I spent like 2 to 3 hours trying to get Android development environment working on ThinkPad Yoga. This is not Lenovo's fault at all. I just found it annoying that every time I put aside Android development (either due to being busy or because ... yes, busy), I have to set up an Android development environment all over again. But now that it's done, I feel good. Hopefully this will encourage me to do more casual Android development.
Just when I start to feel comfortable about keeping this ThinkPad Yoga, something popped up last night and irritated me: Plugged in, not charging. For instance, like now, I have 96% battery available, and when I roll over the mouse on the battery indicator, I saw this message: "96% available, plugged in, not charging". As someone OCD like me, the last thing I want is when I DID something, and that something DOESN'T yield any result. If I already plugged in, why can't it start charging right away?
Of course, with situation like this, Internet is always the rescue. I search online, and found this forum message. It seems like that there's a battery feature exist to make sure your machine is not overcharged. So I unplugged the power adapter connector from my Yoga, left the battery drained from 96% to 93%, and reconnect the connector again, and sure enough, the battery charging happened after I connected the charging plug at 93%. Right now reaches 98% and still charging. So the issue seems to be a non-issue .... or WAS IT? I will keep my eye on this charging situation.
Next challenge for Thinkpad Yoga: Virtualization.
I installed VMWare Workstation 10 and tried to run some VMs, including Windows Server 2012 R2 and OSX. I then realized that Virtualization on BIOS was NOT turned on by default, so I got into the BIOS and turned on that setting. Sure enough my VMs were loaded and running properly. But then, with only 8Gb of main memory, I don't expect these VMs to run smooth. This is more or less just a test to see if the machine is capable enough to load and run VMs.
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