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to use one of them to plug in the included USB-C
charging cable. Otherwise, you’re left with the one USB
Type-A port. You’ll likely need a hub if you’re planning
on plugging in multiple accessories with legacy USB
connectors, and you’ll have to do without an HDMI
port or a media card reader.Performance
For our benchmarking charts, we’ve pitted the Lenovo
Yoga C740 against a mix of quad-core laptops, most
of which are powered by older 8th-gen Whiskey Lake
chips, while one sports a spiffy new 10th-gen Ice Lake
CPU. We also tossed in a budget dual-core system so
you can see the different quad-core makes (and why
dual-core is still sufficient for many uses).
As you’ll see in our results, the C740 proved to be a
solid and reliable performer both in terms of everyday
PC chores as well as tougher multi-core tasks. We were
particularly impressed with its battery life.PCMark 8 Work Conventional
We’ll start our performance testing with PCMark 8,
a benchmark that simulates such daily computingThe only port on the right side
is a USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A port40 TECH ADVISOR • JUNE 2020REVIEW
to use one of them to plug in the included USB-C
charging cable. Otherwise, you’re left with the one USB
Type-A port. You’ll likely need a hub if you’re planning
on plugging in multiple accessories with legacy USB
connectors,andyou’llhavetodowithoutanHDMI
portor a media card reader.Performance
For our benchmarking charts, we’ve pitted the Lenovo
Yoga C740 against a mix of quad-core laptops, most
of which are powered by older 8th-gen Whiskey Lake
chips, while one sports a spiffy new 10th-gen Ice Lake
CPU. We also tossed in a budget dual-core system so
you can see the different quad-core makes (and why
dual-core is still sufficient for many uses).
As you’ll see in our results, the C740 proved to be a
solid and reliable performer both in terms of everyday
PC chores as well as tougher multi-core tasks. We were
particularly impressed with its battery life.PCMark 8 Work Conventional
We’ll start our performance testing with PCMark 8,
a benchmark that simulates such daily computingThe only port on the right side
is a USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A port