22/09/2025
Really good! Packaging is really good for price (it has even magnets for the nice unboxing experience), Build quality is really good as well, there is no keyboard flex and the touchpad is pretty well although not as glossy as I'd like that (although that's personal I guess). Keyboard is alright, the key backlighting is pretty bad as it doesnt fully shine through so it looks pretty ugly, but it's good enough to see the keys at night if you're not a touch typer. Display is excellent, if I had to compare it maybe it's sliiightly worse than a MacBook pro (of course not including HDR and its 1000 nits, and the blacks aren't as deep). This one has 500 nits (I was worried it wouldn't be enough, but it's really bright lol, i usually run it at 0% at night and 30-70% in day). WIndows version is legitimate, but I ditched and went to linux quickly (went with CachyOS). After installing auto-cpufreq, battery life is very good. It uses about 4W idle, 8-9W when browsing web, which gives 6 hour battery life easily. You could get much more if you do lighter tasks. The only thing that didn't work out of the box in linux is the fingerprint sensor, I needed to install this aur package to get it working (libfprint-focaltech), but after that it worked fine. Speakers are pretty bad, but at least they're pretty loud. I made an EQ profile which makes them sound actually good, although really quiet. Here's the link for the EQ file: https://pastebin.com/M3MzVVaQ.
The processor is pretty powerful for what it's supposed to be, but don't expect to be gaming on it. Although stuff like stardew valley, terraria or hollow knight and some 3d games will obviously run. Fans seem to ramp up when charging, I suppose it's to do with cooling the battery. During normal usage CPU temp is at about 44-46C, at which there's no fan noise. Fans only spin when CPU usage jumps to like 20. Overall, I don't think you can get a better laptop for this price with this build quality, CPU and pretty premium feeling.
Really good! Packaging is really good for price (it has even magnets for the nice unboxing experience), Build quality is really good as well, there is no keyboard flex and the touchpad is pretty well although not as glossy as I'd like that (although that's personal I guess). Keyboard is alright, the key backlighting is pretty bad as it doesnt fully shine through so it looks pretty ugly, but it's good enough to see the keys at night if you're not a touch typer. Display is excellent, if I had to compare it maybe it's sliiightly worse than a MacBook pro (of course not including HDR and its 1000 nits, and the blacks aren't as deep). This one has 500 nits (I was worried it wouldn't be enough, but it's really bright lol, i usually run it at 0% at night and 30-70% in day). WIndows version is legitimate, but I ditched and went to linux quickly (went with CachyOS). After installing auto-cpufreq, battery life is very good. It uses about 4W idle, 8-9W when browsing web, which gives 6 hour battery life easily. You could get much more if you do lighter tasks. The only thing that didn't work out of the box in linux is the fingerprint sensor, I needed to install this aur package to get it working (libfprint-focaltech), but after that it worked fine. Speakers are pretty bad, but at least they're pretty loud. I made an EQ profile which makes them sound actually good, although really quiet. Here's the link for the EQ file: https://pastebin.com/M3MzVVaQ.
The processor is pretty powerful for what it's supposed to be, but don't expect to be gaming on it. Although stuff like stardew valley, terraria or hollow knight and some 3d games will obviously run. Fans seem to ramp up when charging, I suppose it's to do with cooling the battery. During normal usage CPU temp is at about 44-46C, at which there's no fan noise. Fans only spin when CPU usage jumps to like 20. Overall, I don't think you can get a better laptop for this price with this build quality, CPU and pretty premium feeling.
Really good! Packaging is really good for price (it has even magnets for the nice unboxing experience), Build quality is really good as well, there is no keyboard flex and the touchpad is pretty well although not as glossy as I'd like that (although that's personal I guess). Keyboard is alright, the key backlighting is pretty bad as it doesnt fully shine through so it looks pretty ugly, but it's good enough to see the keys at night if you're not a touch typer. Display is excellent, if I had to compare it maybe it's sliiightly worse than a MacBook pro (of course not including HDR and its 1000 nits, and the blacks aren't as deep). This one has 500 nits (I was worried it wouldn't be enough, but it's really bright lol, i usually run it at 0% at night and 30-70% in day). WIndows version is legitimate, but I ditched and went to linux quickly (went with CachyOS). After installing auto-cpufreq, battery life is very good. It uses about 4W idle, 8-9W when browsing web, which gives 6 hour battery life easily. You could get much more if you do lighter tasks. The only thing that didn't work out of the box in linux is the fingerprint sensor, I needed to install this aur package to get it working (libfprint-focaltech), but after that it worked fine. Speakers are pretty bad, but at least they're pretty loud. I made an EQ profile which makes them sound actually good, although really quiet. Here's the link for the EQ file: https://pastebin.com/M3MzVVaQ.
The processor is pretty powerful for what it's supposed to be, but don't expect to be gaming on it. Although stuff like stardew valley, terraria or hollow knight and some 3d games will obviously run. Fans seem to ramp up when charging, I suppose it's to do with cooling the battery. During normal usage CPU temp is at about 44-46C, at which there's no fan noise. Fans only spin when CPU usage jumps to like 20. Overall, I don't think you can get a better laptop for this price with this build quality, CPU and pretty premium feeling.