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November 04, 2015

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We have analysed many times why Microsoft should not make smartphones and tablets, mainly because of conflicts of interest with the OEM partners which have always been the basis of its model. However, there is the defensive reason that without the former Nokia products, there would be very few Windows handsets at all. The software giant is ill-equipped, in terms of its business model and its capabilities, to be a vendor of mass market hardware.

Yet it does need Windows 10 to live up to its promises of spanning every kind of device and screen, which means continuing to provide users, especially in the business sector, with the option of a Windows smartphone.

Surface grows up
And the Surface range is starting to justify the approach that software platform giants need to create and drive new form factors themselves by showcasing the capabilities of their operating systems on their own hardware. Microsoft has taken that tack in the past, though usually retreating quickly once a particular product gained traction among "real" hardware vendors (as seen with its Wi-Fi access point, for instance).

Google has done the same with Nexus. Neither of these represents the integrated hardware/platform business model of Apple â€“ briefly chased by Nadellaâ€™s predecessor Steve Ballmer, with the resulting failure of the Nokia devices acquisition. Instead they show the need for a new OS to have worthy devices.

With the first Surface tablets, it was clear that Microsoft should have left this task to its partners. Google may have complained, when it launched the first release of Android for larger screens, that very few device makers could produce a quality experience to live up to the OSâ€™s potential. But that is not true of Microsoft, which has established and capable customers such as Acer and Asustek.

They were vocal in their misgivings about the Windows giant competing with them with Surface.

However, between the unloved Surface RT and this weekâ€™s launch of the Surface Book, there has been a significant change, partly driven by the emergence of Windows 10 and partly by the decline of the conventional PC. It is imperative that W10 â€“ Microsoftâ€™s last chance to remain a company with its own OS rather than just a multi-platform service provider â€“ succeeds in that post-PC space which is currently being defined, and will include some combination of tablet touchscreens and notebook keyboards, at the base level. There have been all kinds of experiment with these hybrids, but unexpectedly, Microsoftâ€™s Surface Pro tablet-with-keyboard has proved definitive, especially since W10 came along.

To prove that point, we only had to see Apple head-to-head with its old enemy with its launch of the iPad Pro, a clear response to the Surface Pro. Now Microsoft has returned the compliment with the launch of its first notebook, the Surface Book. The dividing line between a professional tablet and a laptop is blurring, but increasingly it seems that, after many experiment with post-PC form factors, this is where the successor to the PC will be found.

The fight for the post-PC space
Both Microsoft and Apple are looking to colonize the space via a pincer movement. Both are now offering a beefed-up tablet with optional keyboard, and an ultraslim laptop, though the MacBook Air does not yet have a touchscreen, and Apple CEO Tim Cook last week insisted that, unlike Microsoft, his firm had no plans to converge its mobile/touch and notebook/desktop operating systems.

Just like the Toshiba Chromebook 2, the Dell comes with a full-HD (1920 x 1080) display. While watching the 1080p trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I noticed a great deal of detail, from the dents on a Sith Lord's helmet to the stubble on Harrison Ford's face.

My one bone to pick with the display was that during moments when the whole screen was black, I noticed that the Dell picked up a lot of reflective glare.

With an average brightness of 270 nits, the Chromebook 13's display trails the average ultraportable laptop (294.6 nits) and the Toshiba (377.7 nits). The Acer (222 nits) and the HP (260 nits) are dimmer.The Chromebook 13's screen rendered a wide range of colors, displaying 96 percent of the sRBG gamut. That's a greater range than the average ultraportable laptop (79.4 percent), the Acer (58 percent) and the HP (64 percent). The Toshiba Chromebook 2 (109. is even better.

The Dell's display is mostly accurate at rendering color, scoring 1.4 on the Delta-E test (where lower scores are better). That's far better than the average display on an ultraportable notebook (5.86). The Toshiba Chromebook 2 (0.87) and the HP x360 (0. are more accurate, though.

Audio
The Dell's speakers, located near the front of the notebook on its left and right sides, can produce enough volume to fill a room. The notebook did a great job with the strong, low bass on Jay Z and Kanye West's "No Church in The Wild," and the highs on Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" came through clearly as well.

Unfortunately, the speakers didn't produce the clearest mids, leaving some instruments on Simon & Garfunkel's "Cecilia" mushed together and hard to distinguish.

Ports and Webcam
On the left side of the Dell, you'll find the port for the proprietary power connector, an HDMI port, a USB 3.0 port, the headphone/mic jack and a microSD card slot. On the right side, Dell placed a USB 2.0 port and a Noble lock slot.

We also tested the Dell Chromebook 13 using the Oort Online test, which measures the browser's ability to display seasonal visuals. The Dell scored 5,050, just below the Toshiba Chromebook 2 (5,060).All in all, the only major downgrade going from the Yoga 900 to the 700 series, is this mid-range 2-in-1 laptop comes wrapped in plastic rather than magnesium. The Yoga 700 also dumps the expensive watch mechanism for a more traditional hinge, but it still offers a full 360-degrees of articulation.

Then there's also the smaller 11-inch Yoga 700, which comes priced at €799 (about $876 USD, £572, AU$1,237). Though it comes outfitted with a less capable Intel Core m5-6Y54 processor, users will still get a 1080p screen on this small hybrid.

What's more, the 11-inch Yoga 700 can be outfitted with a 256GB Samsung SSD and 8GB of DDR3L RAM. Users should be able to get about 8 hours of battery life even though this miniature system weighs only 1.1 kg and measures 15.8 mm thin.

Both the 11- and 14-inch variants of the Lenovo Yoga 700 will be released later this November.By this time, we all know that the Surface Pro 4 is a sterling effort from Microsoft in many respects, but how does it fare if things should go wrong with the device?

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