Gadgetory

I'm Dan Akron and we are taking a look at the Lenovo flex 20 this is another one of the growing category of what I call tabletop pcs a lot of companies have these now they're essentially 20 inch tablets they've got batteries inside they also have kickstand so they stand up like all-in-one PCs and usually come with a keyboard and now so you can use it like that also HP has one sony has one dell has one if you go down to 18 inches that's how big the dell one is this one is technically nineteen and a half inches Lenovo calls it the Flex 20 the main thing this guy has going for it is that it's a little bit less expensive than some of the other tabletop PCs we've seen right now you can get this for 750 and that's pretty reasonable these are kind of low right inspection Intel Core i3 in here just four gigs of ram regular old 500 gigabyte hard drive so no SSD no higher end processors I didn't see any upgrade options right now but if you want to try something like this out from less you certainly can't go wrong spending 750 bucks on a big 20 inch all-in-one that also has a battery in it so the way a tabletop PC works is you have it set up like this and then it's got a hinge in the back with a kickstand like this and when you're ready you just push the table down and it just lies flat and oftentimes it'll launch a custom software interface of lenovo has one called aura that lets you manipulate stuff on the tabletop differently than you would for example in the windows 8 menu and when you're done with that you just hit the latch and the kickstand comes out and you set it up again just like it was before compared to some of the other tabletop PCs we've seen other a few budget touches to this guy the screen resolution is only 1600 by 900 not the 1920 by 1080 on virtually every other type of machine like this we've seen there's only two USB ports and if you use the included keyboard and mouse it has a little receiver that eats up one of those ports no SD card slot no optical drive or anything like that so who exactly are these tabletop PCs for you know I think they make excellent all-around family PCs you can push them down put them on the coffee table put them on an ottoman Vic great for playing games of lenovo had some games built in and you could buy some optional little bumpers and joysticks or playing the games great for messing around with photos even looking at maps or big news apps really gives you a very sort of sit around the table with the whole family kind of feel if you want the most high end of tabletop PCs lenovo has a new version of their 27-inch machine coming out later this year and that should be a lot of fun but on the lower end you can't do a lot better than this guy for 750 bucks Ivan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo flexi 20