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The Silicon in the case, the Ghost bar, the keycaps, and the key switches all add up to make the keyboard sound incredible. It sounds almost as good as some custom keyboards, and, crucially, costs an awful lot less. There are some great prebuilt boards out there, but this one really offers more than others at a similar price. For those that want a number pad, then there’s the Wombat Pine Pro that we’ve reviewed, and for similarly specced 75% boards there’s IQunix and its lines of boards.
It’s been three years in development – the longest period of time Lenovo has ever spent working on a single product – and it’s been six months since I last saw it in the flesh, during a behind-closed-doors sneak preview at this year’s MWC. That’s a long tease for a hybrid, but rest assured – it’s been worth the wait. Lenovo’s hoping to squeeze around 15 hours of mixed-use battery life from the Yoga Book, but its 8,500mAh battery also supports fast-charging, so it should be relatively easy to top up throughout the day if you’re running low. A fast charger is included in the box, and Lenovo claims you’ll be able to get 80% in just 50 minutes. The stabilizers on the longer keys like enter, shift, and the space bar are smooth, wobble, and noise free. These stabilizers keep the longer keys, well, stable, making sure that a keypress feels the same no matter where on the key you press. This is a great sounding board that feels and sounds great to type on.
The Halo in the name of the board comes down to a ring of light around the edge of the board that illuminates and shifts in the RGB color spectrum. That’s on the outside of the board, but also on the inner edge of the keyboard. It’s slim, and unobtrusive, but looks brilliant. It illuminates your desk as well, and if you’ve got the frosted wrist rest, lights that up with the light diffused by the acrylic. Remnant 2 is supported, but the layout is of the controller's buttons. At first it's quite confusing, so I'll try to help a little: I grew up with Halo, but haven't had a console for a while now. I remember spending hours playing H3 matchmaking, as well as falling in love with the story. ANYWAYS, I was recently gifted a gaming PC, and I decided to buy MCC. I've been having a GREAT time playing the campaign again, but I've been struggling adapting to mouse and keyboard. I'm writing here with hope that someone else has been in my shoes, and might be able to help get me up on my feet!
The bump here is at the top of the keystroke, which I prefer. Each key switch is lubed as well, so they sound and feel smooth all across the board. I am a big fan of these switches and their more pronounced tactile bumps, although you may feel differently depending on how you like your switches to feel.I don’t normally like RGB too much, but its implementation here is wonderful. It’s controllable with the key combinations on the keyboard itself, and they’re all detailed in the excellent instruction manual – which doubles as a poster of an anime girl. For some reason. I will say Lenovo is fair about expectations for the Halo keyboard. They say it's better than what traditional tablets offer (no doubt), but fall short of saying it trumps a physical keyboard instead saying that it is "comparable." Hybrids haven’t really changed much in the last few years. We’ve seen detachable keyboards, 360-degree hinges and the like, but nothing that’s really made us sit up and take notice – until now. Meet Lenovo’s brand-new Yoga Book, a super slim 2-in-1 hybrid whose keyboard can double up as an actual paper notepad. Lenovo, you have my attention. The Halo Infinite-themed keyboard also comes with an ergonomic wrist rest, which attaches to your keyboard magnetically to ensure it doesn't slip and slide during your gaming sessions, and a bonus in-game reward: Deathly Poison Weapon Coating. We've added a link to the newly-reviewed NuPhy Air75 V2 in the Single-Key Latency section of this review.
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