70 PCWorld MAY 2020REVIEWS LENOVO YOGA C940 15
DESIGN AND DISPLAY
The Lenovo Yoga C940 15 comes in either a
darker “Iron Gray” or a lighter shade that
Lenovo refers to as “Mica.” Its all-aluminum
body, along with its sharp edges and flat
sides, only serve to underscore the laptop’s
heft, which is unavoidable given the discrete
GPU inside. But for a workhorse laptop that
folds around into a tablet, the C940’s size and
weight are reasonable.
As with Lenovo’s smaller and skinnier
Yoga C940 14 (go.pcworld.com/c914), the
15-inch model packs some clever design
ideas. The laptop’s rotating hinge doubles as
a speaker grille that projects sound outward,
and the display’s top bezel extends upward
near the center of the screen, leaving extra
room for the webcam and forming a little lip
that makes it easier to open the laptop.Our review unit’s display had a resolution
of 1920 x 1080, which on a 15.6-inch screen
has clearly visible pixels, but that’s going to
be an acceptable trade-off for most folks
given the performance and battery life
issues—not to mention the higher price
tags—that often come with 4K screens. (It’d
be great to see a laptop like this with a
1440p display instead, and perhaps a 16:10
aspect ratio to boot, but that’s a rant for
another day.)
The display’s brightness measures an
eye-popping 415 nits at the center of the
screen. While Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme
Gen 2 (go.pcworld.com/x1gn) is in the same
league (442 nits), most other 15-inch
workhorse laptops don’t get anywhere close
unless they’re made by Apple. Although the
glass display can create a lot of glare whenThe Lenovo
Yoga C940 15
fills its extra
keyboard space
with a number
pad, but leaves
trackpad space
underutilized.