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On the software front, the Yoga 13 was smart enough to disable the keyboard when you switched into tablet mode or stand mode.Once consumers got their hands on this 2-in-1 laptop, they really liked it, and sales exceeded Lenovo’s expectations right out of the gate.The reception was much stronger than we expected,” said Bereda. “Gen 1 and Gen 2 sales really exploded for us, and it really propelled Lenovo to the forefront of the convertible category.”
Inspired by the Yoga 13’s success, Lenovo continued to innovate through the decade, debuting an elegant watchband hinge on the Yoga 3 Pro in 2014, a radically different dual-display convertible in the Yoga Book in 2016 and a single-barrel soundbar hinge on the Yoga C930 in 2018.At the same time, Lenovo has expanded the Yoga lineup to include everything from tablets with built-in stands to all-in-one PCs with tilting displays and wireless charging docks. There are even Yoga laptops that don’t flip around, which would seem to contradict the Yoga branding.
But to Lenovo, Yoga is now about creating devices that conform to your needs and not just hardware gymnastics. The Yoga S940, for example, has AI that can do everything form optimize battery life based on how you use the system to blur out the background when making video calls.“Yoga at one point was just a convertible, and we’ve really stretched it to stand for devices that adapt to you across a lot of different experiences,” said Bereda.
While Lenovo won’t provide a timeline, don’t be surprised when the company stretches the Yoga brand even further to foldable-screen PCs in the coming years. — Mark SpoonauerThe king of gaming laptops, aka the Alienware Area-51m, sprung into life just at the end of the decade and was the mark of a whole new design language for Alienware as well as a mark for a whole new level of gaming performance that we haven’t really seen. It was the first in a long time that a gaming laptop was able to be fully upgradable, from the CPU and GPU to the RAM and storage.
“The only way we survive is if we continue to innovate; being the leaders of the gaming industry requires us to make sure that we’re always leading,” Alienware global product marketing manager Eddy Goyanes said. “Dell’s advanced engineering team had to come up with a whole mechanical means to get [GPU upgradability] [...] because MXM isn’t getting very much support anymore [...] so they called [what the engineering team created] the Dell graphics former factor (DGFF), [which is] an upgradable socket that no one else has.”
The Alienware Area-51m’s Legend ID brought the Alienware out of its edgy teenage years and into its elegant adult years. Once again, Alienware has the best looking gaming laptops of all time. Combo that with an insanely powerful desktop-level CPU and an upgradable GPU, the Area-51m lands itself as the most innovative gaming laptop of the decade. — Rami Tabari
HP's latest Spectre x360 13 is the best convertible laptop around but that device wouldn't exist today if not for the success of the original Spectre x360. Convertible laptops weren't new at the time, but the first Spectre x360 helped put HP on the map next to the likes of Lenovo's Yoga laptops. The Spectre x360's gorgeous ultraslim aluminum stood out from the competition in the same way as HP's stunning Spectre 13. But what made the convertible model such a compelling device is that it proved beauty didn't need to interfere with usability.
"We started with these principles. Number one was: let's have a design that is the world's best laptop but could also be a 360 without being compromised, and we looked at key features like battery life," Mike Nash, chief technologist and VP of customer experience and portfolio strategy for personal systems at HP, told Laptop Mag.
HP struck that sweet spot with the Spectre x360, which was portable enough to travel with yet offered all-day battery life.

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