This is Teclast's F5 so it is a super portable very light
and thin 2 in 1 laptop this one here has an 11.6 inch screen in as you can see
can be used as a tablet so you can flip the screen around like that and it
becomes a 1.05 kilo tablet so after a while yeah it gets a little bit heavy
but then you can of course use that keyboard like a stand and prop it up
into this presentation mode here so because of the size and this is always
going to happen you do have some compromises with a laptop like this one
here so we don't have any full-size ports on this we've got a type C port
with 4k output data and charging all at the same time a USB 2 port micro USB 2
and then we do have 4k up to 60 Hertz out which is really good so it's HDMI to
spec on this one now when you take a look at the left-hand side we've got a
3.5 millimeter headphone jack with a good output on this as clean it's no
static there's no interference plastic power line buttons and volume button in
there on the side and when you pick it up you sometimes accidentally do touch
these ones here the power button put it into sleep and that's just one of those
things there that do you can actually sit in the settings of Windows to have
it do nothing and you can just pretty much fix that problem and solve it so
the keyboard because it is so small this is not going to be a keyboard for
everyone I don't have huge hands and I found that with my medium-sized hands
that typing on this keyboard does take a while to adapt to and get used to now
because it's not a full sized keyboard we don't have a lot of keys on here so
no page home up-and-down no print screen button that I like to use myself a lot
that's missing unfortunately now the feel of the keys is okay some of the
keys when pressed don't have a super quality feel to them like the enter key
for example if you don't hit it right in the middle for me and on the edges it
tends to sometimes feel just a little bit clicky and funny but it registers
every time there's no miss keystrokes and there is no keyboard lag which is
the main thing here so overall an OK keyboard it's not the greatest the bith
for me so far is the toilet book I see same goes for
the touchpad well it is a Windows precision based once as using window
precision drivers the accuracy is good it's a little bit smaller so again not
quite as comfortable there now the Paris this is made out of plastic with this
model here and you will note that we do have the webcam - in a funny position so
it's one of those look up your nose the whole one's there which is not the
greatest so this screen turns out to be a little bit of a surprise here with the
f5 now it has good color gamut the coverage is great it's got srgb coverage
of 97% Adobe RGB coverage is also 73% this is better than some of the
thousand-dollar laptops in fact a lot of the thousand laptops dollar laptops that
I've looked at gaming ones tend to have very poor average displays in them and
even business laptops so it's a nice surprise to have such a good screen in
this the brightness however isn't the greatest now I feel tech class have
probably toned this down because of the battery life now being so small another
compromise is the battery capacity so it's 29 watt hours and with my fresh
install of Windows 10 I'm only getting four hours and even struggling to get
four hours so if you must have good battery life then you're not going to
get it with this you know this thing is all about Portability and lastly taking
a look at the rear so we do have a tiny little hatch here that you can easily
access and replace the 128 - gigabyte SSD if that's not enough for you you can
put a set of three into spec one in here up to 512 gigabytes and the one that's
included is okay it has reached of about 560
wet writes are quite slow only about 150 megabytes sequential but let's get into
more detail about just how well this particular laptop performs so the things
I wanted to point out here that of course we're running eight gigabytes of
RAM here and yes you do notice that it does feel a little more fluid a little
smoother when just doing normal operations and things and in about
Windows versus the four you get for example on the lap book SC or the easy
book x4 that I have tested out you can see my CPU use that is rather high at
the moment because I've got some things going on there chrome is running and I
don't know why it's that high it's probably just updating but just to point
out that there's me yes it is actually running in
dual-channel now check this out with with HW info and you can see the speeds
not the higher supported now according to the RAM it will actually support 2.4
gigahertz but at the moment it's only running at 2 point 1 3 3 the good news
is of course we're gonna get a little bit more RAM bandwidth there and you do
see that when you take a look at benchmarks so what I'm showing you first
is just a wireless speeds here so whether Intel wireless AC 31 65 and
those were the maximum speeds I managed to get out of my router here now at home
with my FTP server set up at STP server you can push around 350 320 to what I
was talking about with the RAM so dual channel Ram and you see the multi-core
score here is actually originally be good for this type of chipset so the
seller on this is the in 4100 of we reviewed now a lot of them and the
single core school should be a little higher here you can see compared to the
lat book I see that that one's a little higher but the multi-core score is up
around about 340 points or so there so it does make a difference having an
extra Ram even in synthetic benchmarks like this so we'll take a little look at
general performance here so right now I'm just gonna load up BBC code at UK I
haven't loaded this up before so that's the reason why I'm doing it to see how
fast it is you can see that pops in pretty quick now I'm gonna use my
fingernail with the scrolling and it's not the smoothest I have seen so
scrolling down here there that is in general good but it's just not this
smoothest I have seen because this is quite a heavy website as well but saying
that it does feel a little smoother down the lap book I see now the Start menus
one area that I'm seeing always a bit of lag with this tick so the Apollo Lakes
the Gemini Lake is what I was doing that's when I hit the Start menu see how
that loads in a little sluggish it's a little bit of stutter there that
unfortunately is still happening is to something with this hardware I think
it's to do with the Intel UHD drivers just the way they've got it set up that
it's not exactly the highest performer there so we'll test out a video clip
this is what I normally do so this is jellyfish and MKV file that is encoded
with the HEV C 10 bit encoding and it's 140 megabits per second so it's a very
demanding file that will tap and we'll see how quickly this loads in
so you can see it's a little slow to start and you'll see this stutters in
the beginning get a bit but once it gets going it smooths out and that runs
actually perfectly fine for this very demanding file so we'll skip ahead now
and you can see that that was pretty quick so once it's going then it stops
dropping frames there so their performance I mean it is really good for
this type of file now let's also take a look at 4k streaming so I'll do this in
YouTube I'm just gonna load up any random 4k demo file
I could also light up my own videos as well cuz I shoot them in 4k but let's
just go for 4k demo right here and see what that brings up like that n whoops
it was very poor typing on my behalf there I could here we go 4k demo so
let's just go for this one here and I'll do the usual so I'll just mute this to
start with and let's make sure this is in the 4k
sitting in able our stats for nerds and hit fullscreen so drop frames
this isn't chrome and Chrome tends to drop a few in the beginning and then it
seems to settle down but still not quite perfect that was it you can see that's
starting a little bit now if you do the same in edge you're just going to run
this perfectly fine it will not actually drop any frames only when you maximize
and minimize the video you can see it's wearing a little better but it is still
definitely dropping a chunk of frames there which is not good I also have open
in the background but this has got nothing really to of Chrome dropping the
frames there is I've got LibreOffice right here so this
is basic spreadsheet so your world files spreadsheets Word ads all good on this
the 8 gigabytes of RAM is helping and if you are of course running a slightly
faster assistir a bit of Rights then things might pick up a little bit when
it comes to saving things but overall this performance is decent now this is a
very well it's relatively large the spreadsheet so when you're finding
things searching or moving around that isn't too bad I also have a Photoshop
open right here so I'm just going to go and load a recent sample
I have been editing this is the sample load for my tests and you can see that
it takes a little while to load this in and this doesn't have a lot of layers or
anything like that so minor it it's basic in its in things like that with
Photoshop I gonna be fine now if you want to edit videos on this hard way
with the four gigabytes of RAM 1080p video editing is possible but be warned
it is slow and it can be painfully slow and when encoding use something like
PowerDirector the latest versions of PowerDirector they're all supporting
entails quick sync so the encoding times will actually be a little bit faster
there but it's not really recommended I recommend going for something like a
core i5 minimum machine if you're going to be editing a lot of video not on this
particular hardware right here so there were a couple of concerns there were
people asking me to test out the Bluetooth so I did pair this up to some
speakers and I found that in my experience the Bluetooth range yes it's
not the best so you're only looking at about half a rooms length before it
started to break out started cracking up and getting crackling effects and it
would just come in and out the audio so that you'd Bluetooth range on this isn't
the greatest now normally I can get at least a rooms length away from things so
be that in mind you want to keep it a little bit closer I don't know why this
is perhaps it's the way they've arranged the aerial they have things set up there
and the thermals that I think I have already pointed out to you so these are
very good so they're thermals 84 degrees max and this was after 1 hour and 11
minutes now I have not done any copper heatsink mod I don't actually believe it
is necessary here so you don't need to open this one up you don't need to apply
any of those fixes there and you can see it even consumes close to this is 13.5
but I've seen it up to 14 watts when gaming the power consumption so it is
basically running and unlimited power limit here now I showed this in the
unboxing video but I will quickly just let you know that with Linux support
there are two major things here so the touchscreen is not working at all and
the other thing is the wireless for some reason now normally the Intel wireless
AC 3165 will work perfectly fine but in this case it is not working so that's
something going to have to contend whether you have to wait for that to be
obviously fixed patch with the kernels and driver support there so Linux
support not looking good so far on the system
hopefully later on that will be addressed so normally with the typical
tech that I review at it China the speakers they sound terrible on these
devices the laptops the tablets they're flat there's no base they lack volume
not the case here so really good surprise here from tech glass that the
speakers have a bit of bass their side firing you get good stereo separation
and the loudness as well as decent here's a sample
okay so here's a sample from the webcam so the location of it is like the Dell
XPS a little bit it's right down there in the bottom where most people are not
going to be looking now if you do listen carefully can you hear that
there's a tiny little bit of interference coming through from the
mics which is unfortunate apart from that this webcam and of course the
location of it the webcam quality is good this is much better than the chewy
lat book FC's webcam which was really blurry on my unit and then on to gaming
Sulekha legends here this is 1080p and I have it set to the medium preset and you
can see their frame rate well it's not wonderful around 27 frames per second
dipping down a little bit dude expect better wouldn't you from the 8
gigabytes of RAM now as I mentioned before that even though the TPD which is
the power limiter set to 9 watts it will actually consume right up to about 14 or
so so we are getting about the maximum performance here but it's just I think
you probably need to this lower the settings down on this one so I now set
it to very low on 1080p okay there we go and that now brings the frame rate up to
about 30 frames per second 29 in fact that hasn't really given us much of an
improvement at all there which is really quite strange and now taking a look at
Counter Strike here you can see that the frame rate isn't wonderful 24 22 frames
per second it's quite slow this is 720p and it is on the lowest settings but
really you probably want to actually lower the resolution I would say down to
800 x 600 that'll give you a little bit of a boost there to the frame rate but
it's not ideal I mean this is not as smooth as you want it to be here now the
server I think is it's pretty much a full server so it isn't its most
demanding at the moment of course this is the dust2 map online
and it's just a shame about that framerate if we can make it over 30
frames per second the whole time that would be just so much better I would
have thought with the extra RAM the extra four gigabytes versus the other
hardware that we might be able to do that but sadly that is not the case here
okay guys so this laptop okay it's all about compromises of course with the
size so the smaller keyboard the better life's the big thing for me only four
hours that's just not good enough it's just if it was six hours then it
would have any problems recommending this laptop for its size I mean this
thing's so small and tiny I love the weight of it it's just so portable which
is great really decent screen on this the color gamut that it has the coverage
is just so much better than you would expect for this category of laptop I
went out of China with this kind of brand touch response at times is a
little bit flaky you sometimes have to tap again I don't know whether that's a
fault of Windows because of the smaller screen size at eleven point six inches
or maybe the touch digitizer itself just isn't quite that accurate now it does
have a stylus which unfortunately was not featured in this video because it
was just not going to make it in time and I didn't fancy ordering one with DHL
or express shipping having to pay about 50 euros tax on one which has happened
to me before when getting a stylus for one of these particular laptops so
overall it really get boils down to that better life can you live with it if you
can if you can live with it then it's a decent little laptop thank you so much
for watching this review here and I do hope to see you back in the channel
water on becoming videos make sure you check out my netbook se video up here
which is another a polar Lake sorry Jim and I like that type that I recently
reviewed and then of course the tick last f6 Pro that's their quorum version
larger version of this particular laptop really this is the baby one bye for now