Chrome OS offers a truly user-friendly experience that provides everything you need at your fingertips. While smartphones are the most obvious application for screen protectors and tempered glass, the diversity of tech devices with displays is much greater. The one Zoom meeting I tried (on top of some other tabs I needed) was also a bad experience — audio randomly cut out a couple times, and video was stuttery throughout.

New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . I don't see this being a drawback unless you plan to connect an external display, since the Flex 3’s screen isn't really large enough to accommodate that many tabs comfortably in any case. Our only reservation in this area is the side mounted power button, which is rather too easy to hit when converting the Flex 3 from laptop to tablet and back. are just better experiences in a browser, so I didn’t use the dedicated app functionality all that often.Overall, this device is best if you’re looking to do basic office or school tasks, and don’t think you’ll need to have more than a few things open at a time. With a generous range of ports, it should also appeal to people who plan to supplement their Chromebook's internal storage and perhaps connect an external keyboard and mouse. And if you can stomach that, the Flex 3 does deliver some great benefits in other areas, from the great keyboard and convenient ports to the outstanding battery life and respectable audio. Really, the only difference I experienced in casual testing between the Flex 3 and the Core i7-powered Pixelbook was occasional sluggishness from the Flex 3 with more than a dozen browser tabs open. With a touchscreen and tablet capability that’s suitable for students or kids, the Flex 3 is truly versatile.

While computers are my main focus, I’ve also written at length about topics ranging from fitness gear and appliances to TV and home theater equipment. We've seen the same thing on other Lenovo 2-in-1s such as the Lenovo Yoga 7i 14 Gen 7, and we like it just as much on this inexpensive Chromebook.I’ve been using the Flex 3 as my primary driver for a week, and while I will miss the keyboard and audio when I send it back, I can’t wait never to have to look at this terrible screen again.

The Lenovo was also in the middle of the field in our battery rundown, delivering a bit more than 8 hours and 30 minutes of unplugged operation.Our Geekbench and GFXBench tests saw the same rough distribution of scores, with the Flex 3 near or at the back of the pack.

There's even a microSD card reader, a key feature for Chromebook users who need extra local storage. Unlike the previous nickel-cadmium batteries, current lithium-ion batteries do not have the memory effect. Were this a Windows machine, that Intel Celeron chip, 4GB of memory and 64GB eMMC SSD would be enough to invoke fear of the almighty, as in almighty awful performance.The Chromebook features a Intel Celeron N4500 processor paired with 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of eMMC 5.