emax has upgraded the y11 this is the
bmx y11 plus that now has jasper lake in
it so it's got the saueron in
5100 it's a quad core maximum turbo is
2.8 gigahertz now so that is a bump up
from the previous gemini lake it's a 10
nanometer chip it has improved graphics
which is now 24 executional units but it
still is a 6 watt part so a convertible
laptop at 11.6 inches the screen is ips
touch screen you can flip it right
around
use it in a tablet mode so it's really
just a change in the chipset everything
from the previous generation remains
including some of those big flaws like
no full size type a port
and the screen still has that same dated
bezel with the webcam in that position
which is just down here which is not a
great position at all
like the previous generation models we
get the same box so it does have looks
like a decepticons or autobots
transformers looking logo b-max the
power supply this one is 24 watts they
do have with it an eu
uk
and us plug now the laptop the weight of
it is just 1.1 kilos it's only 13
millimeters thick so it's a very good
size it's nice and light and portable
now the materials used on this laptop we
have alloy on the lid here and around
the edges the hinge right here is metal
and of course it's a 360 convertible
hinge that means you can use it
as a tablet you can flip it right around
like so now this keyboard the palm rest
this is made out of plastic the
underside
right here
this is metal and we do have this easy
access hatch which i do like to see on
these units so you can swap out the 256
gigabyte ssd which is a sata 3 one for
something a little larger but it must be
the 22 42 millimeter size and sata 3
pcie ssds will not work in this
there are absolutely no changes with the
keyboard for an 11 inch laptop it's not
bad there is no flex or bounce with the
keyboard because it's a very slim laptop
now the function key you can barely see
it in this light depending on how it
reflects they've used this blue color
which i don't like because it makes it
very hard at certain angles to see the
functions up the top here all of our
media controls half size arrow keys and
if i'm typing on it it's okay it's not a
bad keyboard it is not backlit and even
at certain angles i do find that the
silver keycaps really are not the best
design choice here the touchpad this
one's okay it wouldn't rate as amazing
but for the finer movements you can see
right now the cursor seems to be all
right but sometimes it does tend to
float around a little bit so we'd
definitely be using a mouse a wireless
one if possible
and looking at our ports on the right
hand side we've got the speaker micro sd
card set in flash unfortunately only usb
2 speeds microphone then we have micro
usb 2.0 yes ouch that's dated that's old
we shouldn't have that there micro hdmi
is the status led and our type c port is
the only usb port that we have at least
has high speeds that's usb 3.1 so it
supports data power delivery is also
supported and you can get 4k
60s the maximum resolution from this
with that jasper lake and there is our
power end so dc with the plug that it
comes with charge time is somewhere over
about two and a half hours the battery
capacity is only 26 watt hours and i'll
get on to that later that it's very
disappointing in this model
on the left our headphone socket this
one supports microphones volume up and
down and power button both of these made
out of plastic they feel okay i wouldn't
call them super high quality but the
buttons themselves do not rattle around
so that is good microphone and then the
left loudspeakers so what are
loudspeakers sound like here is a sample
at 100 volume for you
[Music]
and our screen so this screen is an 11.6
inch one it's ips now it's not fully
laminated so there's a slight gap but
it's not large at all it's about half a
millimeter you can barely see it the
brightness of this ips which is a full
hd screen 16 by 9 aspect ratio does top
out at exactly 270 nits which is okay
but considering it's a glossy screen in
reflective it can be a bit of a problem
picks up a lot of those reflections as
you can see now on my video the bezels
on this you can see especially that
bottom bezel super dated it makes it
look
very old to my eyes and remember they've
used this design now i think it's the
third year they're doing it so we had
the previous generation of chips so i
even think it started out with the bay
trail gemini lake and now of course
jasper lake with it the webcam location
is very poor down here so it kind of
looks up your nose so here's a sample of
what you can expect out of that webcam
the angle that this webcam is operating
clinging just up your nose really not
flattering not an amazing image it's
only about
15 frames per second so it looks very
choppy the inboard microphones the
quality from them not good either so
poor webcam in the y11 plus
touch response and accuracy from the
screen i find to be good
it seems to be relatively lag free and
then when you tap this windows button
also does work you can see
it seems to get that
quite spot on there the accuracy when
i'm using it so color reproduction not
amazing we have only 64
ntsc uh srgb is 92
which is all right it's higher than what
they claimed it was going to actually be
and then adobe rgb of 69
p3 coverage is also 69 so you can see
especially with ntsc it is lacking quite
a bit in those greens so it's not a
screen for professionals and i doubt
anyone out there that's working and
editing photos or video would even be
looking at this kind of spec of laptop
it is simply
underpowered for that kind of work
anyway
if you are wondering about windows 11
support yes you can upgrade and install
windows 11 on this it will run it does
have the tpm 2.0 installed that we need
okay and then the cpu is fast enough to
run windows 11 and we've got enough ram
so that is good if you want to do that
you can but it ships just with windows
10 home with this particular model now
when you look in the device manager you
will see that the cpu so the system on a
chip which is that cell run that's
jasper lake the n 5100 has four cores
they're not threaded at all so it's just
four cores that's it maximum turbo is
2.8 gigahertz and it's a six watt part
which severely limits the performance
running at only six watts here and that
really is the whole bottleneck of this
particular system is that chipset it's
only really for light kind of computing
so we do have an accelerometer on board
one in the keyboard one for the screen
so that's when you flip it around you
can see that and the wireless adapter
this is real tex wireless ac now i do
find that it should be able to get over
around about 350 megabits per second but
i've only been able to achieve just a
quite a bit less than that you'll see
here just with a real world test here
with speed test on another unit i can
get well over 300 meters per second but
this only seems to be able to achieve
and tops out at around just over 200 the
upload speed however is good now the
wi-fi range and the reception seems to
be about one bar and less signal
strength of what i've seen in other
laptops probably because it's metal
covered and it is a smaller unit so the
range isn't amazing on this or the
wireless speed so it's a bit of a weak
real tech chipset so here with the
scores if you wanted to run some
benchmarks and how does it compare to
your current system i recommend you
download geekbench 5 it's free run the
benchmark and you'll see if your scores
are going to be lower or probably higher
than this because it is as i mentioned
it's weak chip it's not very potent so
600 for the score just over is what
really this chip gets multi-core score
now this actually could be a little bit
faster now the reason is if i just take
a look at a ram speed they check out
those are fine which is good
but it is actually running in single
channel the ram now i've confirmed this
it's not dual channel which would give
us better memory bandwidth the speed
however 2933
is the maximum the chipset supports so
that area is good now if it was in dual
channel we would see
really improved scores you can see
hitting just around 2000 which is still
a very low score so it's not a
powerhouse of a system and you wouldn't
expect it to be it's really just for
light computing a unit like this with
this particular chipset
ssd speed so it's okay for sata 3 it's
not pci 3 spec and you wouldn't really
need it with this chipset either because
well it's not a fast chip that's still
going to bottleneck everything so it
gets just over 500 reads with the
sequentials and over 400 writes pretty
much checks out for this size of drive
now if it was a 512 then the rights
would probably be a little bit faster
there you do get approximately 190
gigabytes on free boot on the c drive
then what about video playback so we do
have with the jasper lake like the
previous generations native decoding of
hevc and vp9 so this is a very high
bitrate file it's 140 megabits per
second that i test out and you see that
the playback is smooth it's fine and it
will be even exactly the same on battery
it handles it this kind of things
without any problems any video files are
thrown at it
the jasper link that's in this the
sauron in 5100
seems to hand them all flawlessly at the
beginning you might get an initial
little couple of seconds of stutter
that's it general day-to-day performance
of the system and the touch response
does seem quite fast it doesn't seem to
really lag with just your light
computing now document spreadsheets
basic kind of stuff it's all right at
what about chrome performance so what
i'll do is just search cars right here
and i will bring up some new tabs with
this and we'll see if it's going to bog
down it could you know be a bit laggy
but we'll see what happens here so i'm
just going to open a few up
scroll through just go on to the other
page there and maybe get a few videos in
there if i can if possible and we'll see
if that is going to cause any problems
with the performance now i'm just using
touch on the screen so there's a video
and normally for this this kind of task
here
wouldn't be too strenuous but i'm
already seeing now with the scrolling
with chrome it starts to lag a little
when it is loading and especially a lot
of those videos there but normally you
can run about 10 tabs maybe even more
and it won't really run into problems so
switching over to these tabs there was a
bit of a delay then
this is quite image heavy but the
scrolling performance in chrome seems to
be alright doesn't seem to lag too much
i'm looking at all these lexus cars
there that seems fine and just going
between these tabs i've just
accidentally closed one there that's
quick okay it's not that bad so for this
kind of use again and i stress this a
lot in my videos of this kind of tech
which is very low end these low powered
six watt chips or even the 10 watt ones
they really are just for these basic
kind of needs you wouldn't be editing
video and they're not even really that
good at gaming which i'll get onto now
some older titles might be semi-playable
but we'll see how counter-strike runs
i have it only set to 720p and it is on
the lowest possible settings and you can
see that the jasper lake
in 5100 absolutely struggling just 10
frames per second so i'm not even going
to bother playing with it it just runs
horrendously terrible performance here
for even older light games like this i
mean just look as i look around here
super laggy 10 frames per second on a
full server the only thing that's good
here might be my ping rate which well is
actually a little bit high there too at
around 80 milliseconds
thermals are one of the very few
positives we do have with this
particular laptop here so 84 degrees is
the maximum that it will get up to now
the underside will get quite hot up to
about 45 degrees so warm a little almost
hot to the touch that's when you push it
gaming so that's good to see and of
course it is fanless so it makes
absolutely no noise whatsoever there's
no fan screaming away it's all passively
called and a silent laptop
battery life on this is truly abysmal
it's disappointing you're only looking
at tops around three hours even less if
you crank up the brightness which you
have to do because it's not really a
bright screen it is only a 26 watt hour
battery which just simply isn't enough i
know that this is a thin and light
laptop that is probably the best part
about it it's form factor the fact that
you can convert it into a tablet if you
wanted to do so and it is light and the
touch screen isn't that bad it seems to
respond quite well to touch it's the
brightness the bezels at the bottom
super dated so bmx did not fix any of
the issues from the previous generations
because they just reused the same thing
it is just a spec bump we get the faster
jasper lake and yes windows feels a
little quicker slightly faster the ram
is sadly only in single channel now if
it was configured to be in dual channel
we would get a slight bump in
performance when it comes to
multitasking especially
so the keyboard they didn't make any
changes to this either the silver key
caps for me i don't think are a good
idea especially when the function keys
are painted the actual
what you're looking at the media
controls in a blue color that at certain
angles you can't see them that is
frustrating and annoying now speaking of
annoyances with the keyboard i did
discover that if you plug in power
delivery to charge this which it does
support some interference or something
is happening that causes keystrokes on
this keyboard to sometimes not be
registered which is incredibly
frustrating when you're typing with it
plugged into charge occasionally there
is just one key stroke missing so a
letter will be missing and you get all
these typos as soon as i remove the
cable so it's not being powered then i
don't seem to have a problem and if you
use the dc charger that it includes
which is a 24 watt one you won't have
that issue it's just with power delivery
if you tend to use that you'll run into
typing problems which should not be
happening with this particular model so
the screen brightness the screen
coverage the build the lack of the type
a ports on it it's all just type c the
webcam location and the webcam's
terrible quality you probably guessed it
with that battery life especially i
cannot recommend this bmax y11 plus it's
simply not enough that they've just
given it the new chip b-max should have
done a lot more with this model they
could have really improved it and give
us a nice small 11.6 inch jasper-like
laptop instead it is the same issues
just drag through to the new model which
should not be happening so thank you so
much for watching my review here of the
bmx y11 plus i do hope to see you back
in the channel with my next up and
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see you in the next one bye for now