It just wasn't a good typing experience for more than dashing off a quick email. The second issue was the keyboard, which was cramped and had some half-sized keys. The new Duet 3 has USB-C ports on both sides so you can charge and connect a monitor or storage at the same time.

That might not sound like a big deal, but it made charging and also using the port for anything else impossible without a hub or adapter.

One of those was that it only had one USB-C port. Lenovo addressed two of my biggest gripes about the first-gen model. The Duet 3 Chromebook now has an 11-inch display. The occasionally sluggish MediaTek processor has been replaced with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 compute platform, which should perk up the performance from the original and even the similarly sized HP Chromebook x2, which is running on the first-gen 7c compute platform. The Duet 3 is now an 11-inch Chrome OS tablet with a 2K-resolution display.

This updated version, the IdeaPad Duet 3 Chromebook, is filled with improvements that certainly address a few of the shortcomings of the original. The 10-inch IdeaPad Duet Chromebook proved to be a hit when it was released in 2020 because it was small, performed well and it was cheap, at less than $300. One of Lenovo's most popular Chromebooks is getting a full update for 2022, as part of the company's many announcements for Mobile World Congress.

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