The Pavilion’s build materials are mostly plastic, save for its brushed metal palm rest and surrounding areas. The notebook has a very solid feel and the heft to prove it – its 3.21 pound weight is over three times that of a dedicated tablet like the Apple iPad Air 2. It’s rather chunky, too, at 0.89 inches tall. As if this didn’t make tablet mode feel awkward enough, we noticed that the top of the display lid doesn’t line up with the front of the chassis when the screen is folded over, so holding it doesn’t feel symmetrical in tablet mode.

Design quirks aside, the fit and finish is mostly good, with minimal gaps between parts. The lid is thick and should protect the display well. The chassis has minimal flex. We’d nonetheless like to see HP improve what’s here by lowering the weight, and either using a larger display to fill out the available space, or making the chassis physically smaller to be as big as an 11.6-inch notebook should be.

The Pavilion x360 11 includes a healthy amount of ports for a notebook this size. Its selection is comparable to that of many 14- and 15.6-inch consumer notebooks.Along the left side is the lock slot, power button, fan vent, a USB 3.0, the headphone/microphone combo jack, and volume rocker. On the right side is the hard disk activity light, media card reader, a USB 2.0, a USB 3.0, HDMI, Ethernet, and AC power. The speakers are along the front edge, and there are no ports along the back.

HP has updated the Pavilion x360 11 to include an in-plane switching (IPS) display, but our review unit was one of the last models shipped with the now-discontinued twisted nematic (TN) panel. The display measures 11.6 inches diagonal, though as we mentioned earlier, we suspect a 12.5- or even a 13.3-inch panel would fit given the display bezel is about an inch thick. The only redeeming quality of a bezel this large is that it gives your fingers a place to rest while in tablet mode, which is beneficial on a convertible notebook.

The display has average picture quality at best. The color saturation could use a moderate boost, and the contrast is a little less than we were hoping for as well. The TN panel means limited viewing angles – tilting the display forward or backward much past head-on results in a washed out picture. This is problematic when multiple people are looking at the display, and an even bigger issue on the x360 11 as it’s capable of transforming into a tablet; you’re essentially forced into holding the tablet in a certain way so you’re looking at the display head-on. On the plus side, the 10-point touch display is responsive and the display has plenty of brightness. But overall, the display is one of the x360 11’s most significant weaknesses. The IPS-equipped Pavilion x360 11 should eliminate our complaints about both the viewing angles and the image quality.

The Pavilion’s two Beats-branded speakers are under the palm-rest and project downwards. They have good volume, clarity, and a touch of bass. We noticed minimal distortion even at top volume. Because they project downwards, it’s important to keep the x360 11 on a flat surface or use it in tablet mode, which has the same effect; otherwise the sound isn’t able to project properly. For one or two people in a quiet room, this setup can get you by, but don’t expect a cinematic experience.

Lenovo Yoga 900
The Yoga 900 weighs 2.8 pounds and measures 0.59 by 12.75 by 8.96 inches. All of the standard ports are there, with the addition of a USB Type-C port. It is slightly heavier and thicker than last year’s Yoga 3 Pro laptop. But it never felt heavy to carry around. And when you consider the new stuff included in this one, it’s forgivable.

That "stuff" includes Intel’s sixth-generation Core i5 or i7 Skylake processor, a new chip touted for its speed, efficiency and graphics support; along with an Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU. The previous Yoga model got dinged for slowness; that wasn’t my experience with this one. In everyday use, the Yoga 900 was more than capable of running multiple apps, switching between tasks, and streaming video without any stutters.

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Lenovo Yoga 900
The Yoga 900’s battery life is definitely improved over last year’s Yoga 3 Pro, but compared to other laptops in this class, it’s still not the best. In a Verge battery test, the Lenovo Yoga 900 lived up to the company’s claim of nine hours. During a more normal day of use, running multiple apps, checking email, and browsing the web with some battery-saving settings turned on, it was inconsistent. Some days it lasted around five and a half hours, and other days closer to seven and a half. In either instance it doesn’t match the new Surface Book or recent MacBook Pro models.

BETTER BATTERY LIFE, BUT NOT BEST IN CLASS

And I didn’t love the keyboard and trackpad. The backlit keyboard on the Yoga 900 now includes a top row of function keys, something the Yoga 3 Pro didn’t have. It’s great to have these, and the keys themselves are comfortable, but the layout felt slightly cramped to me; the Shift button is small, and the Delete key feels just out of reach. The trackpad, occasionally, is unresponsive to clicks1. But overall, it’s a good laptop. So good, in fact, that it’s easy to forget about that whole you-can-tent-this-thing-on-an-airplane-tray feature.

The Pavilion’s full-size keyboard is one of its better qualities. Notebooks this size typically compromise the keyboard in some significant way, but the x360 11 does an admirable job maintaining a standardized layout. Except for the function row and the up and down arrows, the keys are full-size which makes for a comfortable typing experience. The Chiclet keys have a flat surface and an anti-glare finish, which we suspect will wear shiny over time. The keys’ up-and-down action left us wanting better tactile feedback, which is no doubt a product of their limited key travel. You’re stuck using the Fn key to access the Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys in the arrow key cluster, but we’re not going to complain since there doesn’t appear to be any room for them to exist as dedicated keys.

The touchpad centered in the palm-rest is buttonless – simply press down to produce a click. Its anti-glare surface is smooth and its surface is rock solid, but clicks are stiff and require too much effort. The clicks are furthermore too loud. This touchpad supports the standard Windows gestures such as pinching with two fingers to zoom, and two-finger scrolling.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Tesla is ready to actively sell its revolutionary Powerwall home battery systems in Australia, which aim to reduce dependence on grid power.Tesla has confirmed that Australians will be able to "put their money down” before Christmas. In Australia, Tesla is partnering with solar panel companies and installers. Tesla Energy spokesman Health Walker yesterday said partners would be announced within days, and the roll out would occur next year.

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Tesla is marketing its Powerwall batteries as a way of spreading solar energy gathered during times of sunshine and making it available at other times of the day and night. The batteries can provide backup power during outages and, when used with the grid, can store power generated at off-peak time and make it available for peak-time use.

He said the US, Canada, Germany and Australia would be the first countries to be get Powerwalls.He said Australia’s climate, existing use of solar panels, increasing power prices and the existence of a feed-in tariff for people who provide battery power to the grid made Australia an attractive market."I think the stronger case will be to reduce the dependence on grid power rather than getting off the grid completely,” he said. "But there may be some people who buy enough Powerwalls to try to undertake that. You have to rely on your solar generating enough power on an ongoing basis.”

Tesla is selling two Powerwall models: a 7 kWh unit with a daily cycle designed for home use, and a 10 kWh one that stores power for a week, for backup use. Australian pricing isn’t announced just yet, but in the US the units wholesale for $US3000 and $US3500 — the price of an expensive laptop.While solar energy users have stored power in the past, Mr Walker said Powerwall with Lithium-ion batteries was the first to be purposed for home use.Mr Walker wouldn’t say how many units Tesla would sell locally, but he said Tesla expected the take up in Australia would be "extremely high”. "One of the reasons we’re coming to Australia is the projected interest in this market,” he said.

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