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Why the Lenovo Yoga keeps beating everything else — and why I keep telling people to buy it

Some laptops try to impress you with marketing fluff. The Lenovo Yoga doesn’t bother — it just turns up, performs, and quietly embarrasses half the machines on the shelf. Every single time I recommend one, the reaction is the same: “Why didn’t I get this sooner?” Here’s the truth — the Yoga line nails the three things most laptops get wrong:

1 — Real-world speed, not brochure speed

Plenty of laptops look fast on paper but crawl the moment you open 12 Chrome tabs, Teams, Spotify and a spreadsheet from 2018 that refuses to die. The Yoga handles all of that without coughing up a hairball. It’s the difference between “my laptop is fine” and “my laptop doesn’t annoy me anymore.”

2 — Build quality that feels intentional

Most laptops feel like they were built by people who’ve never actually used one. The Yoga feels like it was designed by someone who went:“People open and close this thing 300 times a week. Let’s not make it creak like a cheap garden chair.” The hinge alone puts some £899 plastics-in-a-trenchcoat machines to shame.

3 — Battery life that doesn’t gaslight you

You know the drill:

Advertised — “Up to 12 hours!” Reality — “You get 4 hours if you squint and turn the brightness down to candle mode.” The Yoga actually holds its charge. You can work the day without hunting for a plug like a Victorian chimney sweep looking for scraps.