Asus Chromebook Flip C302CA-DHM4 vs Eluktronics MAX-15

The Asus Chromebook Flip (C302CA-DHM4) ($499) is priced to compete with entry-level Windows laptops, yet has the look and feel of a premium offering. Its metal body construction, backlit keyboard, beautiful screen, and long battery life make it a very attractive alternative to yet another plastic laptop. Although ostensibly an update of the Chromebook Flip($858.01 at Amazon Canada), one of Asus's earlier convertible laptops, this iteration is all new, and an excellent evolution of the chromebook in general

It's also got two M.2 NVMe SSD slots for easy storage expansion. Overall build quality of the laptop feels pretty sturdy. The screen looks pretty good overall

It's rare to use a Chrome OS laptop that genuinely feels fast, well-built, and worth more than the $300 asking price that most Chromebooks cost. But if all those companies are going to succeed at this, it can't be rare anymore, it has to be standard.

The other laptops are either expensive, have bad thermal system or just bad build quality. Alternatively, the Eluktronics RP-15 or MAG-15 is the next best laptops for price and performance. You can also customise the upgrades.

As a result, the system feels faster than other chromebooks. A trio of 1080p video streams ran smoothly while I used a half-dozen other tabs to view websites, check email, and stream music, and so on. A 4K video (displayed at 1080p) played alone only occasionally paused for buffering.

Amazing performance and hardware design, but I've had issues with 11th Gen CPU model and the display output on the Thunderbolt 4 port turning off when the GPU is under load. I've opened a ticket with Eluktronics, so hoping updated BIOS firmware, Thunderbolt firmware, and GPU drivers can fix the issue.

--- Battery Life --- Sometimes, I get up to 11 hours of battery on the C302. 'Nuff said! --- Performance --- The Core M3 allows this system to get fast and to stay quiet. Sometimes, under heavy loads, the bottom of the C302 gets warm to the touch, but not to the point of pain. All the while, it provides one of the fastest web browsing experiences that I've ever experienced

Battery life / runtime is solid for a gaming laptop, compared to others in the market. After running Windows Update to pull the latest patches and exercise multiple reboots, went to Nvidia and downloaded the latest GPU drivers, rebooted, and then started adding games. So far, so good!!! If this laptop presents any problems, I intend to come back and update this review. But, I'm hopeful this laptop will turn out to be a long term success, in spite of the random negative reviews some others posted