Toshiba Satellite Radius 12 vs Lenovo yoga 900:(Comparison)
Toshiba Satellite Radius 12 Toshiba's Satellite Radius 12: a compact, powerful work machine with high-enough resolution for serious productivity. A versatile folding hinge that lets you use the device like a tablet is just a bonus.The small and light Toshiba Satellite Radius 12 is packed with features, including a Core i7 CPU, a face-recognizing camera and a 4K touchscreen display that bends over backward into a tablet configuration. The 12.5-inch screen has a 3,840-by-2,160 resolution, which can show 4K HD videos at native resolution, or four 1080p HD videos simultaneously, stacked and side by side. The screen uses In-Plane Switching (IPS) and Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (IGZO) technology to display bright colors and deep blacks. Toshiba has clearly put a lot of effort into making the Radius 12 competent in just about every area you can ask it to be. It’s tough — metal body, Gorilla Glass Display. It’s powerful — Core i7, fast SSD, 8GB of RAM (although that’s DDR3, which is an interesting choice given the up-to-date Skylake’s processor supporting DDR4). It’s versatile — it can spend 90 per cent of its time as a laptop, but also run double duty as a tablet for handheld work or viewing, or any degree of leany-screeny touch-and-swipey in between. All that means its thin body does need a heat and fan exhaust at the back, but it’s otherwise quite sleek.Short battery life; Touchpad is too far to the left.You won't make it through a day with the Radius 12's sub-par battery life. The keyboard is a little difficult to type on and the touchpad can be downright frustrating.
THE BOTTOM LINE Buyers who plan to take full advantage of the Toshiba Satellite Radius 12's excellent 4K screen might get their money's worth. If you want a computer for getting work done, look elsewhere. Specs: Display: 31.75cm (12.5") Ultra HD 4K (3840 x 2160, 362ppi) or Full HD (1920 x 1080) 10 finger touch LED display with 400 NIT, and IPS technology featuring Corning Gorilla Glass NBTTM
Processors: Up to 6th gen Intel CoreTM i7
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
Storage: Up to 512 GB M.2 SATA SSD
Memory: 8GB LPDDR3 (1.600MHz) onboard Price:$1,299
VS Lenovo yoga 900 The Lenovo Yoga 900 keeps the slim watchband-style hinge from last year's version, and adds major upgrades to performance and battery life. Even the lowest-cost version includes a big 256GB SSD. It has a bright, super-sharp multi-touch display, with a resolution of 3200 x 1800 pixels ("QHD+"). It has a thick bezel running along the bottom, giving it a 16 x 9 aspect ratio, which is great for watching video but makes just about everything else a little awkward. Position another 13-inch laptop next to the Yoga — whether it’s a MacBook (16:10) or the new Surface Book (3:2) — and the Yoga’s display will look slightly compressed in comparison. The Yoga 900 weighs 2.8 pounds and measures 0.59 by 12.75 by 8.96 inches. All of the standard ports are there, with the addition of a USB Type-C port. It is slightly heavier and thicker than last year’s Yoga 3 Pro laptop. But it never felt heavy to carry around. And when you consider the new stuff included in this one, it’s forgivable.
That "stuff" includes Intel’s sixth-generation Core i5 or i7 Skylake processor, a new chip touted for its speed, efficiency and graphics support; along with an Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU. The previous Yoga model got dinged for slowness; that wasn’t my experience with this one. In everyday use, the Yoga 900 was more than capable of running multiple apps, switching between tasks, and streaming video without any stutters. The Yoga 900’s battery life is definitely improved over last year’s Yoga 3 Pro, but compared to other laptops in this class, it’s still not the best. In a Verge battery test, the Lenovo Yoga 900 lived up to the company’s claim of nine hours. During a more normal day of use, running multiple apps, checking email, and browsing the web with some battery-saving settings turned on, it was inconsistent. Some days it lasted around five and a half hours, and other days closer to seven and a half. In either instance it doesn’t match the new Surface Book or recent MacBook Pro models.
This is where the 900 really does the job. As mentioned previously, the review model I was using was the top-end version of the 900 series. As you'd expect, Windows 10 ran perfectly smoothly in both Tablet and Desktop mode, with programs loading extremely quickly and no sign of any slowdown or crashes.
Whether or not you have the super-boss level version of the Yoga 900, with the new i5 and i7 processors backed up by SSDs and at least 8GB of RAM in each model, this device is sufficiently equipped to deal with pretty much anything you throw at it – short of hardcore gaming.
In terms of exact configurations, you can choose between the Intel Core i5-6200U or i7-6500U processors, 8GB of RAM – which can be upgrade to 16GB – and either a 256GB or 512GB SSD.
The integrated Intel HD Graphics 520 also does enough for the average user. The 900 scored fairly well on the PCMark 8 test, clocking in at 2,403. This puts it ever so slightly ahead of the Surface Pro 4’s 2,396 and somewhat behind the Dell XPS 13 Skylake’s 2,543.
In the Geekbench multi-core scores, the 900 beat both the Surface Pro 4 and theXPS 13. While the 900 had a score of 6,786, the Surface came in at 6,727 and the XPS at 6,242.
In 3DMark: Fire Strike test, the 900 scored a respectable 834. This puts it in the range of the Surface Pro and XPS 13 (Skylake), with scores of 853 and 838 respectively. And in the Cloud Gate test it came in at 5,860, behind the Surface Pro with 6,109 and the above the XPS 13 with 5,844.
Essentially, you won’t notice much difference between the Yoga 900 and similar Ultrabooks. The device is more than capable of handling most tasks, but it obviously isn't a gamer’s dream in terms of graphical performance.
But,Because of the change to more powerful processors, the body adds a little thickness. A few keys on the keyboard suffer from awkward placement.
THE BOTTOM LINE Lenovo clearly listened to feedback about last year's high-end Yoga, keeping the excellent overall design but boosting the specs to match other premium 13-inch laptops. Specifications
Processor: 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U (dual-core, 4MB cache, up to 3.1GHz with Turbo Boost)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
Display: 13.3-inch QHD+ 3,200 x 1,800 IPS display, 10-point multitouch, 300 nits brightness
Storage: 512GB SSD
Memory: 16GB LP-DDR3 RAM
Camera: 720p front-facing
Ports: 2 x USB Type A 3.0, 1 x USB Type C 3.0 with video out, 1 x DC input with USB 2.0 functionality, 4-in-1 card reader, audio combo jack.
Weight: 2.84 pounds
Size: 12.75 x 8.86 x 0.59 inches
Price :$1199.00
THE BOTTOM LINE Buyers who plan to take full advantage of the Toshiba Satellite Radius 12's excellent 4K screen might get their money's worth. If you want a computer for getting work done, look elsewhere. Specs: Display: 31.75cm (12.5") Ultra HD 4K (3840 x 2160, 362ppi) or Full HD (1920 x 1080) 10 finger touch LED display with 400 NIT, and IPS technology featuring Corning Gorilla Glass NBTTM
Processors: Up to 6th gen Intel CoreTM i7
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
Storage: Up to 512 GB M.2 SATA SSD
Memory: 8GB LPDDR3 (1.600MHz) onboard Price:$1,299
VS Lenovo yoga 900 The Lenovo Yoga 900 keeps the slim watchband-style hinge from last year's version, and adds major upgrades to performance and battery life. Even the lowest-cost version includes a big 256GB SSD. It has a bright, super-sharp multi-touch display, with a resolution of 3200 x 1800 pixels ("QHD+"). It has a thick bezel running along the bottom, giving it a 16 x 9 aspect ratio, which is great for watching video but makes just about everything else a little awkward. Position another 13-inch laptop next to the Yoga — whether it’s a MacBook (16:10) or the new Surface Book (3:2) — and the Yoga’s display will look slightly compressed in comparison. The Yoga 900 weighs 2.8 pounds and measures 0.59 by 12.75 by 8.96 inches. All of the standard ports are there, with the addition of a USB Type-C port. It is slightly heavier and thicker than last year’s Yoga 3 Pro laptop. But it never felt heavy to carry around. And when you consider the new stuff included in this one, it’s forgivable.
That "stuff" includes Intel’s sixth-generation Core i5 or i7 Skylake processor, a new chip touted for its speed, efficiency and graphics support; along with an Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU. The previous Yoga model got dinged for slowness; that wasn’t my experience with this one. In everyday use, the Yoga 900 was more than capable of running multiple apps, switching between tasks, and streaming video without any stutters. The Yoga 900’s battery life is definitely improved over last year’s Yoga 3 Pro, but compared to other laptops in this class, it’s still not the best. In a Verge battery test, the Lenovo Yoga 900 lived up to the company’s claim of nine hours. During a more normal day of use, running multiple apps, checking email, and browsing the web with some battery-saving settings turned on, it was inconsistent. Some days it lasted around five and a half hours, and other days closer to seven and a half. In either instance it doesn’t match the new Surface Book or recent MacBook Pro models.
This is where the 900 really does the job. As mentioned previously, the review model I was using was the top-end version of the 900 series. As you'd expect, Windows 10 ran perfectly smoothly in both Tablet and Desktop mode, with programs loading extremely quickly and no sign of any slowdown or crashes.
Whether or not you have the super-boss level version of the Yoga 900, with the new i5 and i7 processors backed up by SSDs and at least 8GB of RAM in each model, this device is sufficiently equipped to deal with pretty much anything you throw at it – short of hardcore gaming.
In terms of exact configurations, you can choose between the Intel Core i5-6200U or i7-6500U processors, 8GB of RAM – which can be upgrade to 16GB – and either a 256GB or 512GB SSD.
The integrated Intel HD Graphics 520 also does enough for the average user. The 900 scored fairly well on the PCMark 8 test, clocking in at 2,403. This puts it ever so slightly ahead of the Surface Pro 4’s 2,396 and somewhat behind the Dell XPS 13 Skylake’s 2,543.
In the Geekbench multi-core scores, the 900 beat both the Surface Pro 4 and theXPS 13. While the 900 had a score of 6,786, the Surface came in at 6,727 and the XPS at 6,242.
In 3DMark: Fire Strike test, the 900 scored a respectable 834. This puts it in the range of the Surface Pro and XPS 13 (Skylake), with scores of 853 and 838 respectively. And in the Cloud Gate test it came in at 5,860, behind the Surface Pro with 6,109 and the above the XPS 13 with 5,844.
Essentially, you won’t notice much difference between the Yoga 900 and similar Ultrabooks. The device is more than capable of handling most tasks, but it obviously isn't a gamer’s dream in terms of graphical performance.
But,Because of the change to more powerful processors, the body adds a little thickness. A few keys on the keyboard suffer from awkward placement.
THE BOTTOM LINE Lenovo clearly listened to feedback about last year's high-end Yoga, keeping the excellent overall design but boosting the specs to match other premium 13-inch laptops. Specifications
Processor: 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U (dual-core, 4MB cache, up to 3.1GHz with Turbo Boost)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
Display: 13.3-inch QHD+ 3,200 x 1,800 IPS display, 10-point multitouch, 300 nits brightness
Storage: 512GB SSD
Memory: 16GB LP-DDR3 RAM
Camera: 720p front-facing
Ports: 2 x USB Type A 3.0, 1 x USB Type C 3.0 with video out, 1 x DC input with USB 2.0 functionality, 4-in-1 card reader, audio combo jack.
Weight: 2.84 pounds
Size: 12.75 x 8.86 x 0.59 inches
Price :$1199.00
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