Chris here back with all do cubes K note eight so this is a 13.3 inch 2560 by
1440 resolution screen tablets fully laminated so it does have a very nice
screen on this this is by far the best feature we have on this so it has a
maximum brightness of 410 lux deep blacks good reasonable color
reproduction touch accuracy in response is good but there is a bit of a floor
with the tough response what happens with the digitizer on this it will go
into a sleep mode after an on use for a while so if you're not touching the
screen all the time for example scrolling up and down on a web page and
you leave it for a while and go back to close down one of the windows you'll
find you have to tap again after a few seconds because it goes into sleep mode
and takes around two to three seconds to wake up again now seen this on other
tablets it means that at times it can be a little bit annoying because you're
gonna have to re tap again because it falls to sleep the screen that is really
the only con here by far the best feature of this tablet is that really
nice screen so it's super bite at 410 lux but it's also dims down really
really dumb and this is great for nighttime use a lot of manufacturers
tend to set the minimum brightness levels far too high for nighttime you
say just don't actually think about that I feel so the building design of it it's
a typical two and one here and we've got a detachable optional keyboard you can
get now this keyboard is really nice to type on it has a rubberized finish to it
so it's a bit of a texture to it I don't know how it's going to hold up the long
term I have noticed that the rubber underneath it however due to a little
bit of damage on one of the corners is black so if you do end up scratching it
it's going to probably end up looking a little bit messy over time now the touch
pad well large and while it does support gestures is not running windows
precision drivers now this is a bit annoying I found that the more finer
movements using this for example you need to close down a box or minimize or
maximize a window can be quite frustrating and in the end I ended up
using a mouse or just simply using the touchscreen so not a great touchpad
on this keyboard now the keyboard is backlit which is great to have and
you'll see that it's got this purple color which is rather nice not too bad
now it's just an on and off setting there is no levels of brightness now it
cuts in with magnets Pogo pin port on there and sometimes it's a little bit
difficult to align there to get it to clip right in you can see I'm struggling
to this clip in it there we go okay took about three or four tries there one
thing about it is those we cannot prop it up to a second level to get that
angle on there for increased typing comfort that's one thing that this
keyboard is missing now the design with the kickstand you can see we've got a
free angle kickstand you can prop it up about that it's the maximum upright
angle and then this is as far as it will go back which to me considering that
this actually supports an active stylus to this particular tablet I don't happen
to have it I can't find it yet to buy it the correct stylus I don't even think
it's out yet it should recline more than this so that
it should go way back if we can get it right back like you can for example the
Microsoft Surface and that'll be a lot better for stylus use for those that are
gonna buy the stylus for it so the the chassis over the build is actually a
plastic frame needle on the rear 5 megapixel camera can see on the back
there now I won't bother giving you any samples of this because it's very
average I mean it's I don't think anyone's gonna really probably use it it
is autofocus Hauer which is good so you can take a photo of whiteboards text
things like that up close and you'll notice too that the hinge mechanism as
well that's all metal to there so that's good now when you have a look at the
ports we got here on the left hand side you'll notice that hey where's the
full-size USB 3 port no it's missing this is a mess of error and real low
field if it's a Windows 10 tablet especially it should have a full sized
USB 3 port on air so you can at least connect up an external hard drive on
here so that's a shame it does not have it and that will definitely be a
deal-breaker for some people I know it is almost for me see you have to carry
around the adaptor of course they give you in the box and probably get yourself
a Type C hub so that type C port will support 4k up to 30 Hertz maximum that
I've been able to get with it and the other thing too is that
we'll support charging as well as their DC charging you have there now the 3.5
millimeter headphone jack on there that supports microphones as well the audio
quality out of that is good it's loud and there's no static overage widget
which is good too I hate having static out of those 3.5 millimeter jack switch
is often quite common now the micro SD card slot you see my unboxing if you
have I'm going to sing I've got a bit of a problem whether that it's not well
designed it just doesn't align properly with the case so you can accidentally
slaughter a micro SD card behind the actual reader and perhaps even lose it
or get one jammed in there so not good at all
but overall the build yes it's good it's got a good build quality but there's
just the little tiny little quirks there that I don't particularly like about I
feel that of course that the kickstand should go back a little bit further they
should have a full size USB 3 port and the micro SD card reader should be done
a little bit different now their micro SD card reader just to point out as well
will support USB 3 speeds the reader so you're not limited at USB 2 speeds which
often happens so this K Note 8 is running Windows 10 home it's not the
latest version you'll see here the OS build they've got so you will need to
run some updates when you first get it and it's running 8 gigabytes of RAM
which is in dual channel and it's running at 1866 megahertz which is good
now you will see that it does mention here that it supports a pin and touch
support you even got this right down here which is Windows ink workspace now
I do have right here this stylus is Chuy's H I thirteen stars it's the high
pen 3 I think it is which actually tends to almost work but you'll see there
what's happening is it's jumping around all over the place so what this means to
me that it will support a similar stylus but on a different frequency so you have
to wait and see what happens if all your Kube are going to release the stylus
soon hopefully they will it's obviously coming it's in the works
now run a couple of benchmarks here wanted to point out too that the
internet speeds so I was able to get this is about the best I can get here in
the studio however connected up to my router at
home with a much faster wireless AC router than the one I've got here with
my fiber line I'm able to push almost 380
megabits per second which is close really to the maximum that that chipset
is able to do and under the device manager so there it is the Intel
wireless AC 3165 it's not the fastest definitely not there so we have the disk
drive here which is just labeled as a setter SSD now when I've seen this in
the past that means it's either a B win or 4c brand these are the speeds here so
the read speeds for SATA 3 days those are all good for K's the reads and the
rights also good sequential writes you can see a little bit on the low side
because this will be an MDOT 2 22 by 42 spec 1 so that's a slightly smaller
drive and that does tend to put on some restrictions there when it comes to the
kind of speed you're able to get out of this now the tests that I've run here so
we've got Geekbench for the synthetic benchmark not too bad for this chipset
for the core m3 7 Y 30 that has a maximum turbo of 2.6 gigahertz it's not
the fastest nor is it the lowest score I've seen from that chipset either and
the OpenCL benchmarks this is testing out the graphics right there I also ran
n2 2 so it's not the latest version they have on windows placed all this is the
version 6 you can see and a score of 213,000 there so if you've never used a
coin 3 the least the 7y 30 it's quite a good chipset I mean this supports native
H 2.6 for decoding vp9 decoding movie files are here I'm streaming in krob 4k
and you can see that it's only dropped one frame here of course with my fast
connection here it all depends on your connection but it can stream this back
no problem so really it's over twice the power of say the apollo lake in 3450
that's intel's cell wrong one of the weaker chips and one of the ones that i
often review here in the channel because of the 8 gigabytes of ram as well you
can do quite a bit of multitasking and it's very smooth and using the touch now
will demonstrate here the touch screen that I mentioned that look on my first
touch it ok didn't happen right then but sometimes you need to wake it first
though it doesn't respond to the first touch but now it's quite good so that's
mode that scrolling the speed and it will keep up with everything so
switching between your tabs and everything it really does perform quite
very similar to say an older generation Core i3 or i-5 depending on which
generation like a fourth generation Core i5 even not bad at all in terms of our
performance with that now you can edit 1080p video just fine an encoder
depending on the editor you use use something that supports Intel Quick Sync
for example we've got power director that's one that does support Intel Quick
Sync but 4k video editing I wouldn't recommend that at all don't touch that
it's just far too slow now better life is one area that I have found to be very
disappointing with this tablet I have done quite a few full battery cycles
here and I wanted to just point that out that you can see here low that this is
probably the best I got actually most of the time it was under four hours so I
set the brightness down to 25% which I find is good for indoors so it's not
even on the what I would call the brightest setting and this is the result
here so you can see after almost well three hours and 40 minutes of use that
I'm down to 20% battery from 100% and that was really only with about six to
eight tabs open in chrome now charging times are also quite slow it took over
four hours to fully charge the 41 milliamp hour battery so overall
disappointing results here this is probably one of the worst better lives I
have seen on a court m3 tablet normally I see around five to five and a half
hours which still isn't great compared to say the Apolo lakes so the table it's
got left and right firing speakers they are a reasonable quality they do have a
tiny little bit of bass and some okay meds and things they're just not really
loud enough I'll give you a sample of them now
now chickened out gaming performance this is league of legends I'm running it
in 1440p on the medium-high setting and it's hovering around 45 close to 50
frames per second which I feel isn't bad so it's a big step up and performance
from the quad-core Apollo Lake seller on ships that I typically review and
counter-strike on the lowest settings 1080p is reasonably playable here see
we're getting it over 40 frames per second which is great so good for a
little quick game on the side nothing serious of course what about a more
demanding title so I did test out fortnight unfortunately what happened as
I lost my footage from that but it runs in 720p on the lowest settings around 24
25 frames per second and it is playable but only just and at the moment I see
I've got a huge waiting time in line this game is just proving to be way too
popular for the servers okay so take a look at these temperatures here it's
just scorching hard and this is on the screen here so long term this is not
good to have these kind of temps it's gonna eventually cause some sort of
damage somewhere and after that little bit of gaming you saw well 95 degrees
and for some reason that hasn't triggered thermal throttling which is
really strange because the t-junction max is a hundred and five degrees or
possibly even maybe a hundred they might have the thermal throttling set - it's
still far too hot and this does need I feel a copper heatsink mod if you are
going to be gaming and doing really demanding things on this tablet know you
put together a few watched most of this video here that there's just too many
cons really I mean the screen is nice I'll start off with the positives it
won't be negative then it is very bright it dims down really dim and I do like
the fully laminated screens of course it just makes it look a lot better than
most other tablets that aren't fully laminated so that's the big positive day
it's a good screen the build quality is good it's okay but my unit I have issues
with micro SD card slot it's misaligned it doesn't line up properly I feel that
this kickstand really needs to go back a lot further
than this that's not good enough and one of the big cons is where's a full-size
USB 3 port on there there should be one on this side or the other side at least
one we need it we always need that we can't just have
type C I don't like the move just to put type-c ports on and if people want to
defend cube and say oh that's why they made it slim because they couldn't put
USB 3 ports on there I've seen some devices slimmer than this that have full
size USB 3 port so they can do it I know they can the keyboard as well it's
really nice to type on so that's good if you're gonna do a lot of typing you'll
be happy with the keyboard it just feels good I like it I can type really fast
with hardly any no typos that's really but the touch pad that touch pad is
frustrating to use so if you happen to leave your mouse at home or what you
forgot the little dongle adapters you can't plug it into it and it's not a
Bluetooth one yes maybe you can get away of using it a little bit but it's just
when you need to do accurate movements so I found that when it was really bad
for example you're in something like paint you want to crop an image or you
want to highlight some text and things it's just really annoying the cursor
tends to jump around and I just gave up it so knows why I'm using this touchpad
it's just know not good at all so as a package I can say no don't get it you
probably bit off getting the cube mix now you're gonna have to do make thermal
copper heatsink mod to that model and this model really does need it as well
which gets to my biggest con gets far to your heart doesn't I mean it gets hot in
this area that's where you'll find the corium threes right here hates being
transferred to the rear with cubes new and improved cooling technique could pay
commented on in the advertising material for this model but it just cooks itself
it gets up to 90 to 93 degrees so if you intend to video edit or game and be
charging at the same time now it's not good I feel long-term that that's going
to probably end up damaging the screen you could have the glue separate from
here or the frame come away from it or something like that which I think
happened to the cubed think of i-35 as well luckily that it hasn't happened to
my cube thinker mine hasn't had that problem so that's not great and then the
battery life hugely disappointing I struggle to make 4
hours on this tablet I mean the corium trees that have always had pretty much
bad better life in my experience with the tablets at least even the Microsoft
Surface pro not amazing but this is one of the lowest scores I have seen from a
quarry m3 normally get five and a half five hours but this won't bad and then
about four hours to charge it as well there's just all this things start
stacking up that no I cannot recommend this one here so I do hope to see you
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