Situating a port on each side of the chassis gives you total flexibility when you plug into the wall. Not only do they allow you to both charge and connect peripherals via USB-C at the same time. The dual USB-C sockets, which both support charging, are another feature you might not expect on such an affordable machine. But the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 has carved out a little niche of its own thanks to that particularly good build quality and some good features including dual USB-C ports. Meanwhile, alternatives such as the Asus Chromebook Flip and HP Chromebook X360 demonstrate what a little more cash will buy. The general theme in that class of Chromebook involves low-power processing and limited storage.
Of course, there are now numerous affordable 2-in-1 Chromebooks to choose from, including the Acer Chromebook Spin. It makes the likes of Google’s now defunct Pixelbook look incredibly expensive. It’s full-function 2-in-1 with an 11-inch IPS display and excellent build quality. Size: 0.7 x 11.41 x 8.18 inches (17.8 x 290 x 207.8mm H x W x D) Price and availabilityĪt $339 (£299, AU$499) the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook packs quite a punch. Ports: 2x USB-C with charging, 2x USB-A 3.1 Gen1, microSDĬonnectivity: 802.11AC (2 x 2) WiFi, Bluetooth® 4.2 Screen: 11-inch IPS touchscreen, 1,366 x 768 pixels Here is the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook configuration sent to TechRadar for review:ĬPU: 1.1GHz Intel Celeron N4020 (dual-core, 4MB cache, up to 2.8GHz Burst) But when you factor in price, the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook is both surprisingly effective and appealing, and one of the best Chromebooks right now. Ultimately, it all comes back to that context. In tablet mode, the touchscreen functionality is fairly slick, with only occasional stuttering from the interface when swiping or scrolling.Īs for battery life, this is one seriously long lasting machine, notching up over 16 hours of video playback. The Lenovo Flex 3 feels pretty responsive, whether it’s streaming video or working in Google Docs. So, outright performance and local storage are not as critical.Īll of which means that the subjective experience is much better than you’d get in the Windows environment with the same hardware. However, the Chrome OS environment is both less demanding and also cloud-centric. Were this a Windows laptop or convertible, that would be enough to have us running for the hills. All told, it’s a pretty unimpressive technical line up that represents a bottom-rung Intel-powered solution. That’s a dual-core chip derived from Intel’s low-power and low-cost Atom line of processors, rather than the premium high performance Core family.Īlongside the Celeron chip is 4GB of system memory and just 64GB of eMMC-style storage. Processing power comes from an Intel Celeron N4020 CPU. If the sheer quality of the Flex 3 is surprising, its core specifications are less so.
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