Lenovo Flex 5 14 Laptop, 14.0 FHD Touch Display, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 16GB RAM, 256GB Storage, AMD Radeon Graphics, Digital Pen, Windows 10H

This convertible from Lenovo is really nice. Ive been using Lenovo products for years and have never been dissaponted. This convertible falls right in with the others- build quality, speed, functionality.

Managed to get it for $600, what a steal for the price !

This is a really nice Ryzen powered laptop. The build quality is pretty good and the keyboard feels much nicer than a lot of other laptops I have tried. The laptop can also be used like a windows 10 tablet and comes with a pretty nice stylus as well. The specs are more than enough for most people and just dont expect to game at 1080p at or over 60fps in most titles. Overall its a pretty good laptop for the price and is decently powered to boot.

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THE GOOD:

My work provides us with Lenovo notebooks for meetings, so I have experience using an older model notebook. This new Flex model Ideapad, however, blows anything I’ve used out of the water. I have already taken it on a flight, where it fits neatly into my laptop backup as a carry-on item. It’s such a lightweight machine. The battery life is tremendous; I use it for multiple hours on multiple days of the work week without even thinking about recharging it. I think I’ve gotten it to last usually 9 hours or so on my current energy settings. The touchscreen is beautiful; I recommend using the included stylus over your finger for better accuracy and wider variety of functions. I didn’t quite give full points to the fingerprint pad that is used for sign-in. It’s quite easy to set up but it has been finicky every once in a while and will not unlock with my print applied. In that instance, however, it is easy to sign in using a 4-digit PIN. Voice/Cortana features are included and quite intuitive. My favorite feature of this, however, has been the flex screen. I use it quite often away from work to watch games using my MLBTV account because the flex mode makes for excellent TV/sports viewing without having to use my primary home TV. This allows us to watch our regular programming on our main TV while I can catch baseball action on the Lenovo off to the side. What a valuable, high-quality product from Lenovo.

So the first thing I noticed when setting it up, was how fast it went to the windows setup screen on initial boot. Being someone who fixes and builds PCs and laptops I really wasnt expecting that. Knew right there that it must be that 5500U rockin it. The laptop comes preinstalled with Windows 10 20H2 which is the latest version as of this review date, so that is a plus. The screen was a bit dim at first and I had noticed in the reviews that another said it was too dim. After adjusting brightness under Windows mobility, it looked much much better, though could honestly be just a bit brighter but not horrible. The colors were off a bit and I had to do some calibrating in Photoshop settings to account for this. I noticed during Windows updates that the cooling fan would ramp up quite often & is somewhat noisy. This ramping up concerned me a bit so I did some additional testing. I tested both Heaven and Cinebench while running HWMonitor in the back ground. The results I got were 38c at idle and 94c under semi-heavy load. I wasnt too impressed by either the idle temp or the high temp. I did see a bit of throttling occur because of this. So while you CAN game on this quite nicely, Id honestly suggest a cooling pad underneath for a little extra protection. Tablet mode/flipping the screen works quite nice, and as I stated in the headline, this is great for Photoshop. My daughter, being a digital artist, uses a pen tablet at her desk to draw on, so I gave this one to her. She was absolutely tickled pink to have a Windows 10 laptop/tablet to run Photoshop on while on the go. Going to hand down her old laptop to her aunt. Overall, I think this is a pretty Bad-azz laptop with alot of power and alot of punch, but because of the thermal issues Im seeing, Im going to deduct 1 star. The thermal issues I saw do not at all make this a bad laptop and do not reflect what one would commonly see with casual use. I simply took it to a higher thermal point on purpose for informational purposes. So even though I am deducting 1 star for my own personal reasons, I absolutely would still recommend this laptop if you are looking for a flip type tablet with lots of processing power on the go as long as you dont mind an occasional ramp up of the cooling fan during heavy loads.

This works great. love how easy it is to use. its pretty lightweight battery lasts a long time nd the tablet mode is so cool. can do way more than any tablet can do and runs fast.

The laptop is decent albeit somewhat flimsy, but overall the worst part is the implementation of the stylus holder. Not only does the holder clip open constantly under its own tension, but it plugs into an actual usb port. Its point of weakness is the structural integrity of a usb port, and it breaks than you break your USB port as well.

I got this mainly for doodling with Photoshop and a lightweight thin foldable laptop and this is absolutely the best option! Ive had no issues since getting this delivered and the screen quality is superb! I have oily fingers and was afraid this screen was going to be more monitor-like than tablet-like but i was pleasantly surprised when i felt it was like a tablet! Definitely a great purchase!