Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 370 - Review 2022

The Thinkpad Yoga 370 (starts at $i,389; $ane,659 as tested) is Lenovo's try to amend on terminal year's Editors' Choice-winning ThinkPad Yoga 260. The chassis size has stayed virtually the same in all dimensions, just its bigger 13.3-inch brandish and 7th-generation Intel Cadre i5 processor are welcome. Still, competitors like the HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2, our current top choice for business 2-in-ane laptops, outplay the Yoga 370 on important factors like typing comfort, battery life, and overall functioning. Empirically, it's a perfectly fine choice for road warriors and mainstream workers, but the contest is trigger-happy in this growing category.

Looks Like a ThinkPad

Similar the ThinkPad X1 Yoga and the ThinkPad T470, this system has the Lenovo standard charcoal gray outside, some of which is made from carbon fiber, with red accents in the logo and on the TrackPoint pointing stick. It'due south also bachelor in silvery, if you want to stand out from the other ThinkPad models in your company.

The arrangement measures 0.lxx by 12.iii past eight.8 inches (HWD) and weighs iii.08 pounds. That's thicker, but slightly smaller in the other ii dimensions, compared with the HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2. Both of these 13-inch models are a good balance between a compact chassis (like the Microsoft Surface Pro, a detachable 12-inch tablet) and larger screen behemoths (like the 15-inch Samsung Notebook 9 Pro). The laptop will fit comfortably on an airline tray table, and can be hands stuffed in just well-nigh any commuter handbag, only the screen is nevertheless large enough for 24-hour interval-to-day tasks like editing documents and proofing web designs.

The brightly backlit keyboard has the scalloped keys that we've come to expect from a ThinkPad laptop, though all of the keys are sized smaller and closer together than standard, partly due to the system'due south compact chassis. Notably, the arrow keys and the PgUp/PgDn keys are tiny, together taking up as much space as two normal keycaps. That means you'll have a difficult time navigating large Excel spreadsheets. It took a few minutes of familiarization to minimize touch-typing errors. The keyboard is fine if you're a graphic creative person who will exist drawing on the screen much of the time, but for writers, the 14-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga is more comfortable for extended use.

The arrangement's 13.iii-inch Total Hard disk drive touch screen is rated at 300 nits, bright enough even to be used in noon daylight. (If screen brightness is a concern, though, the Dell XPS 13 2-in-one (9365) and the Samsung Notebook 9 Pro (15-inch) are brighter.) Lenovo claims a 170-caste viewing bending, and nosotros tin verify that it's usable whether you're seated, standing, or carrying it in your arm.

The X1 Yoga comes with an active stylus with 2,048 levels of force per unit area sensitivity. The ThinkPad Pen Pro stows neatly in a cubbyhole on the right side of the laptop. The pen's storage has contacts to recharge the stylus' internal battery. The pen is smaller, thinner, and non quite as comfortable as Microsoft's Surface Pen. Drawing on the screen is a little slicker than on the Surface Volume, which feels more like sketching on paper. In whatsoever case, it's perfectly suited to signing documents or filling out business forms in add-on to quick sketches and annotation taking.

Every bit a two-in-1 convertible laptop, the ThinkPad Yoga 370'south screen can pivot 360 degrees on its dual hinges, allowing you to use the impact screen in four modes. In improver to Laptop mode, there's Stand mode (which has the screen facing y'all, and the keyboard facing the tabular array), Tablet mode (in which yous fold the keyboard a full 360 degrees away, with the screen facing yous), and Tent fashion (which has the hinge pointing upward, and the screen angled toward y'all). One innovation that convertibles from other manufacturers can't match is the Yoga 370's retractable backlit keyboard, similar to the one on the current-generation X1 Yoga. The keys retract into the deck after you tilt the screen beyond 190 degrees, so you tin can't inadvertently damage the caps. It as well gives your manus a apartment surface to grip when the system is in Tablet mode.

The speakers are hidden under the keyboard, and they produce clear sound for listening to music, watching movies, and video conferencing. They're loud plenty to fill a small-to-medium-sized room. A fingerprint reader on the right of the palm balance works with Windows Hello, though the HP Elitebook x360 has both a fingerprint reader and an IR camera for hands-free logins.

The Yoga 370 passes military-grade requirements, including durability tests similar dust/h2o intrusion, vibration, and shock. It'll shrug off the occasional spill directly on the keyboard, and survive most commuter and office environments.

Future-Proofed Connectivity

In that location's robust support for both new (USB-C with Thunderbolt iii) and legacy (HDMI/USB 3.0) technologies when connecting accessories. On the left, yous'll find the Air conditioning adapter port, a mini Ethernet jack (for the included dongle), a USB iii.0 port, and a USB-C port with Thunderbolt 3 technology. The mini-Ethernet dongle is somewhat problematic: Your arrangement may have a stockpile of them from previous ThinkPads, only information technology'southward easy to leave information technology behind in your hotel room. Y'all can use the USB-C port to charge the laptop using a tertiary-party AC adapter or a portable external bombardment. On the right, you'll find a headset jack, an HDMI port, a Kensington lock slot, a micro SD carte du jour slot, a SIM card slot for the optional WWAN card, a second USB iii.0 port, and the aforementioned pen storage.

The configuration we reviewed comes with an Intel Core i5-7200U CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Like almost ThinkPad laptops, you can choose many custom configurations, including upgrades to a Core i7 CPU, 4GB to 16GB of RAM, and 128GB to 512GB of SSD storage. A fully loaded model goes for over $2,100, and so our $1,389 configuration seems like a relative bargain compared with the top-of-the-line model. The system comes with a ane-year warranty.

Middling Performance, Off-white Battery Life

On our benchmark tests, the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 370 proved itself a worthy, though non exceptional, performer. It scored ii,876 points on the PCMark 8 Work Conventional test, a middling score, and it was simply adequate on the multimedia tests like Handbrake (ii:37), Cinebench (283 points), and Photoshop (iv:12). While it brought up the rear compared with systems like the Apple MacBook Pro 13-Inch, the Dell Latitude 5289 2-in-1, and the HP EliteBook x360, it was simply a few percentage points backside. The system was besides a scrap slower on the 3D gaming benchmark tests, only none of these business systems with integrated graphics are geared for gaming.

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Battery life is expert, though over again, it won't knock your socks off. The Yoga 370 lasted 10 hours, 32 minutes on our rundown test. The ThinkPad X1 Yoga lasted simply about 45 minutes longer (eleven:17), but systems like the VAIO Z Flip (12:eleven), the Dell Breadth 5289 2-in-1 (14:35), and the Microsoft Surface Volume (xix:16) all fare considerably better. x.5 hours is likely much better than the old laptop you're replacing, merely it however lags the competition.

Good, but Not a Standout

The Lenovo ThinkPad 370 is a perfectly adequate convertible-hybrid laptop that eschews pricey add-ons like a 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM, making information technology more affordable than some of the competition. Its multimode hinge gives y'all easier touch access to the screen, and information technology's lighter and more compact than and its larger sibling, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga, and the HP EliteBook x360. However, because of its smaller chassis, it manages shorter bombardment life, and comes with some annoyances like a smaller and tighter keyboard. The latter diminishes typing comfort, one of the big reasons to get a Lenovo ThinkPad over its HP or Dell rivals. The ThinkPad 370 is fine if you're willing to make sacrifices for the smaller chassis, just for well-nigh mainstream users, we're however bullish on the larger ThinkPad X1 Yoga, Dell Breadth 5289 ii-in-1, and our top pick, the HP EliteBook x360.