Lenovo Yoga 900: Core M ditched for full-fat Skylake, sensible keyboard returns

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It's safe to say that Lenovo made a few, let's say, less-than-ideal tweaks to its flagship Yoga ultrabook with the launch of the Yoga Pro 3. Sure, the overall sleek design and wonderfully over-engineered hinge remained highlights, but the switch to a slower Core M processor and the sacrilegious alteration of its keyboard made the Pro 3 something of a step down from its predecessor.

Rejoice then, ye Lenovo faithful, for the new Yoga 900 makes up for much of the Pro 3's flaws. For starters, the Core M has been ditched in favour of a full-fat i5 or i7 Skylake processor, while the keyboard regains its dedicated function key row. It'll come in three different configurations, starting with a £1199 Core i5 version with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SATA SSD. £1299 gets you the same spec with an i7, while £1399 bumps up the SATA SSD to 512GB. Sadly, there's no option at all for a quicker PCIe-based SSD. Pricing starts at $1,199 (!) in the US, but PR wouldn't tell us anything further.

All models come with the same non-replaceable 66Whr battery (up from 44Whr in the Pro 3, and good for around nine hours of battery life according to Lenovo), a 13.3-inch 3200×1800 (276 PPS) IPS touchscreen, Windows 10, two USB 3.0 ports, a USB Type-C port, a headphone jack, and an SD card reader. Lenovo's also boasting that it features a 32 percent larger fan, and thus runs quieter than its predecessor.