Within the sealed box here I have the Cube or AllDoCube as they are known as
now I work 5 X now this is a promising looking Apollo Lake M 3450 powered
laptop / convertible because what the screen can do is flipped right around
360 degrees so I converted into a large tablet now the screen is thirteen point
three inches it's 1080p it has 10 touch points apparently but I don't think it's
going to be fully laminated I haven't confirmed that by looking at information
on the website but we'll see in just a second I get this unboxed so it has 4
gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of internal storage which can be expanded
upon because it does have an m2 seta SSD slot on there so we'll pull the reel
off it will look at the internals and see if it has a copper heatsink and what
size of SSD we can put in there so other specs include 2 USB 3 ports micro SD
card slot HDMI out and a 30 watt hour battery all in a full-metal premium
apparently build so it's looking very interesting so we'll get this unboxed
here I'll go through my normal unboxing procedure before we look at the final
review which will be following up this video here so let's get started on this
the packaging looks quite premium not bad it kind of reminds me of the Q
sinker hopefully it's along those kind of lines of the cube thinker which has
an excellent build quality very much a premium laptop that one so the box has
nothing really honored about specs are just a few things on the back there but
it didn't say much really just our 64 gigabytes okay yeah premium kind of
packaging well it's a lot better than what the you typically get so just check
out the accessories first in this box on the slide so the box is jam-packed with
the power supply here so the plug on it that looks to me like the typical three
millimeter that we see so DC charging it does have a type C port on this I wonder
if that will also allow us to charge it and it is rated to 12 volts 2.5 amps
that's more or less what we get on all the Apollo Lakes
and there is the other side in here to this it's going to come out hopefully
they have given us a power cable there which is of course a small little
us-style one so I'm going to need an adapter for that and now just the laptop
remains so it feels actually quite heavy a little bit bulky there okay we do have
some key card here so this has these constructions or whatnot cube I work
five and would just be a quick guide and things and that looks to be yet as all
in Chinese so I'm not going to bother about that there's nothing else in there
that's just paper there so look at the weight got my scales powered up so
weighs in it one point six eight kilos that is definitely on the heavy side
it's not exactly going to be light to hold us when you flip the screen around
and the tablet form
okay so along the bottom four rubber feet these are all screwed in place so
we'll be pulling this rear plate off soon to have a look at the internals and
the SSD slot and probably install my own SSD I'll have a look at the thickness so
it comes in to be approximately 15 and millimeters stick at the thickest part
there that's not including the rubber feet which I can actually just get to
but that's going to add another millimeter or two there so about 17 and
at the front it's around 13 14 millimeters there so very thin for what
it is so this is very premium looking so far really good there's an I work 5 X
logo on the top there it's not offensive at all we're not seeing a big huge
Chinese logo on the rear like some of them the top of it that is very solid
that doesn't really have any flex at all so on the right side of the laptop we
have DC and 3.5 millimeter headphone jack USB 3 port micro SD card slot and
then a power button now this power button is made out of metal
now the spacing of this could be a little bit better so if you're going to
be using a wide if your card reader or something like that then you won't be
able to use at least this port that there and then plug in your headphones
because obviously it's going to be blocked it's just kind of not going to
be enough room on the left side a type C port status
LED micro HDMI out and a second USB 3 port now we'll test and find out whether
it is Type C supports charging hopefully it will the hinge on the rear is one of
those special ones that allows the screen of course to flip right around
and it's not made out of plastic this is made out of metal all of it okay guys so
place your bets what do you think fully laminated screen or non laminated I'm
going to put ten dollars on non laminated because of this price range
but hopefully I'm wrong here let's find out so that hinge opens quite nicely and
I can see that it is yes a non laminated screen there because have a look at the
touchpad nice and large very good size on that hopefully this is a precision
one very good a little bit of flex here nice feeling keys decent travel and we
do have a shortcut there to disable the touchpad screen brightness volume
controls print screen and then you get that extra roll along here so very good
when it comes out to all the options we've got on the keyboard layout there
so you can clearly see some status LEDs here power number lot cap slot and there
is this grill along the top which is probably where these speakers I would
say the sound will be transmitted up through there which hmm
I know interesting sort of placement I mean it's better than the downward
firing speakers on the rear at least hopefully these sounds ok but I will
test that out in this video so up the front you can see the 2 megapixel webcam
and either side of it those are microphones there so we're going to have
dual array microphones good placement too because on the keyboard or at least
in that area we took up a lot more feedback from the keys if you happen to
be typing at the same time and nice attention to detail here there are two
little rubber feet this is going to stop the screen from scratching up against
the keyboard now look now at the gap we have between the digitizer glass and
then the IPS panel below you can see if I put my finger there that I'd say that
at that border you can see inside is in fact the gap there what do you reckon I
think about 1.5 millimeters it's definitely not the smallest gap
unfortunately hopefully it will not be too distracting so I don't you can see
it looks very slim and sleek which is great I'll just demonstrate very quickly
how the screen works and now it's become a tablet a very heavy tablet at that but
you can use it in tent mode and you could also use it in presentation mode
but it looks like the hinge isn't going to be able to handle that weight or
using it in what they call presentation mode for about there the screen starting
to drop you can see very slowly that's eventually going to fall down so you
have to prop it up at an angle of about there in order to stop that from falling
down okay so as I expected it's Windows 10 Chinese I won't be able to change
this I'll have to do a new Windows 10 install so I'm going to go into the
operating system and just show you some of the things I can the device manager
have a look at a couple of things and then what I'll do is I'll do a Windows
10 install and I'll back up the drivers too as well they will be available on
tablets comm if you after the drivers so I've got two here in Windows Chinese now
I'm backing up the drivers currently with one driver that's going to take a
little while always does but I've managed to pull up a couple of things
that at least I can understand we can see that the RAM on there four gigabytes
around they have dedicated a little bit to the Intel GPU there and okay that's
the Chinese version I'm trying to at the moment install the language pack but it
doesn't look like it's going to work it just keeps spinning on that logo like
it's trying to download it so I'm not going to bother with that I'm just going
to go straight and do a clean install once I've got those drivers so the
touchpad first impressions of it are very good this feels like a great
touchpad and I can see okay this was all in Chinese but I can see that it is a
precision touchpad so another plus here another positive and also wanted to
mention that the build quality of this laptop
is really good it reminds me so much of their premium laptop the cube sinker a35
so we have a quick look at the screen I've just got a couple of my typical
sample images here so you're going to get a bit of reflections of course
because it's a non laminated and a glass covered panel but to me it is a very
decent panel so far just using it really quite good looking okay we've got larger
bezels we always get the larger bezels on these yoga style laptops because they
need more reinforcing apparent in this area here that's why we get there
because there's a metal bar going along here but a very decent looking screens
at the moment it's on 17 oh sorry fifty percent brightness that's 75 100 looking
bright I would just guess now I'll get my equipment out later on a measure if
it looks about 150 300 Lux and dulls Dems right down super dim that hey you
can see me there so the emmc they have on there is a Toshiba brand one which is
great we're not seeing any card in here which is those horrible 4c or b1 brand
ones which are tend to be quite slow I'll benchmark that later I want to get
everything in English and then the wireless just to confirm is yes Intel
Wireless dual band AC 3 165 which is a fairly decent chipset it's not bad it's
got 2 antennas in there and normally the range in speeds on that are really quite
good in previous notebooks that I have looked at so it just tested out the
micro SD card slot with some of my files that I normally set up on these our
notebooks and these tablets I didn't notice that it was a little bit
difficult to insert this micro SD card but once then as you can see it sits
nice and flush so I've got some really good news here that type C port is a
what I would call a proper type C port so it's used to be what do you call it
3.1 display out up to 4k 30 Hertz charging and data all at the same time
this is awesome this is what I love to see on these kind of devices because it
just adds to it add to the value of it doesn't it so my hub here that I've got
here this is a habbit USB 3.1 times C hub I just plug that in and I had my
monitor running I plugged in a keyboard and a mouse and also had it charging all
at the same time that's right news so just typed out a little
bit on the keyboard and they've got like a nice how to describe like a firm feel
to them a nice feel when you press down on the very good keyboard so far I'm
really enjoying it and liking it and again 10 goes for that touchpad that
it's large and being a precision touchpad accuracy at the finer movements
seems to be really good and I can see that it supports gestures you're able to
tweak those gestures you can change it if you don't like the inverted scrolling
whatever all of those options are all there but so far this is shaping up to
be very good keyboard and touchpad now the touch accuracy of the screen seems
good
no problem selecting things now there's a little bit of lag there that's because
I've got about ten things going on in the background I think Windows Update is
also running I'm dumping the drivers too at the moment which is a pretty slow
process but yeah the touch is looking good so the screen can be of course
flipped around and then used even in portrait mode now the keyboard on the
bottom you're probably wondering is its selective when you flip it around
no it's disabled automatically there is no lock button on here but at least it's
disabled now and the accelerometer is working perfectly fine you see it flips
that around one thing to note though because the bottom of it here does not
have any rubber feet on it that if you place this soft alloy on a table and
there's sand on an Imagine or something like that and you move it around that is
probably going to be quite easy to scratch up so looking now at the
internals straight away you can see two counterweight so that's probably to stop
it from flipping over when you're tapping on the screen now the screen
when you tap it does move a little bit that happens on all of these our
notebooks with this design you'd something you just can't avoid but
everything's screwed into place including the battery screwed in there
and you see a very large copper heatsink that's one millimeter thick there's done
a really good job with this now models out there if you do want to
any help improve this thermals you can probably go step further and put a big
thermal pad here transfer heat onto the rear casing but that'll make it a little
bit hotter of course so there is metal behind the keyboard backing it up that's
why it feels so firm and the hinge is all screwed into place the speakers at
the top there I do believe this - inside there I'll test the amount in
just a second now right here is what we're after this is the SSD bay the slot
so we have either the 22 by 42 will fit with the first screw hole here and then
we've got the 22 60 which fits on that last hole here now they haven't included
a screw but in order to fit this 22 by 61 this is my Sanders that I have I have
to break this out now they've designed it so you can you can just lift this up
and it will break right about there and you can put that in unfortunately my
crucial 22 by 80 they're full-sized one look at those if I plug it in there's no
way that's going to work it sticks out so sadly that's not possible but it is
great that we can of course install an 850 in here now the bias was fully
unlocked as you can see but we do not have access to that power limit setting
which is the setting that I found out that on the likes of the civil top ear
that I could boost the performance because without the parliament's the GPU
really did perform well so I've got a USB pendrive plugged in now with Lennox
Manjaro just wanted to test and see if that's going to boot and allow us to run
Linux on this machine and so looking good so far
okay so Lennox manager you can see booted up just fine it is running the
touch that's working and also the wireless is working bluetooth is working
the screen brightness I don't think is working sound works
oh no sorry screen brightness does work so what doesn't work is the touchpad
that seems to be the only thing so far oh and the auto rotation so you have to
hunt around for drivers for those so we know when I look at the internals of
these speakers they output from just above the screen there let's have a
listen to how they sound
actually they don't sound too bad if you heard from that that is a bit of bass in
there which we normally don't get these aren't the greatest speakers but they
are so much better than the other notebooks the Apollo 8 ones that I've
been looking at by far they've got a bit of volume to them there's a bit more
bass they sound a lot better so I don't want to speak too soon here but I think
I might have found the best of Polo Lake device out of China the best Apollo Lake
notebook this is really good so far what I've seen so the trackpad is great it's
large it's a precision touchpad and it's working really well it's accurate with
the finer movements I'm very happy with so far same goes for the keyboard typing
on the keyboard is a pleasant experience now the keys don't have a lot of travel
they're a little bit shorter than other keyboards I've looked at but they've got
that nice kind of firmer feel to them and of course there's no flex on that
keyboard you can see well little tiny but when you're typing on it there
really is no flex it's a very nice keyboard now the build quality is
excellent it's almost as good if not the same kind of level as the cube think of
a 35 now that model is their premium Core M with 8 gigabytes and that sells
for about 560 us this is selling for around 300 at the time of this unboxing
and the build quality is really good now the screen it's not fully laminated
there's a gap of about one to one and a half millimeters we don't really notice
it and what I've noticed too that you've probably picked up if you've got a keen
eye there's no screen protector pre applied on on there and the glass looks
really nice it feels to me like it could be hopefully a scratch resistant
tempered glass that they are using now the emmc speeds you can see them they're
not the fastest 160 reads and 52 sequential writes the 4k writes are
quite low there so installing applications on that drive may be a
little bit slow but I haven't trimmed it yet so that could be affecting that
score so the best parts of this for me are the fact that we can convert this
into a rather bulky heavy tablet but you can use it in presentation mode you've
got the touch screen on there just adds an extra level
and the performance everything else will be tested in my final review that is the
gaming thermals you name it it's going to be and now I'll use it a lot longer
just to get an overall feel of this it'd be a week or two before I have the full
review out if you have any questions please let me know down in the comments
and I will try to answer you bye for now