CHUWI GemiBook X Laptop Computer,15.6 inch FHD Laptop,Intel Celeron N5100 CPU up to 2.8 GHz,4G RAM 128GB SSD,2K IPS Display,Dual WiFi/Gigabit Ethernet/HDMI/Full Metal Body,2*USB 3.0,Expandable 1TB

Hear me out. I have few PCs and laptops, love tech, and family members usually come to me for advice. Month ago, I bought mini PC box with Intel's 12 gen N100 CPU to replace very old i5 gen 2 PC and I was pleasantly surprised on how it handled browsing on two browsers with dozens of taps open, while at the same time being able to install applications or Win11 updates in the background. Intel's N100 cpu with 4 efficient cores does it for everything aside gaming.I read review here that CPU scales to 100% even if you don't work on much tasks, and this is true, but pay attention to CPU frequencies, so yes, it hits 100% utilization at 1Ghz, but then as you increase workload, it will scale frequency up and there will be no lags.Second, there are many reviews here from before this year. Keep in mind that Intel N100 cpu was released in January this year and I would discard any reviews from before February 2023. If you read review from May 2023 on how laptop died after 6 months of use, then this isn't this laptop, but some previous model.I bought this laptop week ago and did good amount of testing on it. Screen is beautiful and bright! Quite a surprise. I didn't expect this for the money. Keep in mind that Intel wants $130 just for CPU. You as well need Windows 11 license, keyboard and trackpad, motherboard with WiFi and BT, RAM and M.2/SSD, monitor and battery, all for aprox $250- - $270. If you compare this to cheapest N100 mini PC for $160 (cheapest as of this review), then you add Monitor, keyboard, trackpad, and batteries for only $100. That's a deal.I already mentioned that monitor is great. Keyboard is good, and trackpad is big and works fine. I benchmarked batteries, and they will last around 6 hours under normal workload, at very comfortable screen brightness. If you play games (at low resolution and at lowest setting) battery will last around 3.5 hours which is great. I recommend this laptop for basic use.You can't upgrade RAM, but you can replace M.2 SSD with up to 2TB one. Keep in mind there are two kinds of M.2 sticks, the one that works with SATA bus, and other on PCIe bus. This one is sadly slower one, SATA, (why CHUWI, oh why?) SATA m.2 are top up at 500 Mb/s, while those on PCIe bus are usually 10x faster. Not that it matters as much, it's not a bottleneck in this case. Compatible M.2 for grat price for those that want to upgrade storage space is TEAMGROUP MS30 2TB with SLC Cache 3D NAND TLC M.2 2280 SATA III 6Gb/s. 1TB or 512GB will work with this laptop as well.If anyone from CHUWI read this, here are few things to improve in the next model. First and foremost, please, for the love of God, USE USB-C FOR CHARGING and make it compatible with PD power delivery so we can charge laptop with phone chargers or batteries on the go. Having anything else but USB-C charging for smaller laptops in 2023 is a NO.Laptop could be much lighter. I figured out that there is thick heavy metal plate on which motherboard and other components are mounted which is unnecessary, as it would not really protect screen. See how to make laptop lighter, please. Finally, components, especially heating pipe with fan could have been positioned so that it leaves space to add another M.2 drive, full SSD drive, or bigger battery. Also, please use PCIe M.2 storage.Sure, I don't expect this in such cheap laptop, but it is just little bit more engineering effort that could give us perfect result. I will will be monitoring incoming products form CHUWI. Thank you!

I haven't see any real reviews for this laptop so I'll go ahead and give my overall impressions of it so far. For what you're paying, the specs are pretty decent but don't expect to be able to play high end games on this but for everything else. you should be perfectly fine. I have yet to experience any lags or stutters but I'm also not doing a whole lot on here either. The screen looks good even in bright light and the boot time when turning it on is pretty quick.I like the keyboard. It's not too mushy and it's not too hard either. Perfectly balanced so it's responsive and does exactly what it's supposed to without feeling as if you're putting too much pressure on the keys. The track pad is huge and easy to use which makes the whole experience on the laptop less frustrating. The downside here are the speakers. They're not terrible, but they're not good either and using headphones with this is a bit of a bummer becasuse they're too low, but it may also be my headphones too. Aside from the speakers. I have no complaints here.The battery lasts about nine hours depending on what you're doing and there's even a battery saver modes so you get more out of it. I also like the way this thing looks. All metal body that looks like you paid a great more for it than you really did which is nice at this price. You would expect a hunk of plastic but not the case here. It does attract a lot of finger prints but it's not a deal breaker. The screen size is another great selling point and looks great. If you're using this for movies you're going to be fine just make sure you use better speakers.So, should you buy this? You know what your needs are and what you're going to use the laptop for so if you're a gamer, odds are this won't work for you but for me and my needs it's perfect for me and it is expandable so if you need more memory there's that option. So far I've been impressed by this thing and have no real complaints aside from the speakers. For the price, you're getting a decent laptop with pretty decent specs. I wanted something affordable and this was too hard to pass up and I'm pleased with what it does.

For almost a month now I have been trying to solve audio issues. But it's like boxing in the dark because I can't tell for sure if they are Win11 related or due to hardware. I have gone over and over and over the sound settings. All the drivers are up to date. When tested in the Control Panel, the system sounds are fine. But I have almost NO volume from within any browser - videos on my Google drive, YouTube, Amazon - only the faintest sound. All the apps in the Sound Control panel are set to max. The only way I can get any volume at all is through a Firefox Sound Booster extension. There are a ga-zillion complaints all over the web about this issue (both in Windows forums and Gemibook forums) and I have tried everything they suggest. I'm at my wit's end.UPDATE 3/31/24I actually had to just put the laptop away so I didn't throw it through a window. So here I am a year later. Decided to downgrade to win10 with a clean install. Downloaded the Win10 installer tool from Microsoft and ran it on a USB drive. WHAT A FREAKING NIGHTMARE!!! Now I have, essentially, little more than a brick. Almost no drivers are compatible. So now I'm searching the internet (on another laptop because the Gemi has no internet adapter) to find the correct drivers. There are so many sets floating around out there - the last set I downloaded were from 2018 and worthless. Just as worthless as Chuwi customer service. Never again. NEVER.