Lenovo Announces New Yoga Tablet That Can Double as a Portable Monitor

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Lenovo has announced a new Yoga tablet called the Yoga Tab 13. Featuring a 13-inch (2160 x 1350, 60 Hz) display and kickstand, the tablet doesn’t seem all that revolutionary at first glance, but it does boast a practical feature that laptop and desktop users might find useful: the ability to quickly turn it into a secondary, portable monitor. This functionality is easily enabled by the Yoga Tab 13’s micro-HDMI port, which supports HDCP 1.4 (a micro-HDMI to full-HDMI cable is included in the package). Available beginning this month for €799 (around $950), Lenovo’s Yoga Tab 13 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 3.2 GHz octa-core processor, Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU, 8 GB of memory, 128/256 GB of storage, WiFi 6, and up to 12 hours of battery life.









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[Brian_B]

Not a bad idea. Wondered why they haven't done this in the past. Apple did occasionally, but would often tie it to hardware upgrades on both sides (Sidecar), so it wasn't a universal "second monitor" - and it was more like running VNC client/server on a virtual second desktop.