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July 13, 2017 at 12:14 pm #69162
Also geekbench won’t get above 1200 and 2900 and after the thermal mod the back side and keyboard get very hot under load.
July 14, 2017 at 10:09 am #6921836-37Wh is correct. If geekbench is low, check the RAM speed. Is it 1600Mhz. Maybe they made some changes. Are you talking about the lap book 14.1 right?
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Currently testing: LG G8X & Redmi K30July 14, 2017 at 6:39 pm #69242yeah lapbook 14.1 I have updated the title.
Will check later.
July 26, 2017 at 10:26 am #69691Yep. Just for fun – to investigate the changes to the new “model” – I bought an extra LapBook 14.1″ (really should stop doing this… soon I can open a museum of all this stuff).
It sure has a different battery, I guess same capacity (9000 mAh, rated at 3.8V, or 4500 mAh at 7,6V). Fits an SSD fine with the new clip.
However… Chuwi, what have you changed so that the battery life has worsened so much? The previous model could easily do 5-6 hours doing normal Office tasks. The new model only 3 hours!
In Passmark’s BatteryMon it indeed shows that it draws a lot more power from the battery, even when idle.
Stay away from the recent LapBook 14.1″ I would say, until a new BIOS perhaps fixes this.
July 26, 2017 at 8:43 pm #69711yeah confirmed same story here too, not good.
July 27, 2017 at 12:11 am #69718Yep. Just for fun – to investigate the changes to the new “model” – I bought an extra LapBook 14.1″ (really should stop doing this… soon I can open a museum of all this stuff). It sure has a different battery, I guess same capacity (9000 mAh, rated at 3.8V, or 4500 mAh at 7,6V). Fits an SSD fine with the new clip. However… Chuwi, what have you changed so that the battery life has worsened so much? The previous model could easily do 5-6 hours doing normal Office tasks. The new model only 3 hours! In Passmark’s BatteryMon it indeed shows that it draws a lot more power from the battery, even when idle. Stay away from the recent LapBook 14.1″ I would say, until a new BIOS perhaps fixes this.
Thanks for the info. Not good at all, so the capacity is the same? But less run time? What about thermals? You sound like you have my bug, buying and buying items to confirm and test stuff! Not good. But later I built this site around it at least!
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Currently testing: LG G8X & Redmi K30July 27, 2017 at 9:20 pm #69746Tomorrow I will put the old and new version next to another and open them up again to have a closer look to all the changes, especially to the battery.
Stay tuned.
July 28, 2017 at 12:50 pm #69765I just received my Lapbook 14.1 and sofar I am happy with it! After a night charging, and fiddling with it for an hour (58 minutes) I have 89% power left, thats about 9-10 hours battery-life. Brightness is on 45% or so.
But I regret there is indeed no option to disable the touchpad (on this model) and that typing is a bit awkward, like drumming on a cookie-box (without the sweetness inside).
But I am especially happy with the wifi ac-reception. Wow, I clocked a down- and uploadspeed of 100mb/s, wonderful.
The screen is a bit flunky or cheaply made, just above and through the icon of the batterybar there appears a bright spot of the led, but when I push the bezel at that place it disappears, so there is a kind of leak … but most of time its gone and then, when the white spot appears again, I push a little and its gone. Not serious enough to return it back to Spain (Amazon.com) I guess.
Now I wait for a ssd of 120gb to put in, tomorrow.
These are my experiences up to now. I am glad I have the order for the 15.6 cancelled in favor of this one.
July 28, 2017 at 2:12 pm #69769Same here with the latest (newer revision) of my LapBook 14.1″: a lighter area bottom right. It also disappears when pressing between the back of the panel and the bezel just below the lighter area. But after a while it returns.
I told you so that the 14.1 is much better than the 15.6…
Later today my results with pictures of the differences between the first and last revision of the LapBook 14.1″.
July 31, 2017 at 11:00 am #69933Yes the 14.1 and 12.3 models are so much better than the old Atom Z8300 Lapbook 15.6 model. Apollo lake is so much faster and with VP9 and HEVC native decoding.
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