Chris here in this review i'm taking a look at the new one mix 4. This is the koi limited
edition it comes in this new red color and it now has a faster processor over the mix 4 model the
one mix 4 the original model has a core i5 and this now has the core i7 1160 g7 with the iris
xc graphics 96 executional units it comes with 16 gigabytes of ram but it is the very fast lp ddr4 x
this model does come with 512 gigabytes of storage which is pci 3 spec it has two thunderbolt 4 ports
a third type c port micro sd card support and the screen is a 10.1 inch one with a 2560 by 1600
resolution it also does support a stylus it's a sharp screen and a good one but it does have this
like the original one makes for a 360 degree hinge means that you can use it if you wanted to as a
tablet or somewhere in between this laptop comes with a limited edition box with the catfish on it
we get a user guide which is in both chinese and english for the limited edition a type c to type
c cable and then a 55 watt type c charger but the charging rate is a maximum of 45 watts power
delivery on the laptop itself looking at our lid now of the one mix 4 this is the special edition
it's called the limited edition koi and it does have these two catfish you can see in the logo on
the top now this is actually recessed it's in the lid and it's made out of this alloy which
is a 6 000 grade one so it's very high quality and the red finish is unique to this limited edition
model too so the hinge on it is very stiff it's good and of course it's a convertible it's 360
degrees you can flip it right around and i do find that it feels very good the keyboard on this one
it has a reasonably good layout considering it's only a 10.1 inch laptop we still have
plenty of room here there's just a slight minor adjustment i have found to my typing sometimes
i've gone for example to hit p and accidentally hit the backspace key here so with function
and tab we have a high fan or a superfan mode then the normal fan mode so you can control it here
and if you do want the maximum performance using function and then tab will put it into that but
it does get a little bit loud that is of course the trade-off with it we have up and down arrow
keys that are only half size now i wish they were full size ones but there are a few compromises
with the size overall good keyboard there is no real flex at all with this pressing and using it
it is a backlit keyboard too so this is what it looks like with the lights out it's just a single
on and off and the keys themselves have about 1.5 millimeters 1.6 millimeters of travel and they
are high quality keycaps and plastics they have used on it the touchpad while it is small it is
a glass touchpad supports full gestures and even finer movements are quite accurate overall it's
a very good touchpad the palm rest all this part is made out of alloy 2 like the whole build of it
i do really like the compact small size of this particular laptop because it's just
10.1 inches so very portable but only about 18 millimeters thick and then it weighs about 790
grams which is excellent very very light and here you'll see we've got a status led
two thunderbolt 4s or usb 4.0 and then a micro sd card reader this is on the left side
on the right you'll find our power button here that is a capacitive always on fingerprint reader
a type c port this is data only this one so the other two ports support power delivery
up to 45 watts and video out thunderbolt four ports but this one isn't it's just simply data
and then we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone out with microphone support and then the back of it
what looks like two exit vents is in fact just one so the cold air has been sucked underneath
and it has blown then out the back of this laptop so laptop comes with an excellent screen 10.1
inches and because of the 360 degree hinge it can be used in presentation mode as you see now
or you can use it in what is called the tint mode and use it as a tablet
then as a normal laptop so it has 10 touch points the accuracy of the touch i do find to be
excellent it's very good and it responds to touch straight away there is no lag of course that core
i7 is helping images look excellent on the screen maximum brightness does top out at knits of 372.00
which i find to be ideal so it can be made out in direct sunlight but it is very reflective
now it's covered with glass this ips panel and it's fully laminated so there's no ugly gap
behind it but what about the actual coverage of the screen here so we've got a 96 srgb color gamut
here ntsc is 72 percent adobe rgb 74 and p3 that is 78 all up an excellent screen
now it does support styluses but unfortunately they did not send me the stylus which supports
2048 pressure levels i didn't get it so i cannot cover it in this review unfortunately
i have moved over to screen capturing now just so we can see things a little clearer and it don't
beat on that tiny screen especially with the 25.6 resolution now the chipset on this one is very
good it is the core i7 1160 g7 so it's not quite as fast as the 1165 g7 which is very common and
i've reviewed it in a lot of other tech it doesn't clock quite as high so 4.4 gigahertz but for this
smaller little chassis we have and the cooling that it has i think it's more of an appropriate
chip so it does ship with a 15 watt power limit that's a stock but you can change it in the bios
to 20 if you want increased performance but of course there is a trade-off it generates more heat
and you need to really use the superfan or the fan boost mode to get that performance out of the 20
watts now it has iris xc graphics and it does have two thunderbolt ports on this thunderbolt 4 spec
and 96 executional units as well so it's quite a powerful integrated gpu looking at benchmarks you
see here that the single core score this was using the increased fan mode by the way to get this
otherwise the score is normally about 1300 you can achieve some very good results here and quick
you see that when you use the system it feels very fast so just over 1400 there for single core score
and just over 4 000 for a quad core with the eight threads is a good result what is great is
the integrated graphics performance so iris xc is a big step up over what we had before with the
uhd graphics graphic scores now with fire strike over 4 000 for integrated graphics is really good
physics physics score there of almost 9 000 however that's the 15 watts
standard power limit power of it level one power limit one sorry if you increase it to 20 watts
you can really boost the performance not only the graphics but also the physics scores there too
so that enables extra performance again as i mentioned the trade-off being the heat
and you have to use the faster fan speed there to really get that performance out of it now looking
at what we have with the internal storage speeds you see that it's not a bad pci 3 drive the 512
gigabytes plenty of free space and for pci 3 spec those speeds are good but they certainly
aren't the fastest that you can get now if you want better you can upgrade it you could
put something like a samsung 970 evo in there and get over 3 000 sequential reads and writes
the micro sd card slot is not fast at all it maxes out about 25 megabytes per second
cinebench r23 scores they aren't too bad we get a single core score this is at the stock 15 watts 2
by the way of just over 1200 points and then nearing towards 4 000 points is possible if
you use the high fan speed mode which i didn't right here this was all stock so that's the kind
of scores you can expect out of it which i don't think is bad considering how small this laptop is
our fingerprint reader which is on the right side it does also act as a power button it's from focal
tech it works well it's accurate and you can use it to log into the system as windows hello if you
didn't want to enter passwords it is a bit quicker than that wireless it's on board as i showed you
it's not upgradable so the only thing that you can upgrade as i pointed out when we looked at
the internals is just the ssd that's it so you cannot touch the ram you cannot upgrade the ram
it's all soldered on part of the motherboard and then the wireless card which is the ax 201 it is
a very good wireless card though it's very fast i can get over 1.3 gigabit transfers with this so
faster than the gigabit lan port it does also have incorporated with it is bluetooth 5.2 you'll see
that the processor is listed eight times because it does have eight threads it's a quad core and it
does of course have this which we need for windows 11 which it is running windows 11 home is tpm 2.0
then the sensor on board is a bosch accelerometer now this accelerometer is used when you rotate
it so it will then rotate the screen around accordingly if you decide to use it in tent mode
or as a tablet and flip it around now we do have the native vp9 and he
vc playback with the ir60 graphics it's been around since the 7th gen the native decoding so a
demanding video file like this one right here the jellyfish test file it plays fine now initially
you see a little bit of stutter just when you open it and then it is very smooth now this is 4k
10-bit hevc with a 140 megabit bitrate and it plays it just fine no problems at all
video editing is possible with this with this spec in the 16 gigabytes of ram which is very fast ram
you are able to edit 4k video so what i've got here is my test clip that i always test out
and these files are 100 megabit ones 4k from a sony a 6300 the timeline seems relatively quick
it can occasionally be a little bit of lag that you do notice come through when you go through it
and i just have our preview here set to quarter playback resolution which i think is best now
normally i would have the scaling set to 100 so i can fit a little bit more in most importantly what
about the export times so one minute of footage i will test that out now with the 4k youtube preset
okay so it has just finished up and about two minutes and 20 seconds that's a lot slower than i
thought it has however run into some thermal throttling and i felt the system getting a little
bit slow so when you do anything demanding i'll show you the thermals that it does run into this
problem right here you'll see that it's gotten up to 101 degrees and that does then trigger thermal
throttling which you see there at the top where my mouse cursor is it's triggered there triggered
that thermal throttling and that's lowered those cores down so the clock speed really does drop
down when it gets very hot and that really is the weakness of having a powerful chip like this
in such a small laptop that if you intend to press the system push the system really hard
you will run into thermal throttling with demanding tasks like gaming and encoding video
so this laptop just has the single speaker inside how exactly does it sound well it's
not the greatest but at least it does have a speaker here's a sample of it at 100 volume
hopefully you heard from that it doesn't sound too bad for just a single speaker there is a tiny hint
of bass to it and the volume it's okay it's not the loudest however over to gaming performance
what i'm playing right now is cyberpunk 2077. most of you will probably know that this is a
super demanding game and yet the iris xc with its 96 execution cores is able to really give us
an almost playable frame rate you can see right now that yes it does get down to about 25 frames
per second 21 is about the last i see it and in some areas currently i'm running it at 720p
and on the low preset of course but in some areas it will be up around 30 32 33 even that i've seen
it so if i get on them off the motorbike here that frame rate is going to improve now because it
doesn't have to render it you see around 31 frames per second for such a demanding game like this
on a tiny slim convertible laptop like this and only 10.1 inches i really am impressed
that it's able to do this however you do need to run that fan boost option so maximum fan rpms to
try and keep it as cool as possible it will eventually reach sometimes up to 99 degrees
celsius it will thermal throttle and then it does drop down the performance there when it happens
so it's going to get a little hot doing this but again it's really impressive to see such
a tiny laptop playing a demanding game like this now gta 5 so this one i have set to 1080p
on what is really the middle setting for graphics so normal pedestrian density and the view distance
it's running reasonably well here so just over 50 frames per second it's often up to
even i've seen it peak at around 80 but that's only when it's a little bit cooler right here
but this is still great performance considering it's integrated graphics how small this is i'll
quickly just jump into this car and show you that when you drive around you probably get
a lower frame rate here this is dropping a little it's still very playable and if you wanted to play
this game on the go on a tiny little laptop you're able to do it if you just stick to of course
older lighter titles you will get very respectable frame rates at 1080p with medium to low settings
okay so what about my final verdict on this i do think this is an excellent laptop if you're after
something that is portable that's very small that can also be used as a tablet and not only just a
laptop you've got quite a bit of flexibility the versatility of just flipping that screen around
converting it then into a windows 11 tablet now the battery life i wanted to mention isn't super
strong on a laptop like this with only a 38 watt hour battery it will run for around four four and
a half hours at only 30 brightness with just light tasks now they do claim up to eight hours and that
is simply just video playback and that would be in flight mode not even connected up to the internet
if you do anything more demanding then that battery life really does start to drop down if you
use a higher brightness of about 50 percent you really are only looking then at about three hours
or just over so not amazing battery life the other trade with this trade-off definitely was have
having such a thin laptop with so much power is of course that it is going to get hot as i pointed
out i showed you that it got up to 101 degrees celsius it did trigger thermal throttling so it
has a lot of power on here but really if you're going to be pushing it saying coding video or
you do intend to do a little bit of light gaming which it can handle quite well thanks to the iris
xc graphics and that very fast ram you do really need to use the function and tab key to turn on
that fan boost mode increases the fan noise but then drops the thermals down to about 90 degrees
and it won't hit the 101 which it got up to there build quality is excellent it has a very good
keyboard considering the size of it the touchpad is good and i really like the touch response and
the accuracy of that screen which does have a good color gamut good color coverage and then the 10
touch points and overall it's a very nice screen now sadly i couldn't test out the stylus because
i didn't get sent one but it should hopefully work well it does have 2048 levels of pressure
pressure sensitivity so if you're really after a powerful laptop that's not big it's lightweight
it's small it's portable and a convertible i do think this is one of the best options out there
so thank you so much for watching my review here of the one mix four from one notebook