So this is the Voyo i7 that I have here and as the name applies it is an i7
laptop this one so it has a 15.6 inch screen 1080p it has 8 gigabytes of RAM
and the CPU is the i7 6500 U and the GPU uses as an nvidia 940 M X so that's the
same spec you get on charmese me notebook air 13 the ultimate version
they like to call it but it comes out to be quite a bit cheaper this model it
sells for around about 560 u.s. at the time of this review so the specs there
aren't the latest it also has a one terabyte hard drive which of course is
going to be slow for an operating system but luckily it does have an m2 PCIe slot
in this so you'll be able to upgrade to an SSD if you're not happy with running
off a hard drive which I personally won't be because I find that to be way
too slow especially in 2017 so the specs include wireless AC but it could
actually be Wireless in I need to confirm that it has a 13 thousand
milliamp hour battery on there which hopefully is gonna be good for about
seven hours for me to build backlit keyboards and plenty of ports on it as
well including an SD reader so let's get this one unboxed go through my initial
first look and then later on I'll have my full review of course so this
notebook did come double boxed and it went via England with DPD to me to Spain
I didn't have to pay any taxes on this but it did take about 17 days to arrive
from first all the time to actually getting it on my doorstep okay so it is
well padded in there and we can see that the power supplies on the side and it
does have an EU plug so the output voltage is 19 volts three point four two
amps and the tip itself positive in the middle negative on the outside five
point five millimeters in diameter quick Windows 10 user manual that's in Chinese
in English a little warranty card and some useful reminder just about charging
it first before you use it laptop weighs in at one point nine five
kilos so thickness it comes in to be around about nineteen millimeters now
that's not counting that rubber foot there with the rubber foot then it's
about 24 millimetres so along the bottom there are two downwards firing speakers
we have some vents there and in intake for the fan so it's just got one
fan on it now the lip just like the bottom made out of a metal that's an
allied have used and it seems reasonably fun and there's a little bit of flicks
and they're not too bad I did notice that it's got this funny like little
plastic lip here for opening it up and there we have the backlit keyboard and
the touchpad there so reasonably large sized touch base hopefully it's a
precision one so you can see above the keyboard there we have the power button
which is on the far right hand side that's circular button some status LEDs
and there are shortcuts there for your volume mute disabling the wireless
touchpad putting into sleep and the screen brightness controls including
another button there for the backlighting on that keyboard have a
look at the keyboard flex not too bad the keys feel okay of course I have to
type on it and I'll report back on that in my full review but it's nowhere near
the quality of the xiaomi mean notebook pro's keyboard the screens got a screen
protector on it that's not even designed for the screen but i think it's just a
course to protect it in transit webcam and what looks to be a microphone there
at the top and this is the furthest that the screen will recline the hinge seems
good it's quite stiff it's firm doesn't feel loose at all which is positive so
on the left side we've got dcn two USB 2.0 ports headphone jack and then our SD
card reader now it'll probably be USB 2 speeds this one because this looks like
it's all connected up with a USB 2 hub then on the right side type c port which
may be USB 3.1 i hope it is i hope it does support video out and charging or
at least support charging and data then we have an hdmi port which is upside
down and then 2 USB 3 ports so it turns out to be a little bit thicker and
slightly longer in length than my me notebook pro ok so the build quality so
far doesn't seem to be amazing it's definitely not premium but it's ok for
500 and 60 us that this cost more or less so far
but I have seen some minor little imperfections
for example I've noticed this right here there's their little scratches along the
plastic trim that's just above the keyboard and below the screen there
think it's being scratched by the metal bezel that's going around the screen and
yes those bezels are exactly thin either so gaining access to the internals
wasn't too difficult just how to remove all of the screws on the rear now
there's a couple of things I wanted to point out in here that the battery
capacity according to what's on here if you believe that is 48 watt hours which
I happen to believe it's not a huge capacity is it so right under this
ribbon cable here that goes to the USB 2 ports there there is the PCIe slot there
so that's m2 spec and where the screw is is for the 20 to 80 size right there and
we've also got at the top here you can see a 2.5 inch hard drive right there so
that's a one terabyte one it'll probably be 7200 rpm or even 5400 it's gonna be
slow you really want to install an SSD in there so we have one cooling fan with
two copper heat pipes you can see running along here now for any models
out there already seen room that if the thermals turned out to be a little bit
poor we can probably put thermal pads along this whole copper pipe here and
having it come in contact but the rear alloy lid and that of course could help
transfer a little bit of heat away from the chipset but it will of course heat
up the bottom of the laptop now there are couple of positives here too that we
can change the wireless card so it's got an Intel 31 60 it is wireless AC so
what's being listed on the website is incorrect I didn't believe it had
wireless in to start with cause that to me seemed crazy and then the other one
as well to that we can upgrade the RAM which is really good something you can't
do on a lot of laptops nowadays but it's only a one single sodam slot so it's
double data rate spec it's a double data rate three sorry low powered and the RAM
I can see is rated to 1600 megahertz so you could in theory put faster RAM in
there plug-and-play stuff or increase the capacity if you're not happy with an
8 you can put a single one 16 gigabytes stick in there and then either side of
course we've got these because that do look rather cheap to me
overall the internals look fine it doesn't look super high-quality as
expected for this price range but it is good to see that we can upgrade the hard
drive at an SSD we can also easily repay stit we can also change the wireless
card in RAM so that's good now the slot looks like it's going to
support set at 3 and PCIe SSD s I'm gonna try my samsung 960 Evo hopefully
it will be running at times for speeds I do not like this design choice of having
the ribbon cable going over a hot SSD now if you've ever used these SSDs
before which I have the 960 Evo's and pros can get really hot too so let's
find out later on after a couple of years or even years use if it's going to
end up causing damage okay so what about the screen well don't have some good
news at all here they had to cut corners somewhere didn't they with this hardware
yes it's a TN panel I mean looking at it straight on now this has had obscene
brightness it looks fine it's anti glare but look at this colors they're starting
to shift and that that's just that's horrendous in a typical TN panel so
you're gotta be looking at it straight on so if you wanted to use this laptop
for showing people photos or watching videos with your partner or something
like that then it's gonna be a little bit difficult because you have to look
at it both of you straight on here but I mean other than
that yeah I mean it's ok but TN panel a little bit hard to swallow here I mean
even at the price of this this laptop here I know deal-breaker isn't it so
here's the model of that TN panel so if you want to Google that find a little
bit more information about it now I have been just using the touchpad a while it
seems okay but it's not definitely the most accurate it's not using Windows
precision drivers either you can see that's just the plain settings we get
with Windows but it is an eland branded one and we do have some control so we
can tweak a few things here with the gestures MOLLE finger ones that you want
to do so you've got your zooming scrolling rotation all of those options
are there so better than the super low-end touch pads we get but still
definitely run-of-the-mill kind of touchpad so far in my use of it
so it isn't all doom and gloom I'm running a benchmark here with crystal
dis mark of that samsung 960 Evo and it is running at its full speed here so
it's PCIA times four so that is really good to see or you can use a set of
three one if you've got a set of three SSD now I did boot this PC of course
using the included one terabyte hard drive which you have about 96 oh no my
sorry not 96 but 910 gigabytes free so that is good but of course it is so slow
it but time took about like 30 seconds or even more and even to pull up the
device manager here to look at everything took a little bit of time so
you can see the processor there yes it's the Intel i7 6500 you know that's got a
maximum turbo of 3.1 gigahertz it's a dual core with four threads so the new
eighth generation ones that I've just been testing out they've bumped things
up a little bit because they've doubled the amount of cause they're no longer
dual cause now but they've switched over to quad cores so the performance is a
lot better there now just to gauge the performance I have run a couple of
benchmarks here well Geekbench is benchmark so the CPU school is their
single core score multi-core score and then the GPU so that nvidia 940 MX gets
an open CR score of 23,000 the new one the new model which is the MX 150 on the
Pascal architecture that gets about forty thousand or around thirty-nine
thousand so quite a bit faster there and this is probably slower because of this
if you have a look here you can see that just to confirm that yes the memory type
on that GPU is double data rate three and not double data rate five so we're
missing out on some of that memory bandwidth there which only 14.4 now they
don't seem to have any bloatware whatsoever it's just got the Elan
drivers on there for the touchpad and then this thing called control center
which I happen to like what it is is a basic application to control the fan
speed so at the moment it's in auto mode and if you put it into quiet mode then I
can already hear that fan is starting to ramp down so it's just shifting the RPMs
for certain temperatures so in quiet mode it'll lower the RPM so it doesn't
make so much noise on cool mode it will be a little louder but keep it a little
bit cooler but thermals and all that will
be up-and-coming probably in my full review I was around the Haven benchmark
as you can see here this score was not brilliant it's quite low lower than
their mean notebook ear 13 because of that slower RAM on the GPU now do have
HW info running and then when we have a look at the temperatures you can see the
GPU has reached 69 70 degrees this is after all the benchmarking I've just
been doing now my initial testing phase and the CPU is well 70 degrees with just
that single fan so that's looking promising the thermals just above the
keyboard getting a little warm there checked it
before was about 39 degrees so it's not too bad and this is what the backlit
keyboard looks like so it's reasonably bright individual it up those keys all
of them there and there's two settings slightly dimmer or this one here which
is the full brightness so I have done a bit of typing on this keyboard now and
it's actually quite good it's bit better than I thought not a bad keyboard to
type on same goes for the touchpad now after using it for a little while it's a
lot better than those entry-level super budget trackpad to get so I mean it's a
proper brand from Elan and overall yeah the keyboard is good trackpad is fine
too so two downwards facing speakers let's have a listen to them
so they do have a bit of volume to them but they definitely lack bass they're
not quality speakers they sound very flat indeed so you're probably gonna be
disappointed if you wanted some nice punchy sounding speakers not these ones
so this is about my further tip now to get Linux to boot on it from the USB
pendrive that I hope you can see inserted there it won't work for some
reason it just goes over into there one key recovery system that voyer have set
up to completely restore that hard drive that's on there so it is failing to boot
for some reason and also note there you can see that the SD cards they stick out
like this which isn't too great so you can probably see break them off if you
forget to pull it out and put it into a bag or something and the other thing to
to point out that the type-c port does not seem to be USB 3.1 I didn't think it
would be it won't actually take power as well and it does have a power symbol
next to the USB symbol there but for some reason no charging on this so it
really comes down to one thing so far in my testing of this laptop here that it
has a deal-breaker with that TN panel a lot of people are not going to like that
now it looks perfectly fine as you're probably seen in some of my video here
when you're looking at it directly so most of the time I've had the camera
pointing right at it so we're not getting those bad viewing angles which
you know they are bad when the screen goes down a little bit you can see what
happens there that it shifts out that it really is just the only kind of thing
that's really bad okay the speaker's there Tony
the build quality of course is not at all at the same level as the Xiaomi me
not Book Pro which is in the background there but that's another class of laptop
that's a premium one this is a budget one so it's to be expected so the
keyboard is actually turned out to be quite good to type on it's backlit
touchpad is fine as well now there's a few other areas that answer great for
example the SD card sticks out but then there's those positives Rams upgradable
we can add your own SSD you can change the wireless card if you're not happy
with it and of course you can even put an SSD swap out that one terabyte drive
so the base configuration coming with the terabyte drive with the operating
system on it it's very slow and sluggish and not good at all I don't like that
so you probably going to have to invest then getting an SSD if you end up
getting one of these if you're not worried about that screen that is so it
really comes down to it do I need to do a full review of this one here we
already know it's got that big calm with the screen how do we also know that the
performance of it is going to be less than the mean notebook here because of
the RAM on that GPU so it's not double data rate five it's double data rate
three sure we might be able to overclock it a little bit but I did do a little
test and when I went up to about 350 megahertz on the RAM it ended up causing
a blue screen and crashing windows completely so don't think we can really
push it too much higher thermals seem okay
battery life is so far just looking at what the estimates have been from my
battery bar pro meter that I have in there we're looking about five to six
hours so it's not really that good so for 560 us yeah you know it all comes
down to again that screen is that going to be a deal-breaker for you do you want
this power if not you're probably better off saving up and getting Shelby's mean
notebook ear which has a similar spec the i7 model but it is a little bit more
expensive but you'll find the GPU is a bit faster and if you can even say about
even more money if you've got about 900 u.s. to spend then of course there is
that Xiaomi me notebook pro that's in the background there