Hi guys Chris here with the vbook
version 3 now you're probably thinking
hang on haven't I already reviewed this
well I have actually two or three times
now their different models first there
was the atom version then there was the
Apollo Lake Pentium 4200 version this
is the most powerful one which has an
i-5 7200 you in there 8 gigabytes of RAM
which can apparently be upgraded to 16
gigabytes so 256 gigabytes of SSD
storage wireless AC the rest of the
design is the same so it's got a 360
degree hinge on it, touchscreen, 13.3
inches 1080p IPS. So I have my knife here
let's check this one out so it's big
double box which is great to give it
that extra bit of protection and I
really do hope that they have tweaked
the design on this one because it did
find that the build quality while the
keyboard at least wasn't really that
good compared to some other models so
the box looks exactly like the Apollo
Lake version they haven't changed the
packaging at all by the looks of it now
the one I got is the blue ones of the
dark blue color new color from them
which is good to see that it changed
from that really super bright orange
color which I had the last model so we
have some instruction leaflets here a
little booklet it looks to be in English
Chinese and an even Russian there too
some reminder card there just telling
you to charge it if it doesn't power on
for a couple of hours first. A euro
charger which is good so I don't need a
power adapter and this is rated to 19
volts 2.1 amps and they've included that
useless stylus from the previous
generations now this stylus here it's
charged by micro USB and it's just an
accurate pointer so there's no pressure
leavers whatsoever with this stylus it
really is quite useless just a more
accurate pointer
so it's a metallic kind of blue paint
job to it which does look a lot
different but so far it looks like
they've got the same exact build as what
we had on the previous models they
haven't really changed much but we do
have here you can see a fingerprint
reader for added security so this whole
top the palm rest still made out of
plastic the keyboard you can see has
quite a bit of flex to it which was one
of my complaints on the previous models
you can see pressing down there that yes
that does have a lot of bounce and flex
to it there which is not good to see so
on the left of the notebook we have a
USB 2 port 3.5 minute headphone jack
this slot here looks like a micro SD
card slot it's in fact a sim reader but
I believe that it doesn't come of course
with a 4G or 3G modem but perhaps we can
install that I'll have a check later I'm
going to open this up the volume up and
down buttons then the power on button
now these are made out of plastic and
you can see they move around a little
bit so a little bit cheap feeling it's
definitely nowhere near as premium as
the cube think of a 35 on the right side
of status LED DC in there for charging
USB 3 port many HDMI out then the micro
SD card slot and the switch here this is
for locking out the keyboard so when you
flick that on the keyboard will not work
at all and the touch pad but when you're
using it like a tablet like the previous
models these little rubber feet at the
front here those are to keep the screen
away from the keyboard so hopefully it
won't get scratched up but it does come
with a pre-applied screen protector so
the hinges you can see are metal that's
about the only metal we're going to find
on the build of this along the front
here dual array microphones
just above the keyboard but due to the
location they're still going to pick up
a lot of sound from that keyboard with
your video calls just wanted to give you
another shot here so you can see how a
much of a trampoline and mushy this
keyboard is see look at that that is
really quite bad so the biggest
complaint so far on
top there is a two megapixel webcam
that's the only webcam you'll find on
the system there is no webcam on the
back of the screen on the back here this
is the exhaust vent this is an actively
cooled laptop so you will have some fan
noise and in my full review I will
report back on just how that fan is and
also demonstrate it under maximum load
pressing the lid down and then pressing
on top of it it's relatively firm
there's a little bit of flex not as bad
as that keyboard so the screen can be
flipped back here 180 degrees but not
only just 180 but all the way around to
convert it into a tablet as you'll see
here so it's going to be a rather heavy
tablet but you can of course prop the
screen back up and use the keyboard as a
base comes in at 1.7 4 kilos
now let's power it on for the first time
so holding that plastic power button
such a shame deville quality of this
that they haven't improved it at all
over the Apollo Lake version and the old
Assam versions so that was very quick I
can see they've already created an
account now this could have been
gearbest where I got this from normally
what they do before they ship their
goods out as they do their little
inspections on me to make sure there are
no faults so this is the screen edit
100% brightness believe it or not it's
not that brighter to complain that I
still had with the vo vision 3 the other
versions that the panel just wasn't
bright enough and I was really hoping
that they would have tweaked that in the
by also just allowed us to push more
brightness it does dim down super low
and you can see that it's a very
reflective panel of course it's not
fully laminated so we do have a large
gap between the IPS panel and then the
touch digitizer here you can see what
I'm talking about the gap is
approximately 2 millimeters it's one of
the larger gaps between the panels that
you'll see now looking at what we have
for the device manager we have a Samsung
drive on here 256 gigabytes this is good
we're getting some and there's some good
things here Intel dual band wireless AC
the 3-1 65 chipset it
isn't the fastest but I've noticed that
the performance of that is actually
quite good this and being the fact that
this is an all plastic body laptop I
don't think we're going to have problems
with the range range and reception with
the wireless now Windows 10 that is
activated already so it looks like there
must have tested out the wireless
connection perhaps that gear bears
before exporting it as mentioned it in
there checks
touch accuracy seemed fine you can see
we do have eight gigabytes of RAM
installed now I have to open it up to
see whether they've just put a single
sodium eight gigabyte chip in there or
they have put two four gigabyte ones I
believe they'll probably just put a
single eight gigabyte one in there
giving us the other slot free if it has
it hopefully to partition the drive and
I thought why have they done this a
little strange to give us this thirty
gigabyte disk partitions in the second
partition and then I see what they've
done they put the drivers on there
already so someone did want to do their
own fresh clean install of Windows 10
and you can do that knowing the fact
that on that other partition if you
don't delete it of course you've got the
driver backup I've you could hear that
that is a fan at 100% I can definitely
hear it it's pushing out a decent amount
of air at least pulling it down but
later on to the review of course I will
test out some games and I'll push it
hard
I'll keep hwm for running in the
background monitor temperatures but it
is quite loud touchpad slow fast seems
okay we do have double tap gestures
that's right click of course and there
is the swipe up and down incorporated
mouse buttons over all the sensitivity
of it seems alright it's certainly not
the best touchpad I have used so on the
bottom of the device we have the two
speaker grilles downward firing speakers
don't particularly like this location
because if you do use it on your lap you
will tend to block those speakers and we
also have the intake here as well for
the cooling
so the speakers have a reasonable amount
of volume to them and 100% they do
distort a little which isn't good and
there is a little bit of a hint of bass
to them so I have found another positive
here it's running double data rate for
RAM and they're going to use one sodam
of eight gigabytes that means that if
there is another slot endless which I'll
look at shortly then we can add another
increasing the capacity to sixteen
gigabytes of RAM and the speed of it is
two thousand 133 megahertz just finish
running Geekbench
fork in you can see very good scores the
single core score there that is a lot
faster than the Assam in 3450 model
which only gets around 1400 so we're
well over double there and the
multi-core score on the NC 450 the
Apollo Lake only gets up to 4000 and
we're almost three thousand points
higher there now did monitor the
temperatures just for this test here and
it got up to 70 degrees the fan came on
it's off at the moment it only cycles on
and off when the fan is needed so if
it's just idle and you don't need it
then of course the fan is completely off
which is great just try to boot Linux
Manjaro from this pendrive you can see
and it didn't work I couldn't get it to
work I had to disable the secure boot
but then without the secure boot I
couldn't build it it all keeps asking
for an operating system so I'm not too
sure about Linux support on this model
grisildis mark is just finishing now so
you can see that this set of three SSD
from Samsung has decent speeds here for
the spec of Drive so right here's the
fingerprint reader I've already set it
up now it's a ZTE brand one and I've
noticed that this keep is happening just
keep saying
Windows hello has blocked me due to too
many sign-in attempts it's as if it's
almost reading my finger three or four
or five or ten times within a second and
that blocks it straight away so not
really good performance now very quick
look at the internals here this is the
battery pack here we've just got the one
sodium double data rate full slot
unfortunately I kind of thought that
that might be the case so we're never
going to be able to get dual-channel on
this you have to put a 16 gigabyte
single sodium and if you wanted to
increase the capacity so the build
quality overall is a little bit cheap
and I'll explain why because they've
used a bit of blue along here to little
rough the internals are considered just
glue where the antennas down here we
have double sided tape that's holding
and the battery for the BIOS now there
are a couple of good things here too
that there is a reset switch for the
BIOS so if you were messing around on a
BIOS and you've managed to somehow use
the wrong setting
then you can poke a pin through a
paperclip through that tiny little hole
right here and then you'll be able to
reset the bias no problems there the
hinge is screwed in well it does have a
bit of a metal bracket here but that
were the way the keyboard the backing of
it is is where it's bouncing so much I
can see I can tell from that it's not it
doesn't really have an internal metal
framer and you think like that so that's
why I think we're getting all that
bounce there now there is a full size 22
by 80 SATA 3 slot this could actually be
a PCIe x 4 slot as well I'm thinking it
might be now there's a spare slot next
to it which has marked on there WW lan
which could mean for wireless cards it
might be for modems but it also says SSD
now that is just a 22 by 42 size the SIM
card slot the tray there there's nothing
in there there is no reader so we're not
going to be able to put a 3G or 4G modem
in this model at all now for maintenance
you can clean the fan quite easy just
pulling off the back cover remove all
those screws ofcourse and then just a a
vacuum cleaner or blower would be
probably better to blow out all of the
dust there
now I did add my own set of three it is
D in here and it works at boots so we
can have two is his DS in here they do
have a suspicion that this might be a
PCIe and setter Bay but I can't confirm
that because they don't have any PCIe
SSDs around next to the V block Version
three I've got the cube think of a 35
now this notebook is 100% premium it's
then it's got a full metal build it's
got the surface book screen and an
amazing display and coming from that
going to the vo it's a huge difference
there in quality because this keyboard
on the thinker has no flex the other one
as you've seen it's got a lot of bounce
it's all plastic he feels a little bit
cheap whereas the thinker it's really
premium as if it wasn't a Chinese brand
and the voyer yes is feeling a little
cheap and such a huge downgrade in
screen now prices 599 for the vo v book
version 3 it was on special and the
cubes going for around 610 so that is
all I'll be showing in this unboxing
video and the first hands-on impressions
of the V of eBook version 3 so overall
so far disappointing I thought that they
would improve on that keyboard and I was
crossing my fingers that it would have
had at least a slightly different build
but it doesn't really we've still got
plastic as you seen the keyboards got
all that bounce and the flex in it it's
like typing on a trampoline I do not
like it it feels a little bit cheap and
the internals as well reflect that it's
just not as good as other tablets for
example on the right here that's the
cube thinker that I just showed you
before I mean if I didn't need I was
someone that wasn't looking for as much
power that's in the i-5 model I would
without a second thought go for the
think of i-35 so so far I don't really
see any reason to get this now it was on
sale for around 599 which is still quite
pricey considering what you're getting
there and the main thing is you're going
to be typing a lot you don't want to be
typing on a keyboard like this the
screens not particularly bright the
audio quality or the speakers
there got a bit of volume to them but
they're not wonderful either and the fan
there's a lot of fan noise when it gets
up to 100% it is really quite loud so at
this stage I can't recommend going for
this the only reason I got it myself
personally is because they were about
three or four people that requested I
review this because I reviewed the other
models and I thought well maybe they
have improved things maybe they did
decide to fix the keyboard once and for
all and improve on it but sadly they
haven't thanks a lot for watching this
review and I do hope to see you back in
the channel soon