So what caused that person to send back a laptop with this kind of specs and power, and also one of the very few of its kind available here (the ZenBook 13 OLED is the other, but a higher-tier product at a higher price). That’s an excellent price for what I got, but the fact that it was available Resealed meant that someone bought it first and sent it back for the store to resell to me, at the discount.

My configuration comes with the Ryzen 7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a fast 512 GB SSD for an MSRP price of around 800 EUR here, but I actually got mine for only 620 EUR as a Resealed product available on a local sales campaign. That shouldn’t be a surprise, though, as the IdeaPad Flex is and has always been a budget lineup. Lenovo also offers Ryzen 3 3500U and 5 5500U configurations for this laptop, but the Zen3 Cezanne platform is not going to be available on this chassis, at least as far as I can tell right now. My configuration is the AMD Lucienne Ryzen 7 5700U, the rebadged 8Cores/16Threads update of the Ryzen 7 4800U from 2020, built on the revised Zen2+ architecture and with improved Vega graphics.

This is the 2021 version of the Flex 5 14-inch, code name 14ALC05, (also known as the Lenovo 82H), and I’ve bought it because it was one of the first ultrabooks built on Ryzen 5000 hardware available locally over here and because I found it for a steal price.

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