So here it is (took a while) this Tbook4 got stuck in customs here in Spain so was delayed a week longer than expected. So the laptop looks great in gray, a great change from gold and silver. The touchpad on this is large and maybe the best I’ve used on an Apollo Lake. Precision touchpad, so gestures can be disabled.
Unboxing time codes:
01:35 – Unboxing starts
03:05 – Design
05:04 – SSD bay
06:10 – Bios
07:00 – First boot
09:23 – Screen
10:58 – Geekbench 4
11:27 – Touchpad
12:16 – Keyboard
12:50 – Speaker test
13:29 – Linux test
13:50 – First impressions
14:13 – Pros & Cons (So far)
The build quality looks very decent for the $239 I paid for it from Geekbuying. The box arrived quite beat up, lucky for me the laptop did have some of that super bubble wrap around it. The USB 3.0 power external hard drives, the screen is IPS and a matte anti-glare one. However, the Wireless AC it was listed as having turned out to be wireless N.
But one positive is the range is very good, one of the best I’ve seen. Same for battery life, it looks like I can get around 9 hours of use on a single charge maybe even more at 25% brightness. The bios is fully unlocked, however, it’s lacking that one performance boosting setting as present in the Tbook Air – Power limits.
Things that aren’t good: No valid Windows 10 home key was used, but a temp one. And the space bar while it’s working fine, isn’t sitting as flat as it should. But so far the keyboard is good to type on. The rest will come in the final full review video, thermals, full battery life, gaming and my final opinion will come in 1-2 weeks time (So many devices on the go right now and it’s summer :(). But it’s looking great so far, if you don’t mind wireless N but with a really good range.