Asus Chromebook Flip (C302CA-DHM4)

                       The Asus Chromebook Flip  is a really good-looking laptop. Its metal body construction looks effortlessly cool and it also feels solid, despite being perfectly petite in size and weight. This is a 6th-generation (Skylake) mobile processor with two cores and four threads, 4MB of cache, and a maximum burst clock speed of 2.2GHz. This won’t burn any barns, but it will get through mainstream tasks capably, as the performance tests below prove. A lower-end option is a Pentium 4405Y, and a higher-end option is Core M7-6Y75. 

                            This is an adequate amount of memory for mainstream tasks, but if you pile on the browser tabs or stream extensively, you could hit a wall. A higher-end Chromebook Flip model offers 8GB of RAM, but obviously costs more.  This is a mainstream integrated graphics solution, not as powerful as Intel’s Iris integrated graphics, but it’ll get you through streaming video. Storage of 64GB eMMC with TPM. The eMMC flash storage is inexpensive, but not very fast. The 64GB amount is better than the 16GB or 32GB you might find on cheaper models. The Trusted Platform Module is a security feature that can encrypt sensitive information like login credentials. 12.5-inch FHD 1920x1080 touchscreen. This is where a lot of the money goes. After surviving a motley parade of low-end Chromebooks with grainy 1366x768 displays, we welcome the Full HD display on the Chromebook Flip. It has a 16:9 aspect ratio, a wide 178-degree viewing angle, and a high 300-nit maximum brightness. We actually measured 310 nits with our meter, but we also noticed that the screen darkens quickly: The middle setting seems dim, while the best settings are medium-high or high.  The Connectivity is 802.11ac WiFi ,Bluetooth 4.2,MicroSD slot (SD/SDHC/SDXC) Two USB-C ports: Specifically, they are USB 3.1 (Gen 1), with a data transfer rate of 5Gbps. Both ports—one on each side of the laptop—may be used for data or charging. I appreciate the versatility of their opposite locations. There are no USB-A ports, so prepare to commit to this new connectivity standard (and prepare to buy a USB-A dongle for legacy devices). When we talk about Chromebook performance, remember that Google updates Chromes OS every six weeks. We return our test units and are therefore unable to update and retest them, so newer models will always benefit from any recent improvements Google made to Chrome. The Chromebook Flip’s middle-of-the-road power plant performs well in most respects, at least on the mainstream benchmarks we run. It’s the topmost bar (though not always the top dog) in all of the following charts.  The Cr-XPRT test measures Chromebook performance in basic productivity tasks as well as more demanding activities, such as watching movies or playing games. The Chromebook Flip can’t compete with the high-end Google Chromebook Pixel and HP Chromebook 13, but it’s right in the upper-middle with the similarly equipped Samsung Chromebook Pro, which we tested in prototype.