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Aleks
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So mi Madre is looking for an ultrabook for business. She is really liking the Lenovo yoga 2 256gb SSD. Can you guys do some research on this bad boy and let me know if it is a good laptop? Thanks!

 
 
 

 

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If she's fine with Windows upscaled to 200% and the incompatibility it will cause with legacy and modern programs.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by upscaled to 200%?

 
 
 

 

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It has a qHD+ display of 3200x1800 resolution.

Okay yea that is what I thought you meant. So would this be a problem with programs such as excel and some other accounting programs?

 
 
 

 

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The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a 1600x900 resolution on a 14" screen for 100% scaling.

Yea the carbon looks fantastic but it doesn't have a touch screen which is important to her. the yoga does fall under the business category of their laptops so I would think there would be optimal support for those programs. Thanks for all the help though I need to take that into account now.

 
 
 

 

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My vote goes for the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus.

It gets 30% more battery life.

Just because a laptop is considered business class doesn't alter the way the programing is written. Something to keep in mind ;)

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My vote goes for the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus.

It gets 30% more battery life.

Battery life isnt that important as she will not be doing much mobile computing. But I can understand your opinion. 

 
 
 

 

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Battery life isnt that important as she will not be doing much mobile computing. But I can understand your opinion. 

Then why not get an all in one PC?

Or even a regular laptop. Ultrabooks only really make sense when you're mobile.

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Then why not get an all in one PC?

Because there are limitation that are kind of hard to explain :P Regardless, she needs a laptop.

 
 
 

 

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The Thinkpad T series (440/440s/440p) are good options at a reasonable price-point too. The 1080p screen option doesn't cost much. Battery life is also very good (5-8 hours, give or take, depending on config). Thinkpads are the more rugged, business-grade laptops compared to Ideapads. SSD can be added into the T series manually (much cheaper than using Lenovo's option). 

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Just so you know there is a 1920x1080 Yoga 2 vs the Yoga Pro 2 which has the higher res.

 

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/yoga/

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