[Tony]

Useful to check. Thanks.

I have followed your support on the Corebook Indiegogo page.

I wish we could see the real production line for Chuwi products. They must contract-out the production to a cheap generic line to save money. How else can the thermal paste, and other silly problems, happen?

I supported last years Surbook campaign & got a good unit. However, I recall someone had to take the back off a Surbook to attach the keyboard ribbon to the main board!

These problems can only mean that no quality, or 2nd check on the line, is ever done. The units are put together, switched on & off, and packed into boxes.

 

[Tony]

Someone is showing the mini here, at 2.46 into the video:

[Tony]

It is a Chuwi Unicorn, seen in mythical form here in April in a strange land called HongKong:

[Tony]

Other chargers will work. The one that you mention is the same spec as the one I got from Gearbest:

https://www.gearbest.com/chargers-cables/pp_624045.html

This charger works on the Surbook, but the Type C socket on the Surbook case is recessed & at a very slight angle.

You have to get a male to female Type C adapter and cut back the plastic part of male plug about 1.5 mm so that the metal part is as long as the male end of the Chuwi charger lead. You get something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0718ZJ4Y1/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A16WQB9CJ3FN6Z

or this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0723CJ3P4/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A897UHOH33HU5

Then carefully cut back the plastic to make the metal plug a little longer, same length as the Chuwi charger. This works & I can use the Xiaomi 45W charger.

[Tony]

Yes, I understand your problem. There are many way to recover from the situation. Chris is the best to ask about this.

However….I was looking into this myself as I am waiting for the Surbook and would like to prepare for a windows recovery if necessary. Your problem is so severe that I will suggest something to try. First go here to look at a way of booting a USB pen with the downloaded image:

http://forum.chuwi.com/thread-3565-1-1.html

This is for the Chuwi Lapbook 14.1, but it may work to get into the Surbook boot menu & then pick up the windows image from a USB pen. It may be risky as I am not familiar with the disk layout on these tablets; they may be the same as each other or maybe not.

The forum will have other tutorials that may be adapted to your problem, so some additional reading may be required.

[Tony]

All drivers, bios & windows image is here:

http://forum.chuwi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=4821#lastpost

[Tony]

No Chuwi device yet. I got a Cube i12 last year as a gift for someone and tested it, optimized it, and it worked very well.

I have ordered the Surbook, as it is the same tablet/laptop combination as the Cube i12 except it has a better CPU, better screen & a good selection of ports. The problem is that the Surbook is not released and so no proper review is available.  Maybe next month.

[Tony]

Well, all of these tablet/laptops are low powered, so you will see stutter or lag sometimes depending on what you do. I am surprised that Photoshop appears to be usable. They are good machines for light work,. They are not like the traditional laptops that cost $600 or so, as these have 1TB drives, good graphic chips and i5/i7 CPU.

The cheap tablet/combination machines are good devices, I think, but you will always see some limitation sooner rather than later.

[Tony]

As Chris said, it depends on what you want. All the tech on these low powered laptops is definitely good enough for media & web use. So, the only decision is design & port configuration; you need to consider how much stuff you want to connect to the device, such as printer, 2nd display and so on.

I like the Surbook as it is a travel laptop with good ports, but its not available at the moment and I can wait.

[Tony]

A Surbook 2 or Pro with a better CPU & other improvements may take a while, IMHO. Chuwi will be happy to keep selling the current Surbook if the production & sales hold up.

Longer than 3 months would be my guess, although a 2nd model may be advertised sooner to keep people interested.

[Tony]

The Surbook seems like a more flexible option as it is a good home laptop/tablet & a travel computer. The problem is that it has not been reviewed yet, whereas the HI13 has been released & reviewed. The Surbook will be reviewed in July if the release date is accurate.

[Tony]

On the i12, the boot to android app is in the windows folder. It is called: WintoAnd

[Tony]

Some comments & updates are on the Facebook page. Scroll down to see the Surbook postings.

https://www.facebook.com/chuwidotcom/

[Tony]

<p style=”text-align: center;”>Thank you. I didn’t see your post until now, as I was traveling. I will look at the translation when I get home.</p>

[Tony]

Try this link to get info on drive partitions and also changing the dual-boot setup:

Cube iWork 12

Start halfway down the page, and there is info that might be helpful.

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