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you know it's always exciting to receive packages from China especially from companies that cold it chewy oh so this is their lab book err it's some kind of as a budget territory but it's still a little bit expensive for the hardware but we're still excited to come on box this doesn't open so it is tackling deep under $500 price point for a 14 inch notebook that is all aluminum it's got some eight gigabytes of RAM look at this it's it's already set up hold on alright this is a little bit sketchy there's something in the sound recordings white sounds like someone's clapping you can see this file was created on November 9th this is actually before we received in the review request email I don't know it's kind of fishy but I guess a clean format will do so let's review the chewy lab book air right after this the new master liquid all-in-one coolers are available in 120 and 240 millimeter stylish radiator sizes with air balanced fans included for best air flow and RGB sync on the pump and the fans that I controlled via this hub or through your motherboard check out the ML 120 ln 240 l down below i am pretty sure that the clapping in the beginning was for our videos so thank you so this thing is here because we want to explore what this sub $400 14 inch notebook gets you from like a standard user experience for people who want something just good enough for basic office work for youtube email etc now the price point may seem affordable but for a machine with the same CPU like this Acer Aspire One you're looking at $200 with half the RAM and less storage but still it's a significant price reduction so I feel the premium where the lab book comes through the build the first impressions are positive so we got great color scheme with this medium gray too high the handling marks although only the trackpad is slightly lighter in color and it would be nice to have the keyboard stand out a little bit too because it kind of gets lost in all that gray the aluminum chassis it feels great it is a bit heavier than what I would perceive for a 14-inch notebook to be that is also this thin but I'm confident you know carrying this inside a backpack without that warping or bending or something like that all the screws are properly aligned and I didn't see any quality issues now because this thing is slightly used having found os and everything pre-installed and the recording file that I found in the trash bin there is a bit of a scuff on one of the sides most likely from something sharp maybe like a watch that hit it from the side but other than that it's held up pretty well the illuminated logo on the lid is a nice touch but the hinge here is way too stiff you cannot open this with one hand but the gloss coating on the screen while super reflective does give off this quality vibe to prevent the panel from bending also I would like to say that despite the very tough hinge the screen wobble is just insane I'm touching the desk right now a little bit and you can see that wobble is extreme and that also happens when you're typing on the screen and because of that reflective nature of the display it really helps to emphasize that wobble even more this is a 1080p IPS panel with okay sized bezels for 14 inch form factor brightness could be better too because of the reflections but indoors it's great with pleasing colors the turning point however is the backlight bleeding which is severe and especially visible when turning on the machine when that logo pops up and perhaps it's a reminder to basically lower your expectations I am surprised with all the port selection so we have dual USB 3 and the headphone jack that by the way sounds awesome it compensates for the crappy stereo speakers that are louder on the right side and kills the stereo effect we even have a micro HDMI port and a micro SD card slot to expand your storage because the internal 128 gigabyte of EMCC is limiting mine arrived already partitioned into allocating 40 gigabytes for the OS drive that seemed to be not enough when Windows decided to update itself there is an additional SATA M that to port at the bottom for 22:42 drives but transferring the OS on to it be a challenge the power brick is nice and small with a red LED beside the port to indicate charging the charging speed is about I would say 10 to 15 percent for every half an hour so it's a bit slow and depending on your usage battery life for me has been not that great playing a youtube video on one side and browsing the web on the other while windows was updating in the background I actually didn't know it was updating until you know it's looking in the CPU search it's like a hundred percent and then wondering why but it is because of Windows Update I lost 40 percent of my battery in just one hour and here's a depressing fact I've had this for about a week and for the last three days it's been updating windows the keyboard layout is good with full sized arrow keys and overall typing is great I don't mind the slightly mushy keys travel distance is perfect and I do like that the FN button activates the standard F keys while all the useful things like volume brightness and media control are set to be activated by default the backlight of the keyboard is very weak but it does help a little bit in the dark now the trackpad size-wise it's good but the surface is terrible it makes my finger vibrate as I slide across regardless of pressure the built-in clicks are super hard and the actual cursor movement is not accurate where it keeps moving about 10 pixels after I stop my finger making basic navigation extremely frustrating it is using the precision drivers so gestures work really well but the actual cursor movement sucks you need a mouse for proper navigation now performance is acceptable when you work within the limits of this selarón processor it is a quad core model at one point one gigahertz and it only clocks to 2.2 gigahertz while charging I'm plugging this thing from the wall gives us a maximum of about two gigahertz so performance suffers the eight gigabytes of RAM is enough for multiple tabs in Chrome and you can even squeeze a few like games if you'd like just keep in mind the storage is limitation unless you add your own so it is a super weak machine and we get to about the 100% CPU usage while it's updating windows unzipping files take forever and I actually don't see the appeal of this running Windows OS at all it seems like chuyia has created the perfect machine for Chrome OS instead which is a much lighter ecosystem so putting windows in here really just hinders performance and it clouds this entire hardware the Wi-Fi module is dual-band but it's only a G so the signal strength is weaker across a single wall that I'm not usually used to the left side of the machine gets much warmer during like casual operation so you can definitely feel that's where the processor is located and their customer support is apparently unreliable their live chat feature on the website directs them to their Twitter page where someone responds to people's comments once in a while so just keep that in mind and don't go in it feeling like you're gonna get the full support and the full experience because it is a pretty cheap notebook so for 350 to 400 dollars the best thing about the lab book air is the form so the build the thin body the screen the additional storage options and the keyboards performance wise for the basic user I would say is totally fine but it is hindered by the US and battery life has been disappointing because of all the damn updates that Windows is forcing on you and disabling those things it shows that I have about 70% left and under 4 hours of use the worst thing about the machine is the touchpad and then seems like I'm the only one who's experiencing some cursor issues based on other reviews that I've read however the surface itself and the button mechanism are truly terrible now I remember buying my very first notebook it was an Acer 49 she was this thick and overall user experience was totally passable given you understand the compromises for the price and the thing is about the lab book err is that it's a pretty package with flaws that is somewhat cheap and so it's good thing that we've come to the place where we can have machines like that sub $400 price but as long as you understand that you're going to need to use a mouse and that Windows perhaps is not the best OS for this hardware I also hope that customers are receiving brand-new units of the laptop where you go through the setup yourself and not something like that where it arrives it's been used there's files in the trash bin that's sketchy man so sketching so that's it for my review of the lab book err let me know if you've experienced something similar in terms of receiving something that's already been used from any brand whatsoever I'm Dimitri thanks so much for watching we'll see you in the next video