The 14 inch Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 ($809 as tried; beginning at $470) is a 2-in-1 that expects to offer a great deal without burning up all available resources. With an eighth gen Intel Core i5 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce MX130 GPU, this system packs enough speed to empower strong profitability and play a few diversions. The keyboard and speakers likewise awe. Shockingly, the Flex 6's screen reflects excessively glare, and its battery life isn't precisely stellar. In general, however, this is one of the better convertibles for the cash we've tried for this present year.
Outline
Regardless of its moderate beginning value, the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 is an appealing machine that highlights a matte Onyx dark shell with metallic dim pivots. Those pivots enable the display to turn 360 degrees, and feel dependably tight. The Flex 6 feels solid, with a brushed aluminum deck and a body made of a polycarbonate/ABS plastic with 40 percent glass fiber.
Weighing 3.6 pounds and estimating 0.7 inches, the IdeaPad Flex 6 is lighter than the 15-inch HP Envy x360 15t (4.7 pounds, 0.7 inches). It's likewise slimmer and heavier than both the 13.3-inch Acer Spin 5 (3.4 pounds, 0.6 inches) and the 13.3-inch Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1(3.4 pounds, 0.6 inches).
On the left half of the Flex 6, you'll locate its first USB 3.0 port, and additionally a HDMI, USB Type-C ports and an earphone/mic combo jack. Its capacity catch sits on its correct edge (for availability in non-laptop positions), nearby its security bolt opening, a second USB 3.0 port and a SD memory peruser.
The laptop's fingerprint reader support Windows Hello and sits underneath the base right corner of the keyboard.
Display
Viewing the Gorillaz music video "Modesty," on the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6's 14-inch, 1920 x 1080 screen, I saw conventional blues in the skies above Venice shoreline, and additionally the greens and tans of palm tree fronds. When I hit delay, I could obviously read the signage of the adjacent frequents and sprawling spray painting.
The display's intelligent covering might be a trouble in case you're utilizing the note pad in a space with loads of overhead lighting -, for example, our open office - as the lights thought about the screen. This sufficiently made glare in the board that I could see the surface of our roof when I had dull applications open.
As indicated by our colorimeter, the IdeaPad Flex 6 produces 80 percent of the sRGB range, which is underneath the top notch note pad normal (112 percent), the screen in the Inspiron 13 7000 (110 percent) and the Spin 5 (126 percent). The Envy x360 earned lower numbers (67 percent with an AMD CPU; 77 percent with an Intel CPU).
The IdeaPad Flex 6's screen produces up to 236 nits of shine, which is underneath the 305 classification normal, and also the 274-nit Spin 5. The Inspiron 13 created a comparative 227-nit rating, while the Envy x360 15t earned lower (186 on an Intel machine; 128 on an AMD machine) scores.
The Flex 6's touch-screen display empowered exact contribution as I explored the desktop. It additionally accurately enrolled Windows 10's edge-swipe signals for opening the Timeline see and the Action Center.
Keyboard, Touchpad and Optional Active Pen
The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6's keyboard offers a strong writing knowledge. Assessing it utilizing the 10fastfingers.com writing test, I hit a rate of 74 words for every moment, not very a long way from my 80 wpm normal. The keys include just 1.3 millimeters of movement (underneath the 1.5 mm to 2mm we plan to discover), yet their components, which require 78 grams of power for incitation (we search for no less than 60 grams) give the keys a characteristic vibe to each snap.
The Flex 6's 4.1 x 2.7-inch touchpad followed my info precisely as I explored the desktop and looked through sites in Chrome. It likewise effectively perceived the route signals for review the desktop and moving between applications.
The $40 Lenovo Active Pen (included when acquiring from Costco, however not Amazon) gave a characteristic inclination composing knowledge as I doodled in MS Paint. While the stylus offers 2,048 levels of weight affectability, it doesn't perceive contribution at hard points, so you can't do tilt-shading.
Sound
The Lenovo Flex 6 creates enough stable to fill one of our bigger private workplaces. As I tuned in to the Gorillaz tune "Modesty" on the PC, the vocals of virtual frontman 2D sounded sweet, and the jazz guitar strings of visitor George Benson came through unmistakably.
The included Dolby Audio application comes preset to utilizing its Music alternative, which I observed to be adjusted for music and motion pictures. Of alternate alternatives, the Dynamic setting has a tendency to go too warm and uproarious, including some mutilation, while Movie, Game and Voice didn't do anything particularly observable to the sound.
Execution
I tried a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 with an eighth gen Intel Core i5-8250U CPU and 8GB of RAM, which gave it enough speed for quality multitasking. I saw nary a falter or respite in the wake of part my screen between twelve Chrome tabs (counting TweetDeck, Slack and Google Docs) and a 1080p YouTube video, with Microsoft's Mail and Outlook applications running out of sight.
The IdeaPad Flex 6 scored 12,130 on the Geekbench 4 general execution test, which bounces past the 10,795 premium journal normal. That score likewise beats the 10,079 and 9,810 scores from the Intel (Core i7-8550U with 16GB of RAM) and AMD (Ryzen 5 2500U CPU and 8GB of RAM) renditions of the Envy x360 15t. We recorded a higher 12,949 from the Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 (Core i5-8250U with 8GB of RAM) and a comparative 11,588 from the Spin 5 (Core i5-8250U with 8GB of RAM).
The 256GB PCIe SSD in the IdeaPad Flex 6 copied 4.97 GB of sight and sound documents in 20 seconds, for a speed of 254 MBps, which is slower than the 290 MBps class normal. The 256GB SSDs in the Spin 5 (182 MBps) and the Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 (108 MBps) duplicated at slower rates, while the 1TB 7,200 rpm hard drives in the Envy x360 15t replicated at much slower (28 to 32 MBps) rates, reminding me to never again purchase a PC with non-SSD stockpiling.
The Flex 6 coordinated 60,000 names to addresses on our Excel VLookup test in 1 moment and 30 seconds, a period somewhat shorter than the 1:36 class normal. The Envy x360 15t took less time (1:20 on AMD, 1:24 on Intel), as did the Spin 5 (1:26).
Lenovo's PC changed over a 4K video to 1080p on our Handbrake test in 23 minutes and 24 seconds. That is a generally long measure of time and 1 moment and 10 seconds longer than the 22:14 class normal. The Envy x360 15t (20:23 on Intel, with 7:48 on AMD) and the Spin 5 (22:12) posted shorter circumstances.
The system we tried incorporates a coordinated Intel HD Graphics 620 chip and a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce MX130 GPU, and the last empowered its score of 107,728 on the 3DMark Icestorm Unlimited Benchmark designs test. That jumps over the 86,847 classification normal. It additionally predominates the 73,701 (AMD) and the 68,187 (Intel) from the Spin 5, the 80,845 from the Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 and the 78,305 Acer Spin 5, all of which pack just the Intel HD Graphics 620 chip.
The IdeaPad Flex 6 ran the Dirt 3 dashing amusement (set to medium designs at 1080p) at 62 outlines for each second (fps). That is beneath the 73 fps class normal, between the scores from the Envy x360 (54 fps from Intel, 91 fps on the AMD), or more the 52 fps rate from the Spin 5 and the 50 fps rate from the Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1.
Battery Life
You may need to recall the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6's capacity link in case you're going on multi day trip. The Flex 6 endured just 6 hours and 41 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (web surfing at 150 nits of splendor), which is remarkably not as much as the 8:16 premium laptop normal. Shorter circumstances originated from the Envy x360 15t (4:49 on AMD and 5:22 on Intel), while the Acer Spin 5 endured longer with a period of 7:15.
Webcam
The 0.9-megapixel webcam in the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 is really good. Not exclusively did it catch subtle elements in my hair and glasses, yet it precisely rendered the hues on my registration shirt. Too terrible all the light sources got extinguished, including our roof apparatuses and sunshine separating in from outside.
Warmth
The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 is one cool user. After we gushed 15 minutes of HD video on the convertible, our warmth weapon grabbed temperatures of 78.5 degrees Fahrenheit on its touchpad, 85.5 degrees on its keyboard and 89 degrees on its underside. All slid under our 95-degree comfort limit.
The Envy x360 ran cool, however the Spin 5 got hot on its underside, estimating 100 degrees. The same goes for the Inspiron 13, which hit 98 degrees on the lower left half of its base.
Software
Lenovo gave the IdeaPad Flex 6 a really standard arrangement of applications. Lenovo Vantage gives you data about system wellbeing and access to equipment settings and updates from the PC seller itself (instead of those downloaded from Microsoft by means of Windows Update). Lenovo App Explorer, then again, is an application store that is forestalled by the Windows Store.
Setup Choices
We tried a $809 Amazon setup of the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 that packs a Core i5-8250U CPU, 8GB of RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce MX130 Graphics and a 256GB SSD. It's at present at a bargain at Costco for $700 (with Active Pen), yet that requires an enrollment.
Lenovo offers the passage level Flex 6 for $470, however that model incorporates a Pentium 4415U CPU, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD stockpiling. While I'd by and by consider the model we tried, I wouldn't propose anybody get the Pentium display. Rather, I'd propose the quicker $600 Core i3 display, which has the same 4GB of memory and 128GB of capacity.
Primary Concern
With its rapid execution, solid sound and strong plan, the $809 Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 is an alluring and moderate 2-in-1. The discrete designs is another furthermore, as you can play some standard diversions on this 14 inch convertible (but at bring down settings). The Flex 6 would be significantly more helpful in a hurry, however, with a brighter screen to battle glare and more battery life.
For a brighter, progressively brilliant display and longer perseverance, you can get a comparably arranged Acer Spin 5 for a less expensive $706 (however that machine gets somewhat more smoking and is stuffed with bloatware). In any case, on the off chance that you need a convertible that is great to incredible at most everything at a sensible value, look at the IdeaPad Flex 6.
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