So I'm back looking at some new Chinese laptops this is the new generation that
is coming out and no it's not actually this model right here that I have in
front of me this is the Teclast F7 which turned out to be the best a polar
lake laptop so we now have this successor of the Apollo Lake which is
the Gemini Lake there's slightly faster 200 megahertz more that's the N4100
it's also got 2 megabytes more of cache supports up to 4k 60 Hertz although I
think this has only got HDMI our 1.4 spec on it so it needs to have HDMI 2
and what I'm pointing out there on the side of the video is this of course this
box has the jumper EZBook X4 in it and this is the Gemini Lake successor to
their older generational laptops so really just an upgraded version of the
EZbook 3l pro now I gets a little bit confusing but the 3l pro is the 14 inch
model the EZbook3 Pro is the 13.3 inch model now straight away there is a
bit of a con with this and it's gonna be a deal-breaker for some people it has a
TN panel and that means it's not going to have the IPS colors it's not going to
have the IPS viewing angles most importantly so vertical viewing angles
on TN panels tend to be quite poor and they were on the EZBook 3l pro so the
x4 now has double data rate for RAM which is great it's gonna be a lot
faster but it's only 4 gigabytes not the 6 we've got on the previous models and
then as because of double data rate for prices they are to blame there for that
so it is a little dinged around the box and it looks exactly like the EZbook
3 L pros and the jumper is EZbook 3 Pro box are the same it's a very thin
light cardboard box that doesn't really withstand damage too much which isn't
great for exporting us all the way of course from China so in that long box
there at the top you have the power supply 2 prong Chinese us-style they
don't have localized versions you cannot get an Australian New Zealand or
European plugs for this you have to use an adapter it's rated to 12 volts 2 amps
there is at least some decent padding around as you can see with this foam
that put around the laptop it's out there and then we do have this user
manual this is in Chinese in English it weighs only one point three five kilos
so that's the same as the easy book 3l pro and the tech last f7 more or less
and the thickness is close to fourteen millimeters
so on the left you will find a status LED micro HDMI out and you can also see
here we do have a USB 3 port and I can see already there is the exact same ODM
so original design manufacturer as the easy book 3l pro and the tick last f7
now the lid is quite firm it does have a protective plastic on the top of that
now I'm pressing down quite hard there is a little bit of flex there and you'll
see there is also the jumper logo you can see now it's a little hard to see it
depends on the angle whereas on the tick last f7 there's no logos on the top it's
just the straight alloy on the right side we have DC n headphone jack with
microphones supports another USB 3 port and then our micro SD card slot now the
bottom of it has some rubber feet its alloy again or screwed in place very
solid the build of these laptops they are good this ODM now a little surprise
here we have a full size to where you could say 20 to 80 SSD bay here before
it was just a little flap here that I'll show you on the ticklers if7 so that's a
twenty to forty two size slot and in obviously because they knew a lot of us
were modding or opening them up and installing the 22 80s on the EZBook 3
Pro but clearly they don't want us inside those that I want us to open it
up because there's a little sticker on here it's a little hard to read but it
says don't tear up but you know me I'm gonna go ahead and tear this right up
so the pre-installed SSD is a 22 42 in size so we have a nice large copper
heatsink this hasn't changed from the earlier models they didn't run into any
thermal throttling so this is good why change something if it's working
perfectly fine so we have this is for the backlit keyboard keyboard ribbon
there we have the power cable and this is
or the TN panel these are the LCD cable goes up there speaker cable there this
is the tiny little wireless AC chipset so it's Intel 31 65
oh and four models out there if you do want to lower thermals simply place
right here above the chipset a one millimeter thick thermal pad as large as
you can that will transfer heat then to the rear alloy case acting as a super
large heatsink the battery is almost 37 watt hours so this is good it should be
good for about six to seven hours but of course I'll find out my full review and
then the speakers are located in the top here there are four gaps for the
speakers so it has four tiny little speakers they'll be exactly the same
hardware as the teclast f7 so that actually resonates and comes out through
- between the gap and the screen and the bottom base so this I really do like
they've got this ingenious little system here this is the first time I've
actually seen this and what you do is just under the screw here this is the
screw to hold the SSD in place so right now it's for the 22:42 size move it here
screw that in place that will then cater for the 2260 which I happen to have one
right here and then right back here is for your 2280 side so it's gonna cater
all the popular sizes alright so let's open it up and have a look at this
backlit keyboard and the touchpad so oh wow that's more silver than I was
expecting those keys but I can see they've got a nice height to them
there's a little bit of flex there but bear in mind that I've actually still
got the back unscrewed little so that's that's not really fear for me - to do
this test right now but no that is good it's got a good feel to it those keys as
well but the problem with with these silver keyboards that I encountered
especially on the show me the me laptop ear the 12 inch model is that sometimes
you can't really see those keys it depends on the bright lights you've got
the angle of those lights like right now it makes it a little more difficult to
see those those keys there but being backlit and at this price range of
around 300 us that is good now the touchpad this is going to be a Windows
precision precision one so they haven't changed that and the bezels
remain exactly the same jeweler a microphones there you can see the tiny
little dots and a front-facing 2-megapixel webcam so the layout is
unchanged from the teclast f7 while the odium it's still the same keyboard it's
just like they've changed the keys and made them backlit so it really does feel
the same and the same amount of flex and you notice the difference here I would
have preferred them to actually have gone probably just with a black keyboard
and then your white back like that there we go you can see now the difference
between the two of them now we do have three status LEDs so power caps lock and
your numbers lock now that screen is at least matte-coated so unless it's not a
glossy + t + panel would be a double whammy there it wouldn't be too great
for that so let's power it up go straight into the bias if I can I'm just
mashing escape whoa okay that's a very blueish looking screen and it's
flickering away on camera so we can see here that the viewing angles even in the
BIOS said they are absolute rubbish ready mean you've got to look at it
straight on as the person the user in front of it you're fine but if you
happen to be showing content to someone else that's standing next to you then
that could be an issue for them you can see look it goes down to quite dark
there and this right here the magical setting if the thermals are good and
they were on the f7 you can simply go along to the power limit one and you can
disable this disabling this will increase GPU performance I've seen up to
something like forty percent on the Apollo Lake and it gives you probably
about 10 percent more CPU performance as well but I'll keep this enabled for now
of course for my benchmarks and tests and everything so here we are in Windows
and I didn't have to set it up first which is unusual so someone had already
created an account I've just gone straight into it now I don't know
whether it's the retailer doing this or jumper themselves if you're a little bit
unsure then I would do a factory reset but be careful it could come back all in
Chinese which has happened to me in the past otherwise just do a complete new
clean fresh install of Windows 10 so it's not the latest
version they're using either so it's not like the redstone five update there's
some good news here as well with the RAM so we are running at the correct speed
so 2.4 gigahertz dual channel but we don't of course have a lot of free RAM
here only having four gigabytes instead of the six we got on the Apollo Lake
laptops the SSD is a b-1 that's a Chinese brand and it's actually got
decent speeds here because normally what happens with the smaller
22:42 ones the right speeds will often suffer and here they have a little now
it could be up to maybe about 500 writes you see for example on a typical set of
three SSD and therefore k's visit isn't as well so we've got good speed on this
SSD in under the device manager nothing really here new to show you because they
pointed out before that it has the Intel wireless AC 3165 that is of course with
bluetooth 4.1 that one there and there is our chipset so it's a quad-core intel
celeron in 4100 here is the Geekbench full result now this is very good single
core score improvement over the Apollo lake in 3450 is approximately 25% that
is really good and then when the multi-core score that has improved by
about 19 18 percent so it is a nice step up here so back on the topic of the TN
panel so the horizontal viewing angles they're actually good I like the fact
that this is a matte coated panel so we're not going to have those annoying
reflections because look at this this is the f7 this is like a mirror it just
reflects lots of things I know I've got nothing displayed at the moment but the
black there and yes the tick ic7 does have a matte screen later on models I
got unlucky with that one the first batch so the white balance of the screen
it's a little off it's definitely on the cool blue side but this can be corrected
in the Windows settings sorry the Intel settings there for the graphics and I
can't even correct that of course using something like my proper calibrating
tool I can use my spider Pro and mesh this but 14 panel the colors look good
the blacks look good I do like what I see the problem is now that looking at
it straight on it looks perfect but if I stand up then it's going to
look like that and I'm gonna have to just keep adjusting that screen but in a
sitting down position like right now the screen is super usable perfectly fine
and not really an issue and just demonstrate the backlit keyboard now so
it's off to levels so we've got a low setting a high setting and then just
playing off which you can see right now so you just need to hit function space
so that is the low setting again this flickering you're seeing just like the
screen this is only on camera and that's the high setting which is quite bright
this is really good each key is individual it and it is really quite
clear now and looks great speaker test time so as I pointed out with the
internals we have those four little speakers located in here so the sounds
gonna come up that way and I expect some of the performance to the tickle a stiff
seven so it's not going to sound wonderful
so not great sounding from that now there is software out there that you can
use to improve it and I actually run it on my tick last if7
it's called dear fix speakers but you don't have to use that that's a paid
program is also free ones out there but I'll give you a sample now all the
difference it can make though to the volume at least
it doesn't really improve the quality but it does at least increase the
loudness which they are lacking on the easy book x4 here I have Linux Manjaro
up and running and there's a few things that aren't working so Wireless is
working the trackpad doesn't work at all so nothing whatsoever from this trackpad
I cannot control the screen brightness either there's no controls for that so
either I need to update my Linux versions for the latest kernels and
things like that but it looks like it could be down of course to the new
chipset and the new hardware to quickly mention the touchpad so the supports
windows gestures it is a precision touchpad and it's exactly the same as
the jumper easy book 3 Division 4 and the 3l pro and also the tick last if
seven this is a good touchpad all right now to quickly recap but before we do I
have it side-by-side with the tick last if7 and this one has the glossy panel
which isn't normal it normally has a matte panel and you can see that when I
angle it up like this it does dim down but it doesn't shift out completely the
colors and then of course with the TN panel when I do that you get the idea
this is just the biggest con off this laptop the rest of it is absolutely
brilliant I feel for the price it is because we've got the same build of the
already good tea glass f7 because it's the same OD M so the keyboard is good it
feels just like this one it's quite firm it's got a nice typing experience to it
now the fact that it's silver I'm not particularly too fond of because as I
mentioned that depends on the angle what lighting conditions you are
sometimes you can't see the keys there but being backlit for the 300 other
price tag that is really quite good the other thing is the SSD slot so they
changed that now they've enabled or support you could say for all SSD sizes
apart from maybe that 20 to 100 that we don't actually really see anything of so
that is really good that they've done that they've improved on that ok it is
faster definitely the performance the other thing we lose 2 gigabytes of RAM
but we gain the faster RAM so I feel jumper they have on their hands a hope
jumper that you're watching this video possibly one of the best budget laptops
all they need to do now put an IPS panel in here and give us an 8 gigabyte RAM
option and please fingers crossed keep those power limits open to the
end-user because if we want to tweak that up let us do that please because if
you do that graphics performance will increase dramatically as I have shown
with the Apollo Lakes and with this one here I actually run no power limit on
this model and it really does improve the performance it can almost double the
framerate in older games so it does make a big big difference there better life
more gaming tests benchmarks and I will use this laptop for a week or two before
the full review and I do hope to catch you back then and see you in the channel
for that so so far I know a lot of people in the comments are gonna ask me
is the screen a deal breaker it isn't it isn't if you look at it straight on and
that's your intended use then it's not I can put up with this and in fact this is
going to be I feel my next laptop of gonna do is I'm going to retire the Teclast
Ff7 that really is is how much the viewing angles bother me obviously not
that much because I'm not using a screen at an odd angle anything like that but
if it does bother you then stay away from this particular model if you don't
like teen panels that is pretty pretty obvious there thank you so much for
watching bye for now