Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 Drawing Tablet review
This hybrid company is leaning back trying to be what it is not
Comfortable keyboard; High quality of construction; additional features Useful Cons
Not big, like a tablet, a little awkward screen resolution
Verdict
Not surprisingly, the ThinkPad Yoga 260 is a very good laptop, but at best, an imperfect tablet
Windows PC manufacturers have been down on themselves with the new laptop-tablet hybrids apparently coming out every week. While Lenovo has been the rhythm of consumption of hybrids with its Yoga Series, virtually defining the idea of hybrids in most minds with its 360-degree articulated displays, it has been much quieter when it's its famous ThinkPad business line. There have been relatively few ThinkPad brand hybrids.
All this has changed with the ThinkPad Yoga 260, the first of a new hybrid business salvo of the company for the year 2016. The Yoga 260 (it sounds badly named considering its 360 degree rotation of the hinge from the screen) is not from Lenovo is really ambitious and curious hybrid - which is still unreleased ThinkPad X1 Tablet.
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The 260 is a lot more classic of the laptop with a screen that can fold flat to be used as a tablet. Alternatively, you can orient the screen and place it on an end like a tent or screen position so that the pinching keyboard serves as the basis.
We still are not convinced that anyone who wants to use a thick and heavy tablet - 1.3 kg is light for a laptop, but heavy for a tablet. A thickness of almost 2cm makes uncomfortable holding for long periods of time. Still, the other flexible, screen orientations are useful, especially when combined with Windows 10, which more easily switches between laptop and tablet to use than Windows 8 has ever done.
The touch screen itself was fluid and responsive, just as we expected. It just does not rely on this call for that - it also comes with a small stylus that can be hidden in a corner when not in use. It's not Surface Pen or Apple Pencil, but it's quite sensitive and has enough palm rejection that it's perfectly usable for scribbling notes, signing contracts and basic drawing.
Of course, no ThinkPad would be complete without the legendary IBM descended from the keyboard and the touch stick. Although we still prefer IBM's classic ThinkPad keyboards at the time with their unmatched travel, the keys here are still very good. Great with a lot of travel and your comments, they take for one of the most comfortable, feeling and accurate typing experiences we've come across on a laptop. It's better than the keyboards on Lenovo notebook class consumers.