Feature number one is especially the flat case that belongs to the slimmer colleagues of the notebook division with a height of 24 millimeters (without the rubber feet). The optical slimness-effect is even more enhanced by the edges converging narrowly around the notebook.

The finish of the case also adds to the attractive look, which has abstract round ornaments both in the area of the wrist rests and around the keyboard. These can subjectively be described as felicitous and remind of various designs as known from, for instance, HP's Pavilion notebooks or even a few single Asus devices.

With exception of the case tray, a glossy finish has been chosen for the surface finish. Put in the right light, the notebook can very well attract curious glances; however, opinions are divided in view of practicality. Fact is that high-gloss surfaces tend to attract more visible grime and are also more liable for visible wearing marks, such as scratches caused by frequent packing and unpacking in and out of a bag or protection cover.

The surface feel is also a reason for debate. These appear to be rather sticky and cold in our opinion. This proves to be fairly unreasonable especially in the touchpad area, which has pretty much the same surface as the surrounding case. But we'll get to that a bit later.

The plastic case bids an overall sufficient stability in view of its construction height. It can partly come to deformations under point pressure, especially in the area of the display lid, but by and large the Platinum SE has an adequate stability. Particularly, the base unit's torsional stiffness was impressive.

The pricing pressure of the device is partly noticed in the case's manufacturing. In particular the component joints around the base unit, that is where the case tray and the coated lid meet, turn out partly somewhat irregular.

Another point of criticism would be the closing mechanism that showed a too weak tension so that foreign objects could push themselves between the display and keyboard when the notebook is stored in a bag, for instance, and cause damage there.

The Chiligreen Platinum SE is something between a subnotebook and netbook, whereas the supply of connections rather indicates the first. The basic needs are covered by total of three USB ports, a VGA connection, 3.5 millimeter sockets for connecting a microphone, respectively headphone, and an integrated cardreader (SD, MMC, MS). All ports have been placed in the rear area of the side edges. Thus, connected cables don't stand out negatively and aren't obtrusive in stationary use, either.

The Chiligreen Platinum SE has been equipped with a 13.3 inch TFT with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels (HD) in a 16:9 wide screen format. In view of the device's size, this resolution can be described as very generous. The screen has a larger image width in favor of a few pixels of image height in comparison to displays in a 16:10 format. You can benefit from an almost bar-free movie pleasure, for instance at watching movies, in multimedia use, whereas it could become necessary to scroll more in office tasks that usually have a vertical alignment.

Our technical evaluations certify the display a maximum brightness of a good 217 cd/m² in the upper center display area. An obvious brightness decrease to 146.9 cd/m² in the lower display area was also noticed, though. The display's illumination therefore turns out only under average with 67.7%.

The display's glossy glare type surface provides a brilliant image with fresh colors on the one hand, but on the other also annoying reflections in adverse light conditions. This could prove to be a drawback when the notebook is used outdoors. At least the display brightness remains at 100% in battery mode. The maximum given contrast value of 157:1 turns out average.

It was also noticed that the display's color space has a strong bluish tendency ex factory. After calibrating the display with the Spyder 3 Elite tool from Datacolor, this observation was confirmed.

The viewing angle stability also doesn't really belong to one of the strengths of the employed display. In the horizontal viewing range, the colors remained stable up to an angle of about 45° but you have to put up with reflections turning up. There is even an increase of color deviations up to inversion seen at a further viewing angle flattening.
A similar phenomenon turns up in the vertical viewing range, but considerably faster. Already minute changes in the viewing angle can cause image deviations.

A significant difference of the built-in Celeron ULV CPU to common chips is that it's soldered directly onto the mainboard. This excludes an eventual CPU exchange but allows for a considerably slimmer implementation of the entire notebook because the construction height for an additional base isn't needed.

The Chiligreen Platinum SE is based on Intel's GS40 Express chip set that integrates the Intel GMA 4500M chip set solution as the graphic solution. In view of performance, it's behind the faster clocked 4500M HD but bids enough performance for simple office applications.

The Celeron 743 CPU alignment in regards to performance can be very well seen in the Cinebench R10 rendering benchmarks. The notebook reaches 1356 points in the single-core test. Thus, the notebook is at about the same level as the Samsung X360 with an Intel SU9300 CPU or the Lenovo Ideapad with an Intel SU2700 processor. The difference between one and two core chips first become obvious in the multi-core rendering test. The Samsung X360 presents 2435 points, whilst both other comparison devices, including the Chiligreen Platinum SE, have to pass here, as they only have one single computing core.
Interesting: CPUZ indicated the maximum clock rate at merely 1.2 GHz in the benchmark test in opposition to the 1.3 GHz certified by the manufacturer.

System Noise

The Chiligreen Platinum SE stays pleasantly quiet but still audible in idle and in office mode at low load. This isn't primarily due to the fan as you might think, as it always runs in a low rpm but does its job quietly, but to the implemented hard disk.  The running noise is more existent than, for instance, the system fan even when data isn't being accessed. Even if the device can be described as overall quiet, a SSD would have definitely revaluated this point.

The fan turns up under load to dispense the waste heat out of the case. Up to 43.5 dB(A) were measured here. This state will barely be seen in practical use unless you load the CPU and GPU with various application to 100% for a longer time on purpose.

Temperature

The Chiligreen Platinum SE has two sides here, as well. On the one side, a maximum surface temperature of up to a steep 47.0°C on the case's bottom can be measured at a longer notebook use under full load. On the other the temperatures are very much kept in limits under normal office load.
The maximum temperatures in office use were an uncritical 33.3°C on the upper side and 37.3°C on the bottom. So using the notebook on the lap is possible without further ado.