Mini Review: Chuwi Hibook (New hardware revision)

[Andy B]

Good stuff, thank you for writing it up!

When was your order placed? Do we have any idea when the hardware revision happened, serial number range or any other indicator?

CHUWI claims that they use a non-laminated OGS on the HiBook, and has always claimed that every HiBook was OGS in this way. But can they opt out of the lamination step and still call it OGS?

<span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Are you able to write with a stylus? Mine fails pretty badly in apps like INKredible on Android. My finger is ok, but too clumsy for my taste (my fingertips aren’t very accurate!) I wonder if your screen is improved.  </span>

Philippians 2:4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

[Chris G]

Thanks for this mini review, glad they fix the annoying USB port issue. Can you please run 3Dmark in Windows 10 and see if it’s better than what I got in my review. My Windows 10 performance was no way near what it should have been.

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[Daniel Wong]

Chris G wrote:

Thanks for this mini review, glad they fix the annoying USB port issue. Can you please run 3Dmark in Windows 10 and see if it’s better than what I got in my review. My Windows 10 performance was no way near what it should have been.

Updated the first post with the 3DMark Ice Storm benchmark, it’s way better than your score of 8000+ in the review. Definitely another fixed point.

[Andy B]

I recently received OTG adapters for both microUSB and Type-C. My HiBook ordered May 10th, serial Q64G45160401654 must be the new revision.

I can power my 1TB portable backup drive from Type-C, microUSB, and both keyboard dock ports.

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[Daniel Wong]

Andy B wrote:

Good stuff, thank you for writing it up! When was your order placed? Do we have any idea when the hardware revision happened, serial number range or any other indicator? CHUWI claims that they use a non-laminated OGS on the HiBook, and has always claimed that every HiBook was OGS in this way. But can they opt out of the lamination step and still call it OGS? <span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Are you able to write with a stylus? Mine fails pretty badly in apps like INKredible on Android. My finger is ok, but too clumsy for my taste (my fingertips aren’t very accurate!) I wonder if your screen is improved. </span>

Nope, you can’t call it an OGS display without full lamination. The idea is that the screen should be adhesively bonded to the front glass (therefore the name one-glass solution) and that implies full lamination. It’s probably just being thrown in as a marketing term.

The touchscreen on mine is fine (quite satisfactory for me actually) but I haven’t tested it with a stylus on Android. Let me download INKredible and try out as well with my POLAR pen stylus.

Andy B wrote:

I recently received OTG adapters for both microUSB and Type-C. My HiBook ordered May 10th, serial Q64G45160401654 must be the new revision. I can power my 1TB portable backup drive from Type-C, microUSB, and both keyboard dock ports.

I ordered by Hibook on the 5th of June, serial Q64G45160502606. Seems like they revised it quietly a lot earlier then.

Have you managed to get USB3 speeds off your USB-C OTG adapter (I’m assuming it’s USB3 too)

[Daniel Wong]

Daniel Wong wrote:

Andy B wrote:

Good stuff, thank you for writing it up! When was your order placed? Do we have any idea when the hardware revision happened, serial number range or any other indicator? CHUWI claims that they use a non-laminated OGS on the HiBook, and has always claimed that every HiBook was OGS in this way. But can they opt out of the lamination step and still call it OGS? <span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Are you able to write with a stylus? Mine fails pretty badly in apps like INKredible on Android. My finger is ok, but too clumsy for my taste (my fingertips aren’t very accurate!) I wonder if your screen is improved. </span>

Nope, you can’t call it an OGS display without full lamination. The idea is that the screen should be adhesively bonded to the front glass (therefore the name one-glass solution) and that implies full lamination. It’s probably just being thrown in as a marketing term. The touchscreen on mine is fine (quite satisfactory for me actually) but I haven’t tested it with a stylus on Android. Let me download INKredible and try out as well with my POLAR pen stylus.

Andy B wrote:

I recently received OTG adapters for both microUSB and Type-C. My HiBook ordered May 10th, serial Q64G45160401654 must be the new revision. I can power my 1TB portable backup drive from Type-C, microUSB, and both keyboard dock ports.

I ordered by Hibook on the 5th of June, serial Q64G45160502606. Seems like they revised it quietly a lot earlier then.

Just tested the stylus with the Hibook with INKredible, no luck. It doesn’t track reliably. Finger and touch input is really good otherwise.

 

[Andy B]

Daniel Wong wrote:

Have you managed to get USB3 speeds off your USB-C OTG adapter (I’m assuming it’s USB3 too)

No, it’s definitely limited to USB 2.0 speeds.

They falsely advertise OGS, Gorilla Glass, and USB 3.0.  Perhaps they don’t have regulators to keep them accountable?

I just did the 3DMark Ice Storm benchmark and got 13,888.  Then I downloaded the newest (June 17, 2016) drivers and my score went down to around 10,000.  I’m going back to the faster drivers!

Just tested the stylus with the Hibook with INKredible, no luck. It doesn’t track reliably. Finger and touch input is really good otherwise.

That’s what my conclusion was, too.  I have no problem in general using the touchscreen… but will not be doing any handwriting with styli on this unit.

Philippians 2:4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

[dlink377]

Just for comparison sake, these are my benchmark I’ve ever done on my HiBook Pro.

Please take note that I dedicated 512MB of my RAM for Video since it is 2K screen, probably requires much more RAM.

It is plugged to the charger and Intel DPTF is disabled. Room temperature is around 23.

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[Daniel Wong]

Andy B wrote:

No, it’s definitely limited to USB 2.0 speeds. They falsely advertise OGS, Gorilla Glass, and USB 3.0. Perhaps they don’t have regulators to keep them accountable? I just did the 3DMark Ice Storm benchmark and got 13,888. Then I downloaded the newest (June 17, 2016) drivers and my score went down to around 10,000. I’m going back to the faster drivers!

That’s weird, I used the latest drivers from Intel for this score. Wonder what could be causing the discrepancy?

[Chris G]

Nice scores, well that cloudgate one in particular, is good. Guess that vram helped. I never touch the dedicated ram settings when reviewing I review them as 100% stock, otherwise it’s not fair.

@anakimana Good that Chuwi have improved the Windows performance. Which driver was giving you the best boost? Can you give us a version? I’ve noticed that the Windows update one can be slow and the Intel driver update utility one seems faster. Also betas from laptopdrivers2go.com can be hit and miss.

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[Andy B]

Chris G wrote:

Which driver was giving you the best boost? Can you give us a version? I’ve noticed that the Windows update one can be slow and the Intel driver update utility one seems faster. Also betas from laptopdrivers2go.com can be hit and miss.

I just looked up my results and it says I was on driver version 20.19.15.4380.

Driver 20.19.15.4380 – Score: 13,884
Driver 20.19.15.4463 – Score: 10,854
Driver 20.19.15.4444 – Score: 12,109 (updated to Windows 10.0.14367 – Insider Preview, Fast Ring)

I’m currently on the last one, but now that I looked up these driver versions I’ll see if 4380 is still better.

 

Philippians 2:4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

[dlink377]

Andy B wrote:

I just looked up my results and it says I was on driver version 20.19.15.4380. Driver 20.19.15.4380 – Score: 13,884 Driver 20.19.15.4463 – Score: 10,854 Driver 20.19.15.4444 – Score: 12,109 (updated to Windows 10.0.14367 – Insider Preview, Fast Ring) I’m currently on the last one, but now that I looked up these driver versions I’ll see if 4380 is still better.

I see my driver version is 4352, do I need to update it?

Windows Update never offer me new Intel HD Graphics driver though, and I get a relatively good result even when dialing back the Video RAM to 256MB and re-enable Intel DPTF.

Although the score is high, I still feel my tablet is slower than the previous iWork 10, especially the Android part. Anyway, I don’t game on 10″ screen, so those 3D Mark score doesn’t mean so much to me.

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[Chris G]

@dlink377 Where are the Intel DPTF settings in the bios? Is it disabled by default? Normally I don’t touch any bios settings.

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[dlink377]

Chris G wrote:

@dlink377 Where are the Intel DPTF settings in the bios? Is it disabled by default? Normally I don’t touch any bios settings.

It is on Thermal, I believe it is on second tab? Doesn’t really remember it though.

I also doesn’t touch most of the BIOS settings, since I believe the BIOS is quite fragile and have no fail-over or reset to begin with. I’ve seen forum posts someone kill their device by just disabling I2C on BIOS accidentally.

The DPTF is enabled by default. I tried to set it back to default before running the second test by re enabling DPTF and setting the Pre-allocated Video RAM to 256M and Aperture size 256M. I don’t really notice any performance degradation since then, probably will keep the default for the time being. Extra 256M for this memory hungry chrome can’t be so bad :).

[mayur]

i have just gotten my tablet this evening after 45 days, of shipping of which 20 days went by in the customs. i haven’t gotten a chance to try everything but i did try the usb otg. usb-c works like a charm. i got normal usb 3.0 speeds i get on my desktop. using a sandisk usb 3.0 drive. so chuwimhas definetly used usb 3.0 port there..

i will try to post a review later next week…

any idea how to get sdcard working again? it worked initially but after sometime it has stopped working in windows. i tred to check the drivers but nothing doing…

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