💻 The Best Budget Laptop that Doesn’t Suck
In this video, we review the CHUWI CoreBook X7430V. It goes with the motto “create your smart life.” Let's see if this laptop will enable us to create a smart life—smart in terms of simplifying tasks. Let’s check it out:
📝 Video Summary
- It has 16GB RAM and 512GB of storage.
- It has a 14-inch, 2k resolution screen.
- It comes with a power cable, power adapter. It has 65W and charges up to 50% in one hour and a long battery life.
- It has a 6 cores, 12 threads processor. Meaning it offers a decent performance for light gaming, web-related tasks and file editing.
- It has a 5.8-inch touchpad, pretty large.
- It is light, thin with a sleek look. Very portable for me.
- It has a memory panel whereby instead of stripping the laptop down to put more memory, you just lose two screws. Perfect in case you want to increase or reduce your RAM, however there are other models that come with different storage sizes.
- There are 2 USB-C ports, one USB 3.0 port and a HDMI.
- There is a 3.5mm headphone jack and another USB 3.0 port and a lock slot.
Quite a lot of ports on this laptop if you ask me. This is good because it enables you to connect to other devices seamlessly.
- There is a little cutter that enables you to open the laptop easily.
- It has a backlit keyboard and LED lights as well at the top.
- These backlit keys can be toggled on or off using the function keys. However, it has an auto turn off when there is inactivity. Backlit keys are actually important these days especially if you need to conclude a presentation, a code before the next day (especially before you receive query from work). However, if you are watching a movie you don’t really need to turn off the backlit keyboard (unless you want to immediately). It can auto turn off so you enjoy your movie night with your cookies.
- It comes pre-installed with Microsoft Office and Windows 11 activated.
- Fans can be toggled from eco to turbo mode by pressing a button close to the spacebar.
- The Webcam is pretty decent.
- You have Wifi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2—this means you can achieve high speed data transfer and wirelessly stream high-quality videos. Over to you my Netflix, with this laptop you can achieve a cozy movie night. The speakers are also really good.
- The Geekbench 6 was used to test the processor (CPU) for this laptop and the score for the CPU on the single core is 1486, on multicore is 4615.
To my non-tech friends, single core doesn’t mean being a single person in a relationship. It means the processor can carry out one task (instruction stream) at a time. Think of it this way, one worker in a shop that can serve one customer at a time. Now Geekbench measures how strong that one worker is at handling tasks. So the 1486 Geekbench score on a single core means the one worker (the CPU) can handle tasks at a certain speed/efficiency, capiche?
Now multicore—this adds up all the workers' strength together. For example, you have four workers (4 cores) and each can carry 10kg; together they can move 40kg at once. In laptops, this means they can split different tasks. Having a score of 4615 (multicore) means the CPU has several workers (cores). In this case, this laptop has 6 and when you measure their combined strength, it is 4615 meaning it is good.
💡 My Thoughts
I am a programmer and I understand the importance of a laptop being able to handle different tasks at the same time. This laptop can actually handle that fairly and that is good. Remember their motto, “create a smart life.” I think yes, indeed it helps to simplify tasks and also multitask, meaning it has indeed created a smart way of life.
The fan toggle is actually a cool feature and this is important depending on what you want to do. For instance, lightweight works like writing—the fan can be on eco mode. When it comes to coding/gaming, the fan can be toggled to turbo mode. In all, this fan toggle feature will enable you to achieve a satisfying experience.
💬 Final Thoughts
Who could this laptop be for? Students, someone who doesn’t want to spend much on a laptop, authors, my spreadsheet friends. This video explains the properties of the CHUWI laptop.
👉 Is this a device you would recommend to your friends?
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