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Cube iWork5X First Impressions – A Premium N3450 Laptop
The Cube iwork5X has arrived, and it’s impressive. The build and design look very similar to what I saw on the Cube Thinker i35, their premium Core M3-7Y30 laptop. But unlike the Surface Book screen clad Thinker i35, this screen flips around 360 degrees converting it into a tablet. But one of the cons is the weight, at 1.68 kilos, it’s the heaviest of the Apollo Lake powered devices I&...[Read More]
Tbook4 N3450 14.1″ N3450 Laptop with 6GB RAM First Impressions
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:...[Read More]
Teclast T10 – Rumored Fully Laminated 2560 x 1600 Tablet
Teclast has been quiet lately, but this surfaced on some Chinse forums just a day ago. A new model in the works called the Tecalst T10, it has a 2560 x 1600 16:10 fully laminated screen, the images show a fingerprint reader on the rear of it, a slim looking full metal design and the glass panel is said to have an anti-fingerprint oleophobic coating. A front 13MP camera and rear 8MP one. No news o...[Read More]
First Impressions Of The Tiny GPD Pocket 7-Inch Windows 10 Laptop
Laptops don’t come any smaller than this, in fact this is the worlds smallest Windows 10 laptop. It’s powered by an Atom X7 Z8750, 8GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 128GB eMMC. The 1080p IPS screen is fully laminated and it has a full metal build. Port wise, we have a Micro HDMI port, Type-C that supports, charging, data and even video out which is great. This means those Type-C docks work fine. And ...[Read More]
Coming Soon In August: GDP Pocket And More Apollo Lakes!
What’s up next, well the GDP Pocket (Requested a lot this one) a 7″ Windows 10 laptop with 8GB of RAM, Z8750 and 128GB of storage. Hopefully it’s not going to be like the GBP Win which the keyboard half died on me so it was sent back. I know said I wouldn’t review any more Atom devices, this is an exception. And the last for sure! My quest for the best budget Chinese Apollo...[Read More]
Mi Notebook Air 13 Refresh Review Online
I’ve had the Mi Notebook Air 13 revised 2017 edition for a week now. If you weren’t aware, Xiaomi upgraded it to the latest CPU and GPU. It now sports the Kaby Lake series of CPU’s, either an i5 7200U or i7 7500U (i7 model not out yet) and Nvidia MX150 Pascal GPU with 2GB DDR5 RAM, the GPU is basically the Nvidia 1030. And then a ELAN fingerprint reader now located in the touchpa...[Read More]
Jumper EZBook 3L Pro (Yet Another EZBook 3!)
What’s this? Yet another Apollo Lake Celeron N3450 laptop from Jumper? The EZBook 3L Pro is now a 14″ version of of EZBook 3 Pro (Which is 13.3″) It has the same spec, 6GB RAM, N3450 CPU, Intel Wireless AC, 1080p screen and two USB 3 ports. However, the port layout is a little different and it seems to have a micro HDMI out now and not mini. The build looks the same, full metal a...[Read More]
So Why Aren’t All Intel Apollo Lakes Equal?
This is a question I get a lot, how come the Intel Apollo Lake Celeron N3450 performance in XYZ laptop is so much better at gaming then ABC laptop? Well, in this video I investigate as to why this is, that some N3450’s play LoL or Counter Strike with 50 to 60FPS and others below 30 FPS. Long story short: It’s all down to the manufacturer’s bios settings. Now we can understand why...[Read More]
New Cube 8-Inch Android 7 Tablet. The Cube X5 4G
Cube or AllDoCube as they are also known as have a new 8-inch tablet coming, the X5 4G Or the Free Young X5 4G. Android 7.0 tablet with an 8-inch 1920 x 1200 screen. MediaTek 8783 quad-core. 3GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage. It has 4G, but the supported bands are pretty much only for China, but I do see some that will work at least with my carrier in Spain. According to Gearbest it’s 4G:...[Read More]
Tweak To Improve Jumper EZBook 3 Pro V3 & Other Apollo Lake Tech eMMC Speeds
Edit: This works on some others models (at your own risk) But my Onda Xiaoma 21 went from 160 reads and 100 writes to 250 reads and 120 writes. Big improvement yet again. Seems manufacturers are using slower speeds to either save battery or it’s just not correctly set! Again please do this at your own risk! Recommended to only try this on the newer Apollo Lakes not the old Atom’s that ...[Read More]
T-Bao Tbook4 – Interesting $239 All Metal N3450 6GB 14.1-Inch Laptop.
Edit #2. I just got mine recently, update on the wireless. Sadly it’s the old Realtek Wireless N chip! Geekbuying also removed the WIFI: Intel Stone Peak 3165 802.11ac/a/b/g/n part in the listing. I hope the Tbook4 will get an update with Wireless AC. But not to worry, I have a strong hunch, the Jumper EZbook 3L Pro is this model, same ODM jsut in silver with Jumper’s own config. Unbox...[Read More]
Jumper EZPad 6S – Apollo Lake 11.6″ Windows 10 Tablet With Type-C
Jumper’s EZPad 6 is a model that came out around March this year, but with the older Atom Z8350. By that point, I had given up on reviewing any more Atom’s and quick frankly I was sick of them. Now it has been updated to the new Intel Celeron N3450 Apollo Lake (not sick of them yet!). Other than that it’s more or less the same tablet, but with a type-c port. While it has D/C cha...[Read More]
