While that one's aluminum lid and ABS plastic bottom were Graphite Gray, the new unit is a handsome dark shade called Abyss Blue. We reviewed a model with a 10th Generation Core i3, half the RAM, and eMMC storage in July 2020. The Flex 5 is a convertible laptop with a 13.3-inch touch screen. (It was even nicer when Costco took $100 off as we started this review, but unfortunately the sale has ended.) Only a ho-hum display panel keeps it from a Editors' Choice recommendation you still might want to leverage that price-club membership if that sale drops again. At Costco, our test unit is $549.99 with an 11th Generation Core i3 chip, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB NVMe solid-state drive, and it's one of the nicest Chromebooks we've encountered. On at this writing, a configuration of the IdeaPad Flex 5 Chromebook is USD$337.49 with a sad Intel Celeron CPU, sadder 4GB of memory, and saddest 32GB of eMMC flash storage. It's amazing what a difference a-well, a complete overhaul of everything under the hood makes.
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