Lenovo Yoga 720-15IKB review

The rare convertible that brought a real GPU in 2017

The Yoga 720-15IKB (2017) is an oddity of its generation: a fifteen-inch convertible carrying a four-core i7-7700HQ and a GTX 1050 2GB, with 32GB of RAM, at $355 — dead on the convertible-class median. The graphics reading of 31.34 against a category median of 3.84 — a 716% gap, top quartile — is the platform's defining measurement: in the convertible aisle, this machine owns a discrete GPU almost nobody else has. The cost is the format's physics: mobility at 27 against a class median of 68, a 60% shortfall into the low band, with reliability at 23 flagging the chassis's years.

What a 1050 in a convertible still proves

The capability sheet converts the reading into receipts: Overwatch, Grand Theft Auto V and Rainbow Six Siege clear their recommended bars, with Visual Studio Code at minimum. A convertible that games at rec-bar level remains rare in this class at any price — the format usually surrenders the GPU entirely, and this machine did not.

The trade the format charges

Mobility at 27 is the honest bill: a fifteen-inch convertible built around a 45-watt processor and a discrete card weighs and drains like the hardware it carries, and the class median — built on thin-and-light integrated machines — measures that mass harshly. Reliability at 23 prices in eight years of hinge-and-fan history on a rotating chassis. The purchase is a specific one: the 2-in-1 form factor with real graphics capability, accepted at the documented cost of carry and age.

Depreciation: terminal flatness

From a $1,500 anchor the price has settled at $355, decaying at 8.5% annually with a two-year projection near $297. The curve is flat; the machine trades on its unusual capability and its chassis, not on recoverable value.

Against the neighbors

The analog set is all cheaper: an EliteBook x360 1040 G5 at $328, a ThinkPad X1 Yoga at $333 and $357, an X390 Yoga at $358. Every rival is the format done conventionally — lighter, integrated, quieter. This seat's corner is singular enough: a rec-bar GPU receipt that the convertible bracket rarely offers at any price.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the buyer who wants the 2-in-1 format without surrendering gaming — a combination the class still barely offers. The mobility and reliability readings are the honest price of that rarity; inside that contract, the receipts are real.