Lenovo Yoga
Ranked 2 of 5 2-in-1 laptops by recommenders
Recommended for its folding touchscreen OLED, stylus use and light portability as a convertible laptop. Common caveats: a poor touchpad and firmware bugs that some owners found disruptive.
Recommended for its folding touchscreen OLED, stylus use and light portability as a convertible laptop. Common caveats: a poor touchpad and firmware bugs that some owners found disruptive.
25 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 60%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 3 years
Median of the 4 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Folds back into tablet mode
“I actually appreciate that I can fold the keyboard all the way back under and use it as a tablet.”
Comment from 25 Apr 2026 in “MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be” “Very useful when I need to quickly draw something and have no paper around.”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch” “I use the stylus more than I type.”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Apple Introduces MacBook Neo” OLED touchscreen display
“The Lenovo Yoga has an OLED screen, I am somewhat doubtful the average person would find it worse than the screen on the Neo.”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “MacBook Neo” “the Yoga laptop has a touchscreen OLED”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “"This Is Not the Computer for You"” Light and portable on the go
“it works for nearly anything I want to do when I'm out and about”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Permacomputing Principles” “My yoga is pretty slick and light.”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Firmware bugs and crashes
“all of the little firmware bugs really destroyed the experience”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Apple Business” “it was too big, too heavy, too glossy, and crashed too often”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “Jeff Geerling: The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video]”
Other 2-in-1 laptops people recommend
The four most recommended other 2-in-1 laptops, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Surface | 64 | 60 | 52% | 11 | 2 yrs7 owners | — |
| Lenovo YogaThis page | 15 | 10 | 60% | 7 | 3 yrs4 owners | — |
| Microsoft Surface Book | 13 | 15 | 46% | 4 | — | — |
| Microsoft Surface Go | 12 | 5 | 71% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Asus ROG Flow Z13 | 7 | 2 | 78% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
23 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Very useful when I need to quickly draw something and have no paper around.”
“I find my Lenovo Yoga's touchpad vastly superior to my MacBook Pro's touchpad.”
“their Yoga was interesting ~15 years ago”
“I learned about the whitelist the hard way when I bought a decently (then) up-to-date wifi card to upgrade, and the computer refused to boot.”
“Tried some of the 7b models locally, more than usable, around 30token/sec”
“it's just too hard to administer, its now sluggish”
“extremely compelling against a MacBook Air”
“They all have nicer screens and significantly better keyboard feel too.”
“All have this "not enough" vibe to me.”
“it was too big, too heavy, too glossy, and crashed too often”
“I avoid ideapads and yogas.”
“it works for nearly anything I want to do when I'm out and about”
“I actually appreciate that I can fold the keyboard all the way back under and use it as a tablet.”
“tablet-mode laptops made in the last 15 years face no such issues”
“all of the little firmware bugs really destroyed the experience”
“That one has a lower pixel density. 162 ppi for the Yoga vs 219 for the Neo.”
“the Yoga laptop has a touchscreen OLED”
“The Lenovo Yoga has an OLED screen, I am somewhat doubtful the average person would find it worse than the screen on the Neo.”
“I use the stylus more than I type.”
“it has decent screen and keyboard, but the touchpad is horrible”
“the desktop touch experience was bad”
“burn power when closed and apparently sleeping”
“My yoga is pretty slick and light.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.