Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5 vs Eluktronics MAX-15

The 45W adapter took an hour to juice the laptop’s battery up to just 54 percent with light Chrome use.

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

As a comparison, my Samsung phone with one tiny speaker is much, much louder and clearer than this Chromebook. Makes no sense - the two speaker grills on the front could easily support larger, louder, better quality speakers. What would it cost them, a dollar? Two? Lenovo, come on now, Overall I really like this Chromebook. It serves most of my needs, is quick, simple to use, light, good for scrolling the internet, good for watching movies (but as mentioned, the volume is low, so it would be a challenge to play for a group in a room), the battery is pretty good - never ran out of battery

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.

If you’re expecting tablet-like weight, you will be disappointed because it is considerably heavier than a tablet. Personally, I would rather have a well constructed Chromebook like this one than a flimsy, light one.

Besides Amazon failure to deliver my warranty papers as promised, and still have not seen them! The laptop is heavier than advertised but tolerable. I like the computer so far but little issue with power plugin being in the back of computer rather on the side..