Lenovo - Flex 3 Chromebook 11" Laptop - Mediatek MT8183 - ARM Mali-G72 MP3 Graphics - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC

I bought this Chromebook during Black Friday and this is a great laptop for every day use. Pros and cons listed below: Pros: - Can use touchscreen - Portability - Battery Life Cons: - Processor is a little slow - Touchscreen has a slower response time vs. iPad - Only 1 USB port

The Lenovo Flex 3 is a solidly built 2-in-1 Chromebook that can handle most of our daily computing tasks. Even though the Flex 3 comes up a little short on memory storage and doesn’t have all the latest technologies it’s still a good versatile Chromebook. Due to its smaller size, low weight and flexibility it is very mobile and serves multiple purposes in our house. We use it for everything from web browsing to controlling smart things using the Google assistant. First the good: The overall build quality is solid with the look and feel of a much more expensive laptop. The 11.6 inch IPS screen is a glossy touchscreen display that has 1366 x 768 HD resolution. The screen responds nicely to touch commands and performs well in both laptop or tablet mode. While the display is a glossy screen its not such a high gloss that it becomes a fingerprint magnet. Because the hinges fully rotate you can operate this Chromebook as a tent, stand, tablet or a laptop. Even with its small size it still has a full keyboard and a decent size trackpad. The keys are chicklet type keys and are very flat so it took some time to get used to them. The touchpad was very responsive however I found that the right and left button clicks were a tad louder and less solid than I would have preferred. There is a 720 p camera above the display and it includes a well designed camera lens cover. The lens cover is a slide mechanism that covers the camera with a red indicator dot so it’s easy to see that the camera is in fact covered. If you have kids and worry about cameras this is a great feature. The 720p camera resolution provided good video quality and this Chromebook makes a nice portable video endpoint. On the side of the Chromebook there are volume controls for when you are using the tablet mode. Like all things Google these days this supports the Google assistant so you can use voice commands to perform task. The speaker’s volume and audio quality is what you would expect out of laptop this size. The Chromebook auto powers on and has my desktop loaded by the time I have the top fully opened so it launches very quickly. I’ve been watching the battery life and it looks like I can get over 10 hour of use per charge. Not the newest but still not bad: Chromebooks generally rely heavily on the cloud for storage but in today’s low cost per gigabyte you would expect more than just 32 GB of memory storage. Most cell phones now have more memory than this. On the plus side it does have a Micro SD slot that you can load with more memory storage but it won’t be as responsive as core storage would have been. With just a handful of apps I have already locked up half of the available memory so using Google drive is important. There are two USB ports included a USB-A and USB-C but both are older 2.0 versions so they are slower than the current USB 3.x standards. The wireless included is WiFi 5 802.11ac which is good but again wifi 6 802.11ax is the latest wireless version. The built in Bluetooth support is version 4.2 which doesn’t offer the same range, security or speed of the latest 5.x version of Bluetooth. While none of the items above are critical they all can affect the overall performance if not properly managed.

A bit small but it was perfect until i got juice in the keyboard. Will consider another

This was my first Chromebook. I had it for two days, and ended up returning it. Here's my views on it, and I hope it will be of help for others:

Had it for over 2 years now and it work perfectly.

The product was good at the start i got 2 of these and one for me and my wife but the one for myself is so slow I don't know what happened I reset it and still super slow but my wife is extremely happy with.her it's lightning fast

The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook is my first laptop/tablet hybrid computing device and it offers a compact and versatile user experience for a variety of tasks and activities. While it may look like a small laptop, the device feels more like a tablet with a keyboard attached from a use standpoint and was surprisingly hefty at just over 2.5 lbs. The outer housing has a matte finish with a texture grip on one side of the top cover and two rubber feet that span the length of the bottom cover. When open, you can use the non-backlit keyboard and trackpad mouse for input just like a laptop, but the IPS screen is also a touch display with 10-point multi-touch support enabling you to interact with it with taps and swipes on the screen like a tablet as well. Since the hinge on the device rotates 360 degrees, you can use it in multiple form-factors, for example, opening the screen past horizontal disables the keyboard and trackpad but allows you to place the device in tent orientation so that it stands up on its own, or fold the screen completely flat for use as a tablet, viewable in both portrait and landscape orientation, though it felt a little weird to place the keyboard facedown on surfaces when folded flat. Spec-wise this model has a 64-bit 8-core processor (4x ARM Cortex A73 and A53 @ 2.0 GHz), 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of eMMC internal storage (though about 12 GB is used by the OS and pre-installed apps). Since the eMMC is soldered to the motherboard, the internal storage space is not upgradeable, however, you can add additional storage space by popping a microSD card in the slot adjacent to the headphone/mic combo jack. As for connectivity, this device supports WiFi 5 802.11AC (2 x 2) and Bluetooth 4.2; not the latest and greatest for either standard but still decent in terms of speed and device compatibility. There is one full-sized USB 2.0 port that, along with the USB-C power port, can be used for connecting a USB hub or other peripherals and storage devices. The power and volume control keys are found on the right-hand edge of the keyboard along with a Kensington lock slot. The unit runs Chrome OS, an Android based system, but the UI is a little different than your typical smartphone or tablet, as app shortcuts don’t appear on the main desktop but rather on a recent/running apps “shelf” along the bottom of the screen and app drawer that you have to swipe up to view. The 11.6” diagonal glossy display is nice and bright but doesn’t “wow” with only a 1366 x 768 (HD) resolution at 160dpi and its large ½ inch bezels; it looks decent when viewed straight on but dims quickly at off viewing angles. Color reproduction and saturation are on the low side (45% NTSC color gamut), so if you need pinpoint color accuracy for creative work like professional photography this may not be a great fit. When used for watching streaming video content like Netflix and YouTube, since the highest resolution it can display is 720p, choosing higher video quality settings can detriment playback performance by introducing buffering and skipping without actually improving visual detail. The device natively supports the entire Google suite of apps, and it’s easy to integrate your Google account settings, email, cloud photos, etc. by logging into a Google account and syncing your settings. If you don’t want to log-in or have a guest user, you can skip signing-in and 'Browse as a Guest,' though you will be limited in terms of the apps and features you can use in this mode. Many of Google’s services can be launched within the Chrome web-browser itself versus using a standalone app, for example Gmail, YouTube, and Drive. You can opt to download the apps from the Play Store if you prefer, however, this will use up internal storage space which is in short supply. I did find the “everything button” on the keyboard in place of the Caps lock key an interesting feature, as it is basically a one-touch button to bring up a universal search bar that searches for results both on the device itself for files and apps and online for other queries. Chromebook also supports Google’s virtual assistant which you can talk to by using the wake phrase “Hey Google” allowing you to control smart home devices, ask questions, or issue voice commands. You can set this feature to be ‘always on’ or only when it is plugged in and charging, to prolong battery life. The stereo microphones are situated adjacent to the 720p front facing camera above the top of the screen, and the while image/video quality from this camera isn’t amazing at 1 megapixel, it’s suitable for video chat and virtual meetings. Note that there is no rear facing camera on the device. The Chromebook can be used for casual gaming and basic creative work like image editing and digital art via lightweight cloud based apps like Lightroom mobile, but won’t be able to handle resource heavy desktop-based applications like Photoshop or Premiere. However, I was able to run and play mobile games like PUBG on it without any issues. The battery life is decent at up to 10 hours on a full charge, depending on your usage and settings like screen brightness and WiFi. I did have one instance where I couldn’t get the screen to power up despite the LED on the power button being on and having the unit plugged in with a full charge, however, I was able to perform a hard reset by pressing and holding the power button for 6 seconds and then booting it up again and that resolved it. Overall, the Flex 3 is a nice lightweight alternative to a traditional laptop. Its small form factor and range of features make it versatile for a variety of applications from work and play to entertainment. It has built-in anti-virus protection and performs OS updates automatically, to keep the device up-to-date and secure. While it doesn’t sport the best looking screen or most powerful processor, it starts up nearly instantly and can perform daily productivity tasks and handle internet browsing with ease.

Love it! It’s works for my purpose! Very affordable