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First Impressions of CHUWI Hi10 XR, Intel Celeron N4120

It smells really, really nice.

Chard here, and I bought myself a cheap convertible to aid me in college and to replace my old 8440p Elitebook.

It's a CHUWI Hi10 XR, which is similar to the Hi10 X tablet, but uses Intel Gemini *Refresh* (that's where the R from XR came from probably).

Specs

  • Intel Celeron N4120 @ 1.1Ghz (2.6 turbo boost)
    • Intel UHD 600
  • 6GB RAM
  • 128GB eMMC Storage
  • 1920x1200 60fps IPS LCD Display
  • 10.1 inch LCD display
  • Windows 10 Home

First Impressions

The following uses real world usage and experiences, mileage may vary.

IMPORTANT!

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT reinstall the Windows 10 OS that came with the tablet. Always back-up the drivers, because it's a damn highway to hell trying to reinstall the cameras, touchscreen, and other drivers included in the OS.

Performance

Maximum Speed!

It is a bit worse than Intel i5 520m, but only when multitasking. The CPU throttles itself to around 1.3Ghz when reaching 75 degrees Celsius and lowers itself further if the tablet becomes any hotter.

I found out that it doesn't play games well if it uses its own CPU governor. It lags too much and heats up unnecessarily. I had to use Throttlestop to underclock it, and voila! The games play well and heat is down to manageable temperatures, around 50 to 60 on full utilization.

While I would want the tablet to go fast, it is much more stable if you disable the CPU's Boost frequencies when you try to juice the most out of it. It does well on its base frequency of 1.1Ghz.

Battery Saving!

Using Throttlestop, I was able to clock it down to 400Mhz. The tablet goes slow enough to sip power, but fast enough to do basic tasks, like opening a web page, writing an email, watching Youtube videos (stuttery 1080p60 on Firefox). Basically any basic tasks you can do. Just watch out for any heavy background processes you open, tablet might freeze on you.

The Looks and Feel

It feels premium, but doesn't look premium on the front part. While the bezels are thick, you won't even notice it when you're busy watching 1080p videos, or if you have your keyboard on.

The glass sounds tough and the body is mostly metal, so I guess this can last long under my care. When using the keyboard, it is cool to the touch and fairly okay. It's not the best when you're looking for those branded laptop keyboards.

Practicality

Battery

It has a 26,000mWh battery, which could be a 2.2Ah 12V battery inside. It lasted an average of 4 hours for my use ever 90-20% charge. I occasionally play games, watch Twitch streams, and sometimes just doing some reading on the tablet.

Random Access Memory (RAM)

6 Gigabytes of RAM is better than 4 in my case. I was able to do a bit more multitasking before the CPU bottlenecked my productivity.

eMMC Storage

128 GB of storage is welcome anytime. I re-partitioned the drive, leaving 35GB for the Windows partition, and the rest is for programs I want to install later on. I did this because I know Windows Update will eat up a lot of data until the drive it is currently in is full.

I bought myself a 1TB hard drive for this reason. So far I haven't used much of the space I made for the tablet. I already have Firefox and Microsoft Office installed, so I reckon I could fit a lot more.

Also the speeds are pretty swell. No defragmentation happening because eMMC is better than HDD but also worse than SSD in terms of speed.

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