Onda's Xiaoma 31 is basically the same exact model of laptop that is the jumper
easy book 3 pro so it's from the same original design manufacturer however
there are some differences that you can see to start with it's only in this
champagne gold color a fingerprint reader which works really
well once you set this up you can get into windows really quick faster than
typing a password you just place your finger on the on there unlocks and reads
and go straight into Windows via Windows hello I cook an easy SSD slide so it
only requires two screws here one for the flap on the outside then one for the
SSD itself so you can insert your own set of three spec 22 by 42 millimeter
SSD and then the biggest difference this is the shoma 31 pro model they call it
which has the pentium in 4200 now this has a maximum turbo of 2.5 gigahertz so
that is 300 megahertz faster than the typical n 3450 you'll find in the EZ
bug-free Pro it's got 4 gigabytes around so that's 2 gigabytes of RAM less now
the GPU on it it's still the same but it's now labeled as the Intel HD 505
which has 6 executional cause more on there so it is slightly faster and 50
megahertz more highest turbo speeds on that GPU clock now the keyboard is
basically the same as you'll find on the easy book 3 Pro however it is a very
minor difference here and that where we have the button here to disable the
touchpad on the shoma 31 is actually just the scroll lock you'll see here on
the jumper easy book 3 pro that's the only difference that the keyboard is
basically exactly the same it's not a bad keyboard at all I find it's good to
type on and we have around 2 1.2 for 2 to 5 millimeters or so of key travel and
minimal flex here it is really quite solid so the touch pad while it's in
gold it seems to have the same exact accuracy as the one on the easy book 3
pro so it's not really an improvement at all maybe slightly more sensitive but
there could be down to drivers or something
so having that eel and fingerprint reader in there has not actually changed
the brand of use which is unfortunate because the touchpad really is a very
average touchpad and not a precision one so we don't have full control of the
gestures poor lout is the same on the left you have a 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack USB 3 port which will power external hard drives and then a micro SD
card slot you can see that the micro SD s they fit in nice and flush so there's
no risk of them popping out inside a bag and you losing that expensive micro SD
card on the right mini HDMI out another USB 3 ports DCN for charging and a
status LED and yes you guess that the same exact matte-coated 1080p IPS panel
that's in here so the maximum brightness pops out to be approximately 250 lumens
which isn't bad because it is matte coated now that was a glossy display I
want a little bit more brightness there so out of the box the calibration of the
screen does definitely lean towards the cool white and you can notice that but
using the Intel software you're able to at least go in there and you can warm up
the screen a little bit just tweak that via the settings in there so it's not
really an issue there other than that the blacks they're deep viewing angles
are good not a bad panel it's certainly not the
best not quite as good as the Chui lat book 14.1 screen that I looked at but
overall for the price while at least and the jumper easy bug 3 Pro is a very
decent screen and very usable thanks to that anti-glare coating no one
does have dual array microphones here so when you're talking on skype and at
least not typing on the keyboard sounds quality is alright from those
microphones as well as the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack no problems
with it it's loud and it's clear there's no interference that tends to be a
problem that experienced on the atoms but of course having the microphone so
close to the keyboard that if you happen to be typing at the same time you will
get a lot of feedback and you hear that over those microphones there is a webcam
of course now it's 2 megapixels 720p and the quality really is nothing special
it's below average I would say if you're in good lighting it's alright it does
the job and that's really all you can expect in this price range so that's the
maximum that the screen will recline now the hinge of it is quite stiff there's
no problems with it and the overall build quality is very good there's no
flex in the palm rest the lid is all made out of this alloy and there are
magnets that hold the lid down closed here and it is thin and like - around
1.3 7 kilos so when I first powered on the Troma 31 it was in Windows 10
Chinese and I found absolutely no way like other notebooks I've looked at to
install English the language pack inspiration just would not work I could
not get it to actually download so I gave up on that and did a backup of the
drivers which you can get from my website take tablets calm and I just
installed then Windows 10 home in English and it will activate with the
license that and the bias so no problems there as long as you install Windows 10
home so a little bit of a hassle the likes of the jumper easy book 3 Pro have
it already in English and various other European languages as well so that is
good on that model and poor on this one this is really intended only for the
Chinese domestic market so some benchmarks here this is Geekbench for
now you see the single core score is faster by 13% than their Polo Lake
sauron in 3450 that is because this here to rose up to 2.5 gigahertz and the in
3450 you can see the scores this with the T book for that has a maximum tuber
of 2.2 gigahertz so that's why we have that difference there but the multi-core
score here isn't really much faster only about 5% which is quite poor there now
the wireless speeds good speeds not the fastest I have seen from the Intel 3165
chipset that's dual band wireless AC and the range reasonably good
in fact just exactly the same I feel as the easy book 3 Pro here now one
positive is that the 64 gigabytes of emmc storage we get is even C 5 spec so
that means it's faster than your 4.5 spec so a sequential right
speed here of 275 megabytes per second it's very good the
read sorry and then the rate of 75 megabytes per second again that's not
bad for K reads a little low and the writes they're perfectly fine for this
spec of drive and this is the end to to benchmark here so it's around 13,000
points higher only and most of that boosters while coming from the higher
clocks you get on the cpu GPU is a little bit better because it does have
those six executional cause more on there versus the n 3450 and it also is
50 megahertz faster but not really that much of a difference later on in this
video we'll check out gaming and we'll take a look if it really makes a
noticeable difference or not there so here is the battery life this of the
tips that I just ran you're looking at approximately seven hours now if you
drop the brightness down of the screen to about 25% internet use you can
probably squeeze about eight hours so it's very similar to that of the easy
book 3 Pro with the cell run in 3450 and as I mentioned in the beginning the
charge times are just under three hours to fully charge this 12 volts 3 amps so
in real-world use here I've noticed that the pentium n 4200 doesn't really seem
to be that much faster only in benchmarks that's the only place
that's really showing because I'm still able to do the same amount of
multitasking I haven't noticed any speed improvement so switching between the
tabs here in chrome so I have what is it now about six tabs open here and that's
faster scrolling as fast things are still loading in relatively quick now it
is not as fast as a court in three a lot of people get mistaken and thinking it's
about the same kind of performance it's not even as fast as the first-generation
ones like the 5y10 it's still a little bit slower than that and still a step
down but if you do install an SSD it's certainly going to help with the
multitasking if it is going to be swapping to the SSD you won't notice it
as much as the emmc so i've got edge here in the background
I even have Photoshop here open so you can do basic minor edits and
like that but just don't expect to be editing a two-hour long 4k video and
then coding it on a laptop like this I mean it's not designed for that it's all
about battery life and it is good at that as you seen before the battery so
you can run this for a while and those chrome chrome tabs there are all very
quick to swap over to so I'm just going to play now a quick example here of a
tracker that I always test and we have listened to those speakers so you can
hear from that that the speakers I mean they're okay sounding but they do
vibrate a little at 100% volume you can hear it's just vibrating in the metal
chassis there which isn't great now they aren't top-of-the-line speakers nor you
can expect that for this kind of category of notebook the kind of
straight 800 x 600 lot of settings very disappointing performance I did
expect a lot better than this from the N 4200 so it's struggling to get 30 frames
per second and nothing like the civil top ear which had the power limits
disabled that was getting around 40 to 50 frames per second with the exact same
settings so move on now and check out League of Legends and see how that one
performs League legions as you can see playable frame rates around 56 frames
per second now this is 1080p on the very low setting so that's great so this one
I feel is going to be perfectly fine no issues with this so a lot of titles like
this one will be playable on this Apolo lake in 4200 so keep that running in the
background and we'll check now on these thermals I have got HW info here and it
has gotten itself up to 72 degrees now this is only been running
14 minutes but I have tested it in the past on this one here and the thermals
will not go above 80 degrees and there is no thermal throttling so no problems
there at all the bias was completely unlocked so we've got all of the
settings be available to us but we don't have control of the power limits not
that it really matters anymore because we can of course override that now with
that memory eat it so I have a pin drive stuck in the USB 3 port which is a Linux
Mint it's 18.2 is the version of it I'm going to launch it now and see if it
will run that ok alright so this is as far as it got it just jams up with this
cursor or underscore here on the screen now I do know from experience that on
the easy book 3 Pro and this model here - as well will run Linux Manjaro seems
to boot so try that distro you're going to have to really experiment what's
different ones that what is going to run but it should run Linux without a
problem ok so end of the day that on - OMA 31 is
only faster in benchmarks and really it is the easy bug 3 Pro apart from its in
a gold color has a fingerprint reader and that easy access is the flap on the
bottom the slot there so really no point to go and get it go and get this one
which is the easy book 3 Pro that is still the current king of the Apollo
Lake budget laptops selling for around 229 us that makes it about 80 to 70 or
it's cheaper than this shoma 31 so make sure you check out the review of this
model and I do hope to see you back in the channel soon with more up-and-coming
reviews I do have a few more Apollo Lake machines coming and the review of course
of that cube I work 5x and I unboxed recently and
possibly they're easy books retail pro in a couple of weeks - I'll be checking
out which may be better than this model here and could be the best Apollo Lake
notebook yet