[Lenovo Yoga Book Questions & Answers] Talsi:
Hey,

so here are my thoughts. I had my Galaxy Note 10 (2014) [note from now on] for about 2 years. I tried various painting apps but for the most time I have used InfinitePainter â€“ its very similar to Autodesk Sketch Book which I am now using on my Yoga Book [yoga from now on].

On the Yoga you basically have 2 drawing surfaces: screen and pad.

The Anypen technology is screen part of the tablet allows you to draw on screen event with basic pencil, which is cool but it does not have pressure sensitivity â€“ its reasonably accurate thou â€“ and it has scratch resistant glass. On note the glass screen had (for me) noticeable stylus drag but when drawing with stylus on yoga, included stylus/pencil feels like it glides and does not give you barely any resistance - my hand often â€œslipsâ€ ïŠ. It not very suitable for shading/coloring but if you pick small brush with low opacity you can very easily do quick sketches or trace image. The screen however does not have palm rejection so when drawing you need to hold your hand above screen â€“ which gets tiresome after a while - or you have to have glove. Also, note used to get quite warm/hot during extended use, sometimes even to the point of discomfort. This is also case in yoga, but it is not as bad as in note.*

As for the â€œpadâ€, the feeling is very, very similar to my Wacom tablet (I have Intuos Pen&Touch). Yogaâ€™s pad feels a tincy bit smoother, but it might be just me. Since actual hardware seems to be in screen part of yoga, the pad is always nice and cool.* Included stylus is very basic. The tip is basically ink tube (without ink of course) with plastic tip. It jumps a bit (inside and out) line noteâ€™s stylus but itâ€™s accurate and when used on pad section it has pressure sensitivity â€“ it has no button and there are no extra tips in the package. You do have 3 ink â€œcartridgesâ€ for writing on paper (included with yoga) but that is basically ball point pen. On the bright side, on pad section you can also use noteâ€™s stylus â€“ works fine, event button! If you are serious about drawing you might want to get original Wacom bamboo stylus â€“ might be better but its hard to say, I am beginner in drawing/patting (in my work I use Inkscape (vector) and Gimp (photo editing) thou, but for that I use mainly mouse) so quality is just fine for me. Also, you can not use other side of stylus as an eraser.

Now the cool part of yoga is that you can have it completely flat on the desk (180Â°). I found that the most comfortable is to have yoga in â€œportraitâ€ mode â€“ drawing pad on the right and screen on the left. I can work with my right hand and use interface and move/scale/rotate canvas with my left hand â€“ this is important because you must keep in mind that when you are using drawing pad, you cannot use keyboard. You can quite quickly and easily switch between drawing pad and keyboard via dedicated key, but honestly I did not have any need for it â€“ but just to be sure I also have Bluetooth keyboard (bought it some time ago for my note). Sketch Book is therefore quite good software here because it has nice and large interface. I am using older version 6 Pro, but the newest one for windows 10 (directly in windows store) have nice touch interface â€“ basically identical to Infinite Painter.

I do not have Photoshop but I have Krita and GIMP installed on yoga. Both programs runs fine but it takes some time to load and gets a bit slow when working with larger images or if I have few more programs running in background. Since the screen is fullhd 10inch, the interface is quite small, and therefore harder to use with fingers â€“ does not work well in portrait mode either. Also, for pressure sensitivity to work in these programs, you need to install special driver package directly from Wacom.

Yogaâ€™s build is quite sturdy. Hinges holds position, any position, very well but when used as laptop, touching screen causes little swaying. Surface of the body is nice, smooth and matte but fingerprint are quite visible. Because of very smooth body, tablet tends to move around â€“ especially at 180Â° during drawing. I solved this with simple anti-slip mat from local hardware store. VS note, the yoga is bit heavier and slips easier â€“ note had leather back which was nice to grab on, in yoga you have to more careful.

As for OS selection. I am quite happy with Windows 10. It is definitely not 100% touch friendly and probably a bit slowed than android (thou everything runs reasonably well) but I still like it and since you have small touchpad as well, it is just fine (got myself bluetooth mouse thou). On my note, I had to deal with root, bloatware, warranty and general android issues like SD card write issue, external display properties and system updates in general. Here with windows everything works as well as on my desktop PC and nothing from above mentioned worries me anymore. Thou, If you go for Win10 version, you might want to buy SD card as well, because windows is large OS and you have only 30-32GB of free space on internal storage.

If you are considering this device, I have to point out that there are some issues with it. Screen edge colour deformation â€“ see here â€“ and keyboard issue â€“ see here.

For your question, I have tried to plug my Intuos tablet in and system recognised the device without issue. It did not work and I did not install the drivers - I am worried that it might mess with build in pad (had to do factory reset once already and I do not wish to repeat it) â€“ but light indicators were on (and reacting to stylus/touch/button press) so in theory it should work without issues, its regular Windows 10 laptop after all.

That all I can think of right now, but if you have specific questions let me know and sorry for typos.

* - Edit: I seems I was wrong. The hardware (or at least something that gets warm/hot) is in the "pad" section of tablet. I haven't noticed because I did not used yoga for more than 30-45 minutes at time before. But yesterday, I went to a fried to play Armello and after 2 hours the pad (top center area) got quite hot. But keep in mind that this was after heavy use for prolonged time period. I never noticed any elevated temperature during regular use/sketching.