The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 is a small to medium budget 2 in 1 laptop for graphic designs and artists focusing on drawing and illustration. Let's see how well it performs in Photoshop for photo editing as well as the adobe design apps. ►⏩►⏩ Check specs and pricing in the links below…

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When it comes to having a laptop for all of your designing, drawing, and photography needs, I think I found the right one for you. Because when it comes to being a creator, it’s not just about the tech specs, it’s how you use it.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 is an all-plastic build that is thicker and sturdier than the old flimsy plastic builds. It has a soft-touch plastic keyboard deck to nestle your palms for the long design or drawing projects.

The Flex 5 weighs in at a mere 3.3 lbs and is only 0.82 inches thick making it a great on the go laptop. And with its 52 Wh battery, my tests indicate that you will be able to reach roughly 6 - 7 hours of web browsing battery life and 4.5 hours of heavy design tasks.

If you’re an on the go photographer than you will find the ports selection quite pleasing:

Lenovo Flex 5 Ports:
x2 USB-A 3.1 Gen 2
USB-C 3.1 (DisplayPort)
HDMI 2.0
SD Card Slot
Mic/headphone combo

As I pull open the lid of this laptop, which is easily accomplished with one hand, I am greeted by a 16x9 FHD 14in display reaching 215 nits of brightness and a color gamut range of 64% sRGB - 48% Adobe RGB - 48% DCI-P3… So honestly my biggest complaint with this laptop is the color gamut range. Otherwise, it handles the benchmark tests coming up in just a minute. Like a champ.

Now onto one of the most important aspects of this laptop… the touch sensitivity and accuracy of the screen and pen combination. Concerning the Lenovo screen, you can opt to get a pen with 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity using the Active Pen 1 or 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity with the Active Pen 2. I will link both in the Description below.

If you decide to purchase this laptop I would recommend installing the Wacom Feel Drivers giving you the ability to customize yours on-screen drawing experience.

I tested installing the Wacom Feel drivers on Flex 5 and it is compatible. So although the driver does not come preinstalled on the Flex 5 you can install them once you purchase the laptop. I will include a link to the driver download in the description below this video.

Now that we have walked through the build and physical features of this laptop let’s dive into the performance benchmarks.

Lenovo Flex 5 Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U (6 Cores 6 Threads)
GPU: AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir)
RAM: 16GB DDR4 (Soldered - Not Upgradable)
Storage: 256GB SATA SSD

Now concerning the multitasking capabilities of this laptop do note that it can handle running Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator all at the same time with ease.

Now as I started to work in one of the programs that increased the power consumption of the CPU, but it was nothing too laborious that the laptop couldn’t handle.

So overall the Ryzen 5 4500U is a good design, drawing, and photo editing multitasking CPU.

Now I wasn’t going to include video editing benchmarks, but I thought why not. Do note that this laptop does not handle 4k playback in Premiere Pro very well, at all.

While editing 4k footage on a 9-minute project at fourth quality, the Lenovo Flex 5 dropped 4392 out of the total 16177 frames that made up the entire project. This was somewhat useable, but I would not recommend it. I would only use this laptop for 1080p video editing.

The only two complaints I have about this laptop are the color accuracy and trackpad.

Otherwise, if you’re looking for a thin and light 2 in 1 laptop that handles multitasking in the Adobe Design Suite, can export 4k footage pretty quickly, has great touch sensitivity via the pen and screen combination, while also providing great battery life and solid build quality then the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 is right for you.

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