Too 4K-ing expensive? Five full HD laptops for work and play

High-def desirables for a decent price

Lenovo Yoga 2 13

Lenovo recently launched the new Yoga 3 Pro, but the non-Pro Yoga 2 models are still widely available and this 13-inch model looks pretty tempting at £700. The full-HD touchscreen display is one of the best we’ve seen at this price, with an IPS panel that produces a really bright, colourful image with wide viewing angles.

This panel will work a treat for streaming video or doing a spot of photo-editing and, like all the other Yoga models, you can flip the screen over so that it acts as a stand while you’re watching video, or fold it right back so that you can hold it like a tablet.

The Haswell Core i5-4200U processor runs at 1.6GHz, and is backed up by 4GB of memory and a 500GB hybrid drive. You won’t find an optical drive on this baby, unless it’s hanging off a USB cable. While on paper the Yoga 2 has a fairly modest specification, but it produced scores of 2288 and 2624 when running the Home and Work suites in PCMark 8, which are more than adequate for routine tasks such as web browsing or running MS Office.

Certainly one of the most smartly designed laptops in this group, it measures up at just 17.5mm thick and weighing a very portable 1.7kg. It also clocked in at 5hours 32mins when running the PCMark battery test benchmark, so you should be able to get close to a full day’s work out of it for less demanding tasks.

Price £700
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