Trademarks: Lenovo, ThinkPad, IdeaPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation and the Lenovo logo are trademarks of Lenovo. Since the Lenovo Duet has just the single USB-C port and nothing else, you'll need the included USB-C adapter to use standard headphones. Windows 10 S is designed for security and performance, but if you'd prefer the full Windows 10 Home experience, it's easy and free to upgrade! It is fully functional and has been professionally refurbished, inspected, tested and cleaned to good condition by qualified sellers. Most of the products announced by Lenovo at MWC 2023 focus on the corporate and business side of things but it did at least ice the cake with a pair of new consumer laptops, the most interesting of which is the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3i.

And with an HD touchscreen, Dolby Audio™, and optional LTE service you’ll have entertainment wherever you want. We definitely recommend spending the extra cash to get the higher capacity unit with 128GB rather than the meager 64GB offered on the base model.

In fact, there is so much available software that you will find yourself running out of storage pretty quickly if you're not mindful of the size of the apps you're downloading. Since we can't recommend the Lenovo Duet to everyone, we have to knock a couple points off its final score. If you don’t have much room on a train or plane, you can put the tablet on the table and use the keyboard with a touchpad on your lap. Thanks to its Intel Celeron processor, you have the speed you need for everyday tasks, like getting through homework and surfing the web.

With a great screen, nice build quality and a comfy keyboard and stylus thrown in, it looks like cracking value for money.So when the battery finally gave up the last of its charge 21 hours and 29 minutes after we began our test, it could very well have been out of pity.

The outward-facing side of the Duet's kickstand panel also has an attractive fabric cover that gives the device a much classier look than the typical silicone or faux-leather exteriors of other tablet cases or the hard plastic or metal finishes of a traditional laptop. A leg up on the competition: Portfolio kickstand that allows you to set the IdeaPad Duet 3i into tablet mode for easy desktop viewing.But keep in mind that the performance is too weak for demanding graphics apps anyway, so maybe you can use the pen for handwritten notes, but probably not more. With the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet, you have to turn the metaphorical lights off when you leave the room to keep everything running smoothly. As we mentioned up top, the kickstand panel and keyboard come bundled with the tablet, so you will only need to make a one-time purchase to get the full 2-in-1 laptop as intended. The industry is even making significant strides to address this longstanding problem - just not with the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook, which is a real shame.

Credit subject to status, UK residents only, FIVE TECH LIMITED acts as a broker and offers finance from PayPal Credit. You can also connect an external monitor and one of them can be used to charge other devices like your phone. You can't load up on Chrome tabs with reckless abandon, but you can still have a handful going at once and not grind everything to a halt.

Overall, none of these were deal breakers for us, but for some the keyboard and track pad issues are insurmountable hurdles.