Anandtech: Chuwi LapBook 12.3 Reviewed. Perfect notebook for web browsing, Youtube, and Netflix?

[Zodiark1593]

11 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Looks like a really nice little machine, but Windows 10 on an Atom based CPU...? Why would you do that to yourself?

 

eMMC is used because of pricing.

 

While the Atom based chips don't support UFS on their HSIO lanes like they do for eMMC, they *do* support PCIe over those lanes, so for more premium devices we could see NVMe drives (although at that point, you'd probably also be moving to a Core Series CPU)

Cheap device that you don't have to worry about. As a secondary device, its perfectly serviceable, anything that it cannot handle I can simply do on the desktop instead.

 

That said, Atom does not make a good choice in a primary device. With some control over background processes, Atom and 2GB RAM can work decently well in lighter usages, though it simply lacks the firepower to brute force heavy tasks and games.

 

I can attest eMMC is slow, though the 5400 rpm platter drives in use at work make my own Atom tablet feel quite modern by comparison.

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Cheap device that you don't have to worry about. As a secondary device, its perfectly serviceable, anything that it cannot handle I can simply do on the desktop instead.

 

That said, Atom does not make a good choice in a primary device. With some control over background processes, Atom and 2GB RAM can work decently well in lighter usages, though it simply lacks the firepower to brute force heavy tasks and games.

 

I can attest eMMC is slow, though the 5400 rpm platter drives in use at work make my own Atom tablet feel quite modern by comparison.

For low end games an Atom is enough. I had a week vacation out of state with my only device being an Atom tablet with a BT keyboard and a Rival 100 mouse. 

 

60fps in CS:S and 25-40fps in CSGO lowest settings + res is definitely playable, and games like Asphalt 8 and Minecraft Win10 Ed. is perfectly playable at 60fps. 

 

eMMC differs per device. On some it's high end flash, on others it's essentially bargain bin shite. 

[themctipers]

37 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I'm like 99% certain that an M3 is more powerful than that Celeron.

im pretty sure its slightly less powerful

 

whatever, they're both shit when you need to do something as intensive as chrome with some tabs open.

[Zodiark1593]

Just now, Droidbot said:

For low end games an Atom is enough. I had a week vacation out of state with my only device being an Atom tablet with a BT keyboard and a Rival 100 mouse. 

 

60fps in CS:S and 25-40fps in CSGO lowest settings + res is definitely playable, and games like Asphalt 8 and Minecraft Win10 Ed. is perfectly playable at 60fps. 

 

eMMC differs per device. On some it's high end flash, on others it's essentially bargain bin shite. 

Mine says Generic Biwin, and in a tablet that was barely over $100, I'd says it readily qualifies for the Shite tier. I'm pretty sure benches put it somewhere between 80-100MB/s sequential read speeds.

 

I keep Skyrim on the 32GB MicroSD card.

[Droidbot]

3 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Mine says Generic Biwin, and in a tablet that was barely over $100, I'd says it readily qualifies for the Shite tier. I'm pretty sure benches put it somewhere between 80-100MB/s sequential read speeds.

 

I keep Skyrim on the 32GB MicroSD card.

Mine was $100AUD and I've got some Hynix flash or something. 8" Acer W4, it's a nice little machine. 

[Zodiark1593]

11 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Mine was $100AUD and I've got some Hynix flash or something. 8" Acer W4, it's a nice little machine. 

My trusty tablet, laptop, thing...

 

 

[MrHToast]

I have the first Lapbook from Chuwi. For Internet use it was good. Only the battery was shit and got very hot sometimes.

[snortingfrogs]

I'm interested, I only use my laptop for watching video and browsing, the crappy 1366x768 TN screen sucks though so this would be a nice replacement.

[Misanthrope]

I thought we already had the prefect browsing, youtube and netflix device: The tablet.

[2FA]

10 hours ago, themctipers said:

im pretty sure its slightly less powerful

 

whatever, they're both shit when you need to do something as intensive as chrome with some tabs open.

The UX305 in the review charts has one of the first Core M's and it's like twice as powerful in the benchmarks.