Design and Appearance
I tested the white version of the Yoga 300 11, and I think it looks pretty good for a device in this price range. Plastic is used throughout the shell and chassis, but it’s a smooth plastic that feels nice to the touch, has a good grip, and is not prone to scratches and stains. Build quality is also pretty good, as there is little to no flex in the screen or body, but the shell does squeak when pressed or grasped hard.
A set of hinges holds the screen in place and allows it to transform into tablet, stand, or tent mode. These hinges are sturdy and made of metal, but they squeak when flipping the screen over. I don’t know if this will be an issue with devices you buy in stores, or if it was just an isolated incident with this review sample. Overall, this Yoga 300 11 is one of the better-made and better-looking devices in its class. Unlike some competitors, Lenovo doesn’t offer any color versions, which may be a hindrance for some people.
Laptop Mode
On the practical side, I must add that the hinge mechanism is sturdy and well-made, so I could easily lift the screen with one hand. Switching between modes is also very smooth. Once the device detects that it is no longer in laptop mode (screen tilted more than 180-200 degrees), it will automatically disable the keyboard and trackpad so that you don’t activate them by mistake.
On the other hand, this hybrid tablet doesn’t perform well as a tablet, as it is quite heavy, bulky and difficult to hold, mainly because of the design of the screen and the body and the way it fits together in this mode (as you can see from the pictures).
The last thing we want to talk about in this chapter is the IO. I have nothing to complain about it, as this notebook offers three USB ports, a full-size HDMI connector, a LAN port and an SD card reader. The SD card can’t be fully inserted, though. The charging port is cleverly placed on the left edge, where you will also find a Kensington Lock. Keyboard and Trackpad
I was impressed by the keyboard of the Yoga 300 11, which is not common. It is located high up on the body, leaving enough space for a spacious armrest and provides a good typing experience. The keys are firm and well-spaced, and the layout is simple and standard without any unusual experiments.
The keys have a short travel distance and offer little resistance, but once I got used to the overall feel, these aspects had little impact on my accuracy. The travel distance isn’t shorter than other thin and light laptops, but since this laptop isn’t the thinnest of them all, Lenovo could have done better in this regard. The keyboard on the larger Yoga 500, for example, has similar keys, but offers better feedback since they’re taller and stiffer.
Keyboard Trackpad
Keys
Trackpad Screen
Then there’s the display. Lenovo went with a touchscreen on this 11-inch laptop, and it works just fine in that regard. It doesn’t have a digitizer or proper stylus support, but I didn’t experience any glitches when swiping and clicking with my fingers. The hinge holds the display firmly in place, which has a major impact on the overall experience.
However, Lenovo has equipped this device with an 11-inch 1366 x 768 pixel TN panel, which results in poor viewing angles, color reproduction, brightness, and contrast, as shown in the results below (shot with a Spyder4 Elite). Hardware, Performance, and Upgrade Options
Hardware-wise, this Lenovo Yoga 300 11 is built on the Intel BayTrail-M platform and comes with a Pentium N3540 processor, 8 GB RAM, and a 1 TB HDD. The storage unit is upgradeable, but the RAM is not, so if you buy a version with only 2 or 4 GB RAM, you will never get rid of it.
Information With such hardware, the Yoga 300 11 will not be a powerful laptop, but it is not designed to be so. It is designed to handle daily light tasks while running quietly (it is a fanless platform) and cool. As long as you stick to browsing the web with a few tabs open, watching movies or streaming clips from Youtube and Netflix in 1080p resolution, editing Office documents, listening to music, etc., it will get the job done. Noise, heat, connectivity, speakers, and others
This laptop runs a little hotter than I would like in daily use, but neither the internal hardware nor the outer shell gets too hot. As you can see in the pictures below, though, the temperature on some spots on the back exceeded 35 degrees Celsius while looping a 1080p movie. That’s a little surprising, since other 11-inch laptops run cooler and this Yoga isn’t a very thin and light machine after all. Speaking of noise, the Yoga 300 11 has fanless hardware but bundles a mechanical hard drive, which you can hear spinning in a quiet room. So if you want it to be completely silent, you’ll have to swap the hard drive for an SSD Lenovo Yoga 300 11 Battery life
This is where the Yoga 300 11 falls short, just like its predecessor, the Yoga 2 11, and that’s because Lenovo only equips the Yoga 11 with a 30 Wh Lenovo Yoga 11 battery.For comparison, most other manufacturers include 30 Wh batteries in their smaller 10-inch notebooks.
As a result, you shouldn’t expect to get more than 3-5 hours of daily use out of the device, as you can see from the lines below (with the screen brightness manually set to 60%, which is about 120 nits).
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