Finally a decent jasper-like laptop so the jasper lake if you're unaware it is the successor to the
gemini lake it's low-end intel but it is 11th gen 10 nanometers now finally four cores maximum
turbo is 2.8 gigahertz i'm talking about the sauron in 5100 that is powering this being only
a 6 watt chip it is just intended for low-end computing so basic computing this model here
is called the larkbook x from Chuwi and it's probably the best there is for the jasper lakes
so far i think for the price point so we have a full metal build apart from the palm rest
large touch pad very good keyboard and the best part is the screen it's an excellent screen 2k
touch with 10 touch points ips very good color coverage no pulse width modulation flicker and
chewy has even once and for all fixed the hinge with a new design in this model so the rest of
the spec while it does have eight gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of sata 3 storage wi-fi ac and a 38
watt hour battery this video is sponsored by the all new tuxedo infiniti book pro 14 with 3k
screen 11th gen intel core i7 and optional rtx 3050 ti graphics and it can be configured with
linux or windows dual boot see the link in the description for more info so the laptop itself
and then the power supply is all that's included it's a 24 watt one our total travel weight
with a little tiny power supply is 1.47 kilos so excellent weight here for a 14 inch metal
laptop and we've got another decent screen in this from Chuwi so it's 14 inches and the resolution
i'll just show you now here we'll go into the device display settings and you'll see that 150
scaling so it's 2240 by 1400 and 16 by 10 aspect ratio so the brightness i've measured it
and it does come out to be 371 nits which is very good it's okay not exactly the brightest i've seen
and the touch response is very good and i'm finding it to be really accurate as well and
there seems to be no lag too with it so or you can see when i move that around and that's just the
way it is with this particular cpu but referring to just the touch response and things it is
excellent really good screen so it has 99 srgb ntsc that is 71 adobe rgb is 76 great for this
price group and category of laptop and then p3 77 percent so it's a very nice screen
sharp resolution good brightness and the contrast well it's an ips so the blacks don't look as deep
as oled and they're never going to be able to match that but again for the price point and
this category laptop it is a very good screen so i hope Chuwi continue with this trend of using
really good panels in their products and the other thing i like about the hinge is they've got
metal now in the bottom of where the hinge is and it does feel a lot better so i can move this
and it feels quite stiff but when you tap on the screen too there's a bit of bounce but it's not
bad you're always going to get that bounce even on high-end premium 2000 dollar touchscreen laptops
you're going to always have that but the hinge really does feel just so much better than what
we've had on previous gen the lid of the lockbook x is made out of alloy we do have a chuwi logo
here now it's not a sticker you cannot remove this so it will not be opened one-handed note you do
need to use two hands to open it up now this keyboard is the typical style of keyboard we
get from Chuwi i happen to be a big fan of it i do like it i think it's a decent keyboard i think
it's very good to type on so backlit it does have two stages of lighting which i'll show you now
this is currently the brightest setting which is the second stage and then that is the first if you
want to dull it down a little bit and save a tiny bit on battery now because it's a 14 inch laptop
we have a little bit more room we've got our home end page up and down keys here full sized arrow
keys power button is not in the place of where the delete button is which is good i haven't
accidentally tapped it we've got our typical shortcuts here media shortcuts function keys
over here all up it is a nice keyboard to type on i really do like it and the keycaps feel good they
curve in ever so slightly and pressing down really hard there is a tiny bit of flex there but really
no bounce it's a good keyboard comfortable what about our touchpad so nice and large again it's a
typical style from their previous generations like the jimmy book and the corebook x it is a good
touchpad i really don't have any problems with it it's not an amazing touchpad but it does the job
finder movements are accurate it supports gestures of course made of plastic smooth finish and it
does have a left and right mouse button built in it now we have a nice slim build with this so it's
metal all around on the underside the lid the sides too as well and we're looking at about 14
millimeters here the thickness which is not bad at all so it's quite slim and here we do have a
status led full spec type c port so this supports power delivery up to 40 watts data and then
video out 4k 60 tested here's our dc plug in there for powering it if you don't want to use
power delivery and type c on the right we have a micro sd card reader the cards do sit in flush
they don't stick out combo 3.5 millimeter jacks of course headphone and microphone
and then right here is a usb 3 port which does power external hard drives without any problems
the underside of the lock box this is all made out of the same alloy which is a soft alloy very easy
to scratch but it looks nice i like this dark gray look two downwards firing speakers these ones they
sound pretty good and i'll give you a sample of them later on and an easy access hatch to our 22
by 80 millimeter m.2 sata 3 slot and the internal so a little difficult to get access to this and
you don't need to do this all right no one needs to go in here because nothing is replaceable
upgradeable unless of course maybe in five years time you need to put a new battery in so
in order to get that lid off i did have to remove two screws here underneath the rear
feet so be careful of that that fills up a lot of people and they end up damaging it so really
like what i'm seeing here in the internal so we've got plenty of copper over the jasper lake
in 5100 that's great but not only that we have the new hinge design which is external you don't
have it hidden behind the glass which was on the older model so they've made a big change there
everything's all talked up very nicely which is good we have a metal backing behind the keyboard
that's why it has no bounce and flex and a bit of a spoiler here i can tell you that this copper is
working well because thermals don't go over about 67 degrees celsius i'll drive right there and then
four little speakers which as you see later on they do actually sound a lot better than what
we used to get from previous gens and our battery which is 38 watt hours i'm able to squeeze about
seven hours out of this which is really good that's only light work with the brightness
right down by the way so there you can see that new hinge and it's all talked out well they even
put a bit of thread locking solution on the screws on all of the screws and there's the
hinge there so you can see completely new design i hope this is going to stand the test of time
with the other models simply didn't and ran into a lot of problems but it's great to see them finally
improve upon this so good build quality especially for the price now it does ship with windows 10
however i've run the little test here that we get from the pc check and you can see that this pc
meets windows 11 requirements so that's great it does have the tpm 2.0 secure boot can be enabled
and turn on so everything we need for windows 11 is there i'm not too sure if you'll be able to get
more performance with windows 11 i haven't done enough tests here with that to find out now in
here you can see the device manager what else have we got on board that is of interest to try not to
make this too long so windows 10 home now it is of course licensed fully activated no problems
with that under the device manager the wireless you will see is a wireless ac card so real tech
here i would have preferred wireless ax so wi-fi six i guess that might have pushed the cost up a
little bit but still i think they should have gone for wi-fi six would have been a lot better you get
bluetooth 5.2 normally with those cards and we're on bluetooth 4 spec with this real tech card now
the throughput from it around just over 300 meters per second so it's not a super wireless card and
as i showed you there is no gigabit lan on this or anything like that either so you do have to put up
with just being just limited there you can use a type c or usb to lan adapter of course if you
wanted to so the ssd that netac that's inside you can see safer three spec so nvme would have been
great in this especially again at the price of this laptop but we certainly don't get it i would
have liked to have seen it but if it pushed that price up a little bit i guess they had
to make some compromises since they've gone with such a nice screen in this unit that we do have
so a couple of benchmarks here that i can show you while just the one actually is geekbench five
so it gets 573 for single core score and then multi-core score is 14 just over 1400 now if
this was a 10 watt part if it was the n5095 this score here would be 2 000 points and this would
be around about 630 so i do hope that chuwi later on gets hold of that particular system on the chip
that jasper lake to help boost our performance now the intel cell run the in 5100 it's a quad core
10 nanometers finally and the turbo is faster a little bit faster than what we had on the
previous gen with the n 4100 the gemini lake so it's now 2.8 gigahertz but it's the limits really
that six watts that this is configured to that is going to be capping our performance now ram speeds
it does support 2933 megahertz top speeds here but we don't have that because i have checked this out
if i go here into our device manager not into that device manager here you can see that the memory is
only running at 2.4 gigahertz it is at least in dual channel so we're not missing out on memory
bandwidth however we are missing out on memory speeds there which would aid the performance
overall not only on the cpu side of things but then the uhd graphics which does have 24 x
executional units now compared to i believe it was 12 or 16 that we had on the previous gen video
playback performance thanks to the native decoding that we've had for some time now with these chips
hevc does run really well now this is my jellyfish test file so 140 megabits per second 10 bit 4k
initial little stutter and then it's fine okay this place then smooth and it does look really
good on the screen i mean this is a fantastic screen the big plus here the big positive of
this particular model is of course this touch screen lovely screen and what about 4k 60
that is also running just fine
and looks really good on the screen so for content like this watching movies youtube very good
sample from the webcam now so this is a 720p only webcam and i do have some normal lighting on at
the moment and what you're listening to is the built-in microphone so webcam quality a little
grainy looks a little bit washed out nothing amazing but at least we do have a webcam and it's
in the top bezel in a normal location now some good news here with those down firing speakers
they do actually sound pretty good they're not bad they are finally improving and what they
have been now for the past year or so they used to be absolutely terrible a little bit of bass
good reasonable volume to them and i'll give you a sample at 100 percent i'm happy with
them i think they're fine they're not the best you'll ever hear but they're fine they do the job
and just how was the general performance so it's not a laptop you'd buy expecting to play
battlefield 2042 at 60 frames per second okay with amazing graphics all high-end settings of course
not this is quite low end so scrolling performance here in chrome that's fine but what i wanted to
do is my little test that i like to do just test out uh searching cats and then opening up a lot of
different tabs and keep an eye on the performance and then the memory too how is that going to be is
it going to hit 100 there we go 100 load that is normal though as it's loading all of this in so
a rough amount of tabs here i think i've got what about 10 open there just opened up a couple more
that's got videos in it that's a heavy page and let's just search quickly cars here so these kind
of general computing needs is what it's good at so just light tasks is all that jasper lake at least
at six watts is going to be able to handle really not much more okay so swapping over to these tabs
uh this got an embedded video in it but that doesn't seem to be actually that's not lagging
out at all that seems quite smooth that's good so what about over here another embedded video
that seems smooth enough that seems quite good actually all right wikipedia that is not a heavy
website at all page and a lot of the searches aren't that heavy either okay so this has a lot of
images in there a little bit of lag just coming through them so it really depends on the websites
you're looking at but most the time you can run quite a lot of tabs here even with eight gigabytes
of ram it's just enough to be able to do this now it does have like 256 megabytes dedicated to the
uhd graphics so it's performing pretty well here swapping between those tabs yeah i mean
that's good so this is really all this chipset is really good at don't be confused or mislead
into thinking that you can run and edit like 4k videos like a pro now you can do basic maybe full
hd edits but super basic and even then i wouldn't really want to do it remember it's fanless
it's only six watts gaming performance so counter strike just 800 x 600 resolution here you're
getting around 30 frames per second it is just playable but wow a lot of lag with smoke and then
other teammates on screen so not really a gaming system at all but these lighter older titles you
can kind of play if you don't mind these choppy terrible frame rates something like skyrim
is going to be able to run on this but onto low settings of course and yeah terrible gameplay i
know i died instantly but still look at that frame rate struggling to get 30 on a busy server here
now what about battery life so because it's only a six spot part it's actually pretty good even
though it's not a huge battery well it looked quite big when we looked at the internals but
it's very thin that's why it's so large it will go for over seven hours now that of course is just me
doing light tasks so just being in chrome watching videos or streaming a bit of youtube with the
brightness set relatively low mind you at about 30 percent so factor that in if you do a little bit
more demanding work the battery life of course is going to drop down a bit but still very good
because well yes it's low powered only 6 watts now i would really love Chuwi to release this
model with a 10 watt jasper lake in it or even if they could configure up to 15 watts
then we'll get a lot more performance so that is really the only major con well the only thing that
i really think would bother people is the fact that performance is not amazing it's slightly
better than the previous gen but it really held back by that six watt power limit hopefully we
can bypass that now if you're asking about the bios it is completely locked down unfortunately
well not completely but we cannot adjust power limits hopefully that hack that worked on the
gemini lake and the apollo lake will work later on if someone can figure that out so we can increase
the power limits because there's certainly thermal headroom thermals are great on this
so the best thing is the screen it's fantastic i really do like it it's like having a premium
screen in a low end laptop which is basically what it is so many of the thousand dollar or even 2 000
laptops that i look at would have a color gamut very similar to this what was it 76 adobe rgb
is excellent the touch response the accuracy the sharpness of the screen the brightness
no flickering at all at lower brightness levels too as well is another positive
the keyboard like the previous models not a lot has changed and why change it when it's
good just leave it alone right good keyboard to type on good touchpad build quality the internals
look so much better they've even got the speakers isolated with little rubber mounts to stop them
vibrating and the speakers sound so much better too so they are definitely improving and i do
hope that they will be shipping this with windows 11 out of the box that would be another positive
so i have to nitpick with this if i did and i will that would be another type a port would be
great another type c also would have been great on there so we've got the full spec type c with power
delivery at 40 watts is good and i would have loved to have seen a wi-fi 6 support on this so
it's only a wi-fi ac cad wi-fi 5 which is i think for the spec is still fine just like the sata 3.
so all up if you're looking for a laptop with a great screen a touch screen and you're only going
to be doing basic things like emails documents spreadsheets things like that surfing the web
watching movies this is an ideal laptop i believe for that and so far the best i've come across
out of the jasper lake laptop so thank you so much for watching my review here of the lark book x
from Chuwi i hope to catch you in the next one do subscribe for more