You can in any case find modest Chromebooks with 11.6-inch non-touch screens for $199, however the market's moved upscale. Models like the $449 Samsung Chromebook Plus and $499 Asus Chromebook Flip C302CA are 2-in-1 laptop/tablet convertibles with greater, higher-determination touch screens in smooth aluminum cases, livens that assistance the Asus grab our Editors' Choice for buyer chromebooks. The Lenovo Flex 11 Chromebook ($279) is plastic, not aluminum, and it has a 11.6-inch display with only 1,366 by 768 instead of 1080p or higher determination. However, it's an IPS touch screen in a flip and crease convertible body. Straddling the buyer and classroom domains with life and esteem, the Flex nearly unseated the Asus Chromebook Flip as our most loved mass-showcase Chromebook, until the point that it sputtered in one torment test.
Completely Flexible
Other than being estimated $70 underneath an equivalently prepared Dell Chromebook 3189 Education 2-in-1, the Flex is somewhat more conservative at 0.8 by 11.7 by 8.1 inches (HWD) versus 0.8 by 12 by 8.2 inches. It weighs 2.9 pounds, lighter than the Dell's 3.16, yet heavier than the Asus' 2.43 pounds in spite of the last's bigger 12.5-inch full HD display. All things considered, it's no weight in a folder case or rucksack, or at home on a lap or on a plane plate table, regardless of whether you get yourself stuck in a center seat.
The convertible is clad in dim plastic with a silver palm rest. The recognizable four-shading Chrome logo and a Lenovo logo enliven inverse corners of the top, and an elastic guard fringes the outside similarly as a thick dark bezel outskirts the shiny, intelligent screen. A somewhat grainy webcam focused over the screen serves for Google Hangouts (the Chrome OS partner to Skype talks).
Two adjusted pivots let the 11.6-inch screen twist through the four working modes recognizable to clients of Lenovo's Yoga Windows systems: PC mode; an easel-style stand mode, with the screen tilted back and keyboard look down on a desktop; An design tent mode, with screen and keyboard shaping a transformed V; and tablet mode, with screen and keyboard consecutive. Stand mode is helpful for giving introductions or sharing your work, while tent mode gives you a chance to swipe at touch-screen applications in limited spaces. Similarly as with all convertibles, the keyboard is impaired as the display swings past 180 degrees, so your fingers holding the underside of the tablet don't type rubbish.
Despite the fact that not MIL-SPEC appraised for toughness like the Acer Chromebook 14 for Work, Lenovo says the Flex 11 is worked to survive harsh treatment, for example, drops from 2.4 feet (75cm) and spills of right around 1 measure of fluid. With the exception of the screen tumbling level or open on affect, our test unit disregarded twelve drops, and continued pursuing we sprinkled a large portion of a glass of water on the keyboard. When we close down after the spill test, be that as it may, the system would not like to switch on again until given an end of the week to dry out, after which it worked fine.
What's on the Outside?
While the Dell 3189 does not have a USB-C port, the Flex 11 has one, likewise utilized for charging the laptop through the provided AC connector, to its left side edge. On that side, you'll additionally discover a USB 3.0 (Type A) port, a HDMI port, and a SD card opening. The correct edge holds just a sound jack, volume rocker, control catch, and link bolt space. We thought that it was very simple to coincidentally hit the power catch when getting a handle on the Lenovo to lift it off our lap, yet luckily the catch just puts the convertible to rest as opposed to closing it down and perhaps losing work.
The keyboard takes after the standard Chrome design, with a pursuit rather than Caps Lock key and program and system order keys, (for example, volume and brilliance controls) rather than work keys up top. It's not illuminated for writing in dull rooms, but rather it is full-sized (the A through punctuation keys traverse the desktop direction 8 inches). Writing feel is level and firm, with to some degree shallow key travel yet great input and an excellent absence of flex in the keyboard plate; we were composing quickly and precisely with just a little practice. The buttonless touchpad skims easily and reacts freshly to one-and two-finger taps (the likeness left and right snaps).
The 1,366-by-768 screen offers wide review edges and adequate shine for routine work, writing in Google Docs, we routinely turned it down three or four indents to help save battery life, however demonstrates somewhat diminish for video seeing; even with brilliance turned up, shadowed regions of YouTube motion picture trailers look dim. Hues in introductions and diversions, be that as it may, are clear and striking, as is sound from the Lenovo's base mounted speakers: The little convertible effectively draws sufficiently out sound to fill a medium-sized room, however bass is typically quieted.
Sitting tight for Android
The Flex 11 includes a MediaTek 8173C processor, a 2.1GHz ARM quad-core alongside 4GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC streak stockpiling for downloads. These specs should make it a whiz when, as Google has guaranteed and as the Samsung Chromebook Plus has just saw, Chromebooks gain admittance to the a great many Android applications in the Google Play Store, a progress Lenovo depicts just as "coming soon in 2017."
In the interim, obviously, the 2-in-1 joyfully runs Google Docs, Microsoft Office Online, and the armies of applications in the Chrome Web Store. A large portion of these keep running in tabs in the Chrome program, yet a respectable number additionally perform disconnected, synchronizing your work when your Wi-Fi association returns. Like all Chromebooks, the Lenovo is qualified for 100GB of free Google Drive distributed storage (in addition to boundless Google Docs record stockpiling) for a long time.
Chromebooks don't run our Windows-based execution benchmarks, yet we had no dissensions with the Flex 11's multitasking: We effectively opened and exchanged among in excess of twelve tabs, including video playback sessions, decisively, despite the fact that we could drive some faltering and stammering by playing three 4K recordings without a moment's delay. What's more, in our battery rundown test, where we play a privately put away MP4 video of The Lord of the Rings at full screen with brilliance set at 50 percent and volume at 100 percent, the Lenovo exceeded expectations, going on for 12 hours and 13 minutes, 30 minutes longer than the Dell 3189 and just about two hours longer than the Asus Flip.
A Nicely Outfitted Bargain
Chromebooks come in all shapes and sizes. A couple, similar to the Acer Chromebook 14, are significantly harder than the tough Flex 11. A couple have additional highlights, similar to the Asus Flip's illuminated keyboard or the light on the Dell Education 2-in-1's top that an understudy can use to flag an educator at the front of the classroom. Be that as it may, as an all around prepared entertainer estimated scarcely over a stripped down non-convertible, the Lenovo is a level out deal. We'd ward off it from fluids, however give it a strong proposal.
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