YOGA 3 Pro Shaft Experience

Lenovo's yoga products in the near future can be said to be a dynamic, synchronous launch of a variety of yoga and tablet products to the series of the expected users more excited. And in terms of specific products, to bring the biggest impact I think still want to belong to the Yoga 3 Pro Ultra-extreme, this new yoga using the notebook is not seen since the birth of the hinge design, the shiny chain-like appearance of the eyes of a bright. Whether this new design of the rotating shaft is good, it has what characteristics, today we come to explore one by one.

An unprecedented rotating shaft is a subversive design.

I remember at that time to participate in Lenovo held the new product launch of the first time I saw the Yoga 3 Pro Real machine, at that time from the visual impact is quite shocking. My vision is not from the light of the fuselage, nor the 2K screen after the upgrade, but simply from the disruptive innovation of the shaft design, to know in the current homogenization of the serious market, can have such a bold subversive design is how commendable. With the same manufacturing prowess, PC makers are shouting the slogan of innovation into the product every day, but there is little real performance. Why have other PC Giants never tried this kind of design, and only Lenovo dared to do it? This is indeed a problem for other PC makers to think about.

　813 Parts Hand-assembled

Visually, the design of the rotating shaft is quite complex, with a total of 10 hinge structures connected to the screen and fuselage, and 9 sets of hinges connecting 10 sets of hinges to make the shaft part an organic whole. And if you look carefully, the 10-group connection hinge structure is divided into 6 groups of supporting structure and 4 groups of connecting structures, of which 6 groups of connected structures are arranged around 4-axis with tiny two-axis connecting pieces. By the close connection of the adjacent two axes, the effect of turning and supporting damping can be achieved with the gear occlusion.

The official said that the rotating shaft uses 813 parts altogether to build, each part is by the skilled worker hand-assembled, here manifests the shaft structure the fine degree, also manifests the association to the yoga extremely high expectation.

　　For a smooth flip and for gimmicks.

Many people ask what is the meaning of the increase in cost when the shaft is made? I think the reason for this design is no more than three points:

1, Yoga series products are Lenovo's main push of high-end products brand, its products are the key to innovative bold design. The value of the yoga category will be greatly compromised if the new product is not designed to be innovative and has no gimmicks at all. Yoga as a high-end image engineering, but also in order to continue to maintain the leading position in the ultra-polar area, yoga must have such a refreshing design.

2. The most direct use experience of such shaft design is the improvement of the smooth degree of turnover. The traditional rotating shaft in the flip process, there will be a certain stagnation tendency, the flip can not be completely smooth. The new shaft design can completely realize the smooth damping completely average flip. And for the Yoga 3 Pro This user often uses to flip the transformation mode the product, this aspect promotion has the very real significance.

3, for the body of light and light to provide a prerequisite, the traditional rotating shaft because of the need to provide users with stable damping, in the design of the connecting mechanism can not achieve the full reach of the yoga required 12.8mm degree. So the new shaft design not only can provide support for the complete flattening of the fuselage, but also can provide more lightweight design space. The future of this hinge design may even be installed in the future Yoga series of products.

　The messy appearance is well worth discussing.

At the beginning of the release, the user's view of Yoga 3 Pro Design aesthetics presented two distinct views. Like Yoga 3 Pro users think that the new design of the rotating shaft is very innovative, the new structure of the rotating shaft is very creative, unique, any other notebook ultra-extreme products are not available. It is believed that for the users who love the present, such a new shaft design must also be attractive. And for another part of the user, they think that such a rotating shaft design although it is very innovative and creative spirit, but from the overall appearance of the product, a slightly messy rotating shaft structure will make people feel disharmony, visual control will not be able to suffer from such a design. It is not taboo to say that I am more inclined to the latter in view of the axis appearance. is not in the realization of the bracelet-type rotating shaft design, you can make the product more concise, rotating shaft and the fuselage can be more organic combination, perhaps this is the future of Lenovo in the future yoga ultra-extreme design of this product to consider the problem.

　　The hinge structure will wander sideways.

If you put aside the advantages of this rotating shaft and visual factors, simple to see the shaft design deficiencies, I think there are probably the following two small problems:

1, the rotating shaft due to the complexity of the design of the hinge structure, avoid some of the gap between the structure, in the actual use, in the case of lateral shaking, the bracelet will send a small "click" Sound, if the Virgo users are not likely to accept this small disadvantage.

2, is due to the special design of the rotating shaft, which will cause the screen line will be interspersed in the rotating shaft. So in the gap of the hinge you will see that there is a line. Although in the normal use of the line will not be a problem, the user will not hand to touch the line, but have to admit that compared to the traditional screen line hidden in the internal shaft design, this design increases the risk of line damage.

The hinges are completely off the clothes and there's no risk of scratching.

There are also quite a lot of users because they know the special design of the hinge, will worry about the hinge connection structure will have the risk of clothing, as a member of the consumer, I am also curious about this question. First of all, from the official information, the design team in the process of research and development of this problem has been a fairly detailed experiment and analysis, tried a variety of clothing materials and even a variety of fabric stockings on the rotating shaft after repeated tests to ensure that the hinge will not be in the rotation of the clothes.

And from the practical point of view of my trial, I also verified the official statement, in fact, there is no need to worry about this problem. In fact, before I saw the real machine my first question is about whether the hinge will grip the problem of clothing, and when I get the real machine, instantaneous this problem will be solved. The hinge mechanism of the hinge is very smooth with the hand, and the visual roughness does not translate into tactile sense.

And in order to further verify on the basis of reasoning, I came to the Tencent digital channel of the master beauty summer teacher to do hands-on experience. Summer teacher through the yarn in the dress to try the various modes of the Yoga 3 Pro are not any clothing folder, including the yarn on the back and forth on the skirt of the friction is not the appearance of any clothing or even scratches. In addition, I also focus on the ordinary cotton cloth, denim, polyester clothing materials such as clothing made a similar attempt, the results of Yoga 3 Pro are successfully passed. This proves the authenticity of the official claim that the rotating shaft of the Yoga 3 Pro will not scrape under all the conditions of use.

Summary: Innovation is stunning but there is still room for improvement

You can like Yoga 3 Pro also can choose not to like, but who also can't deny Lenovo in Yoga 3 Pro This product innovation efforts, especially the unprecedented rotating shaft so that users can not help but a bright, I believe also to the same industry to bring inspiration to other manufacturers. Of course Yoga 3 Pro is still deficient in some ways, as a disruptive innovation is almost inevitable. What I care about is the future of the Yoga notebook shaft design will also bring about what kind of upgrade, give us what surprises. According to Lenovo officials, currently in fact, the fourth and fifth generation of yoga has been developed, the future yoga will be in an iterative way to continue to appear. Well, let's just wait and see.