Teclast X98 Pro First Impressions

[parttimegeek]

Greetings all. I thought I’d give my impressions on the X98 Pro so far, hopefully it will be helpful to someone. I’d been looking for an affordable Windows tablet for awhile now, but waiting for something a bit more powerful. Spec wise, the X98 Pro really fit the bill for the price ($229).

I ordered from Banggood, the tablet shipped from China and showed up at my door in New York about a week later. It was packed in a foam carton, without retail packaging which was kind of a bummer. Tablet itself arrived in fine condition, but the retail packaging would have been nice if I want to resell the tablet later.

First thing I did was re-install Windows 10, which went completely smooth. I backed up all the drivers with DoubleDriver, then booted off a Windows 10 installer flash drive, deleted all existing partitions (including Android) and did a clean install of Windows 10. I actually was going to install Windows 10 Pro, but it turns out the installer picked up the embedded Windows 10 Home product key from the BIOS so once the install was done I noticed it was Windows 10 Home. Either way, once I booted back in to Windows it was fully activated. So it’s nice to know there is indeed a valid Windows key on the device, I thought I may need to buy one based on some other reviews. Re-installed the drivers from my DoubleDriver backups and I was good to go.

Sidenote, I don’t have a charging OTG hub yet so I did the re-install on battery power… which seems like it’s probably not the smartest idea, but the tablet made it through fine with plenty of battery to spare.

This thing is really fast! Everything in Windows 10 is super snappy and responsive. As people have said, it does run really hot but I’m not going to be doing gaming with this tablet so it shouldn’t be too much of an issue for me. I’m actually going to be using this as an always-on home server, running some programs like SABnzbd and Sickbeard, FTP server, etc. It actually makes a really great low power server solution, plus being a tablet and thus having a battery… it’s great in any power failure situations.

Also, the WiFi in this device is terribly slow and un-reliable for me. Even for Wireless N, it’s quite bad. Since I’ll be using it as a home server, I’ll be using a USB to Ethernet dongle plugged into an OTG hub. In some early tests, this gave me WAY faster and more stable transfer speeds than the wireless.

Now I’m just waiting on my OTG hub that can keep the X98 Pro charged, which I ordered from Banggood as well. Overall, really happy with the purchase!

[juan]

Thanks a lot for your review. So windows 10 is preactivated in bios, great news !!!!

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