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June 16, 2016

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What a huge difference a coat of paint can make. The first thing you'll notice about the sleek ThinkPad Yoga 460 is its silvery finish (though you can still buy it in Lenovo's signature black if you like the classic look). While there's no dearth of silver laptops on the market, it's refreshing to see Lenovo make notebooks in a different color. The carbon-fiber case feels like plastic, but it's built solid. When I carried the Yoga around the office, I didn't worry about dropping it.The laptop's lid features the company's logo on the right side and the ThinkPad emblem on the upper left-hand corner. Its interior reveals a 14.1-inch, 1080p display, keyboard, TrackPoint nub and touchpad and more ThinkPad branding on the palm rest.

At 4.2 pounds and 13.3 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches, the Yoga 460 fits easily into a bag, but it's on the heavy side. The HP Spectre x360 15t is also 4.2 pounds and larger at 14.8 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches, but it has a larger 15-inch display. The 13-inch Vaio Z Flip is the most portable of the bunch at 12.8 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches and just under 3 pounds. Lenovo's own 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Yoga comes within millimeters of the Yoga 460 at 13.1 x 9 x 0.66 inches, but is significantly lighter at 2.8 pounds.

This convertible's 360-degree hinge allows the Yoga 460 to switch between four modes: Laptop, Tablet (folding the keyboard all the way behind the screen), Tent (an upside-down "V") and Stand (by partially folding the keyboard back so that the screen stands up straight).In Tablet mode, the keys on the "lift-and-lock" keyboard flatten so you don't press the keyboard on the back of the display. Our review unit's display refused to rotate in Tablet and Tent mode, but Lenovo said that the laptop is supposed to change screen orientation when you turn it, so ours was likely a defective unit.

The ThinkPad Yoga 460 has so many ports that business users might think about ditching their docking stations. The left side is where you'll find the power port, OneLink+ dock connector, a USB 3.0 port, headphone/mic jack and SD card slot. On the right are two more USB 3.0 ports, a Mini DisplayPort, HDMI-out and a security lock slot.The camera isn't great for teleconferencing. When I took a picture of myself with the webcam, my beard looked like someone drew it on my face with a Sharpie and the wall behind me appeared much brighter than it does in real life.

The Yoga 460 is designed to survive travel, the elements and the occasional drop. It's MIL-STD 810G tested to withstand humidity, vibration, shocks and extreme temperatures and features a spill-resistant keyboard. It also features the Trusted Platform Module standard to encrypt sensitive information and, in certain configurations, Intel's vPro technology for remote management.The 14.1-inch 1080p screen on the ThinkPad Yoga 460 is sharp, but its colors don't pop. On top of that, the screen is very glossy, and I saw my reflection quite a bit while watching the trailer for Ghostbusters.

Even leading business systems are sacrificing endurance for slightly thinner frames. At CES, Lenovo announced it was removing battery capacity from our favorite productivity laptop. The new ThinkPad T460s is thinner and lighter, but it promises just 10 hours of battery life with a sealed-in battery. Its predecessor, the T450s, had a hot-swappable unit that lasted 15.5 hours on our test (Lenovo claimed 17 hours).

Why You Need Long Battery Life, Even if You Don't Think So
Unfortunately, far too many consumers fail to understand the value of long battery life, because they think endurance is only necessary when you're traveling. However, even when you're at home and there are outlets in every room of the house, you shouldn't be tethered to an outlet. You would never buy a smartphone that has to stay plugged in all day, so why would you accept that experience from your laptop?

In my house, if I need my laptop to stay plugged in, I can only sit on one side of the couch. I have to avoid working at the dining room table, and my toddler keeps tripping over the cord, threatening to pull the laptop down onto the floor. Fortunately, I use a laptop that lasted 14 hours on our battery test and really endures for a solid 7 to 9 hours of my work. If I use my computer in bed for a couple of hours before I go to sleep, I can stick the device in my nightstand drawer and not worry about charging it until another couple of nights have passed. Every laptop owner should have the same experience.

As a consumer, you can vote for a better laptop market with your wallet. Buy laptops that, on objective tests, get at least 50 percent more battery life than you think you'll need in a day. If you think you might really use your laptop away from a desk for 5 hours a day, get something with 8 or 10 hours of battery life as measured by us, not by marketers. You may end up with a slightly thicker laptop, but you'll be a lot happier not being shackled to the wall.

- See more at: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-makers-exaggerate-battery-life#sthash.MgfouHnw.dpufIf you've been shopping for a laptop , you may have noticed that some of the least expensive offerings are powered by AMD chips. Intel's main competitor in the laptop processor market promises better performance and much stronger graphics speeds for the money. Unfortunately, the few AMD-powered laptops we've reviewed in the past year, including the HP EliteBook 745, produced underwhelming results on our tests.

However, AMD could soon be making a push into more mainstream laptops. This week, the company officially took the wraps off of its new 7th Generation APUs (accelerated processing units), which promise huge improvements in performance over its current 6th-gen lineup of chips, particularly for gaming and video. With a couple of SKUs that take on Intel's Core i5 and Core i3 directly, the new "Bristol Ridge" processors could make it easier for budget-conscious consumers to play casual titles at decent frame rates.

Could an AMD APU be in your next laptop? Here are 7 things you need to know about AMD's new 7th-gen processors:More Bang for the Buck: AMD hopes to provide more performance, particularly graphics power, at the same or better prices than its competitor's mid-range or low-end CPUs. For example, according to AMD, the A12 chip compares favorably to Intel's Core i5-6200U, offering 31 percent faster gaming performance as measured by 3DMark 11.
Bristol Ridge on the High-End, Stony Ridge for Value: AMD's 7th Generation APUs are divided into two architectures, with different codenames. The faster chips, which are sold under FX, A12 and A10 model numbers, use the Bristol Ridge architecture. The slower A9, A6 and E2 CPUs as based on the "Stony Ridge" platform. Bristol Ridge chips. Both architectures support speedy DDR4 memory, but Bristol Ridge can take RAM that's up to 2400 Mhz while its slower brother tops out at 2133 MHz. The higher-end chips also offer more performance optimizations.

Ready for Next-Gen Video: All the A-Series APUs support 4K ultra HD in both the popular H.264 and new-and-improved H.265 encoding formats. They also support Google's VP9 encoding at up to 1080p.
AMD 7th Generation Processors: What You Need to Know (NDA 10 pm ET 5/31)
Huge Step Up in Speed: AMD says that Bristol Ridge CPUs are 56 percent faster than its 2014 "Kaveri" chips while its Stony Ridge processors are 52 percent faster than their immediate predecessors.
HP Envy x360 Goes First: HP's new Envy x360 2-in-1 will be the first laptop available with an AMD 7th Generation APU. This month, consumers will be able to buy the x360 with either an AMD FX 9800P processor, an Intel Core i5 or an Intel Core i7.
9 New SKUs: The company has announced nine different SKUs for its new processors. The FX, A12 and 10 are all available in both 15-watt (standard laptop) and 35-watt (gaming / workstation) models, while the A9, A6 and E2 are only available with the lower wattage.
The FX and A12 chips both have the fastest GPU, the Radeon R7. The A10 and A9 use the slower Radeon R5, the A6 uses Radeon R4 and the E2 has a Radeon R2.

APUs Not CPUs: AMD calls its chips Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), because they feature the company's powerful Radeon graphics processors on the same die as the CPU. Intel also has integrated graphics on its CPUs, but doesn't use the APU terminology. For several years now, the vast majority of AMD-powered laptops we've seen have carried price tags well under $600 (usually far less than that). The $749 HP EliteBook 745 with its AMD 6th Gen A12 processor was a noteworthy exception, but suffered from poor battery life and warm temperatures. Since that's the only AMD A12 system we tested, though, we can't say whether the processor was at fault.

AMD's new 7th-generation APUs sound promising on paper, but if the company wants to succeed in the mainstream and at higher prices, it will need to do offer than just strong performance. The chipmaker must convince laptop makers, who have largely been hesitant to put AMD CPUs into their more-expensive laptops, to take a chance on the new platform. HP's Envy x360 is a good first step, but the company needs many more like it.
It's already ridiculous that companies make 15-inch 2-in-1 laptops (some of which are actually pretty good), but an even bigger convertible with a 17-inch screen? Who is this designed for? Giants? People with monstrously huge hands for whom such a device actually would look "normal" and proportional?All jokes aside, this clunker and its 17.3-inch full HD touchscreen could be really useful for creative professionals. I mean, look, Dell even advertises on it as being great for DJing on its website:

I suppose the spacious screen is better suited for the "tent" and "stand" modes, if you're into that sort of thing. But you probably don't want to travel at all with this tank.Seriously interested users will get Windows 10 Home 64-bit, a sixth-generation Intel Core i5 processor (up to 2.8GHz), up to 12GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 940MX graphics with 2GB of GDDR5 RAM, and up to 1TB of hard drive storage, and several solid-state drive (SSD) storage options up to 512GB.

All of that really fits into one bag? (I get that one a lot). Yup. Pretty easily too, though it takes some work to figure out the right configuration in the bag (and I had to relearn that with the new Minaal bag -- and I'm still not sure I've perfected it, but it does fit just fine, with a fair bit of room to spare). WTF? Are you crazy? Quite possibly. But this is something that has just sort of grown up naturally over time (some of the stuff listed above is fairly old), and once it got going, it turned out to be really quite useful.

How is going through airport security? No different than for most people, I think. I've never had an issue with anything with the one exception of when I went through airport security in Taipei just recently, and they were confused by the portable screen (which, dammit, is made by a Taiwanese company!) and made me take it out and send it through for a secondary screening. But that's only happened once.

Why not just use a tablet for the second screen? This seems to get asked fairly often. Before I got the Asus, I did, briefly, use a 10 inch tablet as a second screen, but it wasn't nearly as nice. It's much smaller (and heavier), with resolution that wasn't as good -- and, more importantly, it was just a lot slower. The dedicated screen device works great for what I need it to do.
I think that's basically it. If folks have more questions (or suggestions on how to make my office in a bag even better...) jump in on the comments.
Asus arguably stole Computex 2016 with a string of stand-out product announcements, and chief among them was the unveiling of the Asus ZenBook 3.

Here is an unbelievably slim and light 12-inch laptop with the processing power to run even advanced tasks with relative ease.Asus CEO Jonney Shih spent considerable time during the ZenBook 3 announcement highlighting how it outshines the latest MacBook. But we reckon it could also take the fight to another portable powerhouse - the Surface Pro 4.Yes, you could argue that the Asus Transformer 3 Pro is more of a direct 2-in-1 competitor, but the comparison is an interesting one nonetheless.

The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 has a phenomenal 12.3-inch touchscreen display with a super-sharp 2736 x 1824 pixel resolution.The Asus ZenBook 3's screen is bigger (12.5-inches), but not quite as pixel-packed. It 'only' has a Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixel) resolution, so the picture will appear less sharp.Of course, there's much more to a screen's quality than just its sharpness. When we went hands-on with (likely) a pre-production sample, we noted that it was a decent performer in terms of colour vibrancy, though we'll have to spend more time with the device before judging it in full.

SURFACE PRO 4 IS BOTH SMALLER AND BULKIER
It might confuse you to learn that the Surface Pro 4 is slimmer and lighter then the ZenBook 3, but also thicker and heavier. What gives?While the Asus ZenBook 3 appears to be the heavier of the two at first glance - it weighs 910g versus 786g - the latter figure doesn't take into account the Surface Pro 4's optional Type Cover. Which, let's face it, really isn't optional at all.Add Microsoft's keyboard-case peripheral, and you're looking at a combined weight of well over 1kg.It's a similar story when it comes to thickness. Taken on its own, the 8.4mm-thick Surface Pro 4 is a fair bit thinner than the 11.9mm Asus machine. But add the 4.65mm-thick Type Cover to the Microsoft hybrid and it's a different story.

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