Given its price and specification, it’s understandable that most people would see this as a secondary device to get online quickly when crashed out on the sofa, or to watch a movie on a train journey or flight. Secondary specification, primary performance However you look at it, Lenovo has created something at an excellent price that is almost within ‘impulse purchase’ territory, like buying something like an Amazon Fire tablet (which, believe me, offers a far inferior display and performance). Well, actually, even then it seems impossibly cheap.Īn 8th generation ‘entry level’ Apple iPad is going to be more powerful, but with the iPad itself costing £329, and the smart keyboard costing £159 on top, that’s going to set you back over £200 more.Īpple will also charge you £89 for an Apple Pencil, which I mention because the Duet is one of the new generation of Chromebooks that will work with any USI stylus, making the Duet an option for notetaking and drawing. It also helps you understand why this can be sold for as little as £280, including the cover and keyboard. There’s not even a memory card slot, so if you need more storage you’ll need a USB-C flash drive.Īll of this might seem like a rather negative start to a review that’s supposing to be extolling the many virtues of this device – but there is a good reason not to raise expectations too high. There’s a last-gen MediaTek P60T octa-core chipset, 4GB of RAM and just 64GB or 128GB fixed storage.

Indeed, it starts from the base of being a tablet that can run Android apps (with an ARM based chipset, it does this well compared to Intel ones), to having the additional benefit of working within the Chrome OS ecosystem. In the case of the Duet Chromebook, it isn’t trying to be a powerful alternative to a PC or Mac.

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