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he Yoga C630 is the new
laptop from Lenovo that uses
Qualcomm’s latest mobile
processor – the Snapdragon 850
- rather than traditional AMD or
Intel hardware.
While previous Windows on
Snapdragon laptops have promised
to bring the best of PC and mobile
technology together, they’ve been
hampered by poor performance
and high price tags.
With the C630, Lenovo is
promising up to a 30% increase in
performance, an improved battery
life of up to 25 hours, and faster 4G
speeds. Can it avoid the
disappointments of its
predecessors and provide us with a
Snapdragon-powered laptop that’s
worth buying? Let’s find out.
What’s inside
Within the casing you get an
eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon
SDM850 processor, 13. 3-inch 1080p
display, 8GB of RAM and a
minimum of 128GB of SSD storage- as well as a data SIM card which
offers you 24GB of data to use over
12 m o n t h s.
The C630’s processor is a decent
upgrade compared to the
Snapdragon 835 found in the HP
Envy x2. It also has twice the RAM
of HP’s machine, so at the very least
we should see a noticeable bump
in performance.
Train your dragon
Part of the appeal of Snapdragon-
powered laptops is that they run a
lot cooler than traditional laptops
that use Intel or AMD hardware.
This allows manufacturers to create
thinner and lighter devices, and
Lenovo has done a great job of
producing an impressively svelte
laptop with the Yoga C630.
Its fanless design means there’s
no need for space in the body for
airflow (and also makes it practically
silent when in use), and it’s just
12.5mm thick and weighs in at asvelte 1.2kg. This is a laptop you can
comfortably carry around with you
while travelling. Thanks to its metal
body it also feels robust, despite its
thinness, and it looks great as well.
As with other laptops in the Yoga
line, the screen can be flipped,
allowing it to be used as a standard
laptop or as a tablet-like device.
The thin design means that when
the screen is folded back into tablet
mode the unit is thin enough to
feel like a standard tablet. It’s still
not quite as thin as a tablet, and it’s
too heavy to comfortably hold in
one hand for long periods of time,
but it’s an improvement on other
two-in-one devices.
The bezels that run down the
sides of the screen are impressively
thin, which helps keep the overall
size of the C630 down. The top
bezel is slightly thicker, but also
houses a webcam.
The bottom half of the machine
houses the keyboard. The keys are
nice and large, which makes typingLenovo Yoga C630
From £929 | $675 http://www.lenovo.com
Is this redemption for Windows on Snapdragon CPUs?
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