Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “New Lenovo Chromebooks hands-on”.
(, playful music, ), Hey I’m Vlad with The Verge here at MWC 2018 and in front of me, is a stack of new Chromebooks from Lenovo. (, playful music ). First of all, there’s the Lenovo 100e Chromebook, which is $ 219.. Then there’s the Lenovo 300e Chromebook, which is $ 279 and finally, there’s Lenovo 500e Chromebook, which is $ 349.. So all of these are super affordable and just looking at them, they’re big and chunky and kind of hard to distinguish just from the outside.
But there are pretty cool features on the inside which made them stand out and actually make me excited.. I didn’t anticipate that I’ll be getting excited about Chromebooks here at MWC, which is traditionally a phone shop.. So the 100e is the entry-level model and it has the basic features across this entire series, which is that it’s designed to be used in a business course.. It has a spill-proof keyboard, it has a pry-proof keyboard, so you can’t tear it. Open. Has a drop resistant design up to 30 inches, which I’m European, I don’t know exactly what that means, but it makes really rugged and solid laptops.. One thing I’ve really enjoyed about all three of these laptops is also the keyboard. It’S an 11.6 inch screen on the inside and there’s just a really beautiful keyboard in there with lots of key travel.. So all of these features are great., But the 100 has a really terrible screen.. It has really awful viewing angle, so I wouldn’t recommend it.. I will step up to the 300., A for the better screen, display.
B, for the fact that it also flips out in a yoga-style hinge, which is kind of a Lenovo signature and C. You can take notes with a pencil and I literally mean a HB pencil.. It’S been designed to be used with a regular pencil..
It doesn’t leave any marks on the screen.. It’S really cool, really convenient and again, with the intended application for schools. It fits in really nicely. You’d, be using this pencil to school. Another difference between the 100e and the 300e is they have MediaTek processor in the 300 Intel Celeron in the 100, and the 300 also has a full SD card slot, whereas the 100 and 500 made Due with a micro SD., So the 500e, just like the 300e, is designed to take notes on with a pen, but it comes with it’s own stylus and the experience of actually using it is significantly better.. So the difference is you can’t use a regular pencil to take notes on this laptop, but it is pretty much lag-free., So it tracks you perfectly.
As you go along. There is almost no delay. There was some delay, but it’s almost no delay between the lines showing up on the screen and the stylus and the gesture on the screen.. There’S pencil lag on the 300 and the 300 also doesn’t have palm rejection, which 500e does., So I’ve been playing around with it here at MWC and I’ve loved it.
Like doodling, taking notes and everything else.. I don’t really love the screens on any of these laptops, but it’s perfectly fine to do that kind of note taking and just messing around with which you know given the price is really nice.. I do also want to return to the keyboard, which is just so much key travel, and it is just such a pleasure to type on.. As I said, MWC is usually a phone shop., We’re not used to looking at a whole bunch of laptops and especially not Chromebooks, of this size and design..
I mean these are really chunky and not the most attractive things in the world, but I think that Lenovo has gotten the basics and the fundamentals down really well with these devices and given their affordable prices. They’Re, just super attractive. Lenovo has got USB-C charging across all of these, so it’s standardized it’s compatible with most of your devices.. You got expansion of storage. You got regular USB ports, all of the ports are reinforced and design is reinforced.. The 300 and 500 have this flipping hinge, which is also reinforced., So you get plenty for your money. Now in terms of availability. The 100e will be available in March and the 300e and the 500e are going to be available pretty much straight away directly from Lenovo..
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