Bben Ultra Slim 14 inch Laptop Computer with Windows 10 Review

My daughter is 11 years old and has just completed her SATs (Standard Assessment Tests), she will be moving up to the secondary school or big school as my generation called it but apparently now it is “high school” no doubt another adaptation from America. We wanted and somewhat felt we needed to get her a laptop or notepad computer as they get their homework assignments online along with being a great research resource we decided to get it now so she will be fully ready and familiar with the computer.

We quickly decided a full on laptop would be too heavy and bulky for her to ship around so finally decided on the Bben Ultra Slim 14 inch our main reasons being it was under 1.8 kilograms had a nice brushed metal finish my daughter approved of, reasonable price, 13.7mm thickness, it has an Intel processor rather than AMD which I have personally had issues with, maybe bad luck but enough to put me off them, had a good battery life and came ready to go with Windows 10.

It arrived in a branded flip top box with power lead and an instruction booklet, the instructions are not really needed as Windows 10 walks you through the setup after switching it on although you should be prepared for a few hours of downloading and installing Windows 10 updates, not something unique to this as anything you buy will need the same and it something that is mandatory with Windows 10. After it had finished updating I went through personalising it and testing all the features ready for my daughter.

The bootup is very quick and the touch pad very responsive but due to me being stuck in my ways I wanted to fit a wireless mouse to it for setting everything up which I was pleased to see was plug and play working instantly, I installed Google chrome as a preference to the standard edge browser supplied with Windows and did some surfing going through a few websites testing sound and graphics all displaying perfectly and videos along with live TV playing flawlessly. The keypad is very nice positive touch buttons rather than keys you don’t know if it has registered or not and the screen display is really crisp and clear. It comes with a few things pre-installed which are easy enough to remove if you don’t want then.

I installed Avast a free virus protection and a few other programs my daughter wanted and everything runs great, we have told her it’s not for playing games on and this is not the intention of us buying it for her but I did test out a couple to see how smoothly they ran as it’s a fairly good test and again they ran smoothly, I installed a computer testing program from Novabench and even after a few hours use without reboot it gave very good results.

• Most Powerful: This Bben Laptop PC come with New Intel Apollo Lake Celeron N3450 processor which can cope with high end tasks, games and applications.
• Extremely portable: This New Bben notebook laptop features Only 13.7mm thickness and less than 1.8kg weight
• High Performance Display: Your new Bben Lapbook comes with 14 inch Laptop with 1920*1080 IPS Screen protect your Eyes
• High Class battery life: Your new Bben 14 inch laptop built-in 5000mAh Lithium-ion battery with 8 Hours watching movie without charge
• Upgrade Storage Option: this Bben windows laptop has an expansion slot M.2 2242 SSD (support up to 512Gb), you can use this slot and put external SSD to get more storage.

Features: 

• Operation system: Windows 10 Home
• CPU: Intel Apollo lake Celeron N3450
• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 500
• Ram: LPDDR3 4GB
• Storge: 64GB eMMc
• Screen: 14`` 1920*1080 IPS
• Wifi: M.2, 802.11a/b/g/n
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0
• Webcam: 2.0MP
• Speaker: Built-in stereo speaker 8Ω/1.0W*4
• I/O: USB3.0*2 1*3.5mm audio jack; Micro HDMI; Type C; DC/IN; Mini SD Slot
• Battery: Lithium-ion polymer battery, 5000mAh 7.4V
• Power Supply: AC 110-240V, 50-60Hz, DC 12V 2A
• Dimension: 332.6*220*13.7mm

Overall my daughter is very pleased with it and it does everything we wanted of it so are very pleased with this purchase, the battery life is great and it’s now setup with everything my daughter wants and needs so she is ready for when she moves school and for all these reasons I have given it full marks.

Price: £199.99
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CHUWI Hi13 13.5" 2-in-1 Windows10 Tablet PC 4GB RAM 64GB ROM Review

As I work from home I am sitting at my desktop PC for up to 14 hours a day and wanted to get myself a tablet that would allow me a bit more freedom from my desk to move about a bit more while still being connected to the net and able to do a bit of browsing but also being practical enough to be used for work, I don’t like the small screen tablets and didn’t want a ipad due to it being so limited and the way it controls the choice of what will run on it so thought this looked ideal.

It arrived in a big square branded box all nice and tightly packed and has a good solid feel to it, I started it up and the screen is great with a very clear display and the choice of either using it in Windows 10 mode or tablet mode. After connecting the wireless to my home network I started the inevitable windows updates which didn’t take too long and everything rebooted fine although I had to add the virtual keyboard back to the taskbar which is a simple case of long pressing the taskbar and selecting it from the options.

This tablet is certainly very fast and smooth, I have been using it far more than I thought I every would running YouTube videos, surfing the net and social media but I have also been able to do quite a bit of work on it that I would normally be sitting at my desktop PC doing and using the micro SD card slot to transfer a multitude of things between the two all very fast and smooth.

The camera is very good and the windows camera program comes with a built in zoom as standard, I recorded some footage from the screen with a capture but I think with the conflict between the recording program I used and the onscreen video framerate it failed to record properly so I have added the actual footage taken at the end of my video.

The tablet has USB-C so I was able to plug a hub I have giving me three additional USB ports, HDMI out and a hardwire network port which works very well and this also allowed me to connect a wireless keyboard and mouse which was instantly recognised and ready to use. I connected up my Bluetooth speaker very easily which gave me an additional sound boost for listening to a bit of music and also very clear and stable.

Overall I am really pleased with this purchase it’s a really nice tablet, the screen resolution is great, it runs really smoothly, easy to switch between Windows 10 and tablet mode, very large battery capacity so masses of use before it needed charging, the 13.5” screen is ideal for my uses and with USB-C easy to connect whatever I want. This is a lot more than just a tablet for surfing and social media and capable of doing a lot more and the reason it gets full marks from me.

Price: £312.99
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