This right here is the Chuwi Lapbook SE
I'm going to be unboxing and just do my
initial first impressions and a couple
of tests on so this one and the tick
last f5 which I should hopefully have
next week highly anticipated budget
laptop so this at the moment at the time
of this video is has been selling for
about 259 us now what's interesting
about it it has a full metal design a
fully laminated 1080p panel 128 gigabyte
SSD and as a 37 watt hour battery and it
runs Windows 10 home on this now the
weakness of this particular laptop
exactly like the easy book x4 that I
looked at where limited Tony four
gigabytes of RAM and sadly you cannot
expand upon that Ram now the keyboard
one of the key selling features of this
is edge to edge so it has a little bit
of you can say like a MacBook 12 look to
it some people either like that or hate
that but it is a backlit keyboard you
get inside the box so we've got the
typical chewy packaging here as you can
see the laptop and you can see on the
top it does have a Chuwi logo here and I
think that the backlight from the IPS
panel is actually going to shine through
on this and it will be illuminated here
we have the warranty guarantee cards and
whatnot a Quick Start Guide so is DC
charging 12 volts 2 amps that's pretty
standard this and no type-c charging on
this model and the version I got here
has the EU plug the laptop weighs 1
point 43 kilos so it's actually a bit
heavier than I expected it to be and the
full carry weight with the charger and
the plug brings it up to 1.6 2 kilos the
thickness of a laptop isn't too bad it's
a 15 point 5 this is around the thickest
point that's without the rubber feet
when you add those rubber feet there
then that will come up now to about 17
millimeters so the top of it has a nice
smooth alloy finish to it it is that
matte gray that we have seen on other
products from them so after a while it
will actually end up showing
fingerprints there I'll see if I can
open this up with one hand I don't
believe I can actually no you can open
it up with one hand and there we have
that edge to edge keyboard so yes it
does have a bit of an apple
the 12-inch version look to it doesn't
it thing is styling of that with the HDH
keyboard now the touchpad is large it
should be using Windows precision
drivers and this palm rest here to me
that feels like it is plastic now even
though this hinge can be opened up
one-handed it's relatively stiff and it
feels like it is going to hold it I see
what happens if you pick it up and move
it
it might work around a little bit but
I've noticed too because we've got the
fully laminated glass on this that there
was no flex on this if you can't
actually move that if you try to
forcefully move that you probably end up
cracking the display on this and
pressing down there's a little bit of
flex down on that so our keyboard is
backlit and the power button it seems to
have the same level of resistance as all
the other buttons so hopefully I'm not
going to end up tapping out when I go
for the Delete key I do like to see them
move this at least away from the actual
keyboard to separate them is a little
bit better for accidental presses of
that power button but in the ceilings
and windows you can actually set it to
do nothing so we've got control of the
backlit keyboard right here with
function f5 has our brightness controls
and we've also got print screen which is
good to see and of course your page up
and down now these keys do feel quite
good they've got a little bit of a curve
inwards to these keys so giving it a
little bit bit of a feel and I love the
fact that they've gone with the black
keys and not silver silver it's
sometimes hard to read the actual text
of those keys as I found with the jumper
easy book x4 there are three status LEDs
up the top here you can see so one for
power one for caps-lock one for the
touchpad so the touchpad can be disabled
but function escaped and then that light
will of course illuminate you can see
that when the screen is powered off that
you can hardly make out the bezels you
can just see them the difference between
at least here I can but on camera a
little bit harder to see there so this
is both a pro and a con the glossy
screen tends to make color stand out a
little bit better but of course you're
gonna get the reflections everywhere
having this glass on here so I prefer
personally to have a matte screen but it
does make it look a little bit more
premium now you notice that the edges
around here what they've done is they've
rounded them off a little bit and that
feels like a plastic
a plastic insert around here overall so
far the build quality and the finish is
really quite good considering its 259
price we're at the top there is a 720p
HD webcam so 4 ports on the right side
here we have a USB 3 port 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack with mic supports and
then a micro SD card slot then on the
Left we have HDMI 2.0 a we have DC in
there for charging with the status LED
and another USB 3 port on the back of it
we do have a plastic strip here now this
could be for the wireless antennas
reception but those antennas are
probably located around the screen then
the bottom of the laptop you will find
four rubber feet and the screws to hold
in a metal housing so in order to remove
the case you must remove the two rubber
feet on the end and remove all of the
screws don't forget this one here that
is also under the sticker and then you
can easily pry off that back so up the
top like some of the other models I have
looked at we have four speakers now
these speakers will fire out from just
above the keyboard and it does have a 38
what our battery here good with with
Chewie here going with that larger size
20 to 80 size SSD these are not only
faster they are also cheaper when you're
sourcing a replacement the wireless
antennas are routed up through into the
screen so I believe they're either on
the back of the IPS panel perhaps around
the chui logo or there could be around
the bezels the wireless chip is an Intel
3165 this is very common so it's dual
band wireless and they have glued those
antennas in place under the heatsink you
will see our chipset there they've just
used a thermal pad they haven't gone
with thermal paste on this so I'll find
out later on if the thermals are going
to be good if not you may have to go in
here and re paste it will put paste on
it because it's lacking that and then
you can also put a thermal pad on top of
this copper heatsink here now you'll see
that where they have the chipset cut out
here it doesn't actually line up with
where it is the location you can see
that clearly when you put that over the
top and that isn't lining up there right
here we have a 32 gigabyte Samsung emmc
below that as the bias chip if you need
to flash it this is a win bond chip so
you can connect a clip up to this if
somehow brick the bias the RAM must be
on the other side of the motherboard so
we do have rather large bezels on the
top the side bezels they're a little bit
slimmer than what you typically see on
this kind of price range but it's to be
expected remember that this is 259 us
our ram speeds you can see there well
it's two thousand 133 megahertz not the
fastest supported which is 2400 this
BIOS the good news is is completely
unlocked to us and that means we do have
access to things like the power limits
but for some reason when you go along
and disable it the setting doesn't seem
to take now I've experienced this with
the jumper x4 you have to then use as
well the software override methods have
both combined then completely unlocks
those power limits but of course watch
the thermals that it doesn't get too hot
so Windows is just now setting up I
wanted to point out here with a clear
blue screen you can see we do have light
leakage is exactly the same as the core
box you notice at the top that it's a
slightly lighter blue there around those
edges and this is something that these
IPS panels typically have it's due to
the process of the optical bonding when
they bond the glass on top of that IPS
panel that this can often happen so you
can see set up languages we've got quite
a few here we've got English German
Spanish French Italian Chinese Russian
and Korean here is a look at that real
logo so it's using a clear plastic and
you get the back of the IPS panels back
light shining through with a very bright
chewy so some people are gonna like this
others not so much now taking a look at
the display so when you're displaying
images like this with the black borders
either side you can't see the side
bezels there and the screen does
actually look really good so if I'm
liking it better than the jumper easy
book X display because it was a TN
panels had really poor viewing angles so
the screen it doesn't actually recline
back that's a maximum angle which is
really not a lot to show you from the
side so you can see there that really
needs to be a little bit more I feel but
so far liking it now the screen tops out
at 210 lux that I just measured so it's
not the brightest panel however because
it is fully laminated it does actually
look pretty good pretty bright for
indoor use now outdoors it's gonna be
little bit harder to make out what is on
the screen because really you need a
matte screen for that in
bright environments there right now do
have powerful studio lights on another
good thing here too that I like is the
screen brightness so you can actually
low it down very low and you'll see here
that right now that is about five Lux
that I measured not even that too you
can see there's a little bit of flicker
happening now this is pulse width
modulation controlling the brightness
this flicker is only on camera okay when
I am looking at this now I can't see
anything it seems fine to me seeing up
that then again to right up to the 210
Lux so to show you quickly just a couple
of other images here that it is a I
think it's a nice looking screen
considering the price if you're
wondering about the windows license well
Windows 10 home and yes it is fully
activated the version of it is 1709 so
not the latest you will need to run
Windows Update as you can see zoom right
into the screen so if you get close
enough you will kind of make out pixels
but at normal viewing distance you're
not gonna see anything so you probably
spotted it what are they doing - why
have they done this so they've installed
windows on that 32 gigabyte II MMC and I
think I know the reason why they have
done this so they have another model
that's from the same manufacturer the
same ODM and that's going to have just
32 gigabytes storage and then this spear
a blank SSD slot so that is why this is
happening so when you get that other
model I think it's called the Alpha wise
it's going to be solved by gearbest
you can just install the drive you want
but right here we just got the SSD
completely unused and everyone knows
that you should have the operating
system running off the fastest drive so
you're gonna have to use a tool like Mac
reham and that is the free version that
you can clone that over and then go back
into the BIOS once you've cloned it and
set this to be the boot device and this
is a different annoyance that you have
to do this oh and the micro SD card slot
it is running at a maximum of about 26
to 27 reads so it's not a high speed one
and I've been testing out my one
terabyte drive here so I am getting full
transfer speeds USB 3 speeds from both
of the USB 3 ports and of course the
keyboard is backlit as mentioned so
that's the first level which isn't
that bright it's good for I guess saving
on the battery and then this is the
second setting the highest brighter
setting overall I feel it's quite good
considering the price of this laptop now
the touchpad I'm happy to report that it
is as I mentioned before a precision one
and accuracy is good even the finest
slightest little movements seem to be
fine this groaning as well on it now the
mouse buttons click East are left and
right and overall it seems a decent
touchpad I do like the size of it as
well Linux Mint this is working well
Wireless is working screen brightness
controls to those who are working sound
everything's working including the
touchpad the left and right mouse
buttons so no issues they're really good
this is the latest Linux Mint bill by
the way onto audio now things are
looking positive I just tested out the
3.5 millimeter headphone jack
really good there is no static
whatsoever it is clean and a nice decent
output of the volume to through that I
found that the Jimmy Lake seems to have
stepped things up a little bit in terms
of sound it was the old the Apollo dates
were better as well quite good but it
was some of those teary trails and
things that always seemed to have static
over them not the case here now I test
out the speakers but first I just wanted
to show you how you can boost the volume
of them a little that is to go into the
realtek settings and find this right
here so equalizer set they're too
powerful and that will boost up the
volume about 4 to 5 dis about
yeah okay as expected not wonderful the
volume is okay after my little tweak but
there's just no base to these little
speakers whatsoever so they don't sound
that great the tribbles there there's
meds the battery checks out at the 37
watt hours that they claim you know on
the back I read 38 but that is what
everyone else is using and it's
basically 10,000 milliamp hours so we're
getting estimated battery life of about
seven to eight hours now my experience
with this chipset already the battery
capacity I think more around say six to
seven hours of battery life you can
expect to get out of these now if you
were to use it on that really low super
low lowest absolute setting of
brightness then I think you know maybe
you might be able to squeeze it out to
ten hours but you can hardly see this
screen though in normal conditions
performance of the laptop the laptop se
here is as expected so the single core
score here in Geekbench four that's good
multi-core score that's a little low I
suspect some minor throttling is
actually happening we're not really
throttling but it's clocking down so
I've just been looking at the
temperatures now for the last 20 minutes
or so when actually no that's been
running for thirty minutes and I've got
maximum temps of 85 degrees when it's
idle right now that lowers down quite
quickly to about 39 40 degrees and my
average temperature has been 63 I've
been running Windows updates and stress
testing and things like that just to get
it quite warm now I do expect this to
actually exceed 85 with gaming and tests
like that so it's a definite candidate I
feel for my copper heatsink mod they
should have put a thermal pad on the
back I believe between the copper
heatsink and the rear casing that would
probably lower temperatures a good 5 to
10 degrees know the RAM is running in
dual channel according to the
information HW info also says to your
channel and 4 gigabytes of RAM is that
going to be enough for you well for a
lot of people I feel it actually is
surprisingly because I've been using a
jumper eggs ebook x4 for quite some time
and with 4 gigabytes light use it's
actually fine it's not too much of an
issue if you open up like 20 tabs in
Chrome then yes you will run into
swapping you will run into a little bit
of slowdown but I
feel it would really be the sweet spot
if we had eight gigabytes with this
model chewy they need to push out an 8
gigabyte model of this particular laptop
so this is the chewy lab Borghese and so
far there are a lot of positives to this
machine the build quality is good the
internal build quality as well when you
look at everything and has that metal
internal frame that's supporting the
keyboard to stop any flex there
everything's screwed into place quite
well we have a large battery that's
going to be good for I feel up to about
seven hours of use their wireless AC the
aerial is going up on here the screens
quite nice now it's not the brightest
screen but overall very nice to look at
indoors it's going to be perfectly fine
at it's 210 Lux and I do love the fact
that we've got a backlit keyboard and
have got a good combination of a very
low screen brightness so it's gonna be
perfect for using this for example on an
airplane you're on a long-haul flight
and they've got all the shutters down
the lights are often things you can put
on the last brightness been watching a
movie using the keyboard typing or
something like that and it's not going
to hurt your eyes and the battery then
should probably last for maybe even
eight hours on that super low sitting
there now one thing with the heatsink a
little bit funny there that they put and
like a compression little pad on there
to keep pressure on the heatsink and so
far temperatures up to 85 I think that
should we should have put a thermal pan
on there I believe I might have to do my
copper heatsink mod on this just to
improve the thermals and get better
performance overall now another thing is
they've got the large SSD with very good
speeds on here but they did that really
silly move of installing Windows 10 -
the emmc drive now for some people that
ants tikkis they're not really up to
speed with everything like this perhaps
say your grandmother or your mother or
your father they might have a bit of a
problem then moving that over and
cloning it over to the SSD which is what
really needs to be done hopefully true
is going to change that in the future
and of course the four gigabytes of RAM
they need to up there to eight I believe
if they release a version of this with
eight gigabytes of RAM and they improve
on the heatsink they put a thermal pad
there hopefully Chewie are you listening
eight gigabytes around that right there
install windows on the SSD they I feel
have one of the best then budget laptop
especially for the price
now obviously if they put the eight
gigabytes of RAM on there that will
increase the price probably up to just
under 300 u.s. but it would be worth it
to see that so far really liking it
other positives keyboards very nice to
type on I do like it the spacing of it
is good it's backlit as I mentioned
touch pad it also works out well and
that is good it's large windows
precision drivers there HDMI to spec so
I'm running my TV I can run my monitor
at home then as well and at the full 60
Hertz that's not all lag in choppy that
is great so really as a package there's
a lot of things that are good on this
that are going for it and really I must
say that this is definitely in the top
three this has surpassed the jumper easy
book x4 definitely better than that one
it's now between this model I feel and
then the tick glass if five that f5
model I should have next week and do
look out for a video that my latest
video is also right up here and do check
out my video of the jumper easy book x4
if you're interested in a cheaper
version of the Gemini Lake budget
laptops thank you so much for watching
this video bye for now