Surface Pro 3 made me realized that it's impossible to have a light weight tablet like device, running i5/i7 Intel CPU and running x64 app Sketchbook Pro 6 and still stay cool on the screen. So I went for the second best: a reasonably light weight ultrabook computer with pressure sensitive stylus and screen support, running gen 4 i7 CPU, with a nice keyboard, with good battery life, and cost less than US$1700. And I HAVE to be able to try it before buy it, and it has to be easy to return in case something goes wrong.
My search led me to Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga i7 at a local Microsoft Store. So I went there, tried it enough to convince me that it has potential, and brought it. To tell you the truth, the display unit has digitizer accuracy problem, and that got me worried for a while. But I thought, maybe the machine I got didn't have the problem. So I gave it a chance.
After opened up the machine, I turned it on and connected the machine to home WiFi. As usual, it requires Windows update. Like, A LOT OF Windows Update. I was fine with that. No big, just the usual experience of using Windows OS after all.
There are some neat features on the machine that I didn't realize, like the backlit button. Nice,
The palm resting area on the right side of the keyboard get a bit warm about using the laptop for more than 1 hour, but I find it acceptable. What cto alarm me was that the lower left side of screen also gets hot. But then it's not on the screen area, so it's not like SP3's "omg, must return this device!!" level.
Here's what really got me concerned: the accuracy of the digitizer with styles was a bit off in quite some areas, and calibration does NOT seemed to resolve the problem. I am a bit tired now so I'll probably try some more tomorrow, but this really getting me worry.
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