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This $269 Chromebook couldn't be more portable - here's why it's my pick for students

Lenovo's 11-inch Chromebook Duet is both like a tablet and a laptop, and it's portable enough to carry around long days on campus.

Google is really leaning into marketing the Duet as a note-taking device, with palm-rejection software on the screen to prevent false inputs, to a newly-optimized experience on ChromeOS with the Goodnotes app, which you can get for free for three months with the purchase of a new Chromebook. This is a Chromebook made for ease of use, to play media while propped up in the kitchen, on a plane, or to bring to a coffee shop to get some work done, and its ultraportable form factor is what allows you to do all of those things in settings where a 16-inch laptop would be cumbersome or impossible. Activating Split Screen is another feature that Google implemented earlier this year, and I find it helpful when using the tablet in the kitchen with a YouTube video on one side of the display and a recipe on the other.

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