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First Impressions Of Chuwi’s SurBook 2-in-1 Tablet With Surface Pro Screen
The Surbook arrived at the studio, most of the orders of the 128GB model have shipped if you’re one of the Indiegogo crowd funders. 64GB models to follow. The tablet has the typical Chuwi brown box packaging for the type cover and tablet. The stylus as I suspected is the same model as the Hi13’s the HiPen H3. Below is my unboxing and preview while I work on using it for a week or two b...[Read More]
Teclast T10 Now Up Sale For $199
Teclast’s new Android 7.0 flagship tablet the Master T10 is now up for sale for $199 USD. This tablet features a fully laminated 16:10 ratio 2560 x 1600 Sharp IPS panel, I’ve used it before in the likes of the Onda V10 Pro and other tablets, it’s super sharp with 299ppi and a definite top end display. The chipset is a MediaTek 8176 hexacore with PowerVR GX6250 GPU. Enough power t...[Read More]
Chuwi Laptop Air, Chuwi Hi9 & Chuwi HiBox King Now Official (Updated)
Update#2 – According to Chuwi France, the N3450 is just the initial CPU used in the Lapbook Air, so there is some hope still of a Core M3 version. Update: Specs updated and first hands-on video of the Lapbook Air shows a very nice looking design and build. Looks a lot like the Mi Notebook Air. Anyone understand Polish? Is it that a mini HDMI port or Type-C? I can see just by looking at the k...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air Core i7 8550U Ultimate Model With 16GB RAM
Update: Well, it turns out it is a new 15.6″ model. I guessed it, but that wasn’t hard. More info here: Mi Notebook Pro 15.6″ Notebook. We know that Xiaomi has the Core i7 U CPU’s in latest years 2016 model, but we haven’t seen this year’s i7 7500U release yet. Well, these Geekbench 4 benchmarks popped up showing that this year’s refreshed i7 model (Timi T...[Read More]
Jumper EZBook 3 Pro V4 Latest Batch With More Improvements (Updated)
Update #2 I’ve finally got my hands on the new V4 revision, more on that here. Update: Thanks to Jared @NZUnicorn for confirming this. Gearbest is indeed shipping the latest version now. He just got the new model which should really be called the EZbook 3 Pro V4. One more improvement to add to the list, it has an easy access M.2 SSD hatch now like the Onda Xiaomi 31 I reviewed. So the best v...[Read More]
Teclast T10 Official $210 – Hexacore 2560 x 1600 Android 7 Tablet
Teclast’s latest tablet the T10 is now official and listed on Taobao.com and is selling for around $210 USD. The tablet is based on a 10.1″ 2560 x 1600 16:10 ratio fully laminated screen with an anti-fingerprint oleophobic coating. Something we don’t normally see and it’s the same screen as the Onda V10 Pro I reviewed so I know it’s a very decent screen. It has a 810...[Read More]
Chuwi Lapbook Air – New Images & Info
Two new images of the Lapbook Air a new up and coming Core M3 laptop from Chuwi. New info reveals it will have a glossy fully laminated 14.1 1080p IPS, with 320 cd/m2 max brightness. 8GB of RAM (Yay!) and 128GB of eMMC storage and a M.2 SSD slot. It’s weight is 1.3 kilos and just 6mm thin at the front. As you can see from these images, it looks a lot like the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 12 or 13 ...[Read More]
Tbook4 Review Online
Just in case you don’t follow the sites YouTube channel my Tbook4 review has been posted. Brief summary and rating are here. Sadly, yet another case of it looked good and it does in grey, but several issues and the lack of wireless AC means this one didn’t score so high. The review is above if you wish to check it, as it stands the EZBook 3 Pro is still the best of the Apollo Lake lapt...[Read More]
Chuwi Lapbook Air – 14.1″ Premium Core M3 Thin Laptop With Backlit keyboard
Update #2 Confirmed by Chuwi France, Core M3. Great news. I was worried it was an Apollo Lake again, maybe there will be a cheaper Apollo Lake version. But Core M3 it is. This premium build, a fully laminated screen with slim bezels and a backlit keyboard it’s stacking up to be a very promising laptop from Chuwi and their first Core M3 product. I’ll be reviewing this one as soon as I c...[Read More]
Apollo Lake Successor Gemini Lake – LPDDR4, HDMI 2.0 & 4-Wide Pipeline
So this has leaked over the internet, the block diagram for the new Intel Gemini Lake series of 14nm chips designed for fanless tablets, mini pcs and low-end laptops. It’s the Apollo Lake successor. These new chips are rumored to be around 15% faster and will support HDMI 2.0, so up to 4k 60hz, have 4 pipelines (Current Apollo Lake supports 3) LPDDR4 RAM up to 2400Mhz and Gen9 low power iGPU...[Read More]
GPD Pocket Review Online – 7 Inches Of Compromises
The GPD Pocket is one of those devices that has me asking, but who is this for? Who would really use this daily and as their laptop? Well, there are those out there that do want a device like this. The backers of the crowdfunding project, maybe they are IT admins after a full Windows 10 laptop as small as possible and a pocketable once at that. 7-inches and full of compromises as to be expected, t...[Read More]
Increase Apollo Lake/Gemini Lake TDP & Boost Intel HD Graphics Performance by up to 80%!
This is a game changer (literally). Something I have been trying to get on all the Apollo Lakes after testing the Tbook Air/ Civiltop air with no power limits. It has a huge difference in Intel HD 500 GPU performance. I discovered it was like the Core M’s when the power limits are increased or even disabled the Intel 500 / 505 integrated GPU it can finally stretch its legs so to speak and hi...[Read More]
