Chris here back with Chuwi's Surbook so this is their premium two-in-one tablet that
has a Microsoft Surface pro or the surface pro full screen and it's a very
nice panel and the design is all made out of metal and weighs almost 1 kilos
so it's not super lightweight and you can see here a kickstand also made out
of metal the hinge is metal and it folds all the way back like so so we can
actually get quite a nice angle here for using a stylus on there which is an
optional extra which I'll show you later on so the keyboard is very much like a
type cover that you'll find on the Microsoft Surface pro 3 the design is
very similar to it it is backlit it has this suede like material on the back
that is a complete dust magnet so it picks up every single piece of dirt on
the table services when you put it down there and it comes in with magnets just
like that you can also prop it up slightly higher there so overall the bow
quality of it is very good it's decent and I'll go into some more detail here
we'll go through all the pros and cons of this to and one here from Chui so on
the bottom you'll find the inserts there for the keyboard and pogo pins and
underneath that kickstand which by the way has a metal hinge you can see is
screwed in place we have the micro SD card slot here just like the surface pro
series so all the ports are located on the right side we have a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack that supports microphones 2 USB 3 plugs now these will power
external hard drives same goes for the type C port now this is type-c USB 3.1
so that means it supports data charging and video out up to 4k 30 Hertz the
buttons at the top feel like they're made out of middle quality feel they
don't feel like they're gonna come loose or break or anything like that
and they don't rattle around inside the housing now I've got a minor complaint
here with this type C port and that is the plug because the housing slants off
a little bit it doesn't actually sit completely flat
I found that to get the plugs in for my hubs at least I really have to push the
Sun at a bit of an angle and quite hard then finally get it to clip in place and
often it will pop out a little bit resulting in me losing the connection
with my monitor and external keyboards so if it doesn't do that click then it
won't sit there in place so on the back here we have a five megapixel autofocus
camera the quality isn't really wonderful but it's ok for taking photos
of text and things now it's something that they're not even the surface pro 3
could do as it didn't even have an autofocus camera so up close text you
can even take a photo of at least you can with this now here's one thing to
note here that while the back is all made out of alloy which is great and the
build quality is excellent there isn't a plastic strip along here to aid the
wireless antenna reception so I feel due to this the range isn't quite as good as
it could be and on the rear we've got the chui logo here which is pressed into
the metal kickstand and lastly up the front a 2 megapixel front-facing webcam
so the type cover comes in two colors you've got black and I think the other
one is a purple color and it's very very similar to the design and even the
quality of the Microsoft type cover 3 but you will get with thee or you can
order extra for the Microsoft Surface pro 3 now the material of it is like a
fake suede that is very prone to smudges fingerprints marks dust and dirt and
everything it's picking that up you can see even after 2 weeks of use it's
already starting to look a little bit used and abused now the backlight on the
keyboard isn't armed by default for some reason you need to press function and
delete to turn it on and we are missing some controls here so there's no
controls for the volume you've only got mute no Print Screen button the typing
on this keyboard is not bad at all but the key travel is quite shallow it's
about 1.17 millimeters of travel so not a lot of travel there but overall quite
good not many typos and a pleasant keyboard to type on now the touchpad
however ok it's a reasonable size considering this bass they've got to
work with but I'm not particularly fond of this touchpad here it's sometimes a
little oversensitive double tapping and trying to drag items doesn't seem to
work sometimes and I in the end just use a mouse I don't bother with it you have
the gestures and unfortunately you'll notice on the
keyboard here I haven't found it if it's not showing but there is no function
control or button shortcut to disable this touchpad which is another annoyance
you can also prop up the type cover like this and when you type on it quite heavy
you will get a little bit of Bounce there now if you're not happy with that
bounce when typing then simply just place it down like that of course again
just like the Microsoft Surface pro 3 type cover and this is what the keyboard
looks like when lit up when you turn on the backlight so the screen resolution
is 27 36 by 18 24 and that translates to 267 PPI
which is very sharp for a 12-point 3-inch screen maximum brightness tops
out at 444 lux that I measured very nice panel that says really and top grade
panel that you will find indefinitely one of these cheaper more budget
orientated Chinese tablets do not normally have a quality screen like this
one's a really nice blacks on here good looking colors now the touch digitizer
and the pen is all running with good-x technology so that's the digitizer brand
the manufacturer there and it can play of course 4k videos this is a native 4k
video that's recorded on my WoW it's having problems with that just to start
with I'm not sure what happened then this was recorded on a Samsung Galaxy
Note 4 back in the day and plays back without any issues so you can even play
back high bitrate HUV codecs a vp9 as well as something that the Apollo lanes
can handle natively so the screen on 0% I find to be a little too bright ideally
I would like this to be darker for late night time use 25% 50 75 and then 100
which has been overexposed with my current camera settings so the server
comes with Windows 10 home fully activates no problem and it's a more
recent build so we don't have to worry about downloading that really low
creators update since we already have it incorporated in that image they have
used got six gigabytes of RAM now it's in dual channel 1600 megahertz and we do
have a hundred and twenty eight gigabyte EMC 5 spec drive on here and those are
the speeds of it here so very decent almost 160 reads and a hundred writes
there 4 KS are also not too bad for this kind of Drive there and you'll see it's
listed right here it's a SanDisk DF 41:28 other things of interest in here
the wireless it's all band wireless AC the 3165 chipset very common now with
the Apollo Lakes and it's so much better than the realtek Wireless in we used to
always see on the atom cheery trails did a quick benchmark of that now I'm going
through a couple of walls I was not sitting right on the wireless router
here and if I'm very close to the wireless router these speeds will be
around 260 270 meters per second but in the room now it's quite a bit lower and
I found that it is actually lower than other devices like my easy book 3 Pro
which can get around 220 from the same room I think the design of it having the
all metal bottle body all around the outside here does have a slight impact
on the performance but at least here in the office going from all the rooms I
can still get in very decent speeds here out of the router now a couple of other
tests I ran here we've got Geekbench for CPU benchmark here so that's more or
less like other Apollo Lake in 34 50s no real problems there perhaps a little bit
slower there and then we have the open CL test here which is the compute score
so what about streaming 4k video at the moment I've just gone into YouTube and
I'm just doing a 4k demo and it's keeping up here but when I did go from
the windowed mode into fullscreen it dropped about 5 or 6 where actually 7
frames here you can see just initially but it's running that perfectly fine now
this is using Microsoft's edge here so overall the Apollo lakes are not
high-end chipsets they're good for the light tasks like that so streaming 4k a
little bit of Photoshop but minor edits minor kind of work like that is fine
Excel spreadsheets as long as they're not massive they should run perfectly
fine on this so really I think it's more or less a PC really only for those kind
of tasks so if you want to do heavy tasks like video editing you want to
game triple-a titles then this clearly is not the chipset for it
so time to listen to my typical sample track here on the sir box so we've got
left and right side words facing speakers let's have a listen to how they
sound
so as you can hear from that sample there that they're modest kind of volume
there I wish they were just a little bit louder there's tiny hinted bass overall
there okay speakers they certainly aren't the best however and not premium
speakers so when it comes to battery life here I ran a couple of tests so in
this test here I was gaming for around three hours and the brightness was set
to about 25% in autonomy it's gonna run for about four hours and 25 minutes with
the discharge rate using around about 10 watts now when I decided to take it more
easy on it so it was just light task but a YouTube YouTube streaming some videos
each Chrome then I managed to get closer towards 7 hours but this does still fall
short so to fully charge the sir book when in use all depends on if you're
doing something very demanding it can range from about 2 hours 50 minutes
anywhere up to about 4 hours if it's a very demanding task now if you power off
the sir book and then charge it it will fully charge in approximately 2 hours
and 35 minutes so it supports a stylus the same exact one as the Chui HR 1309
h3 so it's the third version of their active styluses from chewy 1024 levels
of pressure sensitivity the tip on the end is a hard plastic so it's not like
the quality styluses where you get rubber on the end of it so I'm just
going to do a couple of quick tests here I'm no artist a lot of people been
asking me can I draw a straight horizontal world diagonal lines so here
we go try and do that as straight as possible seems relatively quick here
this is in one note of course now notice that the stylus you cannot use it right
up to the very edge there's a limit there you can see of around about three
millimeters you're not getting the whole visible screen here that border applies
to the whole screen there you can see which of course isn't the greatest there
now there is a hover function like you get on other styluses so you hold it
about right about 5 millimeters or so is where it works palm rejection also works
so soon the pin is detected then palm rejection
comes into play here so can you write proper text on it what is it lies I'm
just gonna do a quick demo here it is actually not too bad one of the better
ones and list here in OneNote and very fast too with note-taking things like
that now you can of course use rulers and things but I don't actually happen
to have one on me I've just moved the studio over here but I'll use the type
cover here as a ruler so I try and get that as straight as possible okay so
here the sample from that to make this with back facing we've can now the
framerate using the camera application here in Windows it's not thirty Frank
decision and clearly sees a little bit choppy I move my hand around here it's
about 15 frames per second and the audio quality is average really isn't it so
this is possible subscribe calls but you know if you want better than less you're
definitely better on getting some an external any be multi we can for example
I want to a little bit of gaming so first up is Counter Strike global
Offensive these are the settings I'm gonna go with pretty much what I test on
all of the Apollo lake in 3450 devices so the framerate is good it's over
thirty frames per second now some of the other polar lakes don't actually get
this kind of framerate they get even lower than this so it is playable at
this resolution now if you do the TDP power limit tweak you'll probably get an
extra additional ten frames per second or so
so games from the Windows 10 store running in the need of screen resolution
like asphalt Xtreme here you can see run far too slow so you need to drop the
resolution down to something like 1080p and then this game will have playable
frame rates but as it is now running in the native screen resolution
it's far too choppy and only running about 10 or 15 frames per second so
quite bad so I would love to show you some League of Legends unfortunately it
seems they've got problems with the server it took a long time for me to log
in about 20 minutes and I've been sitting here waiting for this to update
and it's not really even moving so something's up with legal agent servers
and I just don't have time to show you gameplay here but if it's like the in 34
50s that I've tested 1080p resolution it can run it and it will get around 40
frames per second so it won't be a problem that game is going to be
perfectly playable and if you're worried about that framerate if you want higher
framerate then just simply lower the resolution down so let's have a look at
the thermals here so this is the whole time I've been running the system now
for three hours and 39 minutes maximum temperatures 69 degrees very good
cube did show us that it does have a large copper heat sink in there so
they've taken care of that there is no thermal throttling along here at all
power limiting is normal on this chipset and processor that is normal that that
has been triggered their GPU also gets up to where is it 79 degrees as well
they're so thermals very good on this system it does get slightly warm just in
this area here behind on the rear but nothing to be concerned about so that
wraps up the review there the SU book is a very well rounded to an one tablet now
at the beginning it was looking quite bad for this tablet because of the
touchscreen issues the fact that the sensitivity just wasn't there so luckily
chewy released that driver updates and now the touchscreen is perfectly fine
I'm able to select things I'm not getting those typos while using the
on-screen keyboard like a bursted with the first driver so really good to see
that they're onto it they're fixing the problems as they should of course now
the design well made well put together the speakers
sound okay wish there are maybe a little bit louder but overall they're not too
bad typing on the type cover as well nice
experience it's very similar to the Microsoft Surface pro 3 now my biggest
complaint and the worst area I would say of this particular model here is that
touchpad I just don't like it it's not very good at all it's sometimes overly
sensitive other times it's not accurate other times when you're moving around
the cursor seems to be trembling and it really makes life difficult so I don't
even bother using it I plug in a mouse but then ink there seems to be a problem
with disabling the touchpad I can't see on this keyboard a shortcut
for it which I want I want to be able to disable it since it's so poor the other
and second worst thing I would say it would be the battery life we're getting
around six and a half hours maybe seven that's about an hour short or an hour
half less than other tablets so it's not the best thing when it comes to the
battery life and lastly a minor complaint here is the type C port so
when I try to put in my hub for example sometimes it will make its way out a
little bit causing the connection to be lost to my monitor to my other for
example my external keyboard and mouse and I've got to try and push it back in
and I feel hopefully that they can improve on the way that the type C port
sits in there other than that it is a really nice tablet it has got a
beautiful screen on here so the surface pro screen same exact panel looks great
maybe not quite as good as the surface of course because it's not fully
laminated but other than that the brightness is there 450 Lux deep blacks
good colors really really nice screen on there you won't really find any better
in a tablet there so overall it is quite a good tablet the stylus as well
performance seems decent but it's still not as good as a Microsoft Surface with
the intrigue one with a rubber tip on it so don't fool yourself into thinking all
this is going to have the exact same stylus performance as a surface book no
it doesn't but it isn't too bad but really still not the best if you're an
artist or someone that needs the best stylus performance get yourself
something with a Wacom stylus or go for the Microsoft Surface book or surface
pro they are a lot better there so thank you so much for watching this review and
I do have catch you back in the channel if you
have any questions let me know down in the comment section bye for now