Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook 11inch HD Laptop (MediaTek MT8183, 4 GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, ARM Mali-G72 MP3 GPU, Chrome OS) – Arctic Grey

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Having said all that, let us discuss the laptop’s weight and dimensions. The Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 weighs just 1200 g and measures 285 x 202.7 x 17.5mm (W x D x H).

Battery: These systems do not support batteries that are not genuine Lenovo-made or authorised. Systems will continue to boot, but may not charge unauthorised batteries. Lenovo has no responsibility for the performance or safety of unauthorised batteries, and provides no warranties for failures or damage arising out of their use. **Battery life is based on the MobileMark® 2014 methodology and is an estimated maximum. Actual battery life may vary based on many factors, including screen brightness, active applications, features, power management settings, battery age and conditioning, and other customer preferences. Lenovo supports the Flex 3 Chromebook with its standard one-year consumer-laptop warranty for parts and labor. Testing the Flex 3: Average Chromebook Performance This color gives the laptop a unique and stunning appearance, making it stand out among other Chromebooks. Besides, the “Lenovo” inscription at the top left corner of the laptop’s lid also adds to its elegance. In all of these benchmarks, the Flex 3 came in significantly behind the more expensive and more powerful Acer, roughly equal with its non-Flex cousin, and comfortably ahead of the Chromebook Duet (which has an especially pokey Mediatek ARM processor).Moving on, despite being an 11.6-inch laptop, the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 offers a decent amount of ports. Specifically, the right side of the Chromebook houses oneUSB 2.0 port, one USB 3.0 port, one Ethernet port, and one HDMI port. Alas, if you think that Lenovo has stumbled upon some hidden exception to the rules of physics and economics to fit such high-end features into a tiny enclosure at a palatable asking price, think again. The Flex 3's most significant compromise is its cramped, dim 11.6-inch HD display. Yes, you can touch it, but with a brightness of just 250 nits and a resolution below the 1080p (full HD) that we consider adequate for budget laptops, it's not all that pleasing a panel to look at. In addition to the HD resolution, the laptop’s display also comes with an IPS panel for wide viewing angles. Thus, you can decide to watch the display from the sides and won’t notice any loss in picture quality or color distortion.

Moreover, the single-core score is generated when only one of the processor’s cores is utilized. Meanwhile, the multi-core score is generated when all of the processor’s cores are being used.To find out if this claim is true, I will be sharing the battery rundown test result of the laptop. This battery rundown test involves continuously surfing the internet via a Wi-Fi network until the battery of the laptop dies. The Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 features a MediaTek MT8183 processor. This processor is an 8-core processor with a cache memory of 2 MB.

Neither are most this good-looking. Lenovo painted the metal finish with an almond color, which helps the Flex 3 stand out in a sea of plastic and occasional gray-aluminum chassis that typically make up the budget-laptop set. The Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 comes with an integrated ARM Mali-G72 MP3 graphics card. This graphics card has a standard frequency of 850 MHz. Hence, if you are a student or need a laptop for carrying out simple computing workloads, the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 is worth considering.The Flex 3's battery life is adequate. It lasted for a bit more than 10 hours in our video rundown test, which involves playing a locally stored video file with Wi-Fi turned off. That should get you through a day of occasional browsing, but it's on the low end for a modern Chromebook. A Slate of Strengths...and One Key Weakness Two other Android benchmarks focus on the CPU and GPU respectively. Geekbench by Primate Labs uses all available cores and threads to simulate real-world applications ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning, while GFXBench 5.0 stress-tests both low-level routines like texturing and high-level, game-like image rendering that exercises graphics and compute shaders. Geekbench delivers a numeric score, while GFXBench counts frames per second (fps). Sure. As a 2-in-1 Chromebook, the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 features a touchscreen display. My Final Thoughts