This is the new Jumper EZBook X4 so this is replacing really the jumper 3L
pro because it has the new chip in it it's the successor we now have the
Gemini Lake which is 200 megahertz faster 2 megabytes more cache HDMI 2
support which this surprisingly has on it I didn't expect it because it wasn't
actually advertised anywhere by a jumper but well it does have faster RAM we've
only got 4 gigabytes of it so they've made some compromises obviously cost
reduction of the unit itself trying to get the the production cost down to
increase their margins perhaps or just keep it under that 300 u.s. price point
and that means - they went where they TN panel on this so it's not an IPS now
these images I'm showing you now you can see that the screen actually looks
alright the color reproduction and the colors and the blacks of the screen are
very good for a TN panel and if you do look at it straight on and you're
sitting down for example in a chair and you don't tend to move around then this
screen is usable it is fine but the moment you stand up or you're going to
show the screen to someone else that is standing up or in another position from
you then you obviously gonna run into problems here with these panels this is
what happens so it shifts out the TN panels so this is not great so we get
the 4 gigabytes of RAM the TN panel and we do have now a much better performance
really over the Apollo Lake so it is up 25% when you look at synthetic
benchmarks here so this is Geekbench for 19% more speeds on multi-core score and
it is noticeable too that it does feel just a little bit snappier quicker when
using the desktop we're moving around so editing things like spreadsheets Excel
spreadsheets Word documents that's all find a very large spreadsheet or
document will take a little while to load and it's not going to be the
fastest but definitely find their streaming 4k video YouTube not a problem
Amazon Prime or good Wireless range is good it does top out at 480 megabits per
second into the Intel widest ac30 165 with
Bluetooth 4 and playing back a very demanding file here so this is an ATV C
codec 10 but encoded with a very high bitrate of 140 movements per second
a few stutters at the start so it has the same HEV C codec and vp9 codec
hardware decoding support just like the Apollo Lake now onboard we also do have
a 37 watt hour battery now that's good for up to seven hours now this was a
best-case scenario so I put it into the battery saver mode I lowered down the
screen brightness and I only used it for gaming for about 1 hour YouTube for
about 2 hours of streaming now for about 1 hour of youtube streaming you're going
to lose approximately 12% battery so not quite as good as the 10% battery loss I
was getting with the apollo lake in 3450 with the jumper easy but 3 Pro which is
a very similar model just a slightly smaller one than in this model here so
if you're gaming then that's going to be reduced to about 4 hours battery life so
it's not brilliant so mixed results with the battery I think you can expect about
6 hours 7 hours max it's not amazing but it's still I feel is good now we do have
USB 3 ports either side they will power external hard drives they have no issues
with that I tested up to 4 terabytes and it's fine no problems it didn't
disconnect or anything like that which did happen on some of the old models
with the Apollo Lakes on him now they micro SD card readers only USB to speed
unfortunately so it's just wired up values to be too hard and not USB 3
which I'd like to see and as you can see the cards they sit in nice and flush and
click in place so you shouldn't lose them now these are book x4 comes with 4
gigabytes of RAM double data rate 4 and it is running a dual channel 2.4
gigahertz and you also know that Windows 10 is fully activated no problems there
with the license it was an older build of upgraded to the latest one and charge
times its take approximately three hours to fully
charge it so it's not the fastest 12 volts charging as the rate that it will
charge it and they do have this nice little label on the top here now as an
addition so we can distinguish the difference between the 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack with microphone support by the way and in the DCN so that's a
nice touch there so the HDMI port wasn't advertised anywhere by jumper that it
was HDMI to so this was a pleasant surprise because I really hate running
my 4k monitor at only 30 Hertz which was the case with the Apollo Lakes the
previous generation so the easy book 3-hour pro only 30 Hertz the Apollo
takes all 30 Hertz only at 4k us now we've got 60 Hertz which means
everything's nice and smooth and that is a really good improvement there so the
keyboard backlit now it is really the same keyboard as the previous model but
they've just got it and silver now I don't really agree with the tone of
silver they have used here because at certain angles it will actually be quite
difficult to see those keys and it really forces you to turn on the
backlight which will of course eat into a little bit of your precious battery
life you know it's a two stage backlight so we've got a low setting a full-on
brightness setting which is the one I tend to always use so I can see the keys
better and then off typing on the keyboard very good it is again as
mentioned it's just like the they take last if7 keyboard as well it's the same
exact model the same original design manufacturer so very good cubed keyboard
a little bit of flex there but not enough to be an issue and the same again
goes for the touchpad so it's a Windows precision driver controlled touchpad
with jesters and it does work well the mouse cursor sometimes isn't quite as
accurate as I will like it to be but very very minor complaint here and I
really as overall a large touchpad and a good touchpad considering the price of
this laptop it even beats some of those gaming touch pads you get that uneven
precision ones and quite horrible this one is good at least now on the bottom
you will notice that the flap there for the SSD if you want to install one what
actually one pre-installed 128 gigabytes is now
longer compared to the previous model and that's because it will take up to 20
to 80 in size which is a good move here so that's another improvement here that
jumper have come through or the new model now for linux support I did test
out the latest build of a Linux Mint with the 18.04 kernel and this distro is
working fine everything works the wireless controlling the brightness the
display but the mouse buttons for some strange and odd reason aren't working do
expect that actually to be fixed hopefully sometime soon and then you
have fault linux support for this model which is really good now when it comes
to audio performance the 3.5 millimeter jack is clear I have noticed that
sometimes a little bit of a pop noise will come through when the sound first
turns on that can be a little bit irritating there was a fix for that on
the politics and even the Correa's that were doing that so I believe that we
should be able to fix that through drivers the speaker's well they're not
brilliant I will give you a sample of them I wish they were just a little bit
louder but they do do the job and the speaker location well they're located
actually just in here we have four of them so two here and in another two
right there
and then the webcam so it's a 720p webcam with dual ray microphones either
side I'll give you a sample of that in just a minute but you will see that it
is at least a 30 frames per second 720p tweet webcam and not limited to 15 like
some of the older ones so it gives to rock around a little bit because of this
green wobble it does well but a little bit when you type on it now if I type
you can still hear those keys in the feedback and you're also here through
the mics you hear that there's this interference that's just there in the
background which is slightly annoying now I don't know whether that is drivers
it could be my unit it's there and it's not great to hear that now when you take
a look at the internals you'll see there's a large copper heatsink on here
but that still did not stop me running into what I would call rather high
temperatures 93 degrees that's not too far away from running into thermal
throttling which I think will trigger at probably about 95 degrees now checking
out gaming performance so it has the Intel UHD 600 this is an integrated
graphics card it's not dedicated it is not powerful it's very weak just like
the Apollo Lakes it is really the same exact architecture just a slight tweak
in the frame rate and the boost from the round really is what is helping that
frame rate so it is up a little bit and games like League of Legends you can see
here we're getting a modest frame rate 1080p medium settings definitely
playable this one here moving over now then to counter-strike it's at 720p on
the lowest settings and not playable really it's just a bit too choppy and
even though you might be able to get a lucky kill or headshot you can't really
gain well or this kind of framerate so it's not for demanding games but even so
I still decided to test out project cars here you can see and horrendous frame
rate so 5 frames per second to about 6 or 7 complete and utter stuttery leggy
mess that you cannot play so triple-a titles things like that if you want to
play the latest Call of Duty game modern warfare whatever it's not gonna work
clearly this is only for older lighter titles likely
your legions and your old games like half-life 2 okay so let me just recap
here because I know that some of you just skip right to the end to the
conclusion so we have a very decent build quality there's only one point
three seven kilos in weight and the team panel yes it's going to be a
deal-breaker for some people so if you don't always look at your screens
straight on and this kind of vertical viewing angle is an issue for you
clearly do not go for this model here the same goes for four gigabytes of RAM
if you feel that that's not going to be enough wait for an 8 gigabyte model that
hopefully will be coming in the future I think tech class is going to be
releasing one the USB 3 ports it will power external hard drives we've got
HDMI to support which is really good to see SSD Bay now goes up to 20 to 80 in
size but you will have to remove the whole back and then adjust that little
clip there so you can fit it in but it's very minor and really good to see again
that jumper have allowed us to use the larger SSDs in this we've cam qualities
alright speaker quality not really that brilliant very life I would say is good
not amazing it really depends on what you're doing so if you're pushing it
very hard they speak to about 5 hours if you're going very lightly on it so just
maybe edge use spreadsheets things like that nothing really demanding then you
can squeeze it out to about seven and a half hours which is very decent so
overall as a package almost forgot thermals ok 93 degrees yeah that's
getting hot could just be my unit and that was only when gaming when it's
doing this so I think I might have to do a thermal model on this copper heatsink
mod and just address those thermals perhaps a repay switch you should never
have to do so that isn't wonderful to see that but apart from all of that I
feel for the price the backlit keyboard you get the touchpad it is a decent
package but I really do want to see more from jumper I hope they're watching this
video I'd like to see them use an IPS panel give us an 8 gigabyte RAM option
take a look at the thermals if it's not just my unit and then we have probably
the best budget laptop you can get for the money thank you so much for watching
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