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hey I'm fly with Richard and IBC 2018 and in front of me is a stack of new Chromebooks from Lenovo first of all there's the Lenovo 100 a Chromebook which is $219 then there's the Lenovo 300 a Chromebook which is $279 and finally there's a novo 500 e Chromebook which is $349 so 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 did anticipate that I'd be getting excited about Chromebooks here at MWC which is traditionally a phone show so the 100 e is the entry-level model and it has the basic features across this entire series which is that it's designed to be used and abused in schools it has a spill proof keyboard it has a pre-poo of keyboards you can tear it open as a drop resistant design up to 30 inches which I'm European I don't know exactly what that means but it makes a really rugged in solid laptops one thing I really enjoyed about all three of these laptops is also the keyboard it's an 11 point 6 inch screen on the inside and there's just a really beautiful keyboard in there weird lots of key travel so all of these things are great but the 100 has a really terrible screen it has really awful viewing angles so I wouldn't recommend it I will step up to 300 a for the better display B for the fact that also flips out in yoga style hinge which is kind of a Lenovo signature and see 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 application the intended application for schools it fits in really nicely you'll be using this that's cool another difference between 180 and the 308 is they have mediatek processor in the 300 intel celeron in 100 and the 300 also has a full SD card slot whereas the 100 and 500 makes you with a micro SD so the 508 just like the 300 e is designed to take notes only with a pen but it comes with its own stylus and the experience of actually you is significantly better so the difference is you can't use a regular pencil signals in this laptop but it is pretty much lag free so it tracks you perfectly as you go along there is almost no delays it was some delay but it's almost no delay between the line showing up on the screen and the stylus and the gesture on the screen there's plenty of leg room 300 and 300 also does have palm rejection which is fine it does so I've been playing around with it here at MWC and I've loved it like doodling taking notes and everything else and 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's just such a pleasure to type on and say mmm obviously is usually a function 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 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 course all of these so we standardized it's compatible with most of your other devices you got expansion of storage you've got regular USB ports all of the ports of reinforce the 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 100 e will be available in march and the 300 e and 500 e are going to available pretty much straightaway directly from the Nova thanks for watching be sure to subscribe to the verge and tune in to the verge comm