieved a rate of 96 words per minute with a 4.5 percent error rate on the 10FastFingers.com typing test, both of which are on the low end of my typical range. On the bright side, the right Shift key is full-size and placed above the arrow keys -- a huge improvement over the Yoga 910's odd key size and location.
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