If you follow the channel you've probably seen my review of Chuwi's Sur
Book. I have here now this smaller version so this one is ten point eight
inches it has the surface three screen in it which is a three by two aspect
ratio screen with a resolution of 1920 by 1280
it also has 64 gigabytes of storage and sadly four gigabytes of RAM so not the
same six gigabytes we have in the sir book it's powered by the same CPU the
intel celeron in 3450 it has wireless AC a USB type-c 3.1 spec and this one here
I picked up from Chuy's official store on Aliexpress now it does support an
active stylus but sadly it's the hipen - not the H I or hipen 3 which is
actually a little bit better than this one well quite a lot better because this
doesn't support pressure sensitivity the nib on it is hard plastic and as a
battery inside it's charged by micro USB - but because it doesn't have any
pressure-sensitive levels whatsoever it's just more of an accurate pointer
which is a real shame the packaging has been changed from the other chewy
tablets I've looked at is exactly the same the plain brown box you'll find the
accessories in the side here we'll have our power brick here well not really
much of a brick so EU cable and then the type C charger so this is quite small
it's also quite light as well and it's rated to 12 volts 2 amps so it's 750
grams so you know which is rather heavy actually for a tablet but that's because
it's got the middle kick stand in the middle build unfortunately at this point
I don't have the keyboard but hopefully I'll have it soon within a week or two
and it comes in at 9.30 millimeters thick so the screen on this one should
look really nice I mean it was in the surface 3 and it is fully laminated here
so up the top there's a 2 megapixel camera and we do
have a pre-applied screen protector with this promotional cover over the top of
it that you need to pull off of course
so it's not actually the first chewy tablet to have the screen in it we have
the H I 10 plus but this one is non laminated so it won't look as good
because it's fully laminated now on the sir book mini and like the sir book mini
it has the same port layout so we have 2 USB 3 ports then we have USB 3.1 type C
and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack just like the sir book again we have a
kickstand now this goes back a hundred and 25 degrees behind it you'll find our
micro SD card slot now note that the hinge is the same so it's got metal in
here seems quite sturdy and it is screwed into place there as well the
hinge and also the rare of this alloy housing and on the bottom we have the
Pogo ports these are the connectors for that attachable optional keyboard which
I hope to be showing you in my full review so the whole rear is made out of
metal but there is one exception this part along the top is made out of
plastic where you find the buttons which look like they could just be like
chrome-plated plastic buttons and there is also another 2 megapixel camera on
the rear so the build quality overall it feels good it's solid well put together
hopefully that hinge is going to stand the test of time I one thing I did note
that on the sir book that that alloy they've used is quite easy to scratch so
pelton up here first in the BIOS because I wanted to check
and see if we're able to increase the power limit but as you can see here no
we can't we're locked out so very basic biased settings is all they are giving
us here so you can just disable a couple of things I change your boot order and
really that is basically about it so power it up quite quickly first
impressions of the screen it looks very decent deep blacks and it's super bright
it's really actually quite hard to capture on camera here because anything
over about 50 percent brightness there is completely over powering my camera
and 100% that super-bright I'll measure that in my
full review and I really need to just tone it right down to about zero or even
25% in there I think is okay for me to capture on camera so we've got forty two
point four gigabytes free and I've had a look at the disk drive it's a SanDisk
dr-40 64 that's e MMC five spec and we have Intel Wireless dual band AC 31 65
so very common chips it now and it's normally quite good performs well
reasonable in these devices here and nothing else really to report back on
their that the touch response that seems good the accuracy so just put a few of
my typical test images on the tablet here to have a look at the screen so it
does look really quite good I think mostly because the fact that it's fully
laminate is why the blacks are so deep and it just stands out but it was a
panel that was good enough to be in the surface 3 so you know it's not too bad
it's not the highest resolution of course nineteen twenty by twelve eighty
but a very nice-looking screen now to demonstrate this stylus just a little
bit I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this one because it's basically just on
and off when it touches the screen all it is is an accurate pointer it does not
of course have any pressure-sensitive levels which is such a shame I can't
believe that Chuy's gone with this move not to include a pressure-sensitive
stylus support with this model so yeah palm rejection it does have as soon as
it touched this the screen but there is no like hover function you can't see
that at all it basically needs to touch it before then it would register and
work so once it's touching then you can see that touch input does not work but
only then so what does translate into that really if you use this for
handwriting it's gonna be useless and again as mentioned before for artists it
will also be useless no doubt you were wondering hey where are the speakers on
this tablet you didn't show them well they're not on the side nope and then
nope not there but it's actually housed within here and what I mean it because
there's only one speaker on here so it's just mono
which is very disappointing as well but let's have a listen to it
so these are the speeds of that SanDisk eat intimacy 5.1 spec drive so
sequential reads of 242 then sequential writes of 104 these are very decent the
4k speeds as well very good for an emmc drive so tested out my type C hub it
will power external hard drive so do the USB 3 ports and it will also output
display up to 4k 30 Hertz but just like the Cir book a little bit of a problem
with the plug because my type C hub doesn't have a super long plug here and
due to the design of the port that you really have to do push it in quite hard
to get full contact with the Cir book many here yes I have tested Linux
support here and it's not looking good I have burnt 2 USB pen drives one with
Linux Mint and then another with Manjaro the latest builds and both of them end
with this right here you can see a stuck cursor on the screen and it will just
will not boot okay so that's the unboxing there of Chuy's so book mini
and it's a little bit mixed here my overall first impressions because well
we have a really nice sharp screen that's bright a good build quality USB 3
ports type C port on here it's just quite disappointing when it comes to the
fact that the stylus is very basic so it's not even one with pressure
sensitivity which is a real shame they've missed an opportunity here ok we
also have one speaker on the left so mono audio not stereo and as a result it
doesn't sound as good as other tablets and only the speakers in these tablets
are quite disappointing this one is even more disappointing because of that
single speaker there now I don't have the keyboard at this stage so I can't
comment on that hopefully I will have that in a week or two so then I can use
that of course and get used to and test out what it's like the key travel we
have and report back on that and the full review of the Chewie sir book mini
if you do want something that's got a bit of stylus then you better off of the
sir book the larger version which of course supports pressure
it's got up to 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity thank you so much for
watching this unboxing and first impressions and
I do hope to catch you back in the channel with the full review of this
model hopefully in about two weeks time or so