Hey guys so I'm back here with the EZ book 3 pro now I have already done a
full review of this one and an unboxing so check out those but one of my cons
was that it had real tick wireless-n so it's just a single antenna limited range
and speeds and the rest of the competition all went with the Intel
wireless AC 3 165 chipset so this version now has the wireless AC dual
band which is great we've got the 5 gigahertz band on there and it should
also have the m dot 2 SATA it is three slot in it so this isn't going to be one
of my full reviews I'm just going to cover the MMC we're going to have a look
at the speeds of it Wireless speeds and any other improvements or changes on the
third version of this notebook so a lot of us were lucky enough to pick these up
for a really steel price of 219 us unfortunately that flash sale hasn't
happened again so we haven't seen that price again from gearbest I hope that it
will come back so it's well packaged up now the box itself wasn't double boxed
all they did is just put a plastic to plastic bags around it you can see we've
got the user manual here now this does had Chinese and then later on the other
side there is English in there as well but most people won't need that useful
reminder are they're just telling you to charge it first okay so I'm not going to
go into the usual detail here with they're building everything it's really
quite good you can see all that in my full review has a full metal body so the
lid all made out of the silver alloy there's a gold version as well and on
the back of it here also metal down with firing speakers and overall it is really
quite a good notebook effect I would say one of my favorites if not my favorite
so far so the screen is an IPS screen 1080p and it's anti glare matte-coated
and the touch pad I wonder if they changed it as
the average it's not the greatest the keyboard is really very decent is hardly
any flex at all super rigid really good so let's get this powered up and check
out the wireless AC performance alright so you can probably make out from the
video here that the screen still has more of a cool white tint to it and it's
not neutral or warm definitely leaning towards the bluer side but they can be
corrected if you mess about with the Intel driver settings but overall it is
quite a decent screen I find it really good it's 1080p it looks good and direct
sunlight as well even though the brightness isn't the brightest if you've
seen my jumper eg book 3 review on there you'll see that yet I find it to be a
really good screen considering also the price now under the device manager here
here's the Intel Wireless dual band 3 165 chipset now this
performs really well now not in all notebooks some notebooks I've noticed
that the upload speeds will suffer for some reason now I've done a quick test
here and very good results so over 300 megabits per second this is the maximum
my line will get connected up to my desktop so it's doing really well now
the upload speeds not quite perfect 300 would be perfect but it's good it's
great because there's a lot of other notebooks for example the what am I
looking at at the moment it's the civil top ear and then the t book ear and the
on - oma 21 they only get 50 upload for some reason so it's doing really well
and I'm so pleased to have this because I sold my version to the of this which
had the wireless in because that maxed out at 50 didn't have very good range
the range on this seems good I wouldn't call it excellent but it's a lot better
so much better than the version 2 model now the SD card micro sorry the internal
storage is listed as an end card which is why almost a SD card now whenever
it's his generic end card that for me has been the b1 brand and they are very
slow as you'll see here so our wireless AC has come at the cost of the Toshiba
emmc that we had which was an emmc five spec this is
emmc full put 5.1 and you can see they're sequential right rate of only 39
not good to four case they're very low as well so real crappy speeds out of it
now that of course is fixable I'll show you in a second how to install the micro
sorry m2 SSD getting myself confused here and that will completely remove
that problem there now Windows just wanted to comment that it has the latest
Windows 10 image so when I went through the setup I had to go through an all
gearbest did not go in and create an account or anything which is great so
out of the box 9 it looks to me has touched it since the factory and it's
that latest build because it's got Cortana talking new to you so you can
actually just tell Cortana yes go with the u.s. layout keyboard things like
that now the touchpad has been an area of much debate really because a lot of
people have said that it is quite poor now I think it's an OK touchpad for most
tasks so getting around and just minimizing things and doing all your
stuff that you normally would I find it's fine because if it was a really bad
touchpad for me personally I'd be resorting to a mouse which is often the
case with those smaller real crappy ones you get on some of the Chinese products
but weirdest touchpad is below average is when it comes to the to thing to
scrolling now there's it's not really that good now I think some of the
problems of the two things of scrolling is coming from software that's called
the touchpad blocker so you see that a scroll what's happening it's not really
that responsive and good and the bulk of that issue is coming from this program
that they have pre-installed called touch pad blocker so uninstalling this
software will improve things but it's still not a precision touchpad so you
cannot expect it to be like the surfers book or like the surface type travels or
like your Mac books this is a 219 us laptop
but for me it is a usable touchpad and I am happy with it because often I don't
do the two fingers groaning that much but yeah and install that that will
solve the problem and you've got yourself a very decent notebook here
especially those of us that picked it up for only 219 us now the build quality
and the version 3 here remains exactly the same it is superb for the price it
is really good it's more like a premium notebook the kind of build quality that
has that I'm not joking it's thin it's really well put to get it feels solid
the keyboard has virtually no flex hardly any it's very firm a great
keyboard to type on I really do like it now the port spacing as I mentioned in
my full review which I recommend you watch before committing to buy one of
these if you are thinking of them the port spacing isn't the greatest wish it
was just spaced out a little bit more here the 3.5 millimeter jack and a USB
port now those USB ports are running at full USB 3 speeds and they do power
external hard drives just tested that so no changes there and that is the maximum
that this screen will recline I mean it's not the greatest that I find that
it's still ideal for lap use and using it on a table and no changes whatsoever
to the RAM so we still have the same RAM configuration which is the 2 3 gigabytes
samsung low powered double data rate 3 chips they're running at 1600 megahertz
which is the fastest supported Apolo like speed and then the cpu of course is
the intel celeron in 3450 now this is a quad core with a
maximum to a 2.2 gigahertz now a lot of people do ask me what can I do with the
CPU it is really good for multitasking for Chrome edge things like that for
docs videos like kind of work light older games that's fine web so if you're
going to be playing for example counter-strike on lower settings or
League of Legends on relatively low settings it can play those games but
don't expect to edit 4k video and certainly don't expect to be playing
Battlefield 1 at 60 frames per second I mean this hardware's not designed for
that it is about efficiency this is about
battery life so you can get around seven to eight hours of internet use on the
easy book three Pro which is great and one of the reasons why I tend to use the
Apollo likes more now than my me notebook ear whether its core m3 is
because that only gets around five hours of battery life for me investigates an
additional two three hours which is great so this year I finally recommend
and that is to install an SSD because those e MMC speeds from that bwin Drive
they are far too slow really that's going to affect the performance of
Windows and hold you back a little bit so getting into where the SSD is located
this slot is very easy just remove all of the screws on the bottom and you just
have to pry it up it comes off no problems now you'll see just like the
vision to model that I reviewed that we've got the large copper heatsink it's
great the layout is good everything's screwed in an overall build quality is
decent it's good it's great no problems whatsoever here now they've
done something a little strange they've put this plastic surround here around
where the SSD slaughter is limiting our size to only the 22 by 42 you can see
that's going to fit in there no problems so what you can do and some users have
done this on the previous model is if you unscrew this screw and that one and
in this one you can remove that plastic ring around the outside and then get
something like a pair of long nose pliers or something under that screw and
try to remove that the other side of it and then you can put in for example a 22
by 80 this is my crucial one here which I picked up for quite a good price
actually a lot faster by the way to the full-size drives will go on there just
put a bit of electrical tape over the top of it to hold it there in place but
once it's loaded and that's not really going to move about there now one more
step of course is once you've installed the SSD you're going to have to then
clone windows over to your new SSD now there's a few ways to do this what I
normally do is just use Windows backup images take an image and then restore
that on to the SSD you're going to run into a problem there and it's only going
to copy over the same space as the drive so you use then another
partitioning tool to increase the space of the main partition windows and job
done now with my crucial it comes with this here the software that I also do
recommend a Cronus true image HD that will then allow you to clone the drives
over and find me another little tip here for those models out there that want the
best possible performance large thermal pad about one millimeter thick by about
fifteen or so or 20 millimeters right here will then transfer heat away even
from that copper heat sink onto the back plate right here lowering temperatures
and possibly increasing your clock speeds and performance
now with that is if they installed you can see the kind of figures we get out
now so really good read speeds and write speeds they're from my drive and that's
pretty much the fastest verse 22 by 42 millimeter card will perform so if I was
to put this which I'm going to do later on my crucial in here then those speeds
will probably be about 550 read and around 550 right as well and much better
for K speeds but overall it removes that bottleneck of the crappy MMC they put in
there so the b11 isn't exactly perfect but even so now with the wireless AC and
the previous model that I did my full review on this great keyboard the great
screen the great build quality and the overall value for money you get this is
a phenomenal laptop I feel and without a doubt now the best a polar Lake n 3450
laptop you can buy out of China thanks so much for watching this review and I
do hope to see you back in the channel of course with more up-and-coming
reviews