Design. Lenovo’s lineup of 2-in-1 devices is truly sprawling, encompassing multiple sub-brands and a broad range of prices. The IdeaPad Flex 5 15 (just Flex 5 from here on out) we reviewed falls ...

Lenovo's IdeaPad Flex 5 14 is another in a line of budget laptops using AMD's latest Ryzen 4000 processors. We put it through its paces to see how it stacks up.

Lenovo Flex 5i 14 2023 (Core i5-1335U) 6 hours, 29 minutes: 11 hours, 43 minutes: 10 hours, 47 minutes: Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (Ryzen 5 7530U) 12 hours, 13 minutes: 17 hours, 19 minutes: 14 hours ...

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14: Ryzen 5 4500U: 2,388 to 2,397: Lenovo Yoga C740 14: Core i5-10210U: 1,450 to 1,535: Running Cinebench a few times in a row is a good measure of how well a laptop cools ...

The Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5 configuration I reviewed had an Intel Pentium Gold 7505 dual-core processor with four threads, a base clock speed of 2GHz, and a maximum Turbo Boost speed of 3.5GHz.

Hardware. As with so many Lenovo products, the Flex 5 is unassuming and understated. Closed, it’s your basic grey slab of a laptop, not too thin (.66 inches) or light (just under 3 pounds).

Lenovo makes a 14-inch Flex 5, too, that's alternatively named the Yoga 520 for the UK and Australia, but none of them can be configured quite the same as the 15.6-inch Flex 5.