 Hello, I'm Vlad with The Verge here at IFA 2018 and this is the new second generation Lenovo yoga book This has always been quite a particular and peculiar device because it's never been quite a laptop. It's never been quite a tablet It's a thing in between What Lenovo has done now is they've enlarged it. They've made it 10.8 inches instead of 10 So it feels more substantial and now I would really classify it as a laptop But once you open it up and the way you open up is pretty cool They have a new mechanism where you do a double knock on the top and the magnets hold the thing together They reverse the polarity. They do some cool magnet magic and It pops it open. So you don't need a notch You don't need to like fiddle around to open it up. Once you do open it up. You still have an LCD But Lenovo has upgraded the resolution now Like I say 10.8 inches But now it's 2560 by 1600 resolution called HD and then you have an e-ink display at the bottom Which doubles as the keyboard the original Lenovo book had a Wacom digitizer down here It didn't have an e-ink display now has an e-ink display and the new keyboard. I've just been trying it I've just been testing it out. It's really good like shockingly good for a touchscreen keyboard Usually these things are really quite atrocious, but this is a massive upgrade from the original yoga book It has haptic feedback and has little animation feedback Which really makes it feel realistic. I'm Able to type on it really quickly And I've picked it up pretty quickly and I'm surprised by that shock by that The hinge is that watch band style hinge that Lenovo Has used on his yoga books previously in inside the hinge. You know what has woven the Wi-Fi antennas So they're actually somewhere in here in the hinge. It's super sturdy. I've had one of those in over your books four or five years I've had members of my family using and abusing it and it has survived. So I'm impressed with this hinge. It's sturdy It has a nice bit of traction and friction to it in terms of design and engineering as usual with the original yoga book That was never a problem to be honest. These were really well made really solid devices again made out of aluminium top and bottom Has an 8.6 hour battery life, you know, the novel promises Which is extremely reasonable for a device of this Thinness and this lightweight and speaking of the battery you can now charge it with the USB-C port There are two USB-C ports one on either side, which is brilliant. It should have been like this from the original Really happy to see that from Lenovo. Also over here on the front Lenovo has added a new fingerprint sensor It's not a power button. It doesn't have any sort of indentation It says flush with the device, but it's an infrared fingerprint sensor, which is compatible with Windows Hello, and the point of the infrared part is that it should make your fingerprint easier to recognize when your finger is maybe A bit wet or dirty or whatever Predictably the main displays the touchscreen But you do get plenty of other things that you can do with the ink panel down here at the bottom It can function as a keyboard naturally That's the main use that you have for it, but also it can accept pen input So Lenovo ships a yoga book with its own stylus. Unfortunately because it's such a slim device There's no way to stash the stylus, which is quite substantial It's the size of an actual pen, but it works well And you can get an accessory, you know, you can get a case and stash the two things together It's not such a big deal and it's good that the stylus comes in the box So you can do pen input you can do keyboard input or you can use it as an e-reader As soon as this thing is launched, which I'm told is going to be around October time You only support PDF files after that is going to support EPUB, Mobi and text files in terms of reading There is a bit of lag. I'm not gonna lie. It's an e-ink display You always have a bit of lag and a bit of redrawing time with it But still it works well and because of the portability of this device I can actually see myself using it in this flipped mode like this whether it's on the LCD display or on the e-ink display One really cool and neat thing that Lenovo has also done is Because it's a larger screen you get more space for the keyboard and they've also made the trackpad minimizable So if you want the trackpad you tap down here you have it, but then as soon as you start typing it goes away it's such a Intuitive and simple thing but Lenovo has really had the time to sit down and think through its design And improving things and on the inside the company has upgraded things in terms of specs You can now get up to a core i5 seventh generation intercore processor. You can get 4 gigabytes or 8 gigabytes of RAM 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage and it only comes with Windows There used to be an Android version originally but apparently the Windows version outsold Android by a lot and Lenovo has just chosen to go with Windows all the way. I was impressed with the original yoga book when I was here two years ago with IFA And it didn't turn out to be quite so good as a final product But this one I can't be I can't not be impressed with it again It's done so many good upgrades across the board with a device the one thing though The one huge difference is that the yoga book the original yoga book Was really super affordable whereas this is now into straight laptop territory It's priced at nine hundred ninety nine dollars in the US when you're considering this you considering this versus actual laptops What I would say is wait for the review to find out if it's worth it So we do all the staging and then it just feels awkward So I'll just I'll just whisper for this video so it can feel more natural It's gonna be an ASMR hands-on with the verge first time I've ever done it. If for 2018 This didn't know what yoga book. I might actually keep going with this