So this right here is Chuwi's Lapbook Air it's their final Apollo Lake laptop at
least I believe it's going to be and probably the last one I'm going to
actually review on the channel before we switch over to the Gemini Lake which is
the new up-and-coming successor to that Apollo chipset so this has a fourteen
point one inch IPS screen that is covered with glass apparently it is
scratch resistant and it has 128 gigabytes of e MMC 5.1 storage eight
gigabytes of RAM so this is the first Apollo Lake laptop out of the about ten
that I have looked at that has 8 gigabytes of RAM so it's a lot more than
the original ones which first came out with just four so it also has a full
metal build backlit keyboards to USB 3 ports on that's looking promising so
let's check this one out here in greater detail so must admit I was slightly
disappointed when the final specs of this one they confirmed it would come
with an Apollo Lake I was really hoping that they were going to put a chlorine 3
in this something like the 7 Y 30 which would be quite a bit faster almost twice
as fast as those Apollo days but hopefully fingers crossed we will see a
coram 3 version of this particular model
so you can see the alep box is packaging is just like their tablets and their
other lack box series of notebooks exactly the same IPS 14.1 and it just
confirmed on the side there that yeah 8 gigabytes of RAM
I don't want gigabyte MMC but it also does have an SSD slot on the back of it
so we can expand and put fastest origin so the noble looks to be well protected
there just get that out and I can see they have their typical little pouch
here that just has some warranty card stuff they can see product inspection
report so the charge up like here for me at least as the EU style one which is
good now it's that funny-looking Mickey Mouse style plug that you typically see
on most laptops oh that's good see we had to change this over to a u.s. or
Australian New Zealand style one and here's the power supply so it's rated to
12 volts out 3 amps and the plug on the end positive in the middle negative on
the outside and the diameter is 3 millimeters it comes in to be one point
three five kilos which isn't too bad for a fourteen point one inch laptop and
it's around about 15 millimeters thick that's without the rubber feet there so
those rubber feet will add an extra few millimeters and it comes to be sixteen
point two was so quite slim so it has a full metal build and you can see the
chewy logo is quite visible and in fact has a clear plastic along here so the
back light from that IPS panel is going to light this up personally I would have
loved to this have just been plain there's a tiny little bit of flex
pushing quite hard on it well a little bit of flex there but overall quite good
made out of metal here I do like this color so it's not a light silver but
more of a darker towards a gray kind of silver color so on the right side we
have two USB 3 ports the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack of course it does support
microphones now this ports are spaced a little close
together ideally I like them to be spaced out a bit wider then we have a
mini HDMI port for video out status LED DC in there for charging and a micro SD
card slot and so what it's missing here for me would be a USB 3.1 type C put on
there would have been great like the cube I work 5 X so the micro SD card
reader on the side the cards will sit in nice and flush like so so they shouldn't
come out when you put this in your backpack and just a very quick size
comparison compared to my me notebook err 12.5 inch version you can see is of
course smaller about the difference between them too isn't really that much
you have about one and a half centimeters here and then approximately
three centimeters longer now to test out that screen hinge so it looks a lot
actually like the me notebook as well because it's fully laminated 1080p IPS
panel they have applied a screen protect and I can see plenty of bubbles on there
now the hinge itself that feels really quite firm that's good okay so there's
the keyboard oh actually those keys are a lot higher than I thought they would
be that reminds me of the Chewie lat book 14.1 so they have quite a bit of
travel on them I'll measure that in my full review but just estimating here
it looks to be well over 1.5 millimeters of travel and pressing down hard there
there's a little bit of flex but not too bad so the keyboard looks to have it
covered when it comes to shortcuts where you have controls for your media so play
pause Skippy here things like that brightness control volume audio print
screen and even a number lock on there and you can see that with that function
you've got use of the number pad here that's really mucked out next to the
other letters we don't normally see this so it's good to have that option
homepage up and down and in keys as well now the power button as you can see is a
little bit away from the backspace key which is good close to the delete now
just test it out now that the resistance of that button is in fact exactly the
same as the rest of the keys there which is a little bit of a shame personally I
would have liked them to have move this button up here so it's even way out from
the keyboard so you don't accidentally tap it but of course in Windows you can
set the power button to do nothing if you did tap it now have discovered a
minor con here with the screen and the hinge will only go back this far so
that's the maximum angle that it will recline which to me doesn't seem quite
enough so first boot did not take long at all it was about 10 15 seconds got
into Windows really quick there was already an account created so chewy has
partitioned that drive the 128 gigabytes of each MMC 5.1 storage we have I'll
test the speeds of that in just a minute you can see they've got 75 gigabytes for
data and then you have created a partition there for Windows with 40
gigabytes of data now there's pros and cons to this one of them if you do a
factory reset then that partition on data should hopefully still be intact so
you won't lose your files you just back them up just in case though and you can
see that 128 - gigabyte Samsung Pro Plus micro sd card has been detected and that
is working fine so the wireless card is quite common now for these Apollo Lake
so its entails a dual band wireless AC 3165 personally I find it's a good
chipset it's reasonably fast and has good range it is a big step up from the
wireless in real tech cards we used to have on the old atoms now for memory
we've got 8 gigabytes of double data rate 3 RAM but I have noticed that
Windows is reporting that the speed is set to
1330 megahertz and not the fastest 1600 that
we commonly see on the other Apollo Lake laptops that have 6 gigabytes of RAM so
hopefully I'll have a look to see if we can change this in the BIOS and set the
faster speed now I have some good news here with the touchpad that it is using
Windows precision drivers and overall just using it now for about 5-10 minutes
feels good it's accurate and just as good as the one on the easy book 3 pro
version 4 which is another Windows precision touchpad so the screen so far
looking good it's bright and of course being fully laminated with glass and in
fact that I've still got the screen protector on it's highly reflective I
mean a huge amount of reflections to be as expected now viewing angles are fine
they're perfect for an IPS I had a look at that because had a spate of TN panels
lately so that's at least nothing to worry about here that it is an IPS and
so far looks really good the screen very nice so this is what the backlit
keyboard looks like there are no in-between settings so it's either on or
off and you use function and then escape to turn it on or off there so the
underside looks a lot like the easy book 3 Pro very similar design to it so for
rubber feet and you can see either side speaker grilles and then a hatch on the
bottom if you wanted to install a set of 3 SSD now it is marked on the hatch that
it has to be 22 by 42 in size and that's of course you decide to do this you
don't have to put one in you can clone Windows then over to the SSD which will
be faster and give you greater capacity if you do what I've done I've gone for a
256 gigabyte SSD so once you have installed your SSD make sure you go into
the buyer so when you power it up hit delete or escape both of them at the
same time as what I generally do and just go into the boot order here and
then select your SSD so now that's going to boot that now another positive here
like the jumper easy book 3 pro version 4 the BIOS is completely unlocked we're
able to go along and even disable the power limit now what this does don't
really recommend it only if you want to get maximum performance is to increase
the power that the CPU can use so disabling listed
you will actually clock a lot higher and you get way better gaming performance
but it will increase thermal so that a caution when using the setting and as
for the RAM I don't actually think I can change the speed I can't find the
settings for RAM just the memory configuration all I can see is does this
memory scrambler option so I'm not too sure if we can increase it to 1600
megahertz which is a shame so I just finished running Geekbench 4 to get an
idea on how that Ram is going to affect their performance and the schools here
are slightly slower so we can see around 4000 on the multi-core school here with
Geekbench 4 and single core score that hasn't really dropped down that much at
all so it will have an impact on the performance but only slightly
of course disabling that power limit might even boost things up a little bit
high to compensate for that slightly slower Ram and then a very quick look at
the EMC speeds you can see they're really good here as expected for 128
gigabyte MMC 5.1 spec drives so almost 280 reads sequential and 125 writes
there for kazar also quite good so so far in my use it feels just as fast as
any other Apolo lake or like the jumper easy book 3 pro version for the impact
of that Ram I'm not actually seeing it at the moment I feel that it might only
really affect gaming performance which I will check out later on of course in my
full review of this particular model so there are two downward firing speakers
as you saw early on in this video let's have a listen to how they sound
so they sound almost identical to the easy book three prose speakers I just
wish they were a little bit louder they're not really loud enough are they
as for Linux I'm just running and TIG us here which is a latest build of it that
I'm testing out from the pendrive you can see on the right plankton so the
only thing that isn't working is the touchpad now I haven't tried to install
it but the screen brightness controls they're working audio as well as working
wireless is working it's just that the touchpad drivers is the only issue so
you'd have to hunt around and find those and see if you can get it working okay
so that's it there for my first hands-on with Chuy's let book ear now it's very
decent so far I'm really enjoying it nice screen on there okay it is
reflective being fully laminated and it would be nice if the screen could
recline back a little bit more that's a minor con and the other minor con that I
have discovered so far is the RAM speed so it's 1333 megahertz and not 1602
which the Apollo Lake supports the maximum supported speed that you can get
on it which is a little bit of a shame that means that it you know it's
affecting their performance slightly when it comes to CPU scores and
Geekbench for now we do have in the bias some positives to that they have fully
unlocked everything which is great that means that I can go on there and change
the power limits to disable basically and let the CPU use as much power as it
wants it will clock up that GPU as well to up to the highest speeds and hold
them but it will generate a lot more heat and kill off the battery life so
better life benchmarks gaming performance and everything else I can
think of in my final opinion over all of this lat book ear will be coming out
within about a week or so and that will be of course in my final review thank
you so much for watching this video here and I do hope to catch you back with
that review bye for now