Lenovo has been doing a pretty good job of listening to what consumers and users want or need. The first line of Yoga tablets, both the 8 and 10, came with Mediatek processors and paltry screen resolution. They still won my heart because they were decently fast and the battery lasted 18+ hour on a single charge. That gives me and my son all day strong games and movies. Shortly after the launch of both tablets Lenovo refreshed the Yoga 10 with the Yoga 10 HD+. They swapped out the Mediatek processor for a Qualcomm chip and upped the screen resolution to 1920 x 1200. It also offered louder speakers, a larger kickstand and a number of other improvements.
This years Yoga tablet 2’s keep moving in the right direction, in my opinion at least. The screen resolution on the 8-inch tablet has moved up from the 1280 x 800 to 1920 x 1200 HD display with a 178 degree wide viewing angle. While new 10-inch remains the same from the 10 HD+ at 1920 1200. The processors have been swapped out from the Mediatek and Qualcomm offerings to the quad-core Intel Atom Z3745 (bay trail) clocked at 1.33 GHz with a clock of 1.86GHz on turbo mode. You will get 2GB of RAM, 16GB of on board storage with micro SD card slot, larger  speakers and a bigger kickstand that rotates 180 degree and allow you to hang it.
There would be a pretty good speed improvement across the boards with both tablets as compared to last year. Partly due to the processor choice this go round. The Intel chip boosts from the past 1.2 GHz mediatek 533MHz 1MB cache to 1.33GHz with turbo automatically pushing to 1.86GHz and 1066GHz 2MB cache. The RAM has been upgraded as well. While it is still 2GB of RAM, it is now DDR3 vs DDR2 and is 1066 MHz vs the previous 800MHz. These guys should cook right along. I don’t have my hands on them yet to give you a hands on idea of the improvements, but I will soon and will compare them to the previous three versions.
Along with the tablet, they also announced the new Bluetooth keyboard cover accessory. It has a curved magnetic arm that will attach to the battery cylinder to give you a keyboard and a cover for the tablet.
Lenovo keeps the price point that the original tablets launched with. That pegs the 8-inch for $249 and the 10-inch at $299. Don’t forget, if you are looking for an even bigger and badder tablet, Lenovo also just announced the 13.3-inch Yoga Tablet 2 Pro with a pico projector and an unheard of 15 hours of battery life starting at $499.
Go check them out at Lenovo.com
p.s. They also made a Windows 8.1 version as well. All the same specs, just running Windows.
