Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love the Lenovo product and it is user-friendly for my grandchildren and for myself I also like the option of the two for one where it can also be used as a tablet

General I bought the Lenovo 1311 (Flex 4), not only to review it, but because I needed a new computer for my college courses. This was a great buy from BestBuy who had it for sale at $300 after taxes, so for the money, it’s a good catch. Especially when you consider that most of the 2 in ones in this price range are either running Chrome OS or Android tablet. I was able to get 2 hours and 10 minutes at 40% brightness on a 55% charge. It also only takes a half hour to charge 50% in my experience without the power saver being turned on. My version didn’t come with office 365 but it was relatively easy to install with a “Get 365” button located in the programs menu. The insurance on this laptop is astronomical, being $80(ish) for 1 year, which I guess is cool, but is too rich for my blood. The windows 10 installation runs smoothly and doesn’t show lag even in this small form factor (2GB RAM, Intel Celeron N3350@1.10GHz, 10 touch points, and a small, but expandable (by SDCARD) 56.9GB) which makes this good performance for the price. Pros/Cons Summary Over all I like the computer and didn’t suffer from buyer’s remorse after my purchase. It runs Office, like I need it to, and its lightweight which is perfect for portability. I don’t like the keypad housing, as it leaves prints, and I don’t like the size of certain keys on the keyboard when compared with their placement. It multitasks fine and runs just like any other windows 10 computer and tablet, and automatically goes into tablet mode when you rotate it. The LAN port cover is horribly crafted and will break on you in a second rendering you unable to Hardwire into your internet. The mic is great, the speakers aren’t. The screen is great, the touchpad isn’t. The touchscreen is awesome, rotating it takes more time than I would like. Specs 56.9GB Hard drive, only 35GB usable. 2GB DDR3L Ram, 1.81 usable HDMI Port, Multimedia card reader port. 1 USB 3.0, 2USB 2.0 port. 1366x768 HD resolution touchscreen. 2 Cell lithium battery. 3Lbs. Intel HD intergrated graphics card. Wireless networking. , Intel Celeron N3350@1.10GHz Processor. Aesthetics (pros) Out the box it has very nice "curb appeal", with the chrome trim around the keyboard, and touchpad. I’m not used to smaller laptops so it took me some time to get used to the thick 1.3-inch black panel across the bottom, as with the 1in black panel across the top and on sides. It’s very light weight and the screen flips to turn it into a tablet. Need I mention it’s also touch screen, finger touch. The back of my ink pen didn’t work but imagine a stylus would. The screen is HD(1366x768) and shows colors very nicely. Also, there’s not much outside glare from windows and whatnot blocking my daytime viewing. The brightness is very crisp and clear (none of that white backlight distortion). The build quality is impressive, as I looked at $800+ models that had the same build quality, for obviously, a much higher price. The hinges are covered in a nice hard plastic casing and feel very sturdy and touch when closing or folding the screen. Its confidence instilling. Not to mention it only weighs 3 pounds. Aesthetics (cons) Aesthetically, it’s a very nicely designed computer, and execution was almost perfect. The reason I say almost, is because the little plastic cover that goes under the LAN port is very cheaply made. My first day of owning the Flex 4, I plugged in one of my offices LAN cords. it fit in nicely, and the concept was right, but the execution was off. 10 minutes later, I would kind of lean to the side, and the cord would receive minor pressure, which was enough the break the plastic port cover. Not completely off, as I don’t know what’s broken about it, but enough to where I would have to hold the cord up to get an actual. connection. The surface of the keyboard is made of a plastic that attracts finger prints and grease spots. One day in and the bottom corner (where the intel sticker is) has my finger prints on it showing darker than the grey that the keyboard is. By the time, I would end my first day with it, the keyboard housing would be three different shades of grey. The screen, also, attracts these same finger prints on its big black edges. When in tablet mode my biggest disagreement is the keyboard itself. I know this is the same feature with all 2 in 1s but I think there should be something to cover the keys while you are holding this like a tablet as I found myself always clicking them and it was uncomfortable in my opinion. Last but not least, the speakers are improperly placed on the bottom of the laptop just below the table grips and are very small (maybe 1x1) Functionality (pros) First of all, This thing boots up almost lightning fast after the first time. The touch screen is very responsive and I love the swipe trail that follows my finger when I touch it. I can’t say how much I like this screen. I’ve had HP touch screen laptops before that weren’t this easy and responsive, I’m very impressed. Simply put a finger from each hand on the screen and drag apart or pull together to zoom. That’s a great feature. The touchpad is smooth with the right click and left click keys being distinguished by a half inch red barrier line that won’t bother you upon touch. Did I mention that beautiful “chrome” bezel around it? For a laptop with 1.82GB of usable ram, I would say it runs very quickly, and multitasks very well. I currently have MS word, Google chrome with 10 tabs open Facebook messenger up and running, the Facebook app, and three other programs, and it hasn’t slowed down noticeably in my opinion, unless you pay hard attention. I used voice chat on Facebook messenger and the mic on here is more clear than the mic on my cellphone and my chatee could hear me perfectly when talking from her cellphone. Functionality (cons) The Screen, when changing to tablet mode, takes all of three seconds to transform which is longer than I would like. That, in turn, means that changing the viewing perspective to vertical mode takes an additional two seconds. I know, that’s not a lot of time, but when you’re performing the maneuver, I think you’d want it to change and be ready when you are. I find myself having to wait a second or two to get started after rotating the screen. Not the biggest issue but to each his/her own. The touchpad sometimes takes a second to register that you’re using it. I wanted to scroll up on the screen and had to click with the mouse several times to get it to realize that. It ended up being faster and more practical to just use the touch and scroll with my fingers. I would say the touch pad could be more responsive and has minor lag issues. The keys on the keyboard are far too close together for my fingers and I’m on the thin side of the weight spectrum. I often found myself hitting the “=” key instead of delete and hitting the “PGup” key when meaning to hit the quotation mark key. The right-hand side shift key is also very small (the size of a letter key) and placed next to the PGUp key, but I usually only use the left-hand shift key so it wasn’t as a big of issue as the “=” sign and the quotation mark. [If I’m typing fluidly I must slow down and carefully press in order to not hit the wrong key in error as far as “=” and quotation.] While the 1.82Gb of ram are great for a laptop of this spec and price, I noticed that after my tenth tab on google chrome that they were starting to take a little longer to show up for me to enter my URL, however I managed to get 18 tabs deep before any significant slowdown was expressed and it wasn’t that bad. The Speakers are mediocre at best and sound muffled due to their placement and size.

This is a decent basic laptop for simple web browsing and productivity. When it's not overburdened, it feels reasonably responsive; generally speaking, it'll handle about three to five Firefox tabs and a word processor open at the same time without too much trouble. The battery life, while not quite stellar, is decent at about 5 hours. It also has no moving parts; the system is passively cooled and does not have a mechanical hard drive. Unusually for a system in this price range, the Lenovo Flex 4-1130 is a 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop. The touchscreen feels quite snappy under most conditions, but the alternate modes, especially the tent and tablet modes, are of limited usability due to the low-quality TN display's poor viewing angles, making the multi-mode functionality more of a bonus than a core feature of the product. Like most systems in this price range, the Flex 4-1130 has a whole host of limitations, including a slow processor, low memory, limited storage, and the aforementioned low-quality display (which measured just 61.4% sRGB coverage on my ColorMunki Display colorimeter). 64 GB of eMMC storage is better than many systems of this sort (which more often than not have just 32 GB), but it's held back by 2 GB of RAM and a dual-core Atom-type Celeron processor that is easily pegged by most nontrivial workloads. This is especially apparent when running updates: the system ran Windows 10 version 1511 out of the box and it took more than half a day to update to version 1703 (Creators Update), going through version 1607 (Anniversary Update) in the process. Also, the limited storage capacity and cheap TLC NAND (despite being backed by a large SLC buffer) raises concerns about the write endurance of the eMMC storage, especially if you install lots of apps or frequently run the system out of physical memory and trigger paging. Granted, systems with 32 GB of storage are even worse in this regard, but this, along with the above performance limitations, mean that this system is not for anything even remotely intensive. Ultimately, considering the price, as long as you're mindful of the system's limitations, this is a decent pick for a basic everyday take-anywhere laptop.

Love everything about my 11 inch lenovo laptop. The size is perfect to carry around. Love that is touchscreen and that it could be use as a tablet. For The price I paid its a good laptop.

Great touch screen compact laptop for the price. Little low on the memory side but if just using it for general purposes its a great laptop. Love the flip over touchscreen option.

The laptop is cute and compact. I bought it to be able to write my book and search the web a little. It's ok, but moves so slow!!! Not really worth using for the internet TBH. I don't care for Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge, but it's ok. Most new computers aren't as good as they used to be, nothing comes preloaded like before and it's hard to distinguish items saved.

Great Price, and great small and quick laptop, I love the touch screen and I love how I can take it anymore and use it fast!

I bought this for my daughter after she went through so many laptops. The price was right, the simplicity of flash memory and a touch screen meant she could still do everything she needed to do with a laptop and have fun with it as well. For those who aren't power users, and would rather have a laptop than a tablet, I think this is a good choice.

Bought this for my grandson. Smaller size allows small hands to navigate the keyboard easier. Wanted to avoid him having to carry a larger laptop in his book bag, so this fit the bill. Touchscreen is a nice feature. Suits the intended purpose of use for school. Celeron processor is slower than Intel, but that's to be expected.

My daughter is in an advance class in school. She does most of her work on computers at school on a daily basis. Needed one that was affordable but fuctional. This is a very good touch screen laptop. Economical. I even use for time to time. It has windows 10 afded from the menugactuter a great deal.

Bought this to be a dedicated PC for 3D printing. Works great with the touchscreen in tent or tablet mode, and will switch to tablet mode automatically. Pulls applications and files very quickly thanks to the SSD, but could stand to have another stack or two of RAM. (Not expandable)

Very happy with this Lenovo flex laptop. Small and light weight. Really like that it is touchscreen along with the attached keyboard. Would definitely recommend to somebody that is just a light laptop user and need something easy and portable to take around everywhere and surf the Internet!

I had personally replaced my old Toshiba traditional laptop and iPAD which I had had for many years with a Lenovo Yoga for myself approximately a year earlier. The Yoga was a combo computer and tablet which I like the concept of (i.e. not having to carry two devices everywhere I went, and the laptop was heavy). After having used my Yoga for about a year, my 90 year old dad expressed an interest in wanting to have the ability to watch Netflix, listen to music, and SKYPE with his grandchildren, however, he often travels. So I purchased this newer version of the Yoga for him. It's lightweight, compact, but not so small that he can't see the screen. I installed Netflix for his movies, Spotify for his music and SKYPE. I kept it simple and bought him a pair of noise cancelling blue tooth headphones to go with it. HE LOVES IT. He throws it in his backpack and has access to all the things he likes when he's not home.

Not the fastest thing in the world but it does what I needed to do. Mostly use it for web browsing when I'm away from home. The touch screen works better than expected but I don't get much use out of the tablet mode.

This is a small laptop and has some limits. However, it fits my need of a second laptop I can use when I'm traveling and just want to check emails or write up a quick document etc. Also makes a nice laptop for my volunteer work where I just need to take meeting notes.

The notebook has fared well with my daughter. Based on specs it performs as expected. May seem slow at times but look at the specs. Does work well for a high school student that needs portable PC and don't want to sink to much money into the solution.

I needed a smaller computer to use. instead of a tablet. I need to be able to actually use windows not ios or android. The touch screen responds well, the touchpad can be a bit tricky to get used to using. The 64gb of memory is touch to deal with though.

Great computer for my teenage son to use. It's compact enough for him to carry easily to school in his backpack but big enough that he can comfortably type on the keyboard. Touch screen makes it easy to navigate between websites and other documents.

I did a lot of comparison shopping because I wanted to purchase my kids laptops for Christmas, but they definitely didn't need anything extravagant as they are 10 and 7, however, they do use their computers for homework as well as for shopping Amazon! Plus I wanted something they could play their app games on so I really wanted something big enough to be utilizable by munchkins, but small enough not to be overwhelming and bulky! The reviews, product features and price is what ultimately led me to purchasing these computers and they are very happy. When I help them they keys are a little small for me (and I have small hands but I am used to a full size keyboard) and it can seem a little slower than I am used to, but I have been happy with my purchase thus far and hope the enjoyment (by all of us) continues! Good luck on your search!

I like it for its size, touchscreen and price. My only concern is it loads up slowly, could be from software updates. It was a little faster when I first purchased it.