Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook
Price: £299 from fave.co/3rLAdgu
We’ve all grown accustomed to a certain design ethic when it comes to Chromebooks. Either they are compact laptops with 11.6in displays or larger 14in variants that often have the ability to fold the display back through 180 or 360 degrees.
Very occasionally, we see an outlier that uses a tablet format. The most notable example was Google’s ill-fated 12.3in Pixel Slate, but that suffered from buggy software and an eye-watering price. Thankfully, this hasn’t killed off the idea entirely, as the new Lenovo IdeaPad Duet takes the form factor but shrinks both the size and cost.
The Duet itself is a tablet with 10.1in HD IPS display, accompanied by a rear case that features a built-in tilt stand, plus there’s clip-on external keyboard that also doubles as the other half of the protective cover. Both accessories attach to the Duet via magnets which are easy to attach and proved reliably secure during my time with the device.
The best part of this arrangement is that Lenovo includes everything in the box for no additional cost, unlike the aforementioned Microsoft Surface
