so it's only taken a year for the best Apolo Lake notebook to come out and
perhaps the best budget laptop there is for under 250 USD. This is the Teclast
F7, now it's using the Apollo Lake in thirty four fifty that's a Celeron
processor with 4 cores it's soon to be replaced it's the end of the line for
this CPU it's going to be replaced via the Gemini Lake N4100 that'll be
coming out in devices within the next month or two but until then this really
is a fantastic laptop so it's got a very similar spec to the jumper easy book 3
pro or in fact the easy book 3l pro which is basically the same so fourteen
point one inch 1080p screen six gigabytes of RAM it has 64 gigabytes of
e MMC 5.1 spec storage and it has also a hatch and it's SD slot underneath so you
can expand upon that storage something that was brought in first with the EZ
book 3 pro the first model that came out later they had quite a few revisions now
those revisions kind of went a little bit sideways with a jumper lately
because there's some issues that crept up so there was some some lag on the
keyboard problems with the SSD slot and luckily none of that is happening here
with this f7 model this really is fantastic laptop considering what you
pay for this you know around about 250 us it was as low as 219 so what we get
is a full alloy bill that's lightweight this only weighs 1.3 kilos and it's only
thirteen point five millimeters thin metal lid as you can see and the palm
rest is also made out of metal even the bezel around the screen that's
all a lie there which is great now the keyboard on it is more or less about the
same size as a jumper easy book three pros but of course it's got this extra
column here with the homepage up down and in keys the power key there is next
to the Delete key I wish it was actually separated away from the keyboard so you
don't accidentally tap it but typing on this keyboard really good it has hardly
any flex its very firm its rock-solid nice feedback
from those keys the keys does feel better than the easy book three prose to
type on and I'm happy to report I have no issues with missed keystrokes or any
keyboard lag none of that is happening here with this keyboard it's great
now the touchpad also is rather large as you can see it has a smooth finish to it
and silver paint job it's not glass or anything like that like it's not a super
premium touchpad but it is using Windows precision drivers so you can control the
gestures it's accurate and I really do like it now it does have incorporated
mouse buttons in there left and right and they have a nice feel to them when
you press down on them it doesn't go down too deep either they're not also
too shallow they seem just right to me so overall quite good there now for
ports on the right hand side here sorry the left hand side we've got a micro
HDMI out that supports up to 4k 30 Hertz status LED which is red when charging
green once fully charged full sized USB 3 port always need to have these don't
we on laptops and it will power external hard drives I've tested up to 4
gigabytes without any problems and then on the right hand side we've got a micro
SD card slot now this is only USB 2 specs so don't worry about using or
buying a really high spec card for that because you can't take advantage of the
full speed of it another USB 3 port then we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
now this headphone jack actually outputs really good sound because it doesn't
have the typical common interference and static that you often see and I hear so
often on the Apollo Lakes and the essence
none of that which was really good but what it does sometimes exhibit is a
little bit of popping so when the sound card goes to sleep and then you play a
sound it'll wake up and about 50% of the time it will do a little pop which is
slightly annoying now that comes through also on the speakers it's definitely
related to the realtek sound card that this has on here and then of course the
DC on there for charging 12 volts 2 amps now up the top we've got a 720p webcam
shoots up to 30 frames per second the quality is actually
than the jumper easy book three pro two microphones
either side as well said you array a little bit of stuff s through these
microphones but I will give you a sample of that later on in this review now
taking a look at that screen so it's an IPS panel 1080p it's either anti glare
or glossy my ones glossy now a lot of people in Twitter and other comments and
even messages sent to me said hey you've got a screen protector on it just remove
it and it is anti glare now that may be the case for some people I would
actually went digging around here lifted up the bezel I used my knife to try and
lift up this screen protector that I thought was on there and I scratched and
damaged the surface of the glossy panel and damaged it a little bit my bizzle so
that's why I basil looks like someone's attacked it with a knife because I did
attack it with a knife so if you cannot see any edges you cannot see any dust or
bubbles you do not have a screen protector it's a glossy display so it's
a lottery there whether you get anti clear or glossy I really wish it was
anti clear on my unit now the maximum brightness is only about 190 lux which
is not a lot but it's perfectly fine for indoors or right now with this bright
studio lights on I've got it set to about 70% and you can see it looks
really bright I normally just use it around 30 to 40% without any problems
whatsoever if you wanted to use it outdoors that's when you'll run into
problems a reflective glossy screen is going to be another nightmare so slap on
an anti-glare screen protector now to comment on the whites they are quite
neutral they're leaning towards perhaps a little bit warm white a lot better
than the super cool white we have on the jumper easy books three pro screen but
that one is anti glare which I tend to prefer now the blacks look good nice and
deep because it's a glossy display it's IPS over viewing angles perfectly fine
color reproduction looks good on this kind of screen considering the price
overall a very decent panel Bay you have used on this it's that made by sharp as
well this panel that's in here quick peek now at the internals so it's all
positive here good news with the heatsink it's very large and as you see
later on with the thermals that this does not run into thermal throttling in
fact without any power limits so it can use
up to 15 watts it doesn't overheat it only gets up to 74 degrees Celsius
maximum which is pretty much unheard of so tech must have done an excellent job
here and it's really amazing because other laptops with the N 3450 would end
up getting up to about 8090 degrees without the power limits there now the
SSD you can see here you can actually install a 20 to 60 here there is room
for it as long as you cut out this little plastic here use a dream or
something but once you put the SSD in place here
this is what's going to happen you'll have to cut out this as well so it'll
lay nice and flat when you put the rear lid back on you will not be able to
remove that SSD without removing the whole lid again so you might run into a
few little issues there with that but to me it looks like going to be able to fit
it now Motors out there if you wanted to put a thermal pad here you could to
transfer heat to the rear case there and that would even lower temperatures by
another 5 or 10 degrees even there is metal behind the keyboard backing here
which is another positive this is why the keyboard is so firm and doesn't
really have any flex whatsoever now a lot of people are saying you can upgrade
the RAM on this and that is normally never the case with the cell Ron in 34
50s with the Apollo Lakes because there are no sodam slots on there so you
cannot upgrade the RAM you can only upgrade the RAM on the cell runs
normally with this the many pcs some of those do include sodam slots these you
can swap RAM or upgrade RAM but not the case here but the internals the layout
the build quality everything does look good they've got the plugs everything
taped in place so if you were to drop the laptop
none of those plugs should pop out so overall yeah it's looking very good the
internals really good to me and especially those thermals due to that
copper heatsink now if you want to really get maximum performance with
literally no trade-off here it doesn't overheat I recommend going along into
the advanced menu of the BIOS go to CPU configuration CPU power management and
long hair power limit one enabled will be set to nine what okay so go on and
change that from enabled to disabled and this
is gonna really boost up the performance now I know the screen is flickering like
crazy but it's not doing that in person now so overall it feels quick and snappy
this laptop here but these are a couple of benchmarks of runs as Geekbench for
very good score this is kind of the definitely one of the faster ones you
will see out of the this chipset here the end
3450 with its quad cores so that's really good and right here is the OpenCL
scores that's testing out the integrated Intel 500 HD GPU that this has on here
not a bad score as well considering this integrated graphics now the wireless I
tested this out here now I know this isn't the best way to gauge the speed I
did use an FTP server at home and I managed to get close to 400 megabits per
second but this test I've run as well because there's a lot of networks around
order interference and my show me meet notebook pro with a much better chipset
in it can get around 300 so the full fiber speed I have here now I just
wanted to point out the thermals because they are so good on the f7 here they're
crazy good considering I have disabled the power limit so only 74 degrees
maximum after 6 hours this included two hours of non-stop gaming it's hard to
believe but the copper heatsink does its job they're so well on this really
really good most other laptops even the easy buck 3 Pro if you disable the power
limit on one that has it it'll climb up to almost 90 degrees after 2 hours of
gaming you need to do a copper heatsink mod and some thermal pads in there as
well just to help improve things but you don't need to do any mods with this
amazingly good I don't know what really tick lasted down there but hats off to
them the thermals on this are so good there's another test as well with the
thermals yeah so I mean that's even lower than Co 74 it's not going to go
past 74 this my unit here that I have now on to some battery life tests very
important now it does fall short of the jumper easy book 3 Pro right right here
I did YouTube 1080p and I lost after 2 hours
20 percent so that's not bad it looks like you know you're gonna be able to
get 9 or 10 hours of just straight streaming video so it's very light use
of the CPU so I did later step things up in another day of testing I cycled the
battery I think four times in total with my testing here and this is more what I
would call real-world use so my own personal use updating my website using
Chrome with about seven or eight tabs 30% brightness and I'm looking at six
and a half hours so this is short because the jumper is about three Pro
will be able to do seven to eight hours now the reason behind this is the power
limit so by default they set nine watts this test was with the default 9 watts
okay so the stock configuration that's why it's not getting the eight hours
like these about three pro which has a lower setting that's set to seven so
that's what a the counts for really the higher battery consumption that's sorry
the higher power use is because of that so if you're worried about that and you
want to get eight hours lower the power limit and I think that will solve the
problem there but I'm happy for the trade-off for the power you've got extra
power I don't mind losing an hour battery life here with this and this is
the sitting I had set in Windows okay so I've set it on the not the best battery
life tab but there's the one up from it so it's the latest version of Windows
that I've been running on my SSD and just to point out to the SSD speed so
perfectly fine it's set of three running at full set of three speeds my king spec
512 gigabyte SSD works perfectly fine so no issues with that USB 3 port speeds
running at maximum speed no problems again and the e MMC it's 5.1 spec so a
lot faster than the old 4.5 spec very good speeds here out of that SanDisk 64
gigabyte emmc so now I'm just going to test out a 4k clip here so this is a TV
see 140 megabits per second so quite a high bitrate and he cuz it's choppy but
only at the start once it gets past that it's actually quite smooth it's
demanding file for this kind of hardware but it handles it okay and if you skip
ahead there's a little bit of a delay choppy for a little bit then once it
gets going it'll smooth out against so there we go so it's good to see it can
play these kind of files vp9 codec support as well and it's also just
streaming at the same time here 4k video so that's a little bit demanding for it
to be doing both of those things at the same time now that's probably why it's
got the drop frames but it's doing well okay here cuz this is Chrome 4k YouTube
streaming is normally a little bit choppy but you see this is going
perfectly fine and that's down to that 9 watt TDP the power limit that they sit
on this are just really helping out so the speakers on the if sieve and they're
located just right here so you don't see them they're hidden away and I do like
this the sound is transmitted and comes up up this way here and they do actually
sound a little bit better I feel then the jumper easy book 3 pro speakers give
you a sample of them now
so now sample off the webcam 720p 30 frames per second on recording the audio
through those dual mics it has either side and the quality of those mics I
feel is really good considering the price of this laptop and even the video
quality it's not bad ok looks a little bit pixelated but it's perfectly fine
for Skype calls I have used it a few times and I've had no issues with it all
the built-in microphones now moving on to have a look at a little bit of gaming
so this is League of Legends very light title it's running in the native screen
resolution so 1080p very low graphics preset and we're getting close to 60
frames per second and even above 60 frames per second so this is really good
this is just a BOTS game here so to other BOTS and one on my team I'm really
pleased with this performance remember this is what the power limit disabled
that I showed you at the start of the video this is project cars and
see it's pretty laggy only running at 18 frames per second so that is not ideal
and I'm driving terrible I wasn't even paying attention there so games like
this the triple-a titles you know you don't really want to be attempting to
play them at all because it's kind of arenas really trying to play with only
17 frames per second this is on the lower settings in 720p by the way it's
amazing just to show you that it's actually able to at least run the game
and get these kind of frame rates now I would love to show you some
counter-strike but it's down the servers there's something going on I've been
trying all afternoon without any luck whatsoever so I can't do an online game
I can't even run a game against bots because it will come up with this area
here so if you set the resolution quite low and the settings on the lowest
possible you're looking around 40 sometimes 250 frames per second it does
dip down to 30 and even below if there's lots and lots going on the performance
isn't amazing but you can get away with playing a little bit of Counter Strike
on the side now it runs Linux perfectly fine and one thing to note here with the
screen I can actually capture it a lot better I'm not getting the flicker in
Linux which is a little strange so I don't know what is causing that
something to do with the graphics drivers perhaps so Wireless works the
touchpad on the latest Manjaro 17 point 1.4 bill that I'm running it does not
work so that's the only thing that's not working brightness controls the sound
that all seems to be working just fine it's just that the touchpad is the only
issue in Linux alright so wrapping up this review here it really is a
fantastic laptop especially if you pick this up for only 219 so look out for
another flash sale if not I feel even the 250 price tag that I've seen it
selling for at the time of when I posted this review that's not actually too bad
considering what you were getting especially here in Spain you compare
that to what's available in the local market and they're all running still
cheery trail items they've only got four gigabytes of RAM
plastic build the keyboard that touchpads and not precision ones there's
just so much to like about this now the screen
might get glossy you might get an anti-glare screen but to me the screen
is better than the jumper easy book three pros literally every single aspect
of this is better apart from battery life so that's where
you run into the cons so it's got about an hour's less battery life but I
believe the culprit is the higher power limits so this thing here runs out of
the box with nine watts power limit and so that's a little bit more than the
jumper easy put three Pro so that's why it burns through the barre a little
faster but I feel that's a good trade-off because the performance of
this is really good it's fast and I in fact disabled the power limit on here so
that means it's unlimited let's that CPU stretch its legs it can use all the
power at once it's only up to about 15 watts I think maximum combined with the
integrated GPU and the CPU so it doesn't even get hot the thermals on this are
amazing really they so good tick last has done a really good job of this
because they put a huge copper heat sink in there it's quite big a little bit
bigger than what we normally see here and it's just perfect I mean it doesn't
go over 74 degrees after gaming with no power limit is kind of crazy good that's
I have never seen that before this is the first time that's happened
normally on other models like the jumper easy book 3 Pro with no power limit
those temps will really start to creep up and hit close to 85 degrees even 90
which is why I recommend you do a copper heatsink model put a thermal pad and
there you don't need to do that so there is another couple of cons here it's not
perfect the speaker does that pop noise and it's a little annoying when that
happens but it's minor very minor to me and the other thing too I noticed it
could just be my unit that when it's plugged in 100% charged put your ear
down around this area and you can hear a buzzing noise from the speaker or it
could even be coil whine or something coming from the CPU it might be related
to me having the power limit disabled but I don't think it is I think it's
just statically comes through on the speakers there overall fantastic laptop
considering the price you're just getting
so much here on offer now don't be confused about what the Apollo Lake can
do people please because so many people have emailed saying can i edit 4k videos
no you can not on this chipset I mean 1080p maybe this is a entry-level
kind of process so you have to remember that it's fanless you can do quite a lot
though will surprise people you can open multiple tabs in chrome you can edit
spreadsheets you can watch 4k videos MH EVC codec files vp9 it can play them
natively decode them which is great so you're not taking a huge performance hit
but you can't go and play battlefield 1 on this I don't know why some people
seem to be fooled by perhaps that's marketing or something they show images
of it playing the latest games from maybe I don't think tickets have done
that but a lot of manufacturers do do that so they put an image there of a
battlefield 1 and people think oh I can play the latest triple-a titles on a
$200 in that top no but anyway thank you so much for watching this review here of
the best Apollo 8 laptop that is the tick last if7 and check out my review of
the jumper easy book 3 pro if you're interested in that and my latest video
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