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On the plus side it does run on low-medium on the 785G onboard graphics (Radeon 4200).ĮVGA Nvidia 9800GTX+ 512mb (DirectX 10 compliant) On both it takes some time to load the terrain textures in strategic view & on game reload all tiles are very low detail until they are processed as the camera moves over them. Using exactly same settings & game it starts to slow down about 50-60 turns before the more powerful system.
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit + XP Pro SP3 Dual Boot Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB (OS Drive)Ģx 1TB Samsung F3 1TB + 1x Samsung F2 2TB (Storage Drives) Maxed out in DX11 it's fine until you hit mid point in Marathon + Huge games when the turn times increase almost every turn.ĪMD Athlon II 640 3.6GHz (15x240 1.45v) Swiping upward removes the overlay, letting you resume whatever it is you were doing.Runing on 2 systems here both doing well until late game (Marathon + Huge)ĪSUS Matrix Radeon 5870 2048MB 950/1400 (Core/Mem)Īssorted 1T/2TB HDD's for storage (Seagate & Samsung only) Using four fingers and swiping downward, you can freeze the screen, which will bring down an overlay with the time and date. Scrolling works really well on the trackpad, though swipe controls have been inverted, meaning that you'll swipe down to scroll up and swipe to the left to scroll right. Aside from that issue though, the keyboard and trackpad are both solid. As I said, it's black-on-black with the keyboard and trackpad, which can make it a little difficult to see if you don't have a lot of light. I touched on the trackpad and the keyboard a bit earlier in the review, but now let's talk about them in a little more depth. Music can sound pretty tinny if you turn the volume up too high, so while the speakers will suffice if you use them sparingly, you might want to invest in a good pair of headphones if you'll be playing a lot of music or watching a lot of video on the machine. Bass doesn't sound as hefty as it should out of the box, and though you can certainly crank up the volume on the Yoga 13's speakers, you might not want to. The speakers on the Yoga 13 are decent, but like the speakers on most ultrabook and laptops, they aren't anything to get excited about.
The new controls obviously take some getting used to, but outside of that, I didn't have any issues playing Civilization V with the Yoga 13's touch screen – something to consider if you take the quality of a touch screen seriously. Though you wouldn't think that Civ V would be an ideal game to play with a touch screen, it actually worked out quite well, and that's a testament to how accurate the touch screen is. One interesting thing I noticed when booting up Civilization V was that it has been updated with touch controls for Windows 8. Still, the Yoga 13 performed well enough running Civilization V with most of the settings on medium (though a few settings had to be turned down to low), so you should be able to do some light gaming on this thing without any problems.
The IdeaPad Yoga 13 comes equipped with Intel 4000 integrated graphics, so you're not going to have much a powerhouse when it comes to graphics ability. It will become your best friend before long. Luckily, Lenovo thought ahead and included that screen lock button I mentioned above – use it. One wrong move and you'll have the screen switching orientation on you, but that's one of the pitfalls of having so many different modes for the Yoga 13. The IPS display features 10-point multi-touch, which is certainly nice, though I have to say that the screen seems a little too eager to switch sometimes.
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