PC World - USA (2020-05)

72 PCWorld MAY 2020

REVIEWS LENOVO YOGA C940 15

doesn’t utilize the extra space. It’s no larger

than that of Lenovo’s 14-inch Yoga C940, and

much smaller than the jumbo-sized trackpad

on Apple’s MacBook Pro. And like most

Windows laptop trackpads, the click

mechanism gets increasingly stiff as your

finger moves toward the top section.

AUDIO, WEBCAM, AND

SECURITY

After being wowed by the speakers on

Lenovo’s 14-inch Yoga C940, the 15-inch

model was a bit of a letdown. The larger

laptop does have even louder speakers built

into its rotating hinge—still better than the

tin-can speakers you’d find on cheap

laptops—but it lacks the low-end warmth that

the smaller laptop offers and comes off as

overly harsh at high volumes.

The webcam, meanwhile, met its already-

low expectations, being a 720p shooter like

pretty much every other laptop on the market.

The privacy shutter is a nice touch, though,

and while there’s no face recognition for

Windows Hello, you can sign in with the

fingerprint sensor just below the laptop’s

cursor keys.

PERFORMANCE

Although we sometimes see 2-in-1 laptops

take a performance hit compared to their

non-convertible peers, that doesn’t seem to

be the case with the Lenovo Yoga C940 15.

It’s a solid performer on the CPU side, and it

The C940 15 outscores most comparable laptops

Cinebench’s quick performance test.

Dell XPS 15 7590

Core i7-9880

Lenovo Yoga C940 15

Core i7-9750H

Cinebench R15.038

All threads

1,659

Single thread Multi thread

1,263

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

MStealth 9SDSI G65

Core i7-9750H

Lenovo Think Pad Extreme X1

Gen 2Core i7-9850H

1,247

1,101

Lenovo Legion Y7000P

Core i7-8750H

Acer Nitro 7Core i7-9750H

1,020

993

Razer Blade 15Core i7-8750H

Acer Nitro 5Core i5-9300H

919

766

HP Spectre x360 15t

TouchCore i7-8565U 708

200

195

188

191

174

181

181

178

173

holds its own on the GPU side despite not

being officially a gaming rig. Battery life holds

up quite nicely as well, both in benchmarks

and everyday use.

Let’s start with Cinebench, which tests

CPU performance over a short period of time.

Here, the Lenovo Yoga C940 15 topped

every other laptop with a 9th-generation Intel