Like other Chromebooks, the Asus comes with assorted offers including 12 months of Google One 100GB cloud storage and three months of YouTube Premium, Canva, and Stadia Pro.
The display wobbles slightly when tapped in laptop mode, but there's little flex if you grasp its corners or press the keyboard deck.īottom-mounted speakers pump out relatively loud, slightly hollow or echoing sound there's not much bass but highs and midtones are clear and you can make out overlapping tracks. Two hinges let you fold the display back into easel, tent, or tablet modes Asus says the CM5 has the ErgoLift hinge design also seen on its Windows laptops, but the screen doesn't raise the keyboard into a slanted typing angle until it's tilted quite far back. Medium-thin bezels surround the screen (the company cites an 81% screen-to-body ratio), with a webcam centered above and a small chrome Asus logo below to match the one on the lid. Trimmer 14-inch 2-in-1's like the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 and HP Chromebook x360 14c are easier to handle (3.6 pounds each). It measures 0.73 by 14.1 by 9.5 inches and weighs 4.3 pounds, about the same as the last 15.6-inch Chromebook convertible we tested, the now-discontinued Lenovo Yoga Chromebook C630 from May 2019. The Flip CM5 has an aluminum lid and plastic bottom, styled in a nearly black hue Asus calls Mineral Gray. Both have Wi-Fi 6 and a 15.6-inch touch screen with full HD (1,920-by-1,080-pixel) resolution. Amazon and Newegg offer a $100-cheaper economy model with a dual-core Ryzen 3 CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC flash storage. Our review unit (model CM5500FDA-IS588T) is a $599.99 Costco configuration with AMD's quad-core, 2.1GHz Ryzen 5 3500C processor, 8GB of memory, and a 128GB NVMe solid-state drive.
Like all 15.6-inch convertibles, the Asus is too heavy and unwieldy for comfort in tablet mode, but it's a perky, well-equipped, and affordable option for going online and Google Workspace productivity. And hardly any Chromebooks have handy Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys-you have to team the menu and Alt keys with the cursor arrows-but the Flip CM5's backlit keyboard includes them. Not many Chromebooks have HDMI ports, obliging you to fuss with a USB-C DisplayPort dongle to connect an external monitor, but the Asus has one. Windows convertible laptops have nothing on the Asus Chromebook Flip CM5 (starts at $499.99 $599.99 as tested).
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