Do you recommend the Yoga 13 to your friends and coworkers?

I teaching training courses at about 20+ tech companies each year. This week was my first time using my new Yoga 13 as my presentation machine.
After class, 2 out of 13 students approached me and asked about the Yoga. They were in the market for a Windows 8 laptop and liked the Yoga's looks. This rarely happened with my old ThinkPad so it was an interesting development.
I had to tell them honestly that while it is a good-looking machine, it's too buggy for me to recommend. Then I listed all the issues, especially the poor wireless and loud fans.

After having this device since October and giving it a good work out, I'll list the bad things first:
BAD:
Marginal Wifi performance-I went ahead and got a cheap WIFI usb adapter which works great.
Key "board" is a bit wierd feeling.
GOOD:
*Expandability-Able to upgrade to 8 gb of memory and able to have 2-SSD devices.  I've got the original 128g SSD and   a second internal 256g SSD as well.  No other device in this class ahs that capability that I'm aware of, i.e. Dell, HP, etc.
*Reliable-no problems yet
*Fan noise is non-existant
*Keys feel good
*Running Windows 8 Pro with no significant issues other than Windows 8 itself.
All in all, is it perfect?  No but  for my use, it serves the purpose.  Hope this helps.

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