This Laptop Changes Everything! - Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 By UFD Tech

Absolutely, hello, everybody welcome back to another episode of OF, detect things that we do here. I, don't that's not how we start things anyways today we're taking a look at a brand new rising laptop. This has a rising 540 500 you in this. This is the Lenovo IdeaPad flex 15 on which website you're reading. So this laptop bought it for 600 bucks over on Amazon. We'll leave an affiliate link down in the video description in case you're, considering picking it up and I.

Think at the very beginning, I can say that this is absolutely worth it for $600, but I guess I have to copy out that with all the specs and the things that I found out about it, while using it number one. Let's talk about specs has a rise in 5a 4500. You Zen ? processor, that has integrated graphics with six Vega compute units in there, and it was good enough to run video games pretty decently. I'll talk about more of that in a second, it has a 14 inch.1080P IPS touch display with 215 it's brightness, the weakest part of the display has to be its color accuracy coming in at 45%, NTSC or roughly 57% RGB. It is definitely not good enough to do professional level color rating- it's not a higher-end IPS panel.

However, viewing angles are perfect. It does have a glossy coating on the display, so reflections are gonna, be a real thing, but that color accuracy is just not good. It's fine, if you're just playing games if you're doing light work, but if you have to do actual professional level stuff they cheaper out on the display- maybe don't consider it for that, but for normal people for my purposes, who has a color grade preset for his videos? Furthermore, it's totally fine, as I mentioned, it is a touchscreen display, and one of the things Lenovo includes with this laptop at the $600 price point is a stylus, a pressure-sensitive stylus that you can use to actually write and take notes, because, thankfully it is a two-in-one and the hinge can fold all the way back. This reminds me back in my college days when I got an HP two-in-one way before it was a thing came with a stylus that, like used to slot in and I, would take all of my notes in one note with my stylus. This is absolutely great for that.

I remember also getting yelled at by my professor, who said no computers in class, but using it as my notepad, and he still said. No so I had to leave my computer home for that one class that one class made me sad, sad college stories aside. Let's get to the rest of the specs has 16 gigs of RAM at 3200 mega Hertz. However, one of the downsides is that it is soldered on and there is no room for upgrade ability or for that matter, downgrade ability. If that was your desire, however, 16 gigs more than adequate for a lot of people, 1,300 makers plenty of fast speed, it does have a 256 gig, NVMe, SSD, SK Unix is the one in there, and it runs at speeds of 2,000 megabytes per second read and about a thousand megabytes per second write.

However, that one is replaceable in case you want to get a higher capacity or a faster in VME Drive. It is upgradable, with the 9 security screws being removed from the bottom plate. You can access everything underneath, but the only thing that you're actually going to be able to replace is the thermal paste under the cooler and then that SSD so bra specs, it's a pretty decent laptop when you're looking at anything in this price range you're, looking at an I-5, 10th, gen CPU on intel side and honestly, this thing outperforms it in a lot of different areas and in fact I compared it directly to my book metal, which is also a 14 inch, Ultrabook type laptop, and with this having an 8th, gen i5, the i5 82 65 you and an MX 250 dedicated GPU. This thing beat it in gaming performance with just the 4500 you coming in at this running 73 FPS average in fortnight, at 1080p, medium and at 1080p very low for pub G it hit 32 fps. It did burn a little hot.

It got around 90 degrees Celsius during gaming, which isn't great, however, that never translated to anything above the keyboard it was just blowing out the exhaust on the back. Ninety degrees is a little hotter than I would have liked the scene, but again it's not terrible. So take that for what it is, while the gaming performance on the 4500. U is good. The CPU performance is just out of this world.

Compared to my I 582 65, you I, experienced over double the amount of CPU performance with the Cine bench r15 score on the 4500 coming in at 913 to the 80 265 use 412 the rise in chips. CPU performance is honestly on another level and just allows for a new level of mobile productivity that I haven't seen before. Let me know if you want me to do a dedicated benchmark video on the 4500. You just tested very normal eSports games. This thing will be able to run Valerie no problem, I'll be able to run data League all that kind of stuff.

No problem, maybe some triple-a titles at 720p, lower resolution, but in case you want a dedicated benchmark. Video on the 4500- you, let me know down below so comparing it to my MX 250 laptop. This thing smacks it in the face and my MX 250 laptop was 150 dollars more expensive at the time and let's also compare the size of these. These are both 14-inch laptops, however, because the whoop-up metal is made out of magnesium alloy, and this is more of a plastic material. The Lenovo IdeaPad is heavier coming in at 3.6 pounds. It's point 8 inches thick, whereas my boot book metal was much lighter and much thinner battery life.

Let's talk about that for a second 4500. You actually do sip on power. The TDP is rated at 15 watts. It has a 51 watt hour battery inside and with active use. I'm talking, I was using this thing.

I got six hours out of the battery life if I actually was doing like very little stuff, and maybe just watching a Netflix, video I could push it eight or nine hours. This isn't quite the 10 hours that Lenovo is promoting on their Amazon page, but 6 hours of active use is pretty dang good and the 8 hours not doing anything totally fine. Regarding the rest of the laptop it's ok, we can talk about the I/o for the second on the left side, it's kind of weird, because it has a power port and HDMI, a USB-C and a headphone port. However, the power port, that's included on this. The power brick is a type-c connector and doesn't actually connect to that power port, which I don't understand.

I guess it's just because it's a shell that they already had, and they decided they wanted this to charge over type-c I, don't get it and also kind of that's the only touch it's also the only type-c connector on the entire laptop, so you can either charge it or like you'd, have to get a dongle to use the USB. It's kind of a weird decision to not include the normal power adapter and instead making me charge at over type seat really confused about that one. On the other side, we got two more USB 3.0 ports. We got an SD card reader and the power button and that's basically a there's not much to it in IO. It's everything you need.

You have three USB ports HDMI out headphone. Basically, all you could ask for the touchpad totally fine a little loose a little wobbly, but it's not anything terrible. A keyboard really firm, I've, always loved my new Lenovo keyboards, this one, no, no complaints whatsoever. Speakers on this thing. They are upward firing they sound okay at the high ends.

They don't really distort at high volumes. Furthermore, they have no bass response whatsoever, so they try to mimic it with just manipulating the mid, and it just doesn't come out. Well, but again, these aren't horrible speakers on a $600 laptop. It's not something that I and super upset about. So it's like overall, just perfect at everything.

It has a webcam cover, slider, which we can talk about the webcam and microphone for a second for the webcam and the microphone. As you can hear, the microphone is kind of subpar quality, I'm very easily device. You can also see the webcam struggles really hard, with white balance on turning green and changing colors, just based on where I am in the scene, which isn't something I've experienced with other laptop webcams, and then, alternatively, or also in addition to this, and then also the keyboard as well. It's not very clean. Suffice for zoom cause, it'll work and then just the rest of it.

It's got AC Wi-Fi with a real tech, 88 22 C II Wi-Fi, which is two by two. It's got Bluetooth 4.2. The speakers are 2 by 2 watts, and it also has a fingerprint reader on it. It's actually like a pretty solid college laptop that that's exactly what I look at this for I would have been so happy to have this. It can play light games that can do everything that you would need to back in the day.

Barley would play it a lot of Team Fortress 2 on this, and it has everything that you would need webcam microphone for your zoom classes. It has decent speakers. You can type everything you can take notes with the included pen and the best part is again that price $600, the rising 5 4500 you coming in with some magnificent specs again. Maybe the battery life isn't exactly what everybody is looking for, but with active use me doing everything that I could possibly do on the laptop, whether with some light, photo editing or chatting with friends online, just actively using the laptop 6 hours. If you are basically like googling all the time, I'm sure you might get a little more out of it.

But honestly, it's really hard to find a flaw in this Lenovo flex 5, especially at the price point. If we consider the fact that this is a six hundred dollar laptop, it checks all the boxes that you would want any more transportable laptops sure it's not 15.6 inches sure it doesn't have a dedicated GPU, but that 6 compute unit, Vega integrated GPU and here does more than I've ever seen, really in a lower-end laptop. It's actually quite impressive. The only complaint that again I have been the fact that the power cable situation is a little weird. You got the power port which I guess I could buy the adapter for, and then I have USB see, and I'm forced to charge it over USB see instead of them, including the thing in the laptop and then the Pens.

Just a bonus. You got a pen, it's a stylist. You can do things with that. It's a great little college, laptop I love it. So we again you've left a link in the video description down below in case you're interested in the Lenovo flex.5. It's actually one of the very few rise in 540 500.

You laptops that are out on the market right now, I think there were only two more listed on Amy's website, and they were both by Lenovo, so we might see more coming out in the near future, but 6 cores, 6 threads 6, compute units, the rise of 5 4500. You laptop I'm heavily impressed and again leave a comment down below. If you want us to do a dedicated gaming benchmark video on the 4500, you today are more about the Lenovo flex, 5 in general, general jump, a general, that's kind of it. Let me know what you think of the Lenovo flex 5 down below the comments and hit the like button on the video. If you enjoyed it, get subscribe, stay up-to-date on all of our tech, related content, looking forward to check out more Rye and laptops as they come out.

Thank you guys. So much I'll catch you in the next one. I love this laptop I, don't I'm, gonna I! Think I'm going to keep it. You come with me.

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