The Lenovo ThinkPad P40 Yoga is a unique laptop, and thus it's hard to pit it against the competition--there really isn't a direct competitor. The closest would be the Microsoft Surface Book (detachable rather than yoga-style) and Lenovo's own near mirror image ThinkPad 14 with NVIDIA GeForce 940M graphics as sold by Best Buy. If you're a designer, studying CAD in school or an architect who needs the pen feature and the more ergonomic tablet mode (remember, there are some big, non-convertible P series mobile workstations with the same pen) then the P40 Yoga is worth strong consideration. It has entry level NVIDIA Quadro graphics that will give a bit of a boost to CAD work, though it's not any faster overall than the NVIDIA 940M for Photoshop, Adobe Premiere or gaming. It's a handy on the go solution rather than a desktop replacement for CAD work, and it's fine for at least the first two years of college if not more.

If you can live with a dual- instead of quad-core CPU, Lenovo's innovative (and inevitable) Yoga workstation puts a new spin on CAD, engineering, and rendering apps.

m Test konnte uns das ThinkPad P40 Yoga nicht komplett überzeugen. Wie schon bei dem größeren Workstation-Modell ThinkPad P50s verzichtet Lenovo auf viele aktuelle Technologien (USB-C, USB 3.1, Thunderbolt, NVMe-SSDs, M.2-2280), was an der alten Gehäusekonstruktion liegt. ...