Pocket-Lint - We're starting to get used to touchscreen laptops. At first, the idea was a bit foreign to us, and didn't feel like something we'd use, but now there are dozens of touchscreen Windows-based laptops available, we are actually finding them quite useful. And there's a lot about the Ideapad Yoga 11S that's interesting.
Lenovo did show off quite a few tablets and hybrids at IFA Berlin at the beginning of September, such as the ThinkPad Helix, Horizon 2S, Horizon 2E and ThinkCentre Tiny-in-One 23. What we regretted not seeing at the trade show was a successor to the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 tablet, which was a pretty impressive release from the company.
TheBestLaptops.net: "Lenovo has been constantly updating and upgrading their Ultrabook lineup powered by Ivy Bridge processors to the latest 4th generation Intel Haswell processors for the past few months. One of the best Haswell powered Ultrabook they have is the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro, and now Lenovo has refreshed their other popular lineup, specifically the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S, now powered with an Intel Haswell processor."
Ars Technica: Smaller, flexible convertible PC needs either Haswell or a time machine.
Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga lineup started with two laptops. One, the Yoga 13, is a 13-inch Intel Ultrabook that runs Windows 8. The other, the Yoga 11, is a Tegra 3 laptop running Windows RT.
The problem for Lenovo is that Windows RT hasn't really gone anywhere aside from those devices launched alongside Windows 8 (which included the Yoga and a handful of other convertibles and tablets, most notably Microsoft's own Surface). If you want to know how well the ARM-based convertible did for Lenovo, well, the company no longer sells it directly.
That leaves a hole in the Yoga lineup, and it's a hole that the new Yoga 11S is supposed to fill.
This laptop definitely feels a few months late, and it fixes none of the minor issues that exist on the 13-inch model.
