so I've got with me here Chuwi's SurBook this is their premium turn one tablet
that is based around the Microsoft Surface pro for screen it's also the
same screen that's used in the Microsoft Surface pro the 2017 model so it's got a
kickstand honor and an optional type color that's backlit and an optional
active stylus with 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity so I'll be
reviewing both of those items as well with this package now the 128 gigabyte
model is the one I have here that is now finally shipping out for people that
have backed the crowdfunding campaign you should have a look at your emails
and you should have a tracking number there for it so other specs includes 6
gigabytes of ram the intel celeron in 3450 it's got Intel wireless AC a 37
watt hour battery 2 USB 3 ports on there micro SD card reader and then type C n
for data and charging so let's get this one here unboxed and check it out in
greater detail so here we have the active stylus now it's the high pH 3
which is the exact same one that I think we had in the chewy H I 13 there other
tablets with Anna pollinate in 3450 so the keyboard here I'll have a look at
that first interesting to see what this looks like to me it looked like it was
gonna be more like the surface pro 3 keyboard the design of it so they
haven't spaced the keys out as much as the tight cover you'll find on the
surface pro 4 so it's very similar you can see there to the surface pro type
cover the third version I think it is there we do have a couple of status LEDs
and it's got that kind of like a fake suede light material that hopefully is
not going to get duty after the process of time and using things it probably
will actually then normally do and reasonably sized touch pad here but I'll
test that out later on once they get it connected up to the tablet the rear it
of course has that material on it now it's not a fabric it's more a gain like
a synthetic kind of suede like material secure in place with magnets and we do
have those two prongs there and then five Pogo ports okay so oh they've got a
tempered glass screen protector on there which is good I think the crowdfunders
we all got that so that's good that they've included that in the pack so
there's the tablet there of course but I first have a look at the power supply
which is in his little box on the side
alright so you can see type-c connection and I do have an EU plug not a u.s. one
which is great so this of course is rated to 12 volts like all the other
polar lakes and the output is 2 amps here nope I almost forgot this this was
in the box here so we've got some clean wipes that's for the application of that
tempered screen protector and then your typical warranty card a little
instruction thingy product report and they even include an intel celeron
sticker if you want to stick that onto the back of the sir book so just have a
look at the weight of the tablet nine hundred and fifty seven grams there and
then if you add the type cover comes up to 1.2 six kilos
okay so place your bets as the screen gonna be fully laminated I couldn't find
any information on this and normally when they do not put it on the website
it's not fully laminated and yeah okay it's not fully named and you can see
there is a bit of a gap there so that's slightly disappointing I guessed it was
down to costs while they couldn't put a fully laminated panel on this so the gap
is around about one millimeter here alright so look at the thickness comes
in to be nine point three millimeters which isn't bad at all I mean it's
slightly thicker than the surface pro and then with the type cover it's
thirteen point eight millimeters so the kickstand is held in place there with
magnets so when you move it around and start to be flapping around everywhere
it's got a little bit of a resistance to it
there's a couple of little cutouts there so we can lift it up and you see under
here we have a metal hinge which is great and there is our micro SD card
slot so on the right side we've got one of the two speaker grilles that's got
side firing speakers here's the two USB 3 ports the type C port of course and
then 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and on the left side there is just a speaker
grille you'll see that also we do have a pre applied screen protector so you can
either decide to leave that on there or go with the tempered glass screen
protector on the rear we've got the same silver alloy that they've used for the
kickstand and you can see our buttons here at the top they look like they're
metal they don't really rattle around or anything which is good but they could
actually be plastic there and here we have a five megapixel rear facing camera
so the build quality overall is solid it is screwed in place the two halves will
screws around on the rear side the front around the screen is made out of plastic
and this hinge mechanism here that's all middle and it looks to me
like it is well made and hopefully is gonna stand the test of time there but
of course we won't know after I've been using this for a few months whether or
not this is going to loosen up but it seems to be pretty good so far
so like other two and one devices the keyboard clips in place that type cover
there and then as held in by magnets it doesn't seem like it's going to be going
in anywhere and it also acts as a protector for the screen so putting that
up like that you're not going to get your screen scratched at all and it does
set up at this higher level here for increased typing comfort oh it's
actually turned itself on so I must have press the button there so the maximum
reclined angle that the kickstand will go is right back here so it won't like
completely flat or almost flat like the surface pro wall but it's not too bad
that should be a lot better for using the stylus there and you can see an
angle around there they have a look at the hinge performance that it it's
reasonably stiff actually tapping on that really hard that is not going
anywhere there so seems quite solid so far so there was an account already
created on here now not happy with that you can probably
just go through the settings there into a factory reset but there doesn't seem
to be anything installed here which is fine there maybe it was just the factory
when they do the test they decided to set up an account that often happens on
a lot of the tech that I get so first impressions of this touch pad here it
seems to be quite sensitive I'm able to go in almost one motion from one side of
the screen to the other which is fine and to gesture support at least so there
should be the Windows 10 gestures now I have to check out later on in my full
review whether this is a precision mousepad or not but I've got a feeling
that it probably actually won't be but it seems all right so far at this point
here now the keyboard pressing down here you can see there is a little bit of
flex as expected for a thin type cover now key travel on these keys seems to be
around approximately 1.2 something I'll have to measure that of course but so
far it seems alright and we do have controls here for the brightness control
of the screen which is a hundred seen at the moment currently overpowering like
camera settings and I'll just turn that down to about 50% and it doesn't seem to
be any button there for print screen which is a little disappointing so a
quick preview of the screen so far it seems really good as you'd expect for a
surface pro screen so great colors and the brightness I've got it toned down to
50% at the moment because it really does seem a little bit too powerful for my
camera settings now you will notice that on the side here you probably seeing a
little bit more reflection than you would of course on a fully laminated
panel because of that gap we have and because I have the screen protector on
here still now the accuracy of the screen to
minimize things and bring this back up again it doesn't seem to be too much of
a problem or too difficult at all to do even though this does have quite a high
resolution screen they got its touch panel on here for the moment at least in
my early testing here seems to be performing well there having a look at
the components here the disk drive on here is a Sanders Kadir 40 128 and I've
just finished a benchmarking it so you can see that yes it is
mmm c5 spec or that sequential 260 almost reads their little slower on the
rights than I would have liked for a 128 gigabyte Drive now you get free space
approximately what is it 90 I think it's 98 gigabytes a well ninety seven point
eight gigabytes free there now it does not have a SSD slot in here like the
other Apollo Lake so this is all the storage you're gonna get and of course
if you've got the 64 gigabyte model then you're only gonna have around 48 or 50
gigabytes free there so not really a lot to play with now the Intel wireless AC
30 165 yet again this is a decent chipset it performs quite well of course
it's dual band on the 5 gigahertz band there nothing else really to note apart
from here that we do have a Bosch accelerometer and we do have an ambient
light sensor which i think is up this corner here where the status LED is now
the windows build that it is using as the version 1703 so that is quite recent
there and no problems with the activation of course and you can see
that they have used a tiny little bit of RAM dedicated to the internal Intel HD
500 graphics now for a very quick preview of the stylus so I do have a
Microsoft stylus here that works on the surface pro and this does not of course
work on the screen nothing's detected so don't even bother trying that at all so
the stylus can be clipped onto the side there is a magnet just along the this
part along here and it will hold on there reasonably strong there I imagine
if you pick up the tablet that you could actually didn't have this end up
dropping off so there is pressure sensitivity and a hover function to that
also works it gives you around about 5 or 4 millimeters of hover so it's
registering that before it even touches the screen so just gonna have a couple
of examples here so drawing a straight line there hands a little bit shaky i
real seems pretty quick there's a little bit of a delay there as you can see and
the nib accuracy seems reasonably good I'm in OneNote here at the moment by the
way this is the the built-in Microsoft can you get now pressing down harder one
of course make that line thicker so I can see the pressure sensitivity but I
do have actually no way of testing those for 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity
that's pretty hard for me to test but so far at least in this application I have
no complaints it works just like the chewy H a13 stylus well a couple of
complaints that the nib doesn't have the rubber in it like you get on the quality
stylus is here for example with that surface stylus the never've it has a
little bit of rubber on the tip there so it just feels a little bit better there
and because I've got the screen protector on there no doubt that it will
probably end up scratching that screen protector too when you press down really
hard plastic against plastic normally results and scratches there so my full
review I will cover the stylus and a lot more detail and do some more tests and
user and applications like Photoshop so it's now time to have a listen to those
speakers we've got dual speakers one on either side so one there one on the
other so decent stereo separation however are they going to be sufficient
and good enough let's say let's have a listen here with my typical sample that
I always test
so as you can hear from that at 100 cent volume there is some distortion and
they're not exactly the loudest sounding speakers so a bit of a disappointment in
the speaker Department there so wanted to point out a few things here with the
ports that we have on here so we've got type-c USB 3.1 so this is display data
charging all at the same time now I have noticed that due to the way the port is
and really where the way the housing is so the housing has this bit of an angle
to it as you can see there I found it quite difficult to really plug in my hub
and even other devices I has you really have to kind of angle it down a bit and
really push it in there and the connection because of that it doesn't
tend to clip right ends a bit of a complaint near with this hub that I do
feel that they should have maybe designed this a little bit better that
metal around the outside or let's extend to put out a little bit more so it will
clip in there nicely so that's a minor complaint net now the two USB 3 ports
they do power external hard drives and so does the type C port here so being a
3 by 2 aspect ratio tablet it's quite comfortable to use in portrait here and
so far I've noticed that the touch seems to be good a couple of times I have
noticed that just like then then when I touch the screen it didn't register so
it seems to register only every 9 out of 10 times I've touched it now it could be
because of the screen protector or just maybe the fact that it needs the
sensitivity tweaked on the touch now sometimes you can go in via the registry
editor and tweak that sitting up there but so far I mean the scrolling
performance and that is to be expected for an Apollo Lake and using edge it's
quite smooth now for linux support I just did a real quick test here try to
boot my Manjaro USB pendrive that I have you can see
plugged in and it's come up with that typical error when it doesn't seem to
work on some devices it has that underscore thats cursor there's just
stuck at the top of the screen there so at this point I need to test this a lot
more of course but it doesn't look like it's booting Linux but I'll have to
investigate that further later on and perhaps in another video I'll try and
get Linux working by us here as you can see is pretty much
locked down here we've only got basic settings that we can adjust so not like
some of the other tech I've seen out of China that has the bias completely
unlocked to the end-user not the case here and here's a quick peek at the
backlit keyboard so all the keys are individually lit here it's well lit up
you can't control unfortunately the brightness of it it's either just
straight on or off via the function key here and delete so that is the Chui sir
book just my preview here and first impressions are looking very good so the
build quality is great the screen is premium very nice now it's not on the
same level as the surface pro 4 of course one main reason and that's the
fact that those screens are fully laminated so the glass is optically
bonded to the screen itself here it isn't so they're separate there's a gap
of about one millimeter and you notice that with little more reflections the
blacks aren't quite as deep because of this but it is a premium display really
really nice and probably the second or third best screen oh you've seen in a
tablet the best of course would be the cube think of a 35 that has the surface
book screen in it that's fully laminated okay so the keyboard itself the material
that felt that suede like material is very prone to dust and dirt so it's
going to be hard to keep this looking pristine and clean but the key layout
seems good typing on it seems fine the touchpad seems reasonably good
reasonably accurate it's certainly not the best touchpad I've used but the my
first impressions here and the keyboard is very very similar to them Microsoft
tight cover 3 that you had on the surface pro 3 almost the same the keys
it's almost as efforts made by the same manufacturer so I discovered that the
type C port has a slight little annoyance with it that you really have
to push the plugs in very hard when you're using your own type C hubs or a
different charger and things like that to get the full proper contact there so
that's a slight annoyance but it's good to see that the ports are working
properly at least we're getting display out we're getting charging data at the
same time which is good now the webcams I will test the amount
and my full review but not expecting too much there the speakers ask slightly
disappointing they're not really that good and most of the time honestly they
aren't and these Chinese devices I review it's a better life gaming
performance benchmarks perhaps Linux if I can get it to work properly that will
all be up and coming and more stylus test and my full review I do hope to
catch you then if you have any questions let me know down in the comments as
always and I do hope to see you back in the channel soon bye for now