Lenovo Yoga 11e 2-in-1 Convertible Laptop 11.6in Touchscreen Display Intel M3 Processor up to 3.4Ghz 8GB RAM 128GB SSD Web Cam Pen Windows 11 (11e – Renewed)

Totally Adequate
I had a clear, and frankly very low expectation of what I was getting and this actually came in a bit higher than that. I needed a cheap and rugged laptop for a moped journey across the sahara desert that I could still get some work done on. I’m a game developer but the games I make are really lightweight. I just needed a really long battery for 13+ hour flights and really just something I could write some code on. I also needed it to have a webcam and run Skype, Discord, & check stuff like email. Bonus points for smooth youtube video playback. It wound up ticking all of those boxes for me and then some.Laptop showed up with some expected battle damage but only cosmetic and very minor. A few scuffs on the outer shell and a light spot on the screen that you can really only see when the screen is black where some doofy little kid probably mashed their finger into the touchscreen too hard or something. I’m really overstating it though, I didn’t even notice it until a week after I got it when I was rebooting and the backlight popped on with a back screen. Total non-issue in daily use and you can’t see it with literally anything else on the screen. Overall this thing is super rugged though, clearly designed to be tossed around.Performance was better than expected. I remember how bad netbooks were back in the day but these mobile processors have really come a long way since then. Video playback at on youtube is perfectly smooth with no dropped frames and Windows 10 loads really fast thanks to the m.2 SSD. It also runs Blender 3d surprisingly well for low poly stuff which I wasn’t expecting. Digital art on a 1920×1080 canvas in Photoshop CS6 64 bit is a bit too much for it, using texture brushes with the stylus is just too CPU heavy and it lags behind for a while to draw your brush strokes even if you’re working with one layer. Not a huge problem for me but if you’re buying this to use as a dedicated drawing tablet for anything beyond basic sketches with stock brushes don’t expect it to perform well, or even at all depending on your needs. Also the stylus that it came with is junk, the one pictured in other reviews is the one I got too. Afterward I ordered the original stylus with pressure sensitivity that fits into the slot on the side from Lenovo’s website for $40 though. Video editing is also a no go with the CPU again being the bottleneck. You could use it in a pinch for small stuff but don’t expect to have a good experience if your expectations are too high. It also runs Godot game engine well enough and some heavier IDEs. Multitasking isn’t really a thing on this laptop, pick one thing to do and just kind of stick with it and you’ll be fine.Battery life is excellent. With power saver mode on, airplane mode, and a dim screen in dark mode the estimated battery life in the toolbar was over 20 hours with just an IDE open for code editing. I think 13-18 hours is very realistic under light use.Serviceability is great especially for Lenovo who isn’t usually the best in that department. I guess the educational market kind of demands that from them. You pop a few screws off of the bottom and unclip the large plastic panel off. The screws are held in place by the panel so you can’t drop or lose them which is nice. Everything including the battery is right there behind the service panel in a clean accessible layout to be easily swapped out. No hoops to jump through. I upgraded the SSD in mine to get more local storage. RAM is soldered in but I believe 8gb is the max that this chipset supports anyway so who cares? I guess the only drawback is if the RAM somehow fails you can’t swap it out but I really don’t mind.Keyboard is pretty solid. I heard they kind of sucked on the older yoga 11e’s but this one is fine. The BIOS also has a good amount of settings to mess with, like switching the ctrl and function keys.This thing also has Bluetooth which is pretty good. It worked fine with my headphones.This one came with Windows 10 despite the listing saying that it would have Windows 11, but that isn’t really a big deal in my mind. Windows 10 uses a bit less RAM and you can just wait to opt for the upgrade to W11 when Microsoft cuts W10 support in 2025. One weird thing though, I pulled the OEM windows key out of the registry so that I could reinstall it onto a larger hard drive, but I’m assuming the Windows key is for some kind of an educational version because it said the key was valid but couldn’t be used with either W10 home or professional.Debian also seems to run fine on this with no weird driver issues out of the box for all of you basement dwellers out there. Performance on a low spec machine like this is way better than Windows thanks to the lower overhead but you already knew that. You’re almost certainly going to want a bigger hard drive if you’re planning to dual boot though.All in all for the price I’m super happy with it. If you just need something cheap and durable to do some basic stuff or tinker around with a 6th gen Yoga 11e won’t let your down. Plus the retro IBM color scheme on the thinkpad logo is pretty sick.

EXCELENTE DISEÑO
Me encanta el diseño, portátil y las letras grandes son perfectas. El diseño permite versatilidad de la pantalla

Some additional user refurb required
I’m not going to go into the actual laptop itself and focus on theSo lets start with the not good** Before doing any work inside, remember to use the UEFI screens to disable the battery so you don’t zap yourself.- Within the first day I got a failed drive health. The system failed to reboot after that.- 3rd party replacements for 1 are a bit finicky, the mainboard just didn’t recognize the first replacement I tried.What’s good- The price (even including a new harddrive I think this is a great value)- All the screws use the same driver- The keyboard, trackpad, and gyroscope all seem to be in working order- There’s some kind of additional sticky wrap put on over the shell. I assume this isn’t original because it covers things like the serial numbers. Its a nice texture.What’s meh- Battery health is 89%. This is fine, replacement batteries look like they run about $75 and it seems pretty easy.

Not Windows 11 (THANK GOD), decent laptop
I purchased this laptop for sake of college / school. It isn’t Windows 11 as advertised which is probably my favorite thing about it. There is an option when setting it up to upgrade to 11, which I promptly rejected. But it can be seen as misleading which is why I give it 4 stars. Processor can be (or at least feel) a tad slow as well but it’s not like I was expecting some fast-paced gaming computer from this.