My Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook review: A solid device with great performance, a workday’s worth of battery life, and a nice combination of display, ports, keyboard, and trackpad.
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The Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5i with an 11th-gen Core i3 is similar to the IdeaPad 5i that recently impressed me. Besides being a 2-in-1, you get a better CPU for less with a current discount.
This year, every thing good from the prior model was carried over to the 2021 Acer Chromebook Spin 713 edition. And it’s improved with 11th-gen Intel chips and Thunderbolt 4 support. A current sale can save you $80.
HP is taking orders for the previously announced HP Pro c640 G2 Chromebook. This follow-up to last year’s model gets newer 11th-gen Intel processors but you’ll pay a pretty penny for it.
This might be the best Chromebook value on the market now: The Asus Chromebook Flip C536 with 11th-gen Core i3, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB SSD is discounted to $469.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Chromebook is providing good first impressions. This $439 laptop with 11th-gen Pentium Gold has surprising performance.
When Asus made some of its newest Chromebooks official last month, I missed that there’s a 4K Asus Chromebook CX9 model. WANT!
A more powerful Asus Chromebook Flip C536 / CX5 with Core i5 and 16 GB of memory is coming soon. But you’ll pay quite a bit more for these upgrades over the current $569 model.
Among the latest 11th-gen Intel Core i3 Chromebooks, most use a dual-core CPU. The HP Chromebook X360 14c has a quad-core i3 and is currently less than the competition at $539.99.
The Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook was recently announced but the company hasn’t abandoned last year’s Flex 5 model. Costco has an updated Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook for $549.99 with 11th-gen Core i3 and 8 GB of RAM.
A 14-inch Asus Chromebook built on the “Copano” board is coming. This Chromebook will use the Intel Tiger Lake UP4 silicon, a lower-powered mobile package.