The Glorious Resolution: Feast your eyes on 5 HiDPI laptops

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro

Lenovo’s biggest boast about the Yoga 3 Pro is that it’s the world’s slimmest and lightest 13-inch laptop. And, with a weight of just 1.2kg and a super-slimline profile of 12.8mm, it really can teach rivals such as the MacBook Air a few lessons in portability.

It also outguns the MacBook Air with its quad-HD display and 3200x1800 resolution. The image quality is excellent, and the viewing angles mean that you can see it clearly even when you use the super-bendy hinge to fold the screen into upright ‘tent’ mode, or switch into tablet mode when you want to put your feet up.

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro's desktop (click to enlarge)

The Yoga 3 Pro is also one of the first laptops we’ve seen with Intel’s new Broadwell M-5Y70 processor, running at 1.1GHz, along with 8GB of memory and 256GB solid-state drive. That comes to £1,299.00 – or £1,499.00 with 512GB SSD – which isn’t bad by the standards of its High-DPI rivals.

But while the Broadwell’s 14nm design helps to really streamline the Yoga 3 Pro, it doesn’t do an awful lot for performance. It could only manage entry-level scores of 1844 and 2192 in the Home and Work suites of PCMark 8. On the other hand, it did manage to last for five hours and 20 minutes when running PCMark 8, which isn’t at all bad for a High-DPI display such as this. It’s just a shame that the Yoga 3 Pro can’t also offer the pro performance you might expect at this price.