It is that time of the year again – Mobile World Congress 2022. At MWC 2022 Lenovo has launched a slew of new devices, including the IdeaPad Duet 5i which is a detachable Windows 11 tablet. The IdeaPad Duet 5i is a Surface-style detachable tablet with a 12.3-inch display, running Windows 11 on Intel’s 12th-generation Core portable chips. It doesn’t have the fast 120Hz refresh rate display as you’ll find on the Microsoft machine, but it hopes to convince customers who are more interested in price-to-performance.
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The Duet 5i supports up to a Core i7-1255U chip, 16GB of LPDDR4x memory and 1TB of SSD storage. It unfortunately doesn’t have the latest DDR5 RAM, but this again will save costs to lower its price. It has two USB-C 3.2 ports and claimed battery life of 11 hours (it wasn’t announced how big the battery is). It has a high-quality 1600p display, a light but rigid build and support for an optional pen as well.
There are several choices if you are after a Google-powered device as well. There are three new ChromeOS devices – the 14-inch IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook, the 15-inch Flex 3i Chromebook and 11-inch Duet 3 Chromebook.
The Flex 5i convertible is a clear step up from past models with up to 12th-gen Core processors, a 16:10 ratio full HD display, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of storage and a 1080p webcam. The more modest Flex 3i peaks with a Pentium N6000 chip, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of eMMC storage and a 720p camera. And the Duet 3 detachable may be worth noting if you’re looking for an upgrade from its predecessors — you’ll find a Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 chip, up to 8GB of RAM and as much as 256GB of eMMC storage.
