The Lenovo Flex 2 measures 11 x 15 x 1.05 inches (HWD) and weighs 5.6 pounds. It's big and heavy, and that's OK as it's not designed to go anywhere, or at least not very far.The thick outer hinges stand out, and they leave acer switch 10 power supply a few-centimeter gap between the display bezel bottom and the Flex 2 keyboard portion. This obviously enables the Lenovo Flex 2 to open up to 300 degrees for Stand mode.In Stand mode, small rubber bumpers protect the keyboard and provide a reasonably stable base for the Flex 2, but it's not without problems. For starters, the plastic chassis around the display is weak, bose soundlink 3 charger as is the Flex 2 hinge. The display bends and wobbles in all the wrong places, making the transition from standard to Stand mode an awkward endeavor, especially considering the Flex 2 15's size and weight.On top of all that, Stand mode is pretty useless. It provides little benefit outside of hiding the keyboard, which marketers contend is ideal for media consumption. Fair enough ¡ but Stand mode moves the speakers away from the user, slightly muddling the sound output. It also leaves the DVD drive upside down, making it impossible lenovo miix 2 11 charger to insert or remove disks.
Keyboard & Display
Lenovo Flex 2 14 comes with an island/chiclet style keyboard with well-spaced keys offering a great typing experience. It features special keys for controlling screen brightness, volume and other features. You can opt for a backlit keyboard as well.The trackpad also performed well and offered support for touch gestures. The trackpad is not as smooth as the one on Apple's MacBooks but replacement battery for acer aspire s3 better than most Windows laptops we've used. Lenovo Flex 2 comes with a 14-inch touch screen (1366x768p). For a device which is designed to be used as a standing touch screen in addition to a notebook, the Flex 2's screen is not that great. The touchpad is a ClickPad, which means that there are no dedicated mouse buttons, but the whole bottom part of the ClickPad can be pressed to execute a left or right click, respectively. The button areas are a part of the touch-sensitive surface, Toshiba Portege Z930 adapter so ClickPads are cheaper for the manufacturers because they don't have to integrate dedicated buttons. However, this also results in a less precise handling that we have described several times: Clicking the pad also leads to an additional contact, which can influence the movement of the cursor. Some ClickPads also don't have a clear separation for left or right clicks, respectively. A center mouse button or a scroll function, which is offered by some high-quality touchpads, is not available either. The ClickPad of the Lenovo Flex 2 14 Asus Zenbook UX303LA charger shows some of these drawbacks as well: Drag-&-Drop usually works pretty well, but the cursor sometimes doesn't know which finger on the touchpad it should follow. The two clicking areas are only separated by a stripe, but you cannot feel any separation with your fingers. So there can be some wrong inputs from time to time. The travel during clicking is also pretty limited and the feedback could be improved. At least multi-touch gestures like scrolling on websites work reliably. The surface also offers decent gliding capabilities np900x4c charger and the size of the ClickPad is good as well with a diameter of 12.5 centimeters.While we're okay with Lenovo putting a low resolution,720p panel as it's a mid-range device, the display has very narrow viewing angles and colours appear washed out when not viewed head-on.Having said that, it offers good brightness levels and offers great touch response. Overall, the display is one of the weaker points of the device.
Performance
Lenovo Flex 2 is powered by a 1.7GHz Intel Core i3-4010U processor with integrated graphics and 4GB RAM. In terms of performance, the laptop is good for moderate use and for web browsing, casual games and multimedia, and for apps like office suites, and imaging editors, among others. Browsing websites with multiple open tabs in Google Chrome and playing casual games, was smooth. Even graphics-heavy games run fine with occasional lag and frame drops. The laptop also runs Modern UI apps without any problems. The Flex 2 doesn't offer asus u47a battery a very good battery life. In our tests, the laptop lasted about 4-5 hours while using Microsoft Word, a picture editor, a music streaming service and playing some YouTube videos, keeping the screen at full brightness. In our video look test, it lasted about 3.5 hours. While we don't endorse benchmarks, the Flex 2 scored 1671 in PCMark8 (Creative conventional) and 1833 in PCMark 8 (Home conventional) tests, and 466 in Novabench. The Pavilion X360 scored 30,016 in Icestorm 1.2 tests of 3DMark while the Cloudgate test crashed. The laptop has an HD front webcam, which is good for video chats. The laptop's stereo speakers feature Dolby Advanced Audio V2 technology and offer loud sound output but lack bass. Heat dissipation is well taken care of and the touchpad and the keyboard never get warm. yoga 3 pro power adapter Overall, the base variant of the Flex 2 offers decent performance and is well-suited for day-to-day tasks and casual gaming.The laptop comes with a hybrid drive with 500GB hard disk and 8GB flash memory for faster access to system files. With its affordable, under-$700 price and abundance of handy features, including touch capability, the Lenovo Flex 2 succeeds in reaching the sweet spot for a desktop-replacement laptop. Because of its size, you'll likely keep this system in a semi-permanent place (preferably near a power outlet), which means the relatively short battery life isn't that big of a deal. It's fast for general and multimedia tasks, and is an effective entertainment PC, with its high-resolution display and DVD drive. The Lenovo Flex 2 (15-inch) replaces the Dell Latitude 13 Education Series as our Editors' Choice for entry-level desktop-replacement laptops.
Battery
The Lenovo Flex 2 15 has a 4-cell battery (48wh), which Lenovo claims provides up to six hours of juice. That's not much, but it's hard to knock Lenovo as the Flex 2 clearly wasn't built with battery life in mind. Yes, it's a laptop, hp envy x360 battery but it was designed as a desktop replacement. It belongs on a desk or other semi-permanent location where it remains plugged in, not in a backpack trudging from place to place.This is evident in the benchmarks. In NBR's strenuous battery drain test, the Lenovo Flex 2 15 lasted only 2 hours and 54 minutes. Even though the test simulates heavy use, anything less than 3 is bad. In real-world and moderate usage, expect 3.5 to 4 hours of battery life.
Conclusion
Here, the Lenovo Flex 2 15 nails it. All configurations have a fourth-generation Core i processor, and they are available for as little as $529 to $799 as of this writing ¨C well below the MSRP.With this in mind, it's easy to overlook the glossy display and questionable build. It's also easy to give Lenovo a pass for Stand mode. It takes nothing away from the overall product, and some users might lenovo g50 70 ersatzakku actually find it useful.Ultimately, the Lenovo Flex 2 is a moderately priced desktop replacement that offers great value to those with average computing needs.