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Speaking of the Lenovo Yoga 11, looks like Dell has a very convincing look alike, using the 6W Haswell sku - and the specs are pretty impressive:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-XPS-11-9P33-Convertible.109177.0.html

Highlights:

- 2560x1440 IGZO display
- 15mm thick (both lid+base), and only 2.5 lbs.
- 256GB SSD
- Max noise at a fairly whispery 34.5 dB, and idle under 30 dB
- Max hot spot still below 40C degrees, with many zones below 30C degrees (all using worst-case workload)

Lowlights:

- Battery life at 5.5-6.0 hours (FHD video and web browsing)
- 3DMark Icestorm at 19.3k - would beat a Snapdragon 800, but still unsuitable for Windows gaming

Conclusion: the design and the display are the biggest assets, but they did have to dial down performance (a lot!) in order to fit within some really good thermals/noise levels.

Idle power is measured at 7.4W, but with a 40WHr battery, you'd want <4W in order to have excellent battery life. Some other designs have made a Haswell device that's lower, but none so far with a 2560x1440 display.

I'd say if Broadwell comes out and can get much better performance (about ~1.5-2x) while at the same power levels, then it will be a combination of a killer design, and a great Windows experience. I'll note that comparison measurements against Surface Pro 2 and Dell Latitude E7240, both with the 15W Haswell sku, achieve that amount better in performance, so what we'd ask from Intel's 14nm process is to get 15W Haswell performance in a 6W TDP. It's a stretch, but by no means impossible.