What's in a name? The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 is the successor to the ThinkPad Yoga 12, which was the successor to the ThinkPad Yoga (at the time of the original ThinkPad Yoga, it was the only ThinkPad Yoga available, so a size designation wasn't necessary). Now we have consumer Yogas like the Yoga 700 and Yoga 900, the 12.5" ThinkPad Yoga 260 and the high end 14" ThinkPad X1 Yoga.
Then there's the ThinkPad Yoga 14, now called the ThinkPad Yoga 460, except by Best Buy in the US where it's still called the ThinkPad Yoga 14. Oh and let's not forget last year's ThinkPad Yoga 15. Whew! Clearly, Lenovo has capitalized on the popularity of the Yoga convertible design and offered a variety of sizes to see what sticks. The granddaddy 12.5" model has remained a constant through three generations of updates. It's nimble, small enough for comfortable pen use for art and notes, and it's powerful enough to be a main PC.
Keyboard and Trackpad
As ever, Lenovo's ThinkPad keyboards are superb with excellent key damping, good force stroke and healthy key travel. It's a typist's dream, and the backlighting, activated using Fn and spacebar keys works well in dimly lit and dark settings. The Synaptics trackpad has settings for gestures and multi-touch, unlike barebones (though still often very good) Microsoft reference driver machines like the Dell XPS 13. It's a good trackpad, though we still don't enjoy the cursor acceleration that tends to send the cursor meandering afar when dragging files. The TrackPoint eraser stick pointer is nestled in the keyboard and the trackpad has discrete buttons for the TrackPoint at the top of the trackpad, though the trackpad itself has the usual buttonless design.