Chuwi Hi Series

Processor: Mediatek MT8173, Mediatek MT8735, Intel Atom x5 Z8350, Intel Celeron Celeron N3450, Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20 Helio X20 MT6797, Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20 MT6797X
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T720, ARM Mali-T880 MP4, Imagination PowerVR GX6250, Intel HD Graphics (Cherry Trail), Intel HD Graphics 500
Display: 8.00 inch, 8.40 inch, 10.10 inch, 10.80 inch, 13.50 inch
Weight: 0.34kg, 0.35kg, 0.49kg, 0.55kg, 1.1kg
Price: 200, 259, 300 euro
price: 82%, performance: 68%, features: 75%, display: 78%, mobility: 78%, workmanship: 76%, ergonomy: 69%, emissions: 97%

 

Chuwi Hi13

The Chuwi Hi13 2-in-1 tablet aspires to be a poor man’s Surface Book, with a price tag a mere fraction of Microsoft’s own. It is a beast of a tablet. It has a 13.5-inch Surface Book screen with up to 3,000 x 2,000 pixel resolution in 3:2 aspect ratio. It covers 100 % of the sRGB color gamut with a 480 nits brightness and a 3:2 aspect ratio. There is very little colour shift, guaranteeing excellent viewing angles. Images look sharp and color reproduction is spot-on to the naked eye. As for design, it is a sleek, all-metal body with CNC and dimensions of 334 x 222 mm. It is large enough to be a fully-featured laptop if fitted with the optional keyboard, yet the tablet shouts high-quality mobile device. The keyboard can be attached with the keys facing the screen like a normal laptop. It can also be attached with the keys facing the back of the tablet, which means user can use the keyboard as a horizontal stand for the tablet or vertically like a tent. The tablet itself is about 8.8 mm thick (or 16.5 mm when the keyboard is attached). It weighs 1080 g, which seems heavy compared to other tablets. Most 2-in-1 tablets have settled upon a pair of magnetic hinges that run the length of the tablet, usually securing them to the keyboard. Microsoft’s Surface Book uses a pair of clamps that extend out from the keyboard base, grabbing the tablet securely and disconnecting after a user presses a special key. Chuwi has adopted its own approach, connecting the keyboard and base using two pegs. As it did with the Chuwi HiBook, it all feels extremely sturdy, and user do not need a special key to separate the pieces. While most 2-in-1s opt for some variation of Intel’s Core chips, Chuwi has tended to favor Intel’s low-cost, low-performance Atom processors. In this case, the Hi13 uses the 1.1 GHz quad-core Celeron (“Apollo Lake”) N3450 that Intel launched in 2016. With 4 GB DDR3L memory and 64 GB eMMC storage, Windows 10 Home should fly. There is also support for an additional TF card of up to 64 GB. The Hi13 has a  2MP front facing camera and a 5 MP rear camera. The front-facing camera takes much better pictures than other tablets, and the auto adjustment lens takes great selfies. The tablet has a 10,000 mAh battery that delivers up to eight hours of usage. It has a micro USB slot, a micro HDMI slot, a docking port, and a 35 mm headphone jack down one edge. A stylus is an optional extra for this tablet. The stylus for the Hi13 looks almost identical to the Surface Pro's. The Surface Pro stylus is magnetized, and the HiPen H3 has a switch near the tip. In all other respects, they are the same. The HiPen H3 stylus has a battery instead of a micro USB charger. The pen also demonstrated smoothly widening ink strokes as user press harder on the screen. Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi13
Processor: Intel Celeron Celeron N3450
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 500
Display: 13.50 inch, 3:2, 3000 x 2000 pixels
Weight: 1.1kg
Price: 300 euro
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 79.4% - good

 

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Chuwi Hi9

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi9
Processor: Mediatek MT8173
Graphics Adapter: Imagination PowerVR GX6250
Display: 8.40 inch, 16:9, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.35kg
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 67.75% - average

 

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Chuwi Hi9 Air

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi9 Air
Processor: Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20 Helio X20 MT6797
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T880 MP4
Display: 10.10 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.55kg
Price: 259 euro
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 82.67% - good

 

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Chuwi Hi8 Air

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi8 Air
Processor: Intel Atom x5 Z8350
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics (Cherry Trail)
Display: 8.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 0.34kg
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 64% - average

 

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Chuwi Hi9 Pro

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi9 Pro
Processor: Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20 Helio X20 MT6797
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T880 MP4
Display: 8.40 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.55kg
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 78.5% - good

 

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Chuwi Hi8 SE

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi8 SE
Processor: Mediatek MT8735
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T720
Display: 8.00 inch, 19.2:9, 2560 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 0.34kg
Price: 200 euro
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 70% - average

 

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Chuwi Hi9 Plus

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi Hi9 Plus
Processor: Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20 MT6797X
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T880 MP4
Display: 10.80 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.55kg
Price: 200 euro
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 75.75% - good

 

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Chuwi HiPad

Specifications

Notebook: Chuwi HiPad
Processor: Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20 MT6797X
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T880 MP4
Display: 10.10 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 0.49kg
Price: 200 euro
Links: Chuwi homepage

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Average Score: 47.5% - bad

 

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Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.

Intel HD Graphics 500: Integrated low-end graphics adapter with DirectX 12 support, which can be found in some ULV SoCs from the Apollo Lake series.

ARM Mali-T880 MP4: Mobile graphics solution for tablets and smartphones, which can be found in ARM SoCs like the HiSilicon Kirin 950.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

Imagination PowerVR GX6250: 2 cluster graphics chip integrated in ARM SoC (e.g. used in the MediaTek MT8173)

Intel HD Graphics (Cherry Trail): Integrated graphics card in the Cherry-Trail SoCs. Based on a Broadwell GPU (Intel Gen8) and supports DirectX 11.2. Depending on the SoC offers 12 or 16 EUs.

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

ARM Mali-T720: Integrated graphics card in ARM based SoCs. Can be configured with up to 8 cores (T720 MP8) and 650 MHz core clock (at 28nm). Supports OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenCL 1.1, DirectX 11 FL9_3, and Renderscript.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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Intel Celeron:

Celeron N3450: Frugal quad-core SoC from the Apollo Lake series for inexpensive notebook. Runs with clocks between 1.1-2.2 GHz and integrates a DirectX 12 capable graphics adapter. Compared to the previous Atom generation, the per-MHz performance of the CPU architecture was vastly improved and the graphics adapter was improved as well.

Mediatek:

MT8173: ARM based quad-core SoC (2x Cortex-A72, 2x Cortex-A53) for tablets

MT8735: ARM based quad-core SoC (4x Cortex-A53 at up to 1.3 GHz) with 64-Bit support and an integrated LTE radio.

Mediatek Mediatek Helio 20:

Helio X20 MT6797: ARM based deca-core SoC with three clusters: 2x Cortex-A72 @2.1-2.3 GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 @1.83 GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 @1.4 GHz (all 64-bit) for smartphones and tablets.

MT6797X: ARM based deca-core SoC with three clusters: 2x Cortex-A72 @2.6 GHz (performance), 4x Cortex-A53 @2 GHz (balanced), 4x Cortex-A53 @1.6 GHz (power saver cores) for smartphones and tablets.

Intel Atom x5:

Z8350: Soc with an integrated quad core Atom processor clocked at 1.44 - 1.92 GHz, an Intel HD Graphics GPU and a dual channel LPDDR3-1600 memory controller.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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8.00:

Large smartphones and a few small tablets are available for this display size. Unlike most smartphones, you can see more on the screen, more details and use larger resolutions. Such formats are better for people with defective vision. However, such devices are no longer easy to fit in a pocket, and they are probably not quite light either.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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73.09%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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