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Microsoft's radically different Windows 8 software is meant to work equally well in the mouse- and keyboard-driven world of desktop PCs and laptops and in the multitouch universe of tablets. And that challenges computer makers to come up with hardware designs that are equally flexible.
I've been testing two innovative, if imperfect, new Windows 8 ultrabook computers that meet the design challenge, within limits. There's the IdeaPad Yoga 13 from Lenovo and the Satellite U925t ultrabook convertible from Toshiba.
Lenovo's Yoga is so named because the touch-screen computer can be folded and flipped 360 with battery such as Acer AS09B58 battery, Acer AL10A31 battery, Acer AL10B31 battery, Acer Aspire One D260 battery, Acer Aspire 1830 battery, Acer Aspire One 753 battery, Acer AL10D56 battery, Acer Extensa 2400 battery, Acer BATEFL50L6C48 battery, Acer AS09D56 battery, Acer AS09D36 battery, Acer AS09D31 battery degrees into four distinct positions, starting in a standard clam-shell mode as a rather handsome laptop. You can also bend the display so that it faces you, with the rest of the computer serving as an out-of-the-way stand.
A third "tent mode" lets you prop up the computer like a tepee, which Lenovo says is ideal for browsing pictures or recipes.
The last mode turns Yoga into a full-fledged tablet. In some respects, this is its most disappointing posture, because the underbelly of the machine exposes the physical keyboard, and though the computer disables the keys, it feels unnatural.
The keyboard isn't exposed when you're using Toshiba's Satellite U925t as a tablet, but it's also a bit unwieldy. It's not immediately obvious how to transform the machine from a tablet to a laptop and back.
Both machines are at their best as conventional laptops. They have very usable physical keyboards and track-pads. At the same time the gesture-friendly Windows 8 interface all but begs you to tap, swipe, pinch and otherwise touch the screen.
The machines run the full version of Windows 8, the flavor that's compatible with your old Windows software, much of which was produced for the mouse and keyboard age.
After spending time with these computers, I don't think either the Lenovo Yoga or the Toshiba Satellite represent true iPad substitutes, so much as flexible replacements for notebooks and laptops. (I suspect the companies agree.)
Both weigh about 3.3 pounds, by no means heavy for a laptop. And they're relatively thin compared with many notebooks. But they are more than double the weight of the iPad and are a good deal thicker. Then again, the iPad doesn't function as a laptop like these ultrabooks, and it doesn't have a physical keyboard.
My Lenovo test configuration, sold at Best Buy for $999.99, has a third-generation Intel Core processor, 4 gigabytes of memory and a modest 128 GB solid-state drive, which actually provides just over 50 GB of available space for the stuff you want to store, because system files hog so much room.
Yoga has a single USB 3.0 port, a single USB 2.0 port, plus HDMI for hooking it up to a large high-definition TV. There's also a memory card reader on board and Dolby Home Theater sound.
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