Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Chromebook 14inch FHD Laptop (Intel Core i3, 4 GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Intel UHD Graphics, Chrome OS) – Sand

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If you don’t need a 16-inch display or find the four pounds of weight to be too much, there are better alternatives on the market. I was most disappointed with the lack of a touchscreen, 300 nits of brightness, and a color gamut of only 45%.

General: Review key information provided by Microsoft® that may apply to your system purchase, including details on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and potential upgrades/downgrades.To give you an idea of how the 11th-generation Pentium Gold inside the IdeaPad 5i Chromebook, I ran a suite of benchmarks. App support can be limited, and you may have to settle on using an Android app to cover all your bases, which may or may not be ideal.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With many laptops weighing three pounds or less, it’s something that you are going to notice immediately upon picking it up. As usual with Lenovo, the IdeaPad 5i Chromebook knocks it out of the park in terms of build quality, with a durable, thick full metal chassis, an ample battery capable of providing for up to a couple of days worth of casual use, a very responsive keyboard and trackpad/pointing hardware, exceptional sound, and so forth.

As my typical use case is running Chrome and a few web apps, my battery results are probably on the higher end of what to expect. This is definitely more of a mid-range performer, even with the 4 GB of RAM, that should suit most Chromebook user’s needs. And on that definition, Chrome OS meets the status quo – it does provide basic computing and web browsing, but by substantially changing the way those users compute, and by limiting their access to access popular mainstream software, Google walks a fine line with the concept. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.