chris here and this is chewie's latest
laptop it's called the core book x now
this particular model here was sent out
to me from
chewie they are not approving of this
video before i publish it on youtube
and i'm not being paid for this at all
so this one here is powered
by the core i5 the 8259 u that's a 28
watt part it has the iris plus 655
graphics
it does have a 1440p 3x2 aspect ratio
ips screen in it a backlit keyboard
rather large touchpad type c that is
supporting
power delivery 2 4k out from it as well
has a 46 watt hour battery and
in my time testing it this is chewy's
best laptop so far but there are a few
things you do need to know before you
consider
pulling the trigger on this laptop that
i will be covering in this
in-depth review so i have been using
this laptop for a week and i haven't
wiped it down with
alcohol to clean it make it look all
nice and pretty for my video no you can
see
fingerprints smudges and what is this a
little tiny mark that is in fact a
little ding
in the alloy and what happened was is
when i turned it around before i
accidentally put it on top of a screw
but i didn't apply any pressure or
anything like that
and it did leave a mark so this alloy is
very very soft
and it has this matte paint job that is
just an absolute magnet for those
fingerprints
so one-handed openers out there that you
can't open it with one hand okay you can
see it starts to lift up then the whole
body
so two hands are needed unfortunately
you're gonna have to put that coffee
down
when you open it up and i don't know why
so many people make such a big deal
about one-handed opening anyway
and our backlit keyboard so this one
automatically does time out and we've
seen this keyboard before on many of
their different laptops
it is a good keyboard i do like typing
on it so pressing down here
there is really no flex just a little
tiny bit and it doesn't really bounce
it's not allowed keyboard to type on
feedback from these keys
is fine it's about 1.5 millimeters of
travel there is one thing i don't like
about it and
that is the power button location i
really wish they had separated this away
and put it just up here would be a lot
better so often
i go to hit delete and i tap the power
button so that's one things but i do set
this in windows settings
to do nothing when i press it to help
solve any issues of that or the
annoyance of accidentally pressing it
full size arrow keys and then there are
the shortcuts at the top here so print
screen is all there
insert page up and down and home is over
here and then the controls there's a
backlight keyboard the back
lighting on this is actually very good
evenly distributed looks great so that
is the
first level seconds and the brightest
which is the third i'll just turn the
lights off so you can see a little bit
better
i really do like how it lights up this
keyboard very evenly there's only just a
couple of areas
you could criticize maybe the shift
right there in the middle is not so
evenly distributed the light on it but
overall it's good and as you can see
it does time out after about 10 seconds
to save on battery
palm rest this is made out of plastic
chewy touch pad
it's okay it's not bad i mean it does
have left right hardware
mouse keys inside there what i have
noticed is with the other ones too as
well
find a little fiddly movements like when
i go to select or highlight something
say
in paint or i'm in photoshop or whatever
it's very hard to sometimes get those
finer movements it's a little fiddly and
the cursor does tend to jump around all
over the place so
i do rate it as an average touch pad
left side we've got our dc in for
charging which will take a couple of
hours and this is a full spec
power delivery supporting type c port 4k
60 status led so red when charging green
once
fully charged type c charging does take
quite a bit longer i've noticed
it will take then approximately about
two and a half to almost three hours to
fully charge
and then on the right we do have a micro
sd card slot sadly still
usb 2.0 hub wide up this one so the
speeds are only maxing out around 25
24 megabytes per second 3.5 with mic
support
and then our usb 3.0 a
then on the underside here four rubber
feet intake vein here so do not block
this and they have screws holding
everything
in so i just removed a couple already
because i want to show you how we have
to get access to the internals if you
wanted to add another ssd
so sadly like the other models they had
the easy access hatch that would have
been about
here so it's just two screws you can
install another ssd like the callbook
pro the
original callback model uh that's not
there so there is one screw
on either side here with a rear rubber
feet this you need to pull that off
and you can access that screw there will
be another one under this and i'll show
you the internals now
and then with the internals here there
are some good things and some bad
so we cannot upgrade the wireless card
that is part of the motherboard
the good and i'm really happy to see
this finally manufacturers are listening
and in doing this
we've got a sodium slot here so we can
add an extra eight gigabytes of ram if
you wanted improved
especially the integrated graphics
performance and slightly better just
multitasking
having the dual channel memory is so
much better because of the memory
bandwidth improvement we get and it
really benefits the integrated graphics
that irs pro 655
and here is our drive so we cannot add
another nvme drive
that's why there is no quick and easy
open little slot there for us to just
put another one in because there is no
space for it but there's a lot of free
space around the side here so the single
fan the two
copper transfer pipes right here and
thermal so far are actually checking out
but i'll get on to that later on in
depth in detail too and i'll break out
the thermal imaging camera
down the bottom here we have either side
two sets
well two in here so four little speakers
in total
and i'll give you a sample now what they
sound like
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and looking at our weight now so the
laptop this is just 1.49 kilos and if i
add our power cable the 65
watt power supply that's a dc charger
then that brings it up to 1.72 kilos
as our total travel weight one other
positive with this laptop
is we do have a completely unlocked bias
and i mean
everything all the advanced settings
power limits you could even undervolt
through these menus here
if you wanted to do so now you must be
careful because some of these settings
if you change them you don't know what
you're doing
you could end up basically bricking this
laptop and it won't
boot so i recommend not messing about
with any of these settings
unless you really know what you are
doing and now taking a look at our
screen so this one is a 3x2 aspect ratio
14 inch ips screen resolution is 2160 by
1440p
and i have now calibrated it with my
spyder
5 pro and i'll show you the color gamut
and coverage that is the uncalibrated
view which had a bit of a greenish tint
to it a bit of a bluish tint
really quite poor calibration out of the
box and well you'd expect it kind of for
the price of this
particular laptop so having a look at
the color coverage here we've got
96 of srgb ntsc
is 69 adobe
rgb is 74 like i've seen on the other
chewy laptops very similar screens
in them and then 74 of p3 as well
so this panel covered in glass it is
very very reflective so i've had to put
my lights to one side otherwise they
reflect all over the place
now the maximum screen brightness that
does check out it's
not too bad it's 369
nits of brightness that's at its maximum
setting there which is
it's reasonably good it's not bad for
indoor use and that is the lowest
setting which is a little
bright for me this is still about 20
nits ideally i like to see a little bit
dimmer than this now you do see the
borders either side that's because this
is a 3x2
ratio screen i've got it set currently
at the well the resolution that it
supports so that's why it's like this
because it's the 2160 by
1440p so the ssd that i showed you when
we took a look at the internals that
kingston here are the speeds they're
okay
and like i've mentioned many times this
is not a samsung 970
evo kind of speed that you can get a lot
better if you wanted faster you could
replace that with a samsung drive which
would perform
and almost double well yes definitely
double the sequential reads and rides
there the randoms are good
and overall this is so much quicker than
sata 3 and
by far out of my testing at least of
chewy products this
is their fastest laptop yet so under
here in the device manager that
is the model of the drive if you wanted
to look that up i don't know why you'd
really need to do that
and here we have the internet which is
dual band wireless ac
uh not the best okay i mean the 720 65
was a really good wireless chip and i'm
getting three puts of around 380
megabits per second
but really they should have gone with
intel's ax 200 or the 201 that also does
have bluetooth
5 support this is only bluetooth 4. and
that would have been a lot quicker and
there was our processor of course that
is listed here eight times because it is
multi-threaded so it has two threads per
core and it's a quad core maximum turbo
is 3.8
gigahertz and really nothing else of
interest there in the device
manager geekbench five score here i mean
it's okay and again this is chewie's
fastest so
far they do have a 10th gen laptop that
i haven't tested yet but out of my
testing this is
the quickest yet i have seen from them
chewie is using a 28 watt power limit
here
now we can increase this power limit we
can also undervolt but i won't be doing
it in this video i'll keep everything as
stock
so there is that possibility to further
improve performance if you wanted to do
so
if you've got one of these you could
re-paste it you can increase the power
limit
under vault and it would really improve
things let's have a look now at 4k
performance this is one of my own videos
so just load it up
and everything has been loading in quite
quick of course there is ads here
i'll just mute that sorry about that and
skip this hit and
enable the stats for nerds and put it on
to
4k of course and you'll see that it's
able to handle this and there we go 4k
resolution
this needs a little bit to cache and i
don't have the best internet connection
and this is fine you can see that it's
not dropping any frames at all but i'm
not full screen so going over to
full screen it will normally drop a
couple of frames when you do that
and it didn't okay so that hasn't
dropped anything and that does seem very
very smooth
seems really good so there's eight gen
chips even though they're old
they are just so much better than the
6th gen 7th gen
the chewie has used previously and so
much better than the
weaker gemini lake here's our webcam so
you can hear straight away that as soon
as i stop
talking hear that there's some
interference
coming through on these microphones so
the webcam quality is poor
it's choppy the frame rate you probably
see right now it's about 15 frames per
second only
and that interference over the
microphones is not good at all to hear
and taking a look now at some video
playback performance so this is a 4k
clip 60 frames per second
sony swordsmith one and you can see
that's playing just fine
it is 60 frames per second there is no
noticeable lag
a jellyfish sample file here this one is
10 bit
hevc a few little stutters at the
beginning as you can see and if i skip
ahead
it's a little slow and struggling a
little bit with this one
but once it starts playing no issues
with it
and here is the cinebench r20 score so i
did expect a little bit better than the
score we got here so almost 1100 points
on the multi-core score
i was hoping for well a lot more another
300 points than this i'm not too sure
why i've retested this quite a few times
and this is just the score that i do get
with this particular cpu
okay video editing now so yes it is
possible with this spec with the eight
gigabytes of ram
and you can install more ram which i've
actually done i've actually put another
stick in there so it's got 16 now it is
running in dual channel
and this performance the timeline it's
not too bad but i only have the playback
resolution to a quarter
so what i'll do now is export it and
we'll see how long it takes now because
it's using intel quick sync
this should be a little bit quicker here
so one minute of footage here to
export and that's using the 4k preset
i'll just hit start on the timer right
now so there's about a two three second
delay from that
and because it's using intel quick sync
i do expect this to be quite
quick with the quad core here so it's
about to finish up now
99 once this bar disappears
so there we go that you could say safely
around about one minute and about say
seven seconds to export one minute of
footage is an
excellent result that is very very good
counter strike here looking at a gaming
performance so i have set it to the
lowest possible settings 1080p
and you might actually be better off
with this one to use even 720p
you can see frame rate is it's okay it's
around 60 frames per second but i have
seen with smoke grenades
and a lot of other players on screen it
dipped down to about 40 there which is
not great so let's see how long i last
which is not normally
uh longer oh a big lag just then so that
isn't good to see
okay i can see someone just through
there oh oh
oh he almost got me and i think i almost
got him
have another go oh
fire grenade so then i don't want to go
through those flames there because
that'll be the end of me
and let's see if i can just get up here
another big lag there and we won the
terrace anyway so gaming performance i
mean it's adequate it's okay you can
play
these older lighter titles on this
configuration
but it's not a gaming laptop you can see
look with all these players now
it's dipping into the mid 30s
surface temperatures now so we are
looking about 42
43 degrees in the middle of the keyboard
now
the vent at the top that's just above
the keyboard
where the screen is you can see that big
hot area that's the hot air being pushed
out of it
that's not actually where the keyboard
is that's just the gap
and above it that is reaching 48 degrees
there so the thermals are actually okay
and the internal temperatures it has not
gone over 82 degrees celsius
no thermal throttling and what about fan
noise well this is a sample of it
under load playing games this is what
you can expect from this it's not
that loud but you can definitely hear
the fan
linux support very good on this machine
everything is working wireless bluetooth
the screen brightness controls you can
see there
and the audio to that is working volume
up and down not a problem the touch pad
and performance does seem very good so
if you intend to run linux on this
machine
i don't think you're going to have any
issues all right guys so this laptop
does have a few things going for it i do
like the fact that chewie has
finally put in this one a sodium ram
slot so we have the eight gigabytes
that's already soldered onto the
motherboard
you can add an additional eight or even
16 gigabytes
to then bring the total up to a maximum
of 24 gigabytes of ram
now this chip is so far the fastest i
have seen in a chewy laptop
normally we have the gemini lakes or
they've had like the sauron the j
4125 not really that
powerful because they're only like 10
watts or 6 watt cpus
at least with this one it's 28 watts
still i did notice that the core i5 the
82
59u hasn't been performing as fast as
i've seen it in say mini pcs
or other laptops and i believe it's due
to power limits now of course i could go
into the bios which is
fully unlocked by the way as i pointed
out i could increase the power limit
and i could undervolt it and really
squeeze a lot more performance
out of this model here but i'm reviewing
it here as you would take it
right out of the box so you know exactly
what to expect
now the big real con of this particular
model here is
the battery life so the 28 watt cpu if
you're doing
light tasks you can get around four
hours out of this so it's not a
brilliant run time it's
a relatively well small size battery 46
watt hours
for a 28 watt chip yeah
not really that good so i do hope that
chewie can start to use
larger batteries in them and maybe
something like just a 60 or 70 watt
hour battery would be a lot better and
then we'll be able to achieve maybe six
to seven hours
of battery life mixed now if you use
this with something very demanding like
you're editing a video or you're playing
a game then you're only going to get
around about an hour and a half to two
hours battery life out of this
with the screen the screen is another
positive here 1440p the 3x2 aspect ratio
and the brightness isn't too bad so
around 360 nits that i'm measuring
and the color coverage of adobe
coverage that is of 74 isn't that bad
considering the price of this one so
we'll be selling for
around 479 us dollars and that price
converted to euros
and the spec you're getting at least for
the market here local market in europe
isn't bad at all for what you're getting
with a backlit keyboard it's a very nice
keyboard to type on
and what's on offer but i know in other
markets like the us do look around maybe
you can pick up say a dell
or an hp or an acer uh with a more
modern processor
and a larger battery capacity that could
actually be a better deal
for you there so thank you so much for
watching this review here of
the chewy core book x i hope i did cover
all the bases there so at least you know
exactly what to expect if you're
considering
buying one of these and i'll see you
hopefully in the next one
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