hi Chris here and it's been a while since i've taken a look at a 15.6 inch
more budget orientated laptop and this one was sent out to me from Teclast it is called the f-15
pro now it is powered by a core i5 it's 10th gen the 1005G1 it has integrated graphics Intel's UHD
but it has 32 executional cores which is slightly better than what we've seen say on some of the
other older generation chips like the 8th gen for example now this model here it does come
with 256 gigabytes of storage 12 gigabytes of ram wi-fi ac so it's not wi-fi six wi-fi a x
with bluetooth five would have been a lot better so say that's one area it's definitely lagging in
it has a 53 watt hour battery and in this review i'll be going in detail we'll take a look at this
laptop and i'll let you know is it worth the 420 or so asking price that teclast is after for this
particular spec of windows 10 home laptop this laptop weighs 1.93 kilos for a 15.6 inch laptop
that's not too bad now with our 57 watt charger the total travel weight then is 2.21 kilos
so looking at our build here we've got a plastic palm rest the touch pad is nice and large however
i find the finer movements to be very irritating with these ones the cursor jumps around all
over the place so i would rate this really as a very poor touchpad i like the size of
it and yes it does have our left and right mouse buttons in it now no backlighting with
these keys at all it's good to have the number pad the full size arrow keys these shortcuts all
along the top they work without having to use the function key so you just need to use the function
for the f keys along the top there that is it now pressing down in here there's not really much flex
the keyboard to type on you get around 1.4 to 1.5 millimeters of travel which is very standard
we've got all four little speakers up the top right here some status leds and the keyboard does
make a bit of a a rattle kind of noise when you do type on it i'd say it's an okay keyboard this one
it's just that touch pad i'm not very happy with our lid here this is made out of a brushed alloy
with a matte paint finish on it and it does pick up smudges a little bit pressing down here there
really is no flex on that and it doesn't feel bad now the hinge stiffness it cannot be opened
up one-handed and it does make a few creaks in the chassis which is all really plastic this is
the only metal it's got really is just the lid here and you do hear that when you open it up
also on the right side gigabit lan this is real tech usb 3.0 we have a microphone and
audio out so that's good and the quality on it is not too bad uh this micro sd card slot the micro
sd is sitting flush which is great but it's still only just usb 2 speed so i get a maximum of 27
megabytes per second through that one and then here on the left we've got a kensington lock slot
hdmi right there full size one and a type c now it looks like it supports power delivery but with all
my power delivery charges i'm not actually able to charge this one at all which is very disappointing
i don't know what is going on or maybe i've got a faulty unit it just does not seem to be working no
display out via this one either this is hdmi 2.0 so 4k is 60 dcn 19 volts for charging with the
charger i showed you before of course and another usb 3.0 and then the underside here we got four
rubber feet intake vent there is a screw in the middle this is why the keyboard doesn't seem to
have any bounce or flex which is a good move from them and i'll open this up now we'll take a look
at the internals and the first thing you notice here is look at the crazy amount of free space
i'm talking all of this okay this is just some tape there that's holding down a cable
it goes to this pcb right there but it's only this part here we've got the cooler with the two copper
heat pipes and just a small little fan it is very quiet it seems to always be at the same constant
rpm so that's one positive that the fan noise in this particular unit is very very good i'll tickle
us branded ssd which is sata 3 and i'll get onto the speeds of that one shortly a 50 3.5 8 watt
hour battery which is good for around eight hours to nine hours depending on what your brightness
is and the use wireless antennas are located down here in the palm rest and this is metal so it has
a metal backing plate on it so they really could have put a huge battery in this they could have
used the space here there could have been some two more cells up here perhaps even move this down fit
more in so they could have put like a 70 watt hour battery in this and they could even put a second
slot in here for another ssd but they didn't do that in this one at all and looking now at
our screen so this one is covered in glass and it's not fully laminated which is disappointing
ips panel has a maximum brightness of 226 nits which is lower than what i like to see in a laptop
and for me the minimum really is 300 nits so we've got a color gamut coverage here of 70 p3 adobe rgb
is 70 also an ntsc that is 65 srgb with this one is 93 it's a 1080p panel viewing angles for an ips
are fine and it's just that brightness really which is the main thing i do wish that this screen
was a lot brighter especially considering the fact that it has the glass on it and it is quite
reflective so it's not an anti-clear matte coated screen which would have been better here too
and now for a sample from the webcam which is housed in the top bezel that rather large bezel
that this laptop does have so if i stop talking for just a second hopefully you heard that coming
through this this buzz an interference coming through on the two microphones which are on the
underside of this particular laptop now the hd quality here with the video it's about 20 frames
per second to 15 frames per second it's not even 30 frames per second so overall webcam quality
microphone quality is poor just like the speakers on this unit now speakers they're just located up
here and they are really quite poor they're terrible speakers they lack in volume there's
no base to them they're very very flat here's a sample of them at a hundred percent volume
i'm just going through the windows setup so we do have these pre-installed language packs on here
so there's quite a few languages already part of this windows 10 image which is good and here we
are with our desktop so you get this interesting background from Teclast that is different t-bolt
and no that does not mean it has thunderbolt 3. it's missing type c put on this as i pointed
out before does not accept power delivery at least with not all of my power delivery charges
which is disappointing there now that 4k definitely hdmi 2 with that one so i'm able to get
from the hdmi port sorry 4k 60 hertz which is fine with this kind of spec and under the system right
here just to point out that windows 10 does have a valid key and it is windows 10 home with this and
you will need to run a few windows updates i guess get these security patches and everything and all
that up to date as expected now the gigabit that's real tech okay and yeah that's gigabyte that's
fine that's good to see this we don't normally have on these kind of laptops a lan port believe
it or not wireless however real tech wireless it's the 8821 ce disappointing speeds i'm only
getting throughput around 300 megabits per second from this they should have gone with the intel ax
200 like most of the tech we see now even with the gemini lake and the jasper lake lower end chips we
do get the wi-fi 6 support and this is wi-fi five wi-fi ac and it's only got bluetooth 4.2 instead
of bluetooth 5 with this which is disappointing here we have the intel uhd graphics that is 32
executional cores with the ice lake here it's a step up from what we have on the previous say 8th
gen core i3 so and there is an improvement there and i'll get onto gameplay later on in this video
and i do just have a couple other things to point out so our ssd speeds um yeah they're okay for
sata 3 not too bad i mean the sequential rights could be better 4k randoms they're not too bad
there now this is teclast's own brand of sata 3 ssd that they are using in this and the other
thing too is just a few benchmarks i won't go too over the top of benchmarks because this is
super low end two cores four threads 3.4 gigahertz maximum turbo and this is our opencl score for the
graphics just over 5000 points which is low and this is very low too as well so single core score
scraping over 1 000 for such a low turbo 3.4 i guess that score is fine it's okay multi-core
score here though is abysmal this is low okay and you do see this when you push it hard
when you want to multitask and things it's a little bit slower there so this one of course
only having the two course the four threads and that low turbo is why we have such a low score
with that now take a look now just a little bit of youtube performance here so i'm right here now
and i wanted to search a 4k demo just to bring up and see how is that going to perform with
this wireless chipset from realtek so i will put this on to 4k preset and full screen this
all right it's a little slow in the beginning to start and to turn on the stats of course so we're
looking at uh no drop frames here with this okay so it's working all right and my buffer health is
actually not too bad for my connection so youtube 4k it can because of the 32 execution of cores
on the uhd graphics handle this just fine the same goes with uhd video vp9 codec it
will actually be able to play all of that just fine here with the integrated graphics
so i'll stop that and what i want to do is just a chrome tab tests can you multitask on this with a
lot of chrome tabs you can now on memory this is running at 3.2 gigahertz that's one of the
positives of very few really with this particular machine here that we do have at least the decent
speeds here it is in dual channel now this is soldered onto the motherboard so there are no
possible ram upgrades with this one here i'm just going to search cats bring up a lot of tabs and
we'll see how it handles this i do expect it to choke a little bit because well really it's not a
real powerful system here we're looking at only of course the two cores it's core i3 it is low end
so i think that's about really it that i want to bring up when it comes to tabs and swapping over
to these so somebody's a wikipedia that's very very light so no problems there um imdb is showing
a little tiny bit of lag just scrolling through that there that it's not super fluid and smooth
and this one looks okay so these other websites are loading in so if you plan to run say about 10
tabs here in chrome that is not going to actually be a problem and the memory i've still got plenty
left there so for these kind of light tasks light computing this core i3 i think is
adequate it's fine for that for just browsing like documents as well and spreadsheets will
be okay on this all right i'm not showing them but they actually will run just fine on this
so all of those light computing needs is really all this is good at and a quick look at gaming
performance counter-strike 720p lowest possible settings so the frame rate here in the late 50s
mid 40s wow with a few legs for some reason this server could be my ping actually just now seems to
be quite choppy and laggy and not looking great the 720p only on the lowest settings and it is
struggling here especially when there's a grenade or there's smoke smoke grenades being thrown out
it will definitely choke and lag a little bit so someone's got a sniper rifle up there
ah and i was shooting up on that area okay he got me so not amazing performance i just think this is
a little bit too laggy you would not be buying a core i3 for gaming anyway
temperatures they are not looking very good here so we reached 91 degrees
but we did not trigger any thermal throttling it did trigger the power limit okay so parliament
exceeded that as normal that's always going to happen and the fan noise has been very good so
most of the time is actually off with light tasks it doesn't come on at all and when it is on you
really don't hear it that much and the top of the keyboard on the left hand side does get a little
warm to the touch but it's not hot now to quickly touch on our linux support here so volume controls
and the brightness controls are working touchpad is working but what's not working
is the wireless for some reason it doesn't like this real tech chipset and this is on
the latest linux mint distro here that i'm testing out so that's the only problem we're
going to have we have to find the driver for the realtek wireless card if you intend to use linux
okay now battery life very important in a laptop we've got a slightly larger battery than what i
typically see with these brands they normally always use 38 watt hour 39 or 37 watt-hour
batteries this one has 53. now paired up with a 15 watt processor it's not quite as good as you'd get
say out of a jasper lake or gemini lake laptop but we've got a little bit more performance on offer
at least the single core scores are a little bit better there so we'll go for around about eight
to nine hours of my testing the battery takes about three and a half hours to fully charge so
it's not a quick charging battery there at all and the performance in general for light computing is
okay so youtube videos documents and just general kind of media consumption is all that i would do
on a laptop like this i would not edit video would not do anything demanding and even gaming as you
saw it does have the isolate chip in this okay 32 executional cores but it's held back by low turbos
the cpu is only a dual core it's only 3.4 gigahertz maximum there so it's nothing
amazing keyboard is okay to type on the build quality plastic palm rest plastic on the bottom
middle on the lid and when i open it up i can hear some creaks coming through in the chassis of this
that is the full maximum angle there that the screen will go back which is it's okay that
brings me on to the uh countless cons with this particular model so the touchpad is terrible i
don't like it at all the cursor goes all over the place with very lighter finer movements
gesture triggering in windows 10 with the gestures doesn't seem to be great at all so
it's not a good touch pad speakers are very poor and weak microphones have interference
webcam is poor the screen brightness is only 226 nits or so or it's not fully laminated so you
get a lot more reflections you get the ugly gap between the glass on the front then the ips panel
below so it's got a lot of things going against it type c port doesn't support power delivery
it just goes on and on so for the 420 or so euros asking price on aliexpress on tech glass
store there what they want for this particular laptop i don't see it happening i think it's
overpriced for the spec on offer and then all of those cons there so now
you know the full story here of Teclast f15 pro 10th gen core i3 laptop windows 10 home
is it something to get or consider i would only consider it if that price really dropped down and
you just needed a basic laptop for very very light computing thank you so much for watching this
video hope to see you in the next one with a much better product than this one here from tick last