The 2-in-1 maintains its dark grey aesthetic, with just a touch of chrome in the Lenovo logo on the lid and the keyboard deck. Compared to the budget-oriented and quite bendable Asus VivoBook Flip 14, which uses plastic in the chassis and aluminum alloy lining the lid, the IdeaPad Flex 5i feels like a million bucks. The rest of the chassis is all plastic, but it still feels solid - more so than some premium laptops that use magnesium alloy to reduce weight. The IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 follows the same design as the previous model, but with glass fiber mixed into the plastic lid to give it a sturdier feel. In the end, it proves why AMD continues to be the leader in budget laptops. You can get a Core i3 for a more attractive $570, but you give up half the RAM and storage. That’s barely a budget laptop price (although it does double the storage over the AMD machine), and I found the Intel version offers less value than last year’s model. I reviewed the $735 midrange configuration of the IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 with a Core i5-1135G7, which is the right Intel chip to compare to the Ryzen 5 4500U in the previous review unit.
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