Flex 5 14 2-in-1 Laptop, 14.0" FHD Touch Display, AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, 16GB RAM, 256GB Storage, AMD Radeon Graphics, Digital Pen Included, Win 10

Let me just start by saying I love this laptop! The build quality is great. They use plastic, but it is good quality plastic on the body. The one I have is in a mate grey finish- Graphite Grey. I like how it does not attract so many fingerprint smudges. The hinges are aluminum, and very sturdy and stiff. Overall, I find the device to be aesthetically pleasing, compact and high quality. The keyboard has backlit tactile keys with spaces in- between. They are clicky and are quite satisfying to press. I also appreciate the great looking screen, which I have been consuming a lot of content on; think movies, You Tube videos, books... The speakers also sound good. They are top firing and get pretty loud for all my video and music consumption. Even in tablet mode they sound good. The bezels on either side of the device are slim, but there is a thick one on top and an ever thicker one on the bottom, which eats into the screen real estate. The battery life on this thing I find to be really impressive, lasting me 6-7 hours in normal use, surfing the web, watching a movie, writing on the screen, etc... And also impressive is the fast 65 W charger which comes in the box, which charges the battery from flat to full in just over an hour. On the software front, the laptop ships with Windows 10 Home, and I quite enjoy this software. Although by the time it reaches you, this machine will be ready to update to Windows 11. The Lenovo Flex 5 14 (AMD Ryzen 5 4500U) ships with the Lenovo Base Pen II bundled in at no extra cost. I applaud Lenovo for this decision. Base Pen II has two barrel buttons. It has no top Bluetooth button. It also does not support tilt. Out of the box, the bottom barrel button works as an eraser, while the top one is programmed to right click, pretty much as a mouse would do. You can always change this in the Lenovo Pen Settings app, but I kept them as is. The pen looks and works amazing. I am not sure what levels of pressure sensitivity it has, but it is plenty sensitive for what I use it for, which is taking handwritten notes in OneNote and Journal, selecting, annotating PDF's and so forth. I haven't tried drawing with it, but if you are interested in its drawing capabilities, Shogmaster has a detailed video of that on You Tube. The pen is made of aluminum. It takes one AAAA battery, which is included. There is no pairing necessary. As soon as you insert the battery, it is ready to use. The battery lasts quite a while; mine has been going now for five months. The top screw on part of the pen is not completely cylindrical like the rest of the body. It juts out ever so slightly, with some subtle Lenovo branding which is only visible if it catches the light. This slight protrusion on the pen is handy in making sure that it does not roll around on a flat surface, potentially falling from a height. While I love this pen, I wish Lenovo had put some sort of coating around the austere metal finish to make it more comfortable in hand like Dell did with their pens, such as the PN350M Dell Active Pen which has a rubbery coating. As it is, the Lenovo pen is quite slippery in the hand. The writing experience is good, once you get used to it. At first, it felt really slippery writing on glass, but the feeling of control came back in measure once I embraced the slippery. Just know that using this pen is never going to feel like pen and paper, because glass is slippery, always will be. But overall, a great accessory to a great device. Good on Lenovo for including this pen with the purchase. Saved me the hassle of finding a compatible pen, and a few bucks to boot. I later saw the pen listed here on Amazon as 'Active Pen for Lenovo GX80U45010' . It has 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and was retailing for $43. AMD's Ryzen 5 4500U processor is quite impressive. It feels quick and snappy. I have not experienced much (if any) lag at all. Although it does get warm on the underside of the keyboard, especially when using the pen to take notes. I imagine there is quite a fair bit of processing going on when you write on the screen in OneNote or something like that. The Flex 5 form factor is phenomenal. I will never go back to a traditional clam shell design ever again. The 2- in - 1 design just allows me to do more with my laptop. No more multiple notebooks or lost notes; all of my ideas in one place. I tend to go for apps which are touch optimised such as ACG Media Player, Xodo PDF Reader and Microsoft Journal to take advantage of the touch interface. It really is very useful to execute commands with your fingers, or digital pen, instead of always having to jump on the track pad or mouse. The placement of the power button is one caveat I have to point out. Its placement is awkward, at best. It is located on the right side of the keyboard, as opposed to its traditional placement on the top right part of the keyboard, which in my opinion, makes better sense. In its actual location, it is fairly easy to turn off the computer screen while performing a multiplicity of routine actions such as lifting the laptop, or switching to tablet \ tent mode. But that aside, this really is stunning value (16GB/ 256GB SSD) for the asking price ( I got this from Amazon for just over $ 600). And Amazon also has great service, just great. A really pleasant company to deal with.

There are tons of reviews raving about how good this is and.. I agree! Here are my own insights into this device: 1. Great battery performance. Seriously this thing packs about 6 or 7 hours battery life under light use. Obviously if you are gaming or doing other CPU intensive tasks the battery will drain faster but for everyday usage this is perfect. 2. 16 GBs of RAM is essential. I cannot stress this enough. This is one of the only laptops (if not the only one) with 16 gigs of RAM at this price-point. For college use this is fantastic! This means you can have multiple web pages, Word, PowerPoint and other utility programs open and this thing (coupled with the fantastic Ryzen 5 4600 chip) will devour those tasks for you. You can probably find more "premium" laptops with better screens and storage at about a 200/250 price increase but for college use those things are not really essential. For more storage simply buy and external HD or swap the SSD. 3. Speaking of the screen, this one is just fine. Others reviewers say it's way too dim, 250 nits is not enough, it sucks outdoors, but imo this isn't really an issue. I assume most of your work will be done indoors anyways, so a screen with those minor drawbacks should not really be an issue for most. Indoors the screen is bright and crystal clear, and if your upgrading from a laptop that came out 4 or 5 years ago, (like me) the screen will probably look amazing to you. 4. CPU/GPU: it's Ryzen what else could you ever ask for? The new mobile processors are fantastic, energy efficient, and offer great performance at lower cost than Intel. Why would you use Intel at any price-point when Ryzen has an equivalent at a cheaper cost to your wallet? As for the GPU, this comes with integrated Vega 6 graphics which I was surprised as to how good they performed Temper your expectations of course, this won't run AAA games at high or even medium settings, but that's not where these laptops excel. For indie games, Civ 6, Sims 4 and games of similar graphical intensity this laptop will perform amazingly. Currently playing Rimworld, and FM2020 and the performance has been excellent. Can't really think of any major drawbacks. For what I paid this laptop offers anything I could need and doesn't break my wallet like other devices would. This is absolutely the best sub 600 dollar laptop in the market right now. Update 8/5/20 POTENTIAL HUGE ISSUE So after a month of having this I found an issue that has not been mentioned by anyone else in the review section. The laptop has an option that allows it to be turned on by flipping the screen open without pressing any bottons. I don't remember if it was on by default, or if I turned on myself, but DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE! The laptop has an issue where any slight movement to the screen will register as lid open. This includes slight touches to top section of the device, if you press the lid down slighty, or if you carry it arround in a bag or backpack were it will constantly come in contact with other objects (books, binders etc). YOU do not want this on. If your laptop turns on and you have it in a close down space it will heat up. It won't happen quickly, but after an hour or so of being fully powered, with little air flow the machine will start to heat up. It happened to me but thankfully I caught it before it burned out the system. TURN OFF THIS SETTING. Go to the Lenovo vantage application>power settings>flip on. Turn this option off. This is a structural design issue with the laptop, the setting is probably fine in other devices. This could be a deal breaker for many, otherwise this laptop has excellent performance for this price-point.

I was in need of a new laptop because my Macbook Pro was on its last legs. I couldn't justify the expense of a new Mac so I started browsing around and when I read the specs on this laptop, I knew I had to have it. Six hundred bucks for 16 gig of memory, a good keyboard, a touch screen, and a decent amount of processing power? I'm in. I had to wait for a new shipment of these to arrive at Amazon's warehouse. These made the 50 most popular items list in November here on Amazon, so I guess some companies have been buying them at 600 and selling them at 700 or more. (Or they got their own shipments from Lenovo. Who knows?) But when that next shipment came in, I pounced and had my new laptop in a few days. I put the $100 savings toward a 1TB SSD. I cloned the 256G to the new SSD, opened up the case, and swapped the drives. Wasn't too much work and when it powered up, I had four times the disk space that the thing originally came with. (It would be nice if this shipped with some different disk space offerings.) I partitioned the disk into two and put Ubuntu 20 on the second partition. Now it boots into a menu where I can choose between Ubuntu or Windows. Ubuntu does everything I want it to on this laptop (though I haven't found a good solution for implementing the track pad gestures like pinch or stretch.) I don't think the fingerprint reader works, either. But the touchscreen works well on Ubuntu, and I love the keyboard. I switch back and forth. Ubuntu for work and other tasks where Linux is more suitable. Windows is good for some of the games I like. It's a good size, not as small as I expected. One drawback is the screen. Having been used to big bright monitors on my desktop and that Macbook Pro and its retina screen, this laptops screen is comparatively dim. But after a month or more of using it, I no longer see the dimness. So one gets used to it. I guess that and the small SSD size helped get Lenovo to the $700 price point. In the end, I'm okay with that. I'd give it 4.5 stars if possible for the dim screen, but other than that, I love this thing. Runs Windows well, runs Ubuntu well, it's a nice, elegant looking package that's not heavy. And it's a bargain at $700.

This mid-range ideapad configuration hit the sweet spot for me in terms of value for the price paid, but I wanted to call out several practical considerations for prospective buyers, that may not be initially obvious: 1) The biggest one is the wifi. This laptop comes with the realtek 8822CE card, which, like its predecessor, the 8822BE, has many well documented reliability issues - just google it, and there's also a long thread in the lenovo community forums. Do yourself a favor and order an Intel AX200 card and replace the realtek one right away, and avoid headaches. There are options available here for $20 or less, it's not hard to install internally, and in addition to better connection reliability you also get wifi 6 and bluetooth 5. 2) The laptop comes with a pen but there's no place to store it on the device itself. There's a magnet to the right of the touchpad that the pen sticks to, but that's not where you want to keep it all the time. 3) There's only one USB-C connection, which is used by the charger. This single port does not support video delivery, so if you have a USB-C dock or extender that you're thinking about using, it won't work. Also do yourself a favor and get an accidental protection plan. The asurion one that can be purchased here is good and cheap, and Lenovo also has its own similarly priced options with some extra add-ons like at-home repair options. Overall this is not a bad laptop - speed, form factor and battery life are fantastic, I just thought that I would focus on potential issues that buyers like me may not realize before purchasing. All the above together removed a single star from the overall rating, but I really hope that at some point Lenovo would start shipping with a better wifi/bt option.

I recently bought this laptop (a week ago) and it is truly a dream! Editing pictures on Photo shop and Affinity Photo has been an absolute breeze! No lagging, no glitching, no super long load times. This little laptop has been able to handle just about every task I've thrown at it so far. I was able to edit a small clip through Adobe Premiere Rush with no problems at all. I then went on to see how well FL Studio would operate on it, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. I was able to seamlessly add tracks and play with the drum kits and synths with no issues in performance. Now granted, I haven't done anything too intensive on any of these apps just yet, I've really just been doing small test runs... but so far so good! DaVinci Resolve also loaded well and the playback was smooth. However, it did freeze up twice after having the application up for about 40 minutes to an hour.. I was adding a few visual effects such as color correction and trimming down a few clips. I don't know what to think of this just yet, because these were really all simple quick tests but I will be back to update this review after it's been a few more weeks and I've actually made real attempts to utilize each program on a more in depth level. The download speeds are fast and the battery life is long lasting as well. This laptop is sleek and the keyboard is easy to type on. The laptop's track pad has a stiff click, which I admire very much. It's not mushy like my Google Chromebook. The touch screen is responsive and I've even managed to draw a few illustrations on Windows Paint 3D. The fingerprint scanner reads my finger well too, which inevitably makes logging into my computer a fairly quick process. I am EXTREMELY satisfied and thankful that Lenovo released such a well rounded laptop with modern tech features for such a reasonable price. Not too mention is has a premium and durable feel to it as well. This is easily a rival to the 2020 Macbook Air... and I say that loosely because there's really no competition at all when you compare the performance to price ratio in contrast to the Air 2020. I love it!

There's already 200+ reviews about how good this laptop is, so I'll tell you what isn't so great about this laptop. I've had the Lenovo for a little over a month and have noticed a few things: 1. Saying the keyboard is a fingerprint magnet is an understatement. I would say my hands are just as oily as everyone else, but the keyboard gets DIRTY after a couple of hours of use. I always keep a little cloth around to wipe it once in a while. 2. The backlight bleed is horrible. If you're going to watch movies on this thing in a dark room, I hope you get used to yellow splotches of light at the top of the screen real quick, or you're going to have a bad time. 3. The fingerprint reader isn't as reliable as you'd hope. Yes, it's extremely fast when it works, but once in a while, mine will stop working altogether. To fix this, I have to go to the device manager and disable then re-enable the fingerprint reader drivers. 4. If you don't use a stand while doing intensive tasks, the laptop gets hot enough to boil water. If you're going to be gaming on the Flex (btw the gaming performance is superb, 50-60 frames on Forza Horizon 5 with med settings at 720p) be sure you use something to elevate the laptop a bit or else the CPU can reach 100+ degrees Celsius. 5. The screen does not get bright enough. Even in brightly lit rooms, I sometimes reach for the brightness up button before I realize it's already maxed. I haven't used it outside yet, but if you ever do be sure you're under an umbrella or something. 6. When watching videos, there's a slight stutter once in a while. Many people have found different ways to fix this problem online, but they don't seem to work for me. 7. The USB ports are extremely tight but will loosen up overtime. 8. The AMD Radeon stickers on the deck of the device aren't straight. Even with all these little nitpicks, this is still the best value $600 laptop available at the moment. I just wished they included a thunderbolt port.

Laptop was delivered on 9/21. I was out of town last week and brought it with me to get some work finished (my whole reason for buying a laptop, so I can work while traveling). On 10/30 I powered it on and it appeared to be doing a manufacturer update (not a Windows update) when the screen went black and it made a strange sound, as if it had lost power. I contacted Amazon (50-minute phone call) and we determined that machine was not powering up (tried multiple outlets). The Amazon rep tried to find a power cord that would work with it, but none of the ones he suggested matched my model number. I told him if he didn't know which cord to send me, he needed to speak with Lenovo because I wasn't going to burn out my machine (the voltages all were different) and void the warranty. He then connected me with a Lenovo rep (42-minute phone call), who gave me the name and address of a local authorized repair shop. I told them they have ONE chance to fix this; if it breaks again within the remaining 11 months of warranty I will insist on getting a replacement. So here I am, with annoyed clients and looking at working 18-hour days to get caught up. I'm not happy at all. I also saw from another reviewer's review that the EXACT same thing happened to them, so this is not a one-time occurrence. UPDATE 11/05/2020: As if the computer dying after 39 days wasn't bad enough, when I called Lenovo back to inquire if there was an authorized repair shop closer to me than the one 30 miles away they initially directed me to, that shop wasn't even given as an option! Now they are telling me that I need to go to Illinois (I live in Wisconsin), about 45 miles away!! I'm just imagining driving 60 miles round trip to go to the first shop, only to be told that they aren't authorized to fix it. I hit the ceiling at the contradicting information, and at that point I was told I could bring the machine in to a Best Buy. Why didn't they tell me that the first time??? I am now waiting for them to put a manager on the phone. 50 minutes on the phone with Amazon, 42 minutes on the phone with Lenovo, and 30 minutes (and counting!!) on the phone with Lenovo again. They are doing everything under the sun to prevent me from speaking with a manager, including offering to have a technician pick up my laptop from my home. I am SOOOO frustrated I don't know what to do. UPDATE 11/19/2020: I called Amazon on 11/5/2020, determined to get something done about this. They offered me a partial refund of the product but told me I would have to go to Lenovo for repair. I accepted the partial refund and placed yet another call to Lenovo and read them the riot act. They said they would send a technician to my home to fix the machine, but it would take about three business days. When I called Lenovo back on 11/9/2020 because I hadn't heard from anyone, their story then became that the technician had to wait for the part to come in, which would take five business days. Well, today is 11/19/2020, 10 calendar days later (and certainly more than five business days) and guess what? No word from Lenovo. I called them again. Their story now (because it changes every time I call) is that the part (of course, they couldn't tell me what part it is when I inquired) won't be in until December the 8th!!! I am going to call the Lenovo Corporate Headquarters tomorrow and complain about all this; it's just OUTRAGEOUS. Update to follow. UPDATE 12/12/2020: Trying to learn which offices the corporate executives listed on their website work out of was a colossal waste of time. They won't tell you. I'm going to take a chance and write the CEO, even if it means sending a letter to China. Someone at the top has to know about the incredibly poor customer service they offer. Since 12/8 (the date the part was supposed to come in) has come and gone, I called them again today. New day, new excuse. After being on hold for nearly 15 minutes, the rep informed me that he was "escalating" my claim to a higher level (I've seen other reviews state this and that nothing happened). He also said that the order for my part was put "on hold" for unknown reasons. So I am no closer after 1-1/2 months to getting this resolved than I was the day the laptop died. I am in tears over this. I just can't believe that any company can be so inept. I was told to expect to hear from someone by 12/17, but given their track record, I'm not holding my breath. I simply cannot wait for them anymore. I filed a formal complaint against Lenovo with the Better Business Bureau, then called Amazon and insisted that they make good on this inferior product that I'd be looking at February or March of 2021 to get repaired. They initially offered to connect me with Lenovo, and I told them I wasn't interested in talking to them again. They next offered me another solution that was completely unacceptable and unfair (a restocking fee of $113? Really? Are they going to resell this dead computer to another person?), and the rep could only come up with a weak, "I'm sorry, but that's how it's done" when I asked her to explain why I should be penalized a substantial amount of money. I then insisted on speaking to the person in charge, even though the rep insisted he would tell me the same thing. Finally, I got the resolution I wanted. This computer is going back to Amazon, there is no penalty to me for "restocking." Had Lenovo simply cooperated with me instead of stringing me along and putting my part on hold, this would have had a happy ending. But because they handled this so poorly, giving me a different story each time I called, I will NEVER buy another Lenovo product. Hope it was worth it to them. The End.

I purchased this laptop from Amazon. The computer has a premium feel even though the case is plastic. I also use a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 with an Intel i5-1035G4 chip (4 cores) and 8GB of RAM. This machine has an AMD Ryzen 4500U chip (6 cores) and 16GB of RAM. Both are current generation chips. As others have pointed out, the box includes a pen. One negative is that there is no storage place for the pen like the more expensive thinkpad models. There is a clip but using it will block off access to some of the slots. Based on Geekbench 4, this machine scored about 10% better than the MSP in multi-core score but MSP scored about 10% better in single-core score than this machine. Although there is a normal round hole for the power supply, the power brick from the box uses USB-C connector. So you cannot use this slot when you are charging the machine. The screen is nice enough to use indoor but likely not bright enough for outside usage. Given that MSP is almost 4k while this is 1080p in resolution, the MSP is better. Nevertheless, for a 14" screen, I think a 1080P screen is sufficient. The Lenovo Vantage software allows you to choice the performance level which affects battery life and how often the fan is on. I really hate fan noise. The machine does activate the fan quite often. However, I learned from a youtube video that when it is on battery power, the fan came on less often. Based on my experiment, this is true. There are minimal bloatwares to uninstall. Although I expect only 12 months warranty, it seems that I have 14 months. There is a fingerprint sensor but I did not use it. The camera works as expected. I have read some complaints about the WiFi chip is not that highest quality. I did not observe any issues with it. There are also come complaints about the RAM soldered on the motherboard. Since I do not plan to do any grade as I think 16GB is sufficient for the next few years, it does not matter to me. This only comes with Windows 10 Home, so no bitlocker to encrypt the drive but one can use open source alternatives. So free. Overall, the only real negative is fan noise but given the price and other positive, I view this a very good product. Edit (Update): After using it for while, I observe that the wifi does not have as good of a range as my MSP. Also the warranty is indeed 1 year. At the beginning, it seems that I had 14 months, I guess the registration took some time to hit the system.

After month off use or less the camera is broken, can't be detected anymore, the rotation of the screen doesn't work as well. With seller for repair. Edit: Seller replaced the broken product with the new Lap Top. It took some time but they did what they promised, thanks to brand manager Mr. Chandan .I will test it for a next month and update product review.

I love this laptop for the value it has, my only complaint is there's no good place to put the stylus besides the stupid USB pen holder but its not that big of a problem if you have a laptop bag.

You'll need to be able to do self-support if you buy this ... Overall the machine is fast. 16G RAM is fantastic. AMD Ryzen 5 cpu is no worse than the i5. The sound of this laptop is fantastic, one of the best in it's class ... Have bought it for about a month and there's been 1 weird problem though, quite a major one ... Recently the machine became very very slow when plugged in the power supply. During unplug/on battery, it's a breeze ... Have checked all settings and researched on web but still not much help. Finally resetting the Windows 10 (keeping user data) has resolved the problem. Have since reinstalled back all user apps one by one with 2 days in-between for testing. [Update Oct 15] Just to add, only thing "not too good" is that the screen is relatively dim; not bright enough. Generally it's not a problem when you spend most of your time indoor. But for some night-scenes in movies/dramas etc, it's a strain to watch ... Can't imagine how it could work in bright outdoor environment ...

Me sorprendió Lenovo, es una muy buena computadora, la pantalla se ve excelente, el sonido es bueno, tiene Dolby. En cuanto a la pantalla touch, todo bien, puedes usarla con la pluma o con los dedos. El procesador es excelente, apesar de que no tiene una tarjeta gráfica corre Word Of War Z sin problema, se calienta un poco cuando juego pero es algo que se controlo comprando un ventilados pequeño. Lo único que me afecta es el disco duro, es muy poco espacio y solo le cabe un disco duro compacto que son mucho más caros, pero si le quieres invertir vale la pena.

the laptop is great, the display looks sharp and looks great, the keyboard is a little too flat and the keys are not so ergonomic. thats one main drawback. other than that the battery life is great and lightweight makes it easy to carry it around.