Yoga - many issues

I am going on 3 weeks with this Lenovo Yoga.  I have to say that I want to love this device but way too many issues have cropped up.  The Hard drive partitons (which I fixed).  The trackpad issues with office which I have attempted to fix by some online suggestions and trying the latest driver update.  All had issues, went back to the orignal shipping driver...at least it only has issues with office at least for me.  Then the screen flickering is driving me nuts.  I have disabled power saving in the intel power saving settings and it helped, but I still see some mild flickering on desktop vs. tile mode here and there.  Then I have had an issue with it installing windows updates which I am currently in the process of fixing.  I feel like I am spending more time trying to iron out problems than I am enjoying this device.  Sorry if I sound like I am on a rant, but I am just wondering if I am the only one.  Do I have a lemon ?  I think I am just down to the screen flickering which as done it numerous times while typing this.  It is like a battery saving / dimming issue.  Doesn't matter if I am on battery or plugged in for this screen dimming issue.

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I did manage on day 1 to delete or change something that completely disabled my physical keyboard, requiring a factory reset.
The virtual keyboard is junk (I'm gonna start a thread on that).
But I bought this for it's hi-res screen to aid my aging eyes. And to be both a laptop and tablet while I wander Europe for the next 3 months. I think it's going to do quite well in that regard.  I played a few minutes of a nature film last night, and the video was stunning.
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