Gadget watch: Lenovo scores high with a hybrid

The big let-down is the battery life

Lenovo C390 Price: €1,250

The hybrid market has gone from oddity to the norm for high-end over the past few years. It’s been a rough transition. Some of the efforts by even the big PC-makers to go for the same customers sought by Microsoft’s Surface line have been extraordinarily awful.

Fortunately, Lenovo has delivered a fine device with its latest entry to the market. The C390 is light, but not to the point that it’s off-putting. You ...