It feels a lot like using a big phone, with intuitive back and home gestures that make the UI smart and animated.īut the Duet has another trick up its sleeve: it can turn into a tiny laptop. They’re right at home on a tablet this small. With version 81, Google introduced Android-inspired gestures for navigation. With a fantastic display and lightweight design, the Duet would be an excellent tablet running any OS, but it’s a particularly good showcase for Chrome’s tablet mode enhancements. A stand-up accessory brings it all together For $300 you’re not going to find a better display-unless you get an iPad on sale. It even holds up compared to the Pixel Slate’s marvelous 2000×3000 Molecular Display. Max brightness topped 500 nits and while it’s a tad uneven in spots, it’s one of the better displays I’ve seen on a Chromebook at any price range.
LENOVO DUET 720P
While most Chromebooks in this price range have 720p displays, the Duet has a better-than-full-HD WUXGA 1900×1200 resolution that’s both bright and crisp.
It was smart for Lenovo to split the keyboard case into two parts.Īnd what a screen it is. The bezels around the screen are uniform and relatively skinny, so the focus is entirely on the screen. Its 6.29 x 9.44-inch frame is extremely easy to hold with one hand, and the 10.1-inch screen strikes a nice balance between too big and too small. On its own, the Duet weighs just a pound, less than the 9.7-inch iPad. It’s the only real knock I can levy on the design, and even so, it’s a small one because Lenovo includes a 3.5mm-to-USB-C adapter in the box. That’s also where you’ll be plugging in earbuds, because the Duet doesn’t have a headphone jack. The power button and volume rocker are perfectly split by the color line to create come nice symmetry, the speakers are on the top so as not to be muffled by the keyboard, and the sole USB-C port is on the bottom to keep the cord from getting tangled. The Duet is thin enough that the camera sticks out quite a bit.īut even with a somewhat derivative design, Lenovo has put some thought into the details. The camera is a little bumpier than I’d like, but it’s no worse than that on any other tablet.
Basically, the Duet combines the best elements of Google’s products into a very nice-looking tablet. The back has a two-tone blue-and-gray design like the Pixel phones, the front has uniform bezels like the Pixel Slate, and the keyboard cover has a knit exterior like the Pixel fabric case. If I didn’t know better, I would have guessed the Duet was designed by Google. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them. This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best laptops.
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