Lenovo Yoga Chromebook C630 (4K) Review: strength with medium battery

Again in IFA 2018, we were able to seize fast practical training with Lenovo Yoga Chromebook 4K. For those who love large 15.6 -inch large laptops and want a high -resolution high -resolution width, yoga chromebook c630 packed some impressive specifications that you have put there with Acer SPIN 13 and Pixelbook. All this comes in a beautiful structure for $ 1,000. We have been admired.

In practice, it’s a wonderful hard machine. As you may expect, the battery life is its weakness and I think 4K is not the perfect accuracy of laptops. However, its strengths outweigh the negative aspects, which means that the Chromebook C630 is a good purchase if you need a large chrome book that works through everything you can throw.

Specifications

Goodness

Not very good

Design, devices and display

Direct off the bat, chromebook looks great. It comes in this amazing “beautiful blue” metal body. Unfortunately, it’s very easy this beauty through fingerprints – it is impossible to keep this laptop clean and almost difficult to clean.

When opening it, the Chromebook is still beautiful, even with its view. Unlike other manufacturers, Lenovo chose to place their logo on one of the 360 ​​degrees, so it is not completely in your face whenever you look at the screen. What is attention to pay attention, however, is the lower edge. Although the sides and the highest are good, the bottom is relatively thicker. If you have a dark background, it is not noticeable, but otherwise, it cannot be easily overlooked.

Large Chromebook books are not common, especially books that have a kind of horse capacity with this chromebook. Although I found myself the best laptops like Pixelbook and Huawei Matebook X Pro, I appreciate the largest screen. Looking at its size, it should not be surprising that it is a heavy machine, but it is difficult to transfer its weight. It is definitely not good for pregnancy, especially if she is in a backpack and will walk for a while (that is, it is not a good conference or a laptop on the campus). He also slipped very and did not sit well in my lap.

Weighing almost one element of 2 -in -1 function. Not only do you have a large vibrant tablet as soon as you turn it throughout the way, but you also get a lot of straining the wrist thanks to the bulk, especially if you try to keep it with one hand. Yoga Chromebook has been used in this mode several times and it was not a comfortable experience.

The most prominent thing here is the screen, instead, that the accuracy is what distinguishes this particular composition from his brothers. I laughed at the idea of ​​4K on the Chromebook (as I do with any laptop), and I found my doubts on a good basis. During my presence with her, there was no one in which this decision made this user experience better than something else. Certainly, there are marginal use such as 4K content on YouTube and Netflix, but I don’t see any reason to pay the additional money in exchange for that. It seems as if manufacturers forget that 1440 pixels (or the like) is something.

As for the quality of the screen, there is nothing wrong. The colors are really nice in full brightness, but they lose their bacteria with noticeable increases as soon as you decrease from 70 %. I found that Yoga Chromebook is to be useful inside the day, as long as I closed the curtains. When I tried to work abroad, even in the shade, she had more difficulty seeing anything. Full brightness helps, but when you are on battery energy, this is not the really best option.

The keyboard and tracking plate

I still have to find a laptop keyboard that I love more than Pixelbook’s, but Yoga Chromebook has a good panel. Traveling is comfortable and keys abroad without feeling sponge. There is no click or any satisfactory reactions, but I enjoyed writing the keyboard for the past week. The backlight is definitely nice, especially since some Chromebook versions lack it.

The tracking plate is also a great power here – it’s very smooth and accurate. Looking at the size of the laptop, I think it could have been bigger, but that’s just me. My fingers slipped through them every time I use them, which also means that it is easier to use OS Chrome gestures.

Performance and battery life

As we enter the Chromebook Premium, the model thought school is that high -end devices are lost on a low resource operating system such as Chrome OS. Despite the presence of the arguments of my committees from this discussion, the Chromebook book in this case uses the additional horse capacity to push all these pixels. As you might expect, run i5-8250U and 8 GB of DDR4 RAM, this laptop is strong.

With tabs from ten to twelve chrome, some alternative research is opened in Firefox, Linux Slack, Telegram applications, GIMP, and all time, when I noticed that fans are spinning. I was impressed. However, there were three cases of solid insurance, where the laptop was completely freezed and required a hard restart. When this happened, I opened Linux applications, so I will open a little bit to something.

At the same time, the battery life was not great, as I expected that this is a 4K laptop. Lenovo claims that you can get nine hours, technically true. I passed a full work day with a lot of open objects and a group of brightness to 30 % barely ran from juice around the mark of nine hours. So, definitely, this is possible. If you want to see some of the things on the display, you can expect any place from five to eight hours depending on what you do and where you have a brightness group. He paid me to 100 % while watching videos or steam games about three, but this is somewhat extreme.

The time for preparation is not bad either. I left Chromebook at a 100 % battery on my dining room table throughout the weekend while I was working on some other projects. When I opened it after four days, I left 11 %. Given that I used laptop that hardly lasts two days ready, this is decent.

Should you buy it?

Not only if you are really, it really needs 4K on the Chromebook. I think the high accuracy will be lost on many people, especially since the 4K content remains less common than 1080 pixels.

However, if you want a big book for a strong chrome book to do everything you have to do, the Chromebook book is suitable for this role. There is a 1080 -pixel version that is completely the same as such a model, but it costs a little less and you will get a much better battery life.

Assuming that you are dead on this alternative, you can still get an impressive Chromebook. For $ 899.99 – though, it is offered for sale for $ 629.99, which is impressive directly from Lenovo (with the voucher code President 10) At the time of writing this report – you will have a device that works very well, even with those random lifts you faced. The battery life is a problem, but I don’t think anyone expects a 4K laptop to continue forever, and this surprised me under certain circumstances. Not everything is bad, not good enough to bring me during working day/pregnancy, I need a laptop to survive.

Regardless of the composition you eat, the Chromebook is a capable, but huge machine. It is also one of the best distinctive Chromebooks books, especially for people who want to offer the biggest.

He buys: Lenovo