Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 460 Review 

How does it feel?

Any comments on actual feel and design? Does the plastic looks and feel cheap and archaic? What's your view on keyboard lift and lock feature? Do you actually often find yourself using the tab mode with pen on win 10, or it's something you play with at the start for fun, but soon stop doing so as not really practical and comfortable?!

I'll start off by stating my specs: i7 6500U, 8GB Ram, 500GB SSHD, Win10, also with Fingerprint Scanner. Love the general aesthetic and design; straight lines and flat surfaces are my thing. Also like the material used. It is a high quality smooth plastic that looks really sleek. The trackpad is really nice and smooth and the trackpoint is the first I've used so can't compare. Generally it's not the lightest thing ever but thin and light enough for me. The general build feels solid and rigid, owing I imagine to the carbon fibre. There is a little bit of screen wobble when you move it with your finger, and while it doesn't bounce when typing, it is noticible with the pen in stand mode. Speaking of which, I do indeed use the pen feature, but mainly for note taking in one note, and filling out things like exam papers on my laptop. The pen can be a little glitchy every now and then, the software's pointer can get stuck to the left of the screen while I'm trying to write in the middle. I mainly use the pen in tablet mode on a flat desk so it is more stable. The keyboard itself is lovely! Standard Thinkpad quality here, lovely smooth keys, nice actuation. It feels like you are typing with intent. I'm still getting used to the Fn and Ctrl being switched, and the general slight variation in size of keys from other laptops, but that will come soon. I do like the lift'n'lock feature, however don't imagine the keyboard area is going to be like a rigid block of steel when locked in place, it's a little mushy but nothing actuates. The actual lift'n'lock plastic itself is a bit cheap, thin and flexible. It stays pretty rigid when locked, but feels a little looser otherwise. It's not a problem for me, but since you asked. The only thing I do wish it had was ethernet. You can buy adapters, I personally feel like USB3 ones are a better choice than the one-link because they'll be plenty fast enough and much cheaper than lenovo's proprietary one. And I think I've run out of things to say hardware wise. Do ask me anything else but I'm by no means an expert.

Well I paid around £760 for mine. But prices vary wildly depending on specs, region and exchange rates. ( I also used a 10% discount code). It's best you do your own research for your region.

Dark Knight $2,384.10 via www3.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-yoga/Yoga-460/p/22TP2TSS460

You can see the slot, it's on the top left, on the left of the ram.

@@yutuniopati May I know what m.2 is compatible with this laptop? Thank you

@@paulojamero9670 I don't remember but it's not a normal M2 nvme, it's shorter. I think 42mm and it's not nvme. In my opinion it's not worth it. A 2.5 sata sata is more than enough, you will see no difference with a m2 nvme. Buy a 870 evo from samsung.

already been reviewed I believe. Jan 2016

The one reviewed was not the OLED version. The OLED version just came out a couple of weeks ago. I ordered one, but the shipping has been delayed by about a month, due to overwhelming demand. I think the only major difference with the OLED version is just the image quality of the display, being much brighter (around 480 nits, according to the customer service rep I talked to, although on their website it's shown incorrectly as 300 nits), with higher saturation, and much wider color gamut (should be 100% Adobe RGB, I'm guessing).

+Rob “Lunatique” Chang oh ok thank you very much. is it worth it for the price to quality ratio? also mainly want it for gaming.

For gaming, 2-in-1 laptop/tablet hybrids are not ideal, because they need to be very light, so you can't cram heavy-duty discreet graphics cards in there, and there isn't as much room for ventilation to keep the heat down. If you want serious performance, the laptop will be quite large and heavy usually. But it depends on whether you play demanding current AAA games or not. As for whether the price to quality/performance ratio is worth it, I do feel it's overpriced, but it's the only one that has the features I want currently (high-quality stylus for doing visual art that can be stored inside the laptop instead of attaching to the exterior, OLED screen with high color gamut and brightness/contrast), one of the best laptop keyboards (I'm also a writer so I type a lot), and under 3 lbs.

Also, maybe there will be future versions that include a dedicated gpu, given the mounting holes and empty component spaces on the PCB?

It appears to be a half height M.2 slot, though I can't tell if it's actually got active solder traces on the board. My guess is it's there for future WWAN or WiGiG options, should Lenovo decide to offer those. It's completely ignored in Lenovo's service documentation, so I can only guess.

I use the M.2 slot for SSD on an older yoga 14, so I imagine it should work... what's more interesting is the SIM-like tray at the top, about 1/3 length from the left

I installed an SSD on mine

I added memory, and also storage using the M2 SSD slot. Works like a charm! Look for a how-to video from "cbutters tech"

Is it working good now days? if you have?

@@mzohaibawan3647 I wanna know too

@@paulojamero9670 It's working good. I purchased in 2021.

@@mzohaibawan3647 good timing. I got this laptop today. I bought it secondhand for 240 dollars.

yoga 500 doesn't have pen support. I think Only thinkpad yoga and X series have pen support.

Rand Hunt You can

Tsundere Heavy Cruiser I've seen one done on RU-vid and Reddit but it was a 20fy

Rand Hunt It's the same motherboard

Yes, absolutely. I upgraded mine and it works like a charm.

Actually, Yoga 460 with 1440p display and 940m also do exist; at least I've seen them in some German online stores like "campuspoint".

the yoga 710 also has a 940mx

Yes they are only available in Australia and some European stores. Ordering from campuspoint, for example, costs over $1,500 USD excluding shipping, making it too expensive to be reasonable when you can just get the P40 in the U.S.

@JeffreyZhu But no pen or screen with active digitizer

very annoying indeed. and the version with the dedicated graphics doesn't seem to have a fingerprint sensor

Is it working good now days?

@@mzohaibawan3647 I sold it in 2019 bud, i bet still going strong.

@@andisadler2897 I'm going to buy 460... Any suggestion from your side?

@@mzohaibawan3647 They are very good bro. when i got mine was a few years ago. I had a small pencil type thing with mine, you can flip the screen 360 degrees and fold it. Had 8gb ram standard and i5 6300u cpu i think. Very fast it was i recall, booted in 8 seconds. My children dropped it one day and it was never right from then so i sold it. Still got 100 ukp for it though, it did work but kept going into windows 10 recovery mode, blue screen error.

Jesus Varela Yup, I installed one on mine.

if you want durability go thinkpad

Do you want touch screen and pen functionality? Few laptops have this technology in a 2 in 1

The HP Spectre x360 and Vaio Flip Z are convertibles with both pen and touch.

I agree with you. I am only thinking thinkpad x1, or to wait till December and get a Microsoft Surface 2.

This laptop is essentially for people who like tinkering with laptop I reckon. I don't think that this is a product for people who want something that will be their everything right out of the box. But if you do like tinkering, this is technically almost a surface book for half of the price.

Abishek Shivan and

For ethernet, you can get adapter. Lenovo offers it. However, I do feel USB-C would have been great (instead of one of the USBs)

Mikey Mike hahah

which model are you using? so you would not recommend the 460?!

Osman Yousaf I'm using the thinkpad Yoga 14. No stylus.

And even I dont care... xD