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One of Lenovo's big announcements out of CES 2019 is the Yoga A940, a new all-in-one that's similar to Microsoft's Surface Studio. When I met with Lenovo, it wasn't shy about the parallels between the AiO and the Surface Studio, and it wasn't shy about the areas in which the Yoga does better.
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For one thing, the Yoga A940 rethinks Microsoft's Surface Dial. The Lenovo Precision Dial plugs into a USB Type-A port on either side of the device, so it's not taking up valuable screen real estate. It has a button and two dials, and you can hold the button to adjust what each one does.
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Along the base is a Dolby Atmos soundbar, and you'll notice that the base is considerably larger than a Surface Studio's. Aside from the soundbar, this provides other advantages. For one thing, it offers a place to store your mouse and keyboard.
This is something I always appreciate from Lenovo, it's ability to solve those little annoyances, like having to move your mouse and keyboard to the side when tilting the screen on a Surface Studio.
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To the right, there's an area where the mouse and pen can be stored, but that also doubles as a wireless charger for your phone.
Another benefit of having a larger base is that the Yoga A940 actually uses a desktop CPU, while the Surface Studio uses a chip that's made for laptops. It has a 4GB AMD Radeon GPU, so that's one area where the Studio outperforms, with its Nvidia GTX 1070.
One more thing is that it starts at $2,349.99, meaning that it's about $1,150 more inexpensive than the cheapest Surface Studio.
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