Lenovo Flex 5 Laptop Review with Ryzen 5 4500U Excellent Mid Range Laptop

hi guys this is shubham  and in this video let's do the review of this lenovo flex 5 laptop and guys this is actually a mid-range laptop but this is actually a two-in-one as you can see it moves to a what do you say tablet one also and this also has actually a proper stylus so you can write on the screen and stuff it's a actually a touch screen that you get on this one and uh i have been actually testing this for the last 45 days this is actually a review unit that was sent to me by lenovo but i didn't post the article because this model is simply not available

 as of now the lenovo team told me that during the first week of november it should come back in stocks and about 45 days ago when it was just launched uh the pricing of this one was about 57 000 so let's see how would they price it now when we have actual stocks the specifications are amazing on this this has the new amd ryzen 5 4500 u uh hence it's a proper six core processor the performance is blazingly fast on this and you have this form factor so at this price point you're getting a lot but let's dive down into this one what do i feel about this and what are some of the things that i did not like so let's go over the same now so guys this is the lenovo flex 5 laptop it actually has a 14 inch screen that's a 1080p screen and guys this is actually a touch screen but you'll notice that this is glossy type this is not a matte screen but this is a two in one that means you can just rotate it like this and it will ask you to move to the tablet mode and if i press that now you can use it like a tablet mode and if you bring it back in the regular mode you can go back to the 

regular exit the tablet mode uh one thing i like is that you get active what do you say stylus with this one so you can actually use this and i didn't use it but my daughter was playing around with this one she drew it and you can write stuff on this it also has what you say buttons here i won't suggest doing it like this but folded in the tablet mode it works a lot better so you do have a proper active stylus and i like the fact that you're not paying anything

 extra to get this generally with other vendors they charge almost about 100 but you don't have any place to keep it so they gave this like this you can put this and put it in a usb slot so i don't know how practical it is but yeah that's how it does and again what i like with lenovo laptops is the keyboard so i actually like the keyboard on this one the key travel is very good on this one and it also has backlighting so that's actually nice you can adjust

 it switch it off and on uh again one more thing is that you'll notice that it has two speakers front firing speakers hence this is stuff this is the official website um they should be loud and they are actually pretty loud let me just play one of my own  videos 

 kind of in fact outdoors it might look slightly so generally with for this volume i had to keep most of the laptops at 100 but this at 75 or 80 is that loud so definitely uh some of the better speakers on this one uh coming to the battery on this uh this one has a 51 watt r battery on this and i would say in real world uses now that i've used it over about 40 days and yes it also has a fingerprint scanner over here and as you can see it unlocks very quickly the battery life i was getting in real world guys this is not synthetic or whatever here as you can see i'm running windows battery starts and here anywhere i was getting almost about seven to more than about nine and a half hours but average as you can see this is calculated but actually windows 8.42 so definitely 

very good battery life and that's all thanks to the ryzen 5 4500u processor let me actually give you a configuration overview let's run the cpu-z app and it will show you show us the internals and everything uh this is running on the amd uh our ryzen 5 4500u this is the new model guys and this is actually a six core proper six core processor and this is based on seven nanometer process hence that's why the battery life is very good also in regular usage i never had an issue of overheating or fans going crazy again if you go to the cases it has a four megabyte of l3 cache and again mainboard is made by lenovo memory uh guys it has eight gigabytes of ram and that's ddr4 in dual channel that we are getting and again graphics uh will be the vega 6 graphics on this one internal graphics no external graphics card but overall i would say the

 configuration is actually really good on this one and also i never had a problem of waking up from sleep etc moving to the body this front body has a slight metallic coating guys but the entire body is actually made up of hot abs plastic and you might say oh plastic it's bad no it's good quality plastic that they are using so i would say it's sturdy uh so that's what i like now moving to the ports let's talk about that i completely forgot about it uh here we have one microphone and here we have that headphone jack and this is interesting if you notice this is the usb type-c port uh actually you can charge with the usb type-c then you also have what do you say a full-size hdmi port uh the charger what they are actually giving is the barrel

 type charger guys as you can see in india at least they are giving this but you can definitely charge this laptop with this type c port and i have charged it so that's actually a nice thing but india they are also supplying this this is the charger that comes inside the box standard barrel type charger back if you move here we have the vents to dissipate the heat and this is the hinge and on this end we have the two usb ports we also get a full size sd card and this is your power on a button it's here because it's tablets uh style and let's open this up and as i've shown you uh we do get the fingerprint scanner here as you can see and it works very very well i never had a problem with the fingerprint scanner so that way uh i i like the laptop that is and also in terms of battery

 life it was good now talking about the performance the performance was very good and to give you an idea let's let me actually show you some of the benchmark scores for example i hang the cine bench and this is r15 guys not r20 and as you can see for the cpu just notice the score 940 it's excellent excellent score uh the intel counterparts generally get about even in the core i7 about 600 something so very good but let's see the r20 which is actually 

gives you a good idea about the cpu and as you can see uh the cinebench r20 you can also download it and run on your laptop to get an idea see see the damn cpu score 2343. this is bonkers this is more than double that you can get with even an intel core i7 based laptop so for the price the performance of the cpu is bonkers guys even heavy video editing you can actually do with this one the cpu raw power that the cpu has is just amazing at this price point that we are getting and i also ran this crystal disk mark it has a 512 gigabyte ssd guys uh and uh the ssd scores that i was getting is for read as 1.6 gigabytes and reach 1.2 these are decent for the price

\i won't say this is the fastest or anything but these are actually decent and again as i've shown you the booting process is also quick it takes just about 10 seconds and when you wake it up from sleep it's almost instant you don't have to worry as you saw the benchmark scores were also very good so i would say this is a very practical laptop another good thing is that with this laptop at least in india they are giving us the microsoft office student license pre-loaded that's lifetime so that's also actually really good and again you can use the touchscreen and the pen if you really want to use that coming to another thing about the screen guys uh i actually like the screen on this one the viewing angles are actually good now generally what happens 

sometimes in many of the laptops in this price range if you just move around the picture starts to fade that is not a problem with this one and i would say uh the screen quality is much better than many of the laptops in fact the lenovo team told me the srgb values of this one is actually uh 75 percent which is a lot better than many of the laptops that hover around 45 to about 60 percent so that way it's nice but again guys it's not 100 color accurate uh for if you make your living doing color correction and stuff then you have to obviously go with the higher variants that have 100 srgb values but overall considering the price point i like the screen

 on this one and the only thing is that uh the screen is good enough in indoor usage but it's not super super right this is the max brightness guys and this is just 250 units as you can see indoors it's perfectly fine but if you're going to use it outdoors this maximum brightness will not be enough uh another thing i like with this laptop is that if you notice this we have actually this is the webcam and we have a physical shutter on it and here is a sample that

 i shot with the webcam so guys this is being recorded with the lenovo 5 flex uh camera and the audio is also being recorded by its internal microphone i felt that the microphone pickup was actually really good but what do you guys think of the same let me know and again guys as you can see this is in completely artificial lighting so this is a typical scenario that we are these days inside the home with some artificial lighting and i feel uh for online

 classes zoom meetings or what do you say video conferences that we are having a lot these days i think so this camera is good enough but you guys let me know what do you think about this same now what do i feel about this first let's go uh about the some of the cons that i have noticed i've just made down a list and the thing is that it's not a what is it does not look like a glass track but i might be wrong but i would say the trackpad for the most part is good it does the windows gestures and stuff and this is sort of nitpicking guys the entire body internal is made up of hardened abs plastic it's good actually the build quality is certainly

 much better than many of the laptops in this price range but when i press it a little bit firmly there is a slight keyboard flex that i have noticed not a deal breaker but i thought that you guys should know next is that again as this is on that amd ryzen 5 4500 u it does not have a dedicated gpu the built-in gpu that's the radeon gpu does the job and i would say this is good enough for a laptop like this in the pricing but this is not a high-end gaming laptop yes you can play some games in fact a lot of games in the low to about almost medium settings but again if you're thinking this is a gaming laptop no it's not a gaming laptop so these were some of the cons 

that i've noticed apart from that i really like this laptop i would say it gets a lot of things right that are actually a bit of a compromise in this price range you get an active stylus in this one uh and you don't have to pay extra you get this it's a touch screen and yes if you are in that one you want to use it in the tablet mode or flex mode you can actually use overall i like the build quality the speakers are front firing speakers hence it's actually really really loud much louder than most of the what do you say laptops that have seen windows laptops in this price range so that way i generally with most of the other windows laptops guys i have 

to keep it at almost 100 volume this i was happy at about 70 percent uh next thing is that uh it comes with that 512 gigabytes of ssd so again decent not 256 ram yes it's coming with eight gigabytes of for ram and this i'm saddened then there is no other variant that going to be sold for example 16 gigabyte ram variant won't be sold in india and yes the ram is soldered like other what do you say laptops in this price range but overall i would say i am liking this laptop because of the raw performance you saw that ryzen 5 4500 use performance it's blazingly fast in the raw cpu it beats even the intel core is uh 7 uh 10th generation almost by 50

 so uh basically fast performance that you are getting on this and even for heavy task it'll do actually a really good job and apart from that i like the battery life also on this one in real world usage guys seven to about nine hours of battery life average i was getting about eight and a half so overall i would say if you're looking uh for a what do you say very good mid-range laptop and you also want this pen support and stuff like that then you can have a certainly uh have a look at this one and i would say i have tested a bunch of mid-range laptops as of now today if you ask me this one is overall the best that i have tested till date uh but let's see uh when it comes back in stocks how would they price it i hope they don't go bonkers with the pricing again guys i'll leave the link of amazon india or i'll add it when it's officially available anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next article take care guys