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iFive Mini 4G 7.85-inch Helio X20 Deca-core 4G Android Tablet (Update)
There has been no news for months on end on the iFive Mini 4G. But finally, this popped up on YouTube and the tablet is finally official it seems. Possibly coming in the next few weeks. But I wouldn’t hold my breath. But it does look very promising. Seems the spec hasn’t changed from what I reported back in March. I’ll do my best to get one to review once finally released. many t...[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]
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]
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]
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]
Coming This Week – Mi Mix 2 Unboxing, EZBook 3 Plus & Surbook Reviews
This weekend has been a bit hectic, I’ve moved from the studio apartment in the center of town over to another apartment with air conditioning. The move was necessary for two main factors, the old place was far too expensive for the site & channel to support and lack of Airconditioning meant it was very hard with up to 35 degrees C temps indoors. And under the studio softbox lighting was...[Read More]
Hands-On With the Teclast T10
Update: Gearbest has this on sale again for $199, this is limited to the first 500 units. The promotion is over here. This is the latest from Teclast, the Master T10 their new Android flagship tablet. It’s an all metal 10.1″ tablet with a Sharp 2560 x 1600 fully laminated panel, this panel looks great and overall the build quality great, no real flex or creaks in this design. The panel...[Read More]
Xiaomi Notebook Pro Official – 15.6″, i7-8550U, MX150 & 16GB RAM
Remember those Xiaomi Geekbench 4.0 benchmarks that showed up with a Core i7 8550U and 16GB of RAM? Well turns out it was the new Xiaomi 15.6″ laptop. The Xiaomi Notebook Pro. This great looking laptop features a Quad-Core Gen 8 CPU, up to 16GB of RAM dual channel RAM and up to 1TB of SSD storage. The new laptop uses the same dedicated Nvidia MX150 GPU as the 2017 Mi Notebook Air13.3″ ...[Read More]
Jumper EZBook 3 Plus Hands-On, The Core M3-7Y30 EZBook 3
So Jumper has moved in the right direction releasing a Core M3-7Y30 Kaby Lake laptop. Mine finally arrived with non-express shipping that took over 2 weeks. But one direction they have gone on this model isn’t great, the screen is a TN panel with bad vertical viewing angles. Take a look at my unboxing and hands-on video below for a proper look at that screen: Horizontal view angles are fine,...[Read More]
Chuwi – What Specs Do We Want In The Next Device?
Chuwi has just asked via Twitter to their followers what specifications are we all looking for in the next Chuwi device? Of course, I let them know my thoughts. Intel Core M3, 8GB of RAM USB 3.1 Type-C and fully laminated screen. And also I commented to just add a Core M3 and Type-C USB 3.1 to the Lapbook Air. But make sure you let them know, tweet them the specs you think their next device should...[Read More]
