Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro Review
The Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro is the 3rd notebook from Xiaomi and the largest and heaviest at almost 2 kilos, but also the most powerful. Powered by the new 8th Gen Intel Core i5 8250U and Core i7 8550U. One of the first notebooks to receive the latest Intel chips. The new Kaby Lake R ultralow power processors have stepped up the core count from 2 to 4 cores. So 4 cores and 8 threads in total. And as...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro Downloads
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro downloads, bios updates, drivers and Windows 10 ISO images. The official drivers page for the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro can be found here. [wpfilebase tag=list id=252 tpl=data-table pagenav=1 /] Mi Notebook Pro i5/i7 Bios updates (Flash with extreme caution and only if you know what you’re doing!) [wpfilebase tag=list id=261 tpl=data-table pagenav=1 /] Info on Xiaomi Mi ...[Read More]
Chuwi Lapbook Air Now Up For Pre-Order (Updated)
Update: 12th October. Looks like there might be a dark grey version also? Looks great in dark grey. Update: 10 October. The Chuwi Lapbook Air is now up for preorder, $336 for a limited time with coupon chuwinew02 over at Gearbest. Slightly better than the first price of $379. I’m aiming to review this one, looks great with the backlit keyboard and 8GB of RAM. I hope Chuwi gave use unlocked p...[Read More]
Teclast Master T10
Teclast's T10 is their late 2017 Android flagship tablet, with a 2560 x 1600 OGS screen with tempered glass, 4GB of RAM hexacore MTK8176 SoC and 64GB of storage. It runs Android 7.0 and has wireless AC, GPS, fingerprint reader and microSD slot. The battery size is 8100mAh and the build of the T10 is all metal on the rear with a rear 8MP camera and front 13MP camera.
Hands-On With The EZBook 3 Pro V4 – The Best Just Got Better
Finally my EZBook 3 Pro arrived, it took 3 weeks to arrive due to some hold up with customs in the UK. So this new revision brings a change in the bios unlocking the power limits. So no need to apply the TDP mod on this one to improve performance. The touchpad is much, much better. It’s now a precision touchpad, so much more accurate and usable. I don’t have to resort to using a mouse ...[Read More]
How To Boost 8th Gen Core i5 & i7’s To Preform Like An i7 7700HQ (Mi Notebook Pro)
Intel’s Xtreme Tuning Utility is a great tool for overclocking CPU’s, while we can’t overclock the U series of CPU’s what we can do using this application of Intel’s is increase the power limits. Doing this on the 8th Gen Intel Core i5 8250U gives us huge gains up to 29% when testing with Cinebench R15 and encoding 4k video using Adobe Premiere Pro.so much so we can g...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro First Impressions & Unboxing (Updated)
Update 7th Oct: The spare slot will also take NVMe SSD’s (Samsung 960 Evo tested) so it’s a combo M2 SATA3/PCIE slot. Both slots are reported as PCie x 4 by Samsung’s magician tool. Yet the read rates are slower than expected (writes are full speed) Maybe a driver issue? Only the first type-c port is full USB 3.1 spec with data, charging and video out the other one is only data. ...[Read More]
FNF iFive Mini 4G
The iFive Mini 4G is a 7.85" 2048 x 1536 resolution tablet running stock Android 6.0, it has 2GB or 4GB of RAM depending on the model and 16GB/32GB of eMMC storage. It's powered by MediaTek's Helio X20 deca-core SoC. Other specs included 3G and LTE/4G support (Band 1/2/3/4/5/7/17/20), wireless AC, BT 4.1, MicroSD card reader and 5200mAh battery.
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro i5 8250U Now Up For Preorder
Xiaomi’s latest in the Mi Notebook line is the Intel 8th Gen powered 15.6″ Mi Notebook Pro model. It’s now up for order for $899 (with coupon MIBOOKPRO) this is around the same price I first paid for my 13.3″ 2017 refreshed model with the i5 6200U. This quad-core CPU should be a nice step up in terms of CPU power, the GPU, remains the Nvidia MX150 with 2GB of DDR5 RAM it...[Read More]
Jumper EZBook 3 Plus Review
The Jumper EZBook 3 Plus is a larger more powerful version of the successful EZBook 3 Pro. The RAM has increased to 8GB of dual channel 1866Mhz RAM, the Apollo Lake Celeron N3450 is out, it’s still fanless but now has a much more powerful Core M3-7Y30. Sadly it seems cost cutting means the Jumper EZBook 3 Plus shipped out with a rather poor TN panel, the vertical viewing angles are very poor...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 12 (2017) Review
The 2017 refresh of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 12 is exactly the same on the outside as the 2016 model, however, under the hood, there are some upgrades. This is unit has the top spec you can buy, finally a fanless model with 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD (SATA3) and an Intel Core i5-7Y54, this is still a 4.5W TDP CPU like the 7Y30 version however it can turbo up to a high 3.2Ghz. This is even higher than...[Read More]
Chuwi Surbook Review Online
Good thing I took my time with this review, as the first batch (my unit) shipped with a bad touchscreen driver. This resulted in an insensitive touch panel where not every touch input would register. Lucky for my review the updated driver was released by Chuwi and this solved the issue. Making the tablet very usable as a result and not frustrating like before. Below is my video review of the Surb...[Read More]
