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while Robbie spent some quality time
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with Lenovo's new duet Chromebook tablet
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I had somewhat of a unique opportunity
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to take a closer look at their other
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Chromebook they brought to Las Vegas
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this week the Chromebook flex 5 was
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officially announced alongside the duet
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but it wasn't technically there on the
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show floor for hands-on but thanks to
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the team at Lenovo they had one device
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on hand and they let us take a closer
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look and I think this is a device you're
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gonna be really interested in so let's
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dive in and take a closer look at the
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Lenovo Chromebook flex 5
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as we expected lenovo has been working
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on a hatch based comment like Chromebook
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and we thought it might show up at this
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event but we weren't holding our breath
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sure enough they have the Flex five and
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it is a 13.3 inch convertible the
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comment Lake power device you can get up
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to a core i5 eight gigs of RAM and 128
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gigs of storage if you want now this
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isn't gonna go toe-to-toe with the
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook or the ACC 436
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but it's not meant to and that's why I
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think this device is going to be very
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popular in 2020 we're talking a
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mid-range Chromebook that has very
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high-end specs that's going to do just
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about everything you need
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it's convertible touchscreen has a good
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trackpad it's not glass but it's good
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the keyboard feels good and the device
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is thin and it just looks good it's not
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clunky and thinking something like an HP
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Chromebook X 360 this could be the 400
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to 500 dollar device of 2020 that people
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really want because as beautiful as the
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Samsung is and as nice as the Asus is
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these are premium thousand dollar-plus
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devices and when it comes down to it the
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average consumer is not looking to spend
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that much money and that's where the
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lenovo is probably going to thrive so
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this device is some plastic some metal
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but it's got a good solid build it's not
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too heavy but it's not ultra light
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either it just feels good when you're
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using it it's solid it's a good
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convertible in 13.3 is a great form
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factor for people that are on the go
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it doesn't feel crazy clunky if you go
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into tablet mode with it the screens 300
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and it's so that's good anything that's
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this premium or $500 range $400 range
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should have at least 250 minutes but 300
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nits good brightness it's got some nice
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speakers that are actually up firing so
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it's kind of like the pixel would go
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there on set on each side of the
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keyboard and they sound good they're not
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quite the quality the pixels will go but
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then again this device starts at 359
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dollars and that's the key to what's
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going to make this thing a success it
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will have a stylus option we've seen
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lenovo will have a stylus I believe
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that's going to be about
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before you'll have to buy the whatever
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configuration has that digitizer in it
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but I'd say even with the core i5 they
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haven't given this official pricing on
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the maxed out one but I couldn't see it
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being more than $600 maybe and that's a
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significant savings over a thousand plus
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dollar device and you're still getting a
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whole lot of Chromebook for that amount
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of money this Core i5 is pushing
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Octane's of 38 thousand or more there's
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nothing you're not gonna be able to do
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on it and I just really feel like
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Lenovo's hit a homerun with this one
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again we don't have the pricing for the
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higher-end flex 5 we just know it's
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gonna start around the 360 range and
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even with a a 3 or maybe a Pentium
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processor for $50 for this much
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Chromebooks really great availability is
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going to be around June of this year at
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some point in time we we will have a
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review unit coming as soon as they're
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available and we're looking forward to
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spending some more time with this one
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other big benefit of this and all of the
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common Lake devices that have been
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launched this week is instead of 5 or 6
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and a half years of updates Google is
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guaranteeing 8 to 8 and a half years for
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these devices so when you're talking 12
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$1500 for a high-end asus or samsung you
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kind of expect that but when you're
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looking at $400 for a core eye device
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with a good amount of RAM and storage
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and you're getting eight years of
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updates the bang for your buck factor on
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this device is out of the park and we're
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really looking forward to see more from
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Lenovo they've really nailed it on the
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head this time well that's it for this
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