It all adds up to a formidable Chromebook for sure, and at the starting price of $499, we could be once again looking at the best bang-for-your-buck Chromebook you can buy when it arrives in June of 2022.Īs was the case with the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3, this is a pre-production unit we have in the office, so we’ll have to send it back soon and wait on a proper review unit in the coming weeks. That means Bluetooth 5 and Wi-Fi 6E are both on board and Lenovo also chose to bump up the camera to 1080p, too. Like previous years, the Flex 5i gets the latest internals and comes equipped with 12th-gen Intel silicon (Pentium 8505, Core i3 or Core i5), 4GB or 8GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage.

Sure, you can get by with entering your PIN on the backlit keyboard, but the quick log in via your fingerprint is just so much nicer. I’ve said it a ton of times, but a fingerprint scanner is such a nice addition to the Chromebook experience. The extra screen real estate makes more room for the upward-facing speakers, a much larger trackpad and a fingerprint scanner.

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