Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central (Image credit: Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central)īattery life has been better than projected as well.

Most of the time, the Flex 5 takes everything I throw at it in stride: multiple Chrome window and Android apps. I've only crashed this Chromebook once in six weeks, and when I did, I had about 40 tabs open including some bandwidth hogs. What you do get is a choice between an Intel Celeron processor and a Intel Core i3, and given that the i3 model launched at $410, I would highly recommend getting that one. Four gigabytes of RAM has been more than enough for me so long as I don't go tab-crazy - and thank goodness, because there's no 8GB option. While 64GB is enough to get by - you won't be downloading a lot of movies for offline playback with it - I wish the 128GB SSD option was more widely available.

That bit about the microSD card is all the more important when you see that the Flex 5 is available with a maximum of 128GB storage, a configuration I have yet to see at any retailer.

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