Just bought the Lenova IdeaPad yoga 11s Some tips, please .....

Okay, after a lot of faffing about, I finally decided on the 11s (i3 processor, 128GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, Windows 8). I wanted something that was fairly cheap (less than £500) portable, much lighter than my current laptop and good enough for basic use. This fits the bill. It should be with me tomorrow morning.
I have two main jobs on my list when I get it before starting to use it for what I bought it for. 1) Update to Windows 8.1 and 2) Remove all bloatware.
1) From experience, is the upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1 going to cause me grief? What steps should I take to make this as painless a process as possible, please? What should I look out for?
2) What bloatware can I happily remove? I understand Lenova ae one of the worst companies for shipping their products with bloatware but I really don't want anything on it that doesn't need to be on it.
Any other top tips from 11S owners?
Thanks for your help.

Just for your information...I recently returned the yoga 2 pro to Best Buy and bought a yoga 11s instead. I have it upgraded to windows 8.1 without having any problem. All you have to do is to wait until the system automatically download and install the windows updates. And after rebooting the computer, go to Windows Store, the free upgrade to windows 8.1 will be available for you to download. While waiting for windows 8.1 to be downloaded and installed you can just go to Lenovo support website to find and download all the updated drivers for yoga 11s, which are compatible with windows 8.1. Then when the system automatically finishes the upgrade to windows 8.1, just simply updated the drivers one by one. So yeah, in my case, I did not have any problem or error when upgrading to windows 8.1
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i probably wont be able to explain this properly but i will try my best else i will be going to contact lenova via hte phone.
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does anyone know what the problem is with the computer and why it has suddenly started doing this.
I am not sure where to post this query on the lenova forum so if its the wrong section could you let me know and i will re-post in the correct forum.
Thanks in advance.
Moderator note: moved it for you.

Just for your information...I recently returned the yoga 2 pro to Best Buy and bought a yoga 11s instead. I have it upgraded to windows 8.1 without having any problem. All you have to do is to wait until the system automatically download and install the windows updates. And after rebooting the computer, go to Windows Store, the free upgrade to windows 8.1 will be available for you to download. While waiting for windows 8.1 to be downloaded and installed you can just go to Lenovo support website to find and download all the updated drivers for yoga 11s, which are compatible with windows 8.1. Then when the system automatically finishes the upgrade to windows 8.1, just simply updated the drivers one by one. So yeah, in my case, I did not have any problem or error when upgrading to windows 8.1
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Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that the online video is not playing in full screen mode in your Yoga 11s Laptop, please ensure that the display driver is installed and the browser is installed with Adobe Flash Player so that the online video feature can be used, below is the link to download the display drivers if it is not installed and also the link to download the adobe flash player for the computer.
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