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The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x offers solid value for students or office workers looking for a portable, dependable daily driver. It's wholly unobtrusive, in both the positive and negative sense, but it's a good fit for those looking for a productivity machine and want to spend significantly less than $1,000. The problem with the IdeaPad Slim 5x, insofar as there is one, is that it's a middling package overall. While the lows aren't cripplingly low, the highs aren't particularly high. It's got a strong battery, but not the best-in-class. The highlight is the bright, responsive touchscreen, and bri

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is great if you want an easily portable OLED laptop with strong overall performance, but don't plan to lean into any heavy lifting in terms of 3D graphics work or gaming. With its Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU and ample 32GB of RAM, the Yoga Slim 7x Gen 11 excels as a general-purpose laptop, and it will run all day and into the night without needing to recharge. I like the solid and compact, all-metal design and the two OLED display options. Just be sure to compare pricing between Lenovo and Best Buy to find the best deal. How we test computers The review process for laptops

If you’ve been looking for a high-end Chromebook, the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is totally worth your consideration—it’s a big step up from the usual budget fare. It’s got a 14-inch 1920×1200 OLED touchscreen and the colors really pop. The model we tested came loaded with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of UFS storage, so it handles a ton of tabs, Docs, YouTube, whatever you throw at it. And the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 chip (plus a tiny Neural Processing Unit) makes everything feel snappy. The 2.78-pound aluminum chassis is also super light to carry around, and the battery will last you about 19 hou

Dell's SafeScreen arrived in 2019 for select Latitude 7000 business laptops, and its implementation was almost identical to Lenovo's and HP's. Just hit a shortcut on your keyboard to enable the privacy screen and carry on working. However, the inner workings were different from the first Sure View generation. Dell chose to rely entirely on the display's backlight to obscure the picture. Although it cut down on viewing angles and also didn't sap battery life as much, it also affected the real user sitting head-on. Like with HP and Lenovo, Dell's SafeScreen has evolved to be easier on the eyes a