I’ve never been a fanboy of any smartphone or laptop company as I review so many devices on a regular basis, but my relationship with Chuwi devices is as close as it gets. Ever since my first Chuwi device, the Chuwi Vi10, their products have been consistently good, and many of them great also.
This is without a doubt the finest laptop Chuwi has ever made, and they have created a perfectly balanced laptop that is sure to satisfy everybody looking at an Apollo Lake device. A metal chassis, abundance of ports, and a great screen is just half of what the Lapbook Air offers. However, it has a massive flaw, and that would be the price. The Lapbook Air commands a huge premium over the similarly performing Chuwi Lapbook 14.1 which admittedly doesn’t have as many accoutrements as this Air, but is good where it counts. Let’s see what Chuwi has done.
Chuwi’s Best
Processor | Intel Apollo Lake N3450 |
Display | 14.1″ 1920×1080 Glossy LCD Display |
RAM | 8GB |
Storage | 128GB SSD |
Operating System | Windows 10 |
Cameras | 5MP Camera |
Battery | 10,000mAh |
Physical Dimensions | 32.92 x 22.05 x 2.05 cm, 1.74 kg |
Big thanks to Gearbest for providing this review unit.
The trackpad surface is also unnaturally sticky, to the point of interfering with an otherwise normal finger slide. Wiping it down with a cloth does wear down the surface coating somewhat.
Exquisite
The speakers are decidedly the weakest part of the laptop. Audio volume is adequate but not loud, and audio quality involves fairly average treble, below average bass, and less than crystal clear differentiation. Its definitely useable in every day life to watch movies or Youtube, but your phone most likely has better speakers than this for listening to music.
Battery life on the laptop is fairly characteristic for Apollo Lake laptops, the typical 10,000mAh battery can power the laptop for about 6 hours of web browsing if using Chrome and about 8 hours using Microsoft Edge. Understandably, this is at lower brightness levels, turn the brightness up or play a game and battery life will take a nosedive. While this isn’t ideal battery life, its not out of the ordinary for laptops utilizing the Apollo Lake chipset.
Average battery life
Unfortunately, I still have to give this Lapbook Air a solid “don’t buy”. Even though Chuwi has slam dunked this Lapbook Air, making this pretty much the best Apollo Lake laptop available on the market today, the price is still too high. Selling for a rather exorbitant $379.99 USD, this laptop is not worth the money when a no sale Chuwi Lapbook 14.1” costs $250 and a Jumper EZBook 3 Pro costs $240. Sure, these two latter laptops are worse than the Chuwi Lapbook Air, but not $100 worse. However, bring that price down to $300 or even $330 and the Lapbook Air turns into a solid buy.
Amazing laptop, too expensive
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