so the Teclast F7 was the best Apollo Lake budget laptop I looked at and
reviewed this one right here is the f7 plus it's the new model and it has a
Gemini Lake processor and unlike the other models that I've checked out I've
had a good build quality like for example the Chuwi Lapbook SE here
which is my current favorite budget laptop that I use all the time
this one's sadly limited to only four gigabytes of RAM now I have checked out
other eight gigabyte models but they haven't been very good like that jumper
that I recently looked at the s4 the build quality was terrible this looks a
lot more promising and hopefully it's going to be the new best budget laptop
here so it has a build according to what I'm seeing with the press images it
looks almost identical to this it's just me it's slightly larger so we have a
typical two-class style box here it's exactly the same like the f7 so just pop
this up and you can see there we have the laptop there it's packaged up nicely
good padding around it and you feels maybe a little bit heavier than my
laptop se so you lift this up here if it's just like the other laptops and
here we'll find the charger and there's like an instruction leaflet in here okay
this is just instruction leaflets right here you can see it is just a few other
things there now that is in English Quick Start Guide go get that out of the
way and here is the charger so this is a EU style one and it looks to be exactly
the same as the if sevens charger so it's in white there 12 volts and 2 amps
as the output and I'll just take the weight of it it does to me feel
definitely heavier so 1.61 kilos now the lapdog se weighs 1.43 so yes it is quite
a bit heavier so we have middle on the top the lids just like the netbook se
and you can see the size difference here so this is thirteen point three and then
we have fourteen with this one now this will light up it's a backlit logo there
so when you open up the screen the backlight from the IPS panel will light
that up okay so let's check out the keyboard first well that hunch feels
good though it feels a little bit stiffer than my Lapbook SE's so
that is good and hey that keyboard looks almost identical doesn't it that is
almost exactly the same so it is a back at keyboard and I think they're
identical so a lot you can just see it's the edges on the side as the difference
there really maybe it's stretched out slightly wider you can see they're just
a little bit wider there that's it but it's more or less the same exact
keyboard as the let book is see very large touchpad now this bit will be
Windows precision driver controlled and just like that lap okay see the build is
the same it's plastic on the top and you is a slight difference here with the
hinge at the top it just goes up a little bit more here and this is silver
instead of black so four ports on the right-hand side we have a micro SD card
reader and headphone jack with mic supports and then one of two USB 3 ports
on the left mini HDMI 2.0A so that's 4k 60 Hertz status LED D/C for charging USB
3 port and the sides of it this is made out of an alloy so that's all metal or
the only plastic is just the spit on the top the palm rest and on the bottom you
will find this little hatch here so that is where the SSD is there so you can
easily upgrade it you don't have to remove the whole back panel to get to it
so we've got a 22 42 sized one in here it is a set of three SSD and you can add
larger capacity ones up to one terabyte and even over I think with the 2280
format just make sure you use SATA 3 though underside we've got two solid
rubber feet and these little dots here they are actually microphones and odd
location but if it's like little netbook se they should sound fine and they're
not actually a problem and yes I can confirm that there is a gap between the
glass on the front of the screen here and then the IPS panel a lot of about a
millimeter so that's a little disappointing it takes away from the
feel of the laptop and it doesn't seem quite as premium then to have the fully
laminate like you get with this one and notice a really good English here SSD
updation what is that well get this screen protector off anyway that it
comes with and to top it off there are specks of dust underneath that screen
protector that just looks awful so just powered up into the BIOS and you can see
we have 8 gigabytes of RAM running at 2133 megahertz that is right
here and it's a fully unlocked BIOS so we can get ourselves into a little bit
of trouble with some of these settings but under CPU configuration there's one
important one that I like to boost performance and that is our power limit
so they do have a parliament enabled you could disable that if you wanted to
later on I may post a video that about tweaking this and I've just set that to
Parliament one auto which will probably be the default six watt TDP of this a
CPU now you probably might have noticed this nvme configuration well there is no
nvme on this there's no support for it not what this chipset it also do not buy
an nvme SSD thinking it's going to work on this laptop because it won't it won't
even actually fit in the slot okay so Windows just got into it now the account
was already set up for some reason let's have a look at the free space we get a
very nice touchpad by the way it is a Windows precision one which is good you
can feel that ok we got a hundred gigabytes free on this drive so I'm a
bit of space there of course you can upgrade that now you will notice down
here the blacks because this is a non laminated screen you can see those
blacks there aren't gonna be as dark as they could be with the fully laminated
displays it looks a little bit grey more than actual black that's just one of the
downsides but overall I think the screen looking at it so far I don't think that
the gap is a deal-breaker on here it's just unfortunate and yeah I am
disappointed I really as expected this to be fully laminated for some reason I
don't know why I guess just because the let book is he has it so just give it a
bit of a keyboard flex test here and pressing down quite hard and your normal
typing there is actually really good it looks like it's moving a lot but really
this is not just a bit there in the middle and I will that is not going to
be an issue the keyboard is also backlit it doesn't come on automatically which
is a bit of a shame there you have to actually turn it on yourself manually
it's a function f5 will turn it on you get two different levels this is on the
brightest level at the moment and you'll notice that on my unit I have a little
bit of a defect a bit of a problem here with the Alt key you can see it's very
bright that light that's coming up here from it it's because this this key
doesn't seem to be a hundred percent Squier if I move it
just a little bit and then it's a little bitter but that's just a minor defect on
my unit that I've picked up the laptop does come with Windows 10 home now I've
added here a different SSD to this because that's got all my files on here
and this is the latest version but it's a valid key that's on this laptop it'll
pull through so you won't have any problems with activation so I've just
loaded up HW info to have a look at the CPU so it's got four cause it's a low
end chip and it does have a six watt TDP city as you can see so that's the
maximum there so if you want to get higher than this bit of performance
we're going to have to go back into the BIOS and set something like nine watts
or ten watts there to improve performance but first we need to just
confirm of course the thermals there's no point increasing this if it's gonna
start overheating and thermal throttling hopefully it won't but it will check
that out of course in my full review here is our geek bench school or so this
is more or less on par with other Celeron in 4100 perhaps a multi-core
scores a little bit lower here but that's probably because of that six what
TDP so apart from the screen not being fully laminated it's not actually too
bad so far this IPS panel to 1080p now it does have better brightness than the
lap book se how many times I said let book SC in this video but it's 250 lux
there's the maximum output and on the Left book SC it's 200 lux maybe it's
just me but the speakers seem to be a little bit better just a tiny little bit
more bass than what I've heard with the other laptop but a give you a sample of
them now they still are wonderful speakers but they've got a tiny bit more
bass and the volume well you know it could be louder to
so there we go that is the f7 plus which is very similar to the lap book SE if it
doesn't have a fully laminated screen unfortunately which was a little bit
disappointing now you probably see here that if you look at the touchpad
that it's not actually the same color as the palm rest but it is on the lap book
SC I don't know why that is so they haven't been able to pair those colors
up for some reason the other thing to to note is that it weighs a little bit more
it's a little bit thicker but other than that the build quality is good it's
excellent a very nice keyboard the touchpad works well and the screen 50
Lux brighter than the lapbook SE so overall it's looking like a very decent
Gemini Lake laptop of course it has that 8 gigabytes of RAM that so many people
are after not limited with just the four that we've been getting a lot on and ok
there are another couple of laptops out there with 8 gigabytes of RAM but
they're not quality machines the ones I've looked at these ones however have a
much better build quality from this ODM so I'm currently with the flow at the
moment and that's why this is a little bit short of this video so I will be
back with the full review which will cover gaming, Linux, thermals all of that
I hope to catch you back then bye for now