Chris here with the Chui Gemibook Xpro this is an affordable laptop from them 14 inches 1080p
powered by the outer Lake n100 it's got eight gigabytes of RAM which is ddr5 RAM and 256
gigabytes of sata 3 storage so a 250 US dollar price tag only for this model here that's about
226 Euros now about this Jimmy book X pro you will find our charger so they're using a barrel plug DC
charger here it is 24 Watts so it doesn't use a lot of power and then you'll find some paperwork
we have a product inspection report warranty card something about using the original charger right
there a user manual and that's all that you'll find inside let's have a look at our total travel
weight now so the laptop itself is 1.45 almost kilos that's quite a good weight for a 14 inch
laptop and here we have our power supply brings up our total travel weight to just 1.57 rounding up
their kilos that's good for a 14 inch laptop now the lid here cannot be opened up with just one
hand you can see I can get it up a little bit but then no the hinge is a little too strong for that
so it's all plastic they're built here they're keeping the price down they're keeping the weight
down here it does make sense at this price point remember this sells for about 249 US dollars or
226 Euros we have a chewy logo here so it's not backlit or anything like that and pressing down
on the lid yeah there is a fair bit of flex there I would expect that again for the price point now
a touch pad nice large size to it it's all right again and you'll probably hear me say this quite
a few times I think for 249 US Dollars it's fine it's not the best touchpad in the world that I
have used and I have actually used a lot worse on some very expensive machines supports Windows
gestures and overall no real massive complaints it can sometimes be a little slow but no it's
it's good it's okay so the keyboard here typing on it full size keyboard we've got these plastic
keycaps the plastic they've used if you lightly touch the keys run your fingers over them you can
feel a little bit of noise now they feel a tiny bit on the cheap side these keys and pressing down
there's a decent amount of travel it's about 1.4 to 1.5 millimeters here and overall again for the
price it's not a bad keyboard it's okay there now it's not backlit nor would I expect that at this
price point power button sadly is not separated away from the keyboard but so far I haven't
accidentally tapped it at least it's not exactly where the delete key is then I would constantly
keep doing that and if you do accidentally hit it well you just sit in the settings that if you tap
the power button to do nothing status LEDs right here we've got two microphones located just above
the keyboard I'll give you a sample of that along with the webcam now so you know what to
expect out of the Jimmy book X pro it is a 720p webcam 30 frames per second and the audio you are
listening to is recorded with that built-in microphone and if you happen to type on the
keyboard when you're in a video call or conference call whatever this is what it will sound like
so roll for the price point it's average but good to have the webcam the built-in mic and
that privacy shutter so you can completely disable the webcam chewy logo here it's quite large I wish
they didn't put a logo here we don't need to see chewy every time we look at our laptop one
on the outside of the lid I think is fine here plastic palm rest yes it's okay a plastic here
but there's no sharp edges with the Plastics I must say the plastic quality is very good paint
job that they've gone with with it is matte and I like it it's not bad at all for a cheap laptop
on the left we've got our DC in there to charge it status LED now this HDMI port good news here
it is a HMO Port that does support 4K 60. USB 3.1 I believe it is they don't actually say it just
says USB 3.c port I've checked this out tested it definitely does not support power delivery
I don't recommend you do that you could fry the motherboard so don't plug any powered types of
cables into it I've done that test already so you don't have to and no video out from this either so
that's USB 3 speeds again and then we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack with mic support now it
is clear there's no static there's no hiss coming through this which is nice at this price point
and then on the right side we have our Kensington lock slot if you didn't need
this maybe it was a point of sale machine that you wanted to have locked down and
something cheap enough that you'd hope no one would risk trying to steal it
and on the bottom we have an intake vent here so yes this is actively cool there is a fan in
there and chewy have set Power limits I'll show you later on that are well above the standard 6
Watts for the n100 we've got some screws that you need to remove here if you want to gain access to
the internals and I'll be doing that but just before I do show you the internals here we've
got two little speakers either side here is a sample of what they sound like at 100 volume
[Music] all right
[Music]
oh dear those speakers are very quiet they're just not that loud at all disappointing speakers
in this laptop and as I suspected there are no real upgradable components apart from
the SSD you could swap it out so this here is a sata 3 Drive m.22 80 in size from an
etec speed to that will be later on in the video our two wireless antennas are located right here
so you don't want to block this side of the tablet the right side of it sorry the laptop
so used to saying tablet and you can see along this part here we do have one copper transfer
pipe a little active cooler little fan there it's blowing the hot air out of the back now Chewie did
a really good thing with this is increasing those power limits and that's why it's pretty essential
really to have that there and I'll let you know The Thermals too and the review so Ram is not
upgradable we have our Wi-Fi card that's located here so it's Wi-Fi six Bluetooth 5.2 on board at
this price point good to have those options and a 38 watt hour battery only you can see they've got
a lot of free space around here but unfortunately they couldn't put in a larger battery which would
have been nice now this battery is good for about four four and a half hours or so depending on your
brightness I may be able to squeeze five hours out of it now I have noticed some good and some
bad things here I'll start with the good so we've got our metal backing here for the keyboard that's
to help reduce any bounce any Flex so great that they've done that and our microphone and this is
one of the bad things it's only actually a single microphone right here so there's not two of them
there is the space for it right here but we've only got plugged in just the single mic there
we've got our Ram of course that's soldered on and that's only in single Channel but the good news is
the sata 3 drive here if you did want something a bit faster then you can plug in a pcie drive
but it's got to be pcie 3.0 spec with this model here and that will really open up your storage
speeds I don't really know if it's worth it with this processor I mean this outer lake n100 is not
exactly a Powerhouse the Jimmy book X pro has a 14 inch screen here 16x9 aspect ratio IPS anti-glare
now their claim is 280 nits and I have measured it it is in fact 325 Nets so that was a pleasant
surprise now I did expect this the quality would not be amazing at such a price point so the
coverage srgb is 65 percent ntsc is only 47 Adobe RGB 49 and P3 is also 49 so it's not a screen for
professional use but for documents spreadsheets a bit of browsing internet media consumption all
those light Office Works and tasks and things like that it's actually fine and it's good for indoor
use the bezels around the outside plastic mat and we do have a webcam here that has a little privacy
shutter on it so you can flick that across and it will cover the lens and also so disable that
webcam completely okay so here we are in Windows now it's running Windows 11 home I did not expect
Pro you can at this price point and you'll see that with our available Ram it's eight gigabytes
and it is just 7.75 usable because a little bit is dedicated to the Intel UHD Graphics so you'll
see here with the ram its speed is 4.8 gigahertz and it is LP ddr5 Ram it's fast Ram but it's only
single Channel that's one of the weaknesses of this particular chipset so they didn't want to
make it too powerful Intel and limited to the Rams bandwidth to only being the single Channel and if
you want to know a little bit more about this chipset you can find it here in Intel's Arc so
it's a quad core that's it there's no threading what they're called it's not multi-threaded 3.4
gigahertz maximum turbo and normally the power limit is 6 Watts but Chewie they were clever
they upped it to 15 watts and that does boost the performance of this part here and you'll
see with the UHD Graphics that it does have 24 executional units does support 4K but it will
be that Ram bandwidth that is going to limit its performance there now this is the only Benchmark
I'm going to run I couldn't run geekbench 6 for some reason it just keeps canceling on me and I
just could not get it to work and I tried and tried and tried but geekbench 5 shows that yes
it's low end low performance here it's basically the Intel efficiency cores four of them that's it
there's no performance cause so not amazing but for day-to-day daily kind of tasks it isn't too
bad now that SSD it's not super quick but for a sata 3 I mean it's not bad now if you do want
faster but I don't really see too much point in it really with this chipset you can swap
it out and add a pcie 3.0 SSD just to boost up the speeds looking in the device manager
you'll see that it is the Intel ax101 that is our Wi-Fi 6 card this is great very good at this price
point with a Bluetooth 5.2 and that is the SSD that I showed you before when we took at a look
at those internals and nothing really else it's interesting you do see the processor listed four
times of course because it's only a quad core what about our system performance then is it a laggy
choppy mess it's just terribly slow that you know you can't use it well it's not bad the start menu
pops in I'm right here in Chrome and now I haven't searched this before I will just to be fair search
dogs and you'll see how things run now I do have a gigabit internet here fiber so it should not
be bottlenecking it at all now I've noticed the signal strength you can see right here in the
bottom right hand corner it's been fine I've had no issues with the internet at all even though the
antenna location probably isn't the greatest so what I'm going to do is open up here about
10 different tabs and normally I think a lot of people will be running round 10 right well I I
actually sometimes end up running about 30 myself but 10 is enough you can see that the n100 here is
capping out here it's at 100 so it's getting a bit stressed out memories still got a little bit free
there but it's 72 at the moment now swapping between these tabs let's have a look at that
performance scrolling no noticeable lag some of these websites are pretty lightweight here
though that's not too bad a few images with that one again looking pretty good and there are then
some videos of course with YouTube so that was a little slower but again I've got the comments seem
to load in quite quick that doesn't seem to be too much of an issue this other video here too as well
that performance is fine so this is where I think it is finest Jimmy book X pro that for lightweight
like emails surfing the net stuff like that it's performance is adequate I think it's fine for
that and really you can't argue with it too much being at this price point at least we've got the
eight gigabytes of RAM so what I do now is I'll just test out a couple of documents here with
OpenOffice to see if it's going to be laggy at all now this is just some sample data it seems to be
all right when you scroll through I'm not noticing too much lag the CPU is hitting a hundred percent
I've just hidden that at the moment because it was kind of getting in the way there when
you do make some edits here it's not that slow that for example when you go to type there's
a huge delay although there is a bit just then I've just noticed now so if I just type a name
in here Chris there we go that seems to be a okay cutting and pasting moving things around so again
for like documents spreadsheets internet browser all that kind of stuff emails it's got adequate
performance and we'll be fine at that now this little quad core does have its limits of course so
I'm going to try decoding here some very demanding files this is 4K hevc HDR UH 60 frames per second
so I'll full screen this and it's slow-mo the start of it but that has slowed the normal it's
not normally that slow it's definitely okay there we go it's starting to speed up a bit
and clearly dropping frames look at that it's struggling it's not happy no that's just a bit
too demanding I'll try the 140 megabit per second jellyfish file this is a 10 bit hevc
slow to open and that's looking okay but that's clearly not 30 frames per second
it's starting to smooth out a little but no it's still a little bit too demanding here I think
these video files no still drop frames there it's a little smoother now but
not quite the performance I was expecting when it comes to video decoding with this
where it did fare well is YouTube decoding this is using the vp9 code egg and it's streamed 4K
60 absolutely fine it just dropped a couple of frames which is normal out of thousands so
really good performance there if you're going to be watching and streaming with YouTube then great
Now The Thermals are quite good it will get up to 75 80 degrees is the maximum that I did
actually end up seeing when gaming and pushing it really hard was not bad at all and it will
pull 15 watts that's the power limit that chewy set that's lpl1 now I did change the
power limit level two to 35 watts and this made absolutely no difference the BIOS yes
is fully unlocked now the fan noise when you game on it when you push it really hard you
will hear the fan it's not that loud but here is a sample Under full load here running a benchmark
next track GTA 5 here and I have it set to the medium settings so just normal for everything
The Pedestrian density and view distance I've turned that all right down now this is 720p so
HD resolution whoa big lagged just then but look at this most of the time it's around 40 frames per
second or close to it we're looking at 75 degrees again it doesn't seem to go over that 75 degrees
no matter what I do so I'm just going to go into the cockpit view and okay not really as leg as I
thought it could be it's looking really good so I am impressed that this Low End Hardware
a 250 US dollar laptop from chewy 14 inches is able to play yes it's a very old game but GTA
5 with playable frame rates just over 30 frames per second it has dipped a couple of times here
so there was a bit of lag whoa down to 14. okay so it's not always going to be perfect
and we managed to get up to now 78 degrees so that's the highest I've seen it now
so of course taking into consideration it's price tag of 249 US dollars or 226 Euros it certainly
is a laptop that I think covers the basis for a does the laptop that people want basic needs
so we're talking office spreadsheets documents emails Chrome YouTube stuff like that it's going
to be just fine even even a little bit of light gaming but older titles like Counter-Strike GTA
as I showed you GTA 5 ran surprisingly well at 720p not even the lowest settings either that
I did use with it now because it's only got a 38 watt hour battery the battery life is not amazing
okay I get around four four and a half hours tops and I'm not exactly going hard on the machine I'm
not stressing it out either that's just like Chrome YouTube kind of use very light with a
brightness set to about I think around 30 or 40 brightness and it's fine for indoors at that level
but it's not amazing the battery life luckily the charger is relatively small and it's easy enough
able to take it along with you the weight for a 14 inch laptop is pretty good so 1.4 kilos yes
it's an all plastic build but I have to give them credit where due that there are no sharp edges the
finish of the materials is quite good the keyboard the keycaps do feel a little bit on the cheap side
this is definitely when you start to type on it when you look at the keyboard and you feel it you
notice straight away that this is not a premium Lenovo keyboard that you're typing on but it's not
bad again does the job just fine trackpad as well does the job I didn't have to plug in a mouse I
can still use it cursor doesn't skip all over the place it's not an annoying touchpad at least the
screen I was happily surprised to see that it's actually pumping out more in terms of brightness
than their marketing claims they say 280 nits which for indoor use is fine but my bare minimum
really is about 300 I mean an anti-glare display and it puts out 324 Nets is what I've measured
with my Spyder x Pro meter really good but yes of course the color coverage there is very low
this is a low end IPS screen but it's 1080p the brightness I think is good enough for indoors and
even Outdoors you can still make it out because of the anti-glare coating webcam you know nothing
amazing nothing special microphone either the downsides to this model here are the speakers
for me is the big one that they are hopeless they are very quiet I don't know what's going
on I'm running of course all the original software I don't know if there's another way to boost it up
sometimes you can use some of these software apps that can go on there and just boost up the gain
to try and pump out a little bit more but if you're in in an environment and you want people
for example in a room to all hear the same video Whatever content you're watching then
these speakers will disappoint because people will probably say hey turn it up and say well
it is at maximum volume and it's not loud at all it's so quiet so that's the big one the second
is the battery life but hey again factoring in that this is only 249 US Dollars 226 Euros for
a machine for basic Computing it's pretty quick and snappy when you just use it for light tasks
not bad they've definitely done it here I think it's great now I hope that the future models of
course that they can improve upon the loudness of these speakers because you know that just has
to be fixed there so thanks a lot for watching my review of the chewy Jimmy book X pro here