Voyo Vbook i5

[murdic]

I was browsing banggood’s listings yesterday and I came across Voyo Vbook i5.  I’d never heard of it before, there’s not much out there.  When I searched it, references said it’d been released in mid-late January this year, but it came and went without fuss.  But it’s got interesting specs: Pentium 4415u, which  is a 2.3 GHz base frequency Kaby Lake dual-core which should be a bit more lively than the usual celerons in Surbook and some others, although I assume that it has a fan, 8Gb dual-channel RAM (the listing doesn’t say what memory is fitted, but it does refer to memory bandwidth of 34Gb/s, and Intel says this Pentium handles DDR4-2133 to achieve that bandwidth), 128Gb SSD, 12.6″ 2880 x 1920 OGS screen, claimed 2048-level pressure sensitive stylus.  The stylus looks like the one that Voyo is also supplying for their i8 Plus Android tablet, and that tablet and the Vbook i5 look like they’ve got the same sort of kickstand, Surface-style fully-variable that lays almost flat at full extension, with that watchband-link style of hinge.  Both of those tablets have very much the same design themes.  The Pentium 4415U, CPU is 15W, so it’s not going to be particularly long battery life, which is 38Wh, and it doesn’t have any fast-charge routines, although the spec says it’s got DC input and USB-C charging.  It’s got micro HDMI and two full-size USB 3 ports.  Gearbest says out of stock, Geekbuying sold out, Banggood says they’re restocking soon: on the basis of that spec at that price, I want one!

[Chris G]

Looks interesting, Voyo products do put me off, I hope they have improved. But it has a 3:2 aspect ratio fully laminated high res screen, that I like and the 8GB of RAM and 128GB M.2 SSD. I might just buy one to review. But would love to see a vide of it first before forking out the cash.

There is also an i7 version with the 7500U and yes it will be fan cooled at 15W

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[murdic]

Where did you find a reference to the i7 version, Chris?  Voyo’s site doesn’t reference the thing at all.  I’m very interested in the performance of the stylus, so I might buy the i8 Plus Android device to see what that feels like.  I like to draw and paint digitally (there’s a painting app called Rebelle that processes  the physics of watercolour, the virtual paint bleeds through virtual art paper.  Like wow, man) but my budget doesn’t stretch to a high-end Surface variant, or even an Eve V (a Finnish crowdfund startup that offers a Surface Pro/Asus Transformer 3-like tablet with the best specs about 20%-25% less than Surface Pro prices), and even though I laugh at myself for thinking that there’ll be difference that I can feel between 256 levels and 2048 levels, we’ve got to make decisions on specification and hope that reality matches up.   If this Voyo doesn’t come back, there’s a company here that sells a variant of Chuwi Hi13 with N4200 and 3G/4G.

What part of NZ are you from?  I’m Oz/kiwi dualie in Sydney since the 1970s, a granddad but still passionate about new kit.

[Chris G]

I saw it listed here on Geekbuying the Voyo i7 Plus seems a little different.

You really never know what these machines are like to you get them in hand, on paper they can seem fantastic for the price. But what you get often can be a lemon and more so from Voyo.

I’m from Auckland.

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[murdic]

Thanks for the link!  At face value, that seems even more tasty than i5 (Not much consistency to the model naming!  The “i7” model has an i7 CPU, the “i5” has a Pentium?).  It gives a shipping date, which might be true or not, but it’s some sort of indicator, and that  page implies that it’s got faster charging through USB-C too.

[Chris G]

Still a lot of cash for a Voyo $699 USD. I’m going to hold off on it. Maybe get the i5 model first if I was to risk it!

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