CHUWI MiniBook X 2-in-1 Laptop 10.51", 16GB LPDDR5 512GB SSD, Intel N150 (up to 3.6GHz), Windows 11 Convertible Laptop, 2TB SSD Expand, FHD IPS 2K Touchscreen, Backlit Keyboard, WiFi 6, BT5.2

I love this little CHUWI MiniBook laptop. I purchased this mini laptop in early October to take on our trip to Jamaica at the end of October this year. I loved that it was small and lightweight yet fairly powerful. The first one worked for about 2 days, but then wouldn't boot up. I contacted Amazon and they sent a replacement, which arrived before I had a chance to send the defective one back. I put the replacement through it's paces to feel sure that this one was a good unit. I didn't want any unpleasant surprises from the laptop during the trip. I also bought an adapter to connect to the 2nd full function USB Type C port built into the laptop. (The 1st USB Type C port of this laptop is used mostly for charging it.) The adapter was needed to allow the laptop to have extra USB ports (A & Type C), an HDMI port, Ethernet port, SD & Micro SD ports etc. All of the functions of the adapter were checked to be sure they worked with this CHUWI Minibook, and they did. On our trip this little laptop performed flawlessly. It boots up quickly from it's solid state drive. I feel the battery life is fairly good. The resort we were at, near Montego Bay, was in the direct path of Hurricane Melissa's eye. The resort was just built in 2024, so it was designed to handle a category 4 hurricane, but we were subjected to a category 5. We, and the new CHUWI, survived and are fine. We lost all connection to the outside world, so I didn't use the new laptop much at that resort. We were transferred to another resort which is in Ocho Rios. That resort still had WiFi service. This CHUWI MiniBook was very helpful in completing flight bookings out of Jamaica, which was some days after our original scheduled departure. Using the Delta app, on our cellphones, wasn't completely functional or accurate with the Delta booking system. This was most likely due to the hurricane damage to Delta's systems in Jamaica. The information, on the Delta site using the Chrome browser with the CHUWI laptop, was more accurate and trusted. Working with our travel agent, back in the states, along with assistance from using this mini laptop, we were able to get on our booked flight and back home. I wouldn't claim that this MiniBook was a lifesaver, but it almost was. I'm very happy with it. We're home safe and sound and the CHUWI's still working great!

I've had this about a year. I travel about six months per year and bring this with. No problems. The size is perfect. It is lightweight and has plenty of Ram and memory. The backlit keyboard has me spoiled. It charges with a regular phone charger, no special heavy weight converter needed. It only has a couple of usb c ports, which worried me at first, but has not caused any problems. I recommend this.

Update after one month The basic laptop is exactly what I wanted (despite having to work around the way you get into the BIOS now). Two things, one bad, one good. Bad: I knew better than this, but... I forgot. I plugged in the power cord that came with the Chuwi to a PD dongle and fried it. I knew better! The power cord has USB-C connector, but it is NOT USB-C compliant. It's a 12-volt 3-amp power supply with a USB-C connector! Arg!!! Any 36-watt or more REAL USB-C power supply works. I buried the fired dongle, and tossed the power cord so I don't do that again. Its perfectly happy on my Anker multi-port power brick, and the Anker does not fry dongles. The good: I replaced the NVMe SSD M2 with a Samsung Evo Plus. Now the SSD is faster than the rest of the laptops i/o buss, but it sped up the boot and response times subjectively by a factor of 2. it was not slow to start, but now it rips. If I want to add a few virtual machines to carry around other test versions of Linux (like Kali) I have all the space in the world. The new blank SSD meant it did not even pause before it booted the USB-C flash drive to reinstall KDE Neon. Downloading all the updates and the 6.16.9 kernel was a look away and you'll miss it event. I wish Apple was not moving away from Intel a little now (a little, anyway), because this little laptop would make a great hackintosh. ------ Normally, with a Chuwi laptop, to get to the BIOS, you press escape during the boot. Does not work on this one. I never wanted to run Windows on this thing, and plenty of other reviews and websites talked about Linux working fine. But to install KDE Neon, I had to change the boot order so it would boot the USB-c flash drive. After research, I found the incantation on Windows to reboot into the BIOS. There are laborious ways to do this on the GUi. The easiest is to pop open command:: shutdown /fw /r Once KDE Neon was on, I realized I still could not use 'escape' to get to the BIOS. WTF? Secure boot was off. The config erased. I can't find any settings to enable the escape key. It's simple on Linux to get to the firmware. One console command. sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup With KDE Neon, the system is working great, and exactly what I wanted it to be: An easy-to-carry-around to carry around Linux laptop I can toss in my bag with my Macbook Air, in case I need a Linux system. The screen is a nice repurposed tablet display. Looks good, even though it likes to boot to portrait mode. The keyboard is good. The keyboard Backlight is a little dim but OK. Trackpad works pretty well, but I had to dial its sensitivity way down on scrolling. The N150 is plenty quick for my use case (not gaming). I really would have preferred an N100 to make the battery last longer. the 24-Watt/hr battery will probably be able to be coddled into nearly four hours of unplugged time, but I think a high-output external battery pack will make that more tolerable. A Snapdragon version of this would be even cooler. The power brick is dangerous: It looks like a USB-C, but it's only the connector. It's really a 12v / 3 amp (36-watt) power brick. Plug anything else in, and you will likely fry it with this. With 2 USB-C ports, all my Mac accessories work here for extra ports / HDMI, etc. It would be 5 stars if Chuwi had left the escape key as it is supposed to be! I guess MS wanted that to make it harder to put an OS on the computer.

What an amazing little laptop! I bought this for another person, and using the laptop to set it up for them has been quite enjoyable. The specs are great (4 core CPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD), and it's in such a small package, it will easily fit in a handbag or satchel. The screen is fantastic, really high res and sharp. The aluminium body is rugged and durable and good looking, and I can't believe how well they matched the plastic lid with the aluminium body's colour and texture (the lid is plastic to allow the WiFi antennas to work well, this is good design). Battery life seems to be about 6+ hours with light usage. There's a 12 volt charger included (not USB-C Power Delivery compatible) which will fry other electronics, so chuck that out to avoid accidents and use Power Delivery on the 2nd USB-C port (which is PD compatible - read the Chuwi forums for more information). Has WiFi 6, Bluetooth, a headphone socket, and two USB-C connectors - which is great for such a small form factor. The person it's intended for already has a USB-C to HDMI adaptor, so it will work fine for connecting to TV's. About the only drawbacks are the 12v non-PD charger, and the question mark over whether the 1st USB-C connector will work with a PD-compatible charger or not (TBC, more research required on my part).

This laptop is off-gassing constantly. It has caused my several allergic reactions. I cannot use it indoors without coughing. Plugged-in, or unplugged. I reached out to their customer service via their website, which is where you are directed by Amazon. They said to reach out to them via the platform instead. So I did. By the by, getting cusomter service by their website sends an email that requests you sign up for their service system. Which was odd to me, as I'd never had to do that prior, but it is a smaller Chinese company. Which are never known for the same level of support of the larger American based companies I bought before. Well, I reached out here, as previously stated. They told me wipe it down with alcohol, which I did. Then they told me use it for 48 hours in a well ventelated room. I stuck it on its stand, which is how I prop it up towards eye level, as it's a very small laptop, plopped on a game and left it there next to an open window. No difference still sadly. I tried to do some research on this, and found that some laptops off-gas nickle and cadmium. I am for sure allergic to nickle, so that could be it. Whether on the charger (which is rather cheap looking if you've seen it before. Does hiss when it's plugged in to the laptop), or on battery this laptop gives off that smell. Doing nothing, or doing heavier tasks - it gives off the smell. The smell is something sort of acrid, for sure machine based in nature, but even a bit "plastic like" in a way. The laptop is okay, it chokes up at odd points though. Even without too much going on. Say four tabs in Librewolf. No video playing. Gets it choked up at random. Still lifted mind you, so I don't think it's a heat issue. I don't watch videos on this, so I don't think it's that. Not sure what's going on with it. I was hoping to develop some cool things on this, while on the go. But I am not sure I will be doing that with its random slow downs. The company reached out to me and originally offered a free return within' 30 days. I put up my review of the off-gassing and they offered me a full-refund. I was amazed at how kind the offer was, so I redacted my statements. Can't complain about a laptop given in kindness. That offer got rescended the seecond the review came down. So here's my review. It's going back up and I am not talking a thing about it's form or screen or anything. I am talking about what I have noticed is wrong period. With this laptop. The touch screen misses a beat constantly. You go to click on one thing, say a link or a button. You click, and click, and click - and by the third time after minimizing the window screen or hitting the wrong link and having to go back to the previous screen do you hit the link. Unlike a phone, in which you can thumb the side of your browser in order to go back to the previous page, here you must hit the back arrow button in the browser. You will be doing this a lot, due to the misclicks. I believe because the touch screen is not as accurate as more modern ones, but I am not sure. I think it's really just an old tablet screen that has been utilized to make a laptop screen. Hence the rounded corners at the edge of each part of the screen. The arrow keys are mac copies, which you might like if you do not utilize them often. By that I mean, the right and left arrow are full-sized, but the up and down pretty much take the place of a singular key. For someone who often utilizes up and down arrows to traverse applications, this was a bit of a nightmare for me. As this is an already compact keyboard. Speaking of which, I am not sure how a grown man could utilize this laptop without harming themselves. I don't believe there is enough travel for this to be more than a novelty. I have small hands, and it is already cramped. The touchpad is micro, which would not be an issue pending it were a good one. It constantly misclicks. I go to grab a "right click" and end up performing "left click." The edges of the pad on either side perform only a left-click. There is a small 1/3rd of an inch area you can tap to initiate a right click, and anywhere else acts as an explicit left click. The scroll per line speed acts the same for the touch screen and pad. So too fast and you're at warp-speed. Too slow and you feel like a turtle. It's frustrating that they are in conjunction, but that seems a software issue over a hardware. Another issue, which I cannot tell you if it is a hardware or software one, is that the laptop has trouble in tablet mode. Which is supposed to be one of its key features. But a) it slides everywhere if you're not holding it b) it feels like an awful iPad when holding it as it has a fat seam c) some apps will register it's in tablet mode and others won't at all. The UI breaks at times. The keyboard breaks at others. The UI sometimes will get 200% larger, and sometimes stay the same as prior. I want it to stay the same, not enlarge to the point where it is unreadable. Sometimes the keyboard will pop up for a microsecond, and then minimize again. Over and over again, forcing you to restart the laptop to resume functionality. I am still using their probably bootleg version of Windows 11, as it's quite novel (I am a Linux user, and I haven't seen Windows in quite some time). Using its Search option in their Settings brings up nothing. Type in "Power" and no power options come up. But searching out power, you can clearly see there is an entire section labeled "Power." This is an issue you will run into over and over again. I wasn't flustered, as ultimately I was either going to a) reinstall Windows 11, or b) Install something Debian based. Now I'm not going to install jack, as I will be returning this laptop. If you're trying to choose between this or the Freebook - don't. Don't get either. But if you are trying to choose, don't go with the Freebook - as the screen will shake all day with them using the same hinges on that laptop as this one. They have different weights to the screens, and every single review I saw had the laptop screen shaking every time the typed. If that doesn't bug you, more power to you. If you are accustomed to Apple's shiny reflective screens, then there will be nothing new here. This has a reflective screen. Doesn't get too bright or too dim. So it's a bit frustrating to use at night. Speaking of which, anyone who says these horrid blue-white leds they stuck on this keyboard is a plus...is probably a mac user yet again. They are awful, they are invasive. I avoid them at all cost, and sure I mistype from time to time, but I know how to type generally. So I am not dying without them. I actually thought about opening up the laptop, taking the components apart, and using a red paint pen on them so they were less-invasive than they are. If you like them, more power to you! They are hideous to me. So yeah, here's the tea. If you're interested. This isn't a good laptop. It's not the worst I've had. But it is the only one I have physically been allergic to. Which was news to me. In my lifetime, I have been around high-end and low-end laptops. Perhapas by the thousand. Yet this is the only one which within five minutes of being on can cause a pain in my throat that turns into coughing soon after if I don't have clean air filtering into the room I am using it in. Which is naners. Oh, actually one last thing. This battery is as crap as others say. You're getting perhaps 2.5 hours on it. Which isn't much different than any other laptop. Has to be battery size, as I believe this laptop's processor isn't a thirsty one. Another aside is fan control would be nice, as I never hear mine. That would be a plus, if it wasn't off-gasing like crazy. I want to blast whatever is inside of it out so that I can be done with it. I think this is a manufacturing issue, and as others have stated the quality control isn't there. Don't be fooled by the flash. I was. Don't be fooled by the Youtubers, I was. This isn't a "China bad" review. This is a note that Chuwi's quality control, and yo-yoing customer service is a nightmare to navigate and you'd probbaly be better off grabbing a different brand review. Oh, one last thing to note is that I believe it might have been open prior as the cardboard for the device was creased. Which could signal a returned item, being sent out as a new one. But could also be something having to do with custody. Not sure, but I figured I should note that as well.

This is such a delightful little laptop. Played with the Windows installation very briefly before sticking Linux (specifically, Aurora/UBlue) on it, Windows seemed to function fine, but it's very happy with Linux. I get 6-7 hours of battery life, performance is quite snappy for anything purely productivity based (and it'll even run graphically simpler games like Factorio perfectly fine). Build quality also feels great, and the keyboard is a decent layout for being a bit more compact and I can touch type quite well on it. Screen feels sharp despite being only 1200p due to the size; honestly, I have very few gripes. Would I like a nicer screen or more disk space? Sure, but for the money, I feel this hits all the right points.

FIrst of all, this laptop is eye-catching, light, and comfortable. But something keeps having issues. At first, the battery wouldn't charge. So I opened it up and unplugged the battery, and plugged it back in. Then the speaker made a "clicking" noise. I realized that while taking out the battery, I must have tugged on the wire. So I opened it up again and re-plugged the speaker wire. Problem solved. It was working well for a couple weeks. Then, the screen wouldn't turn on. I erased Windows and installed Linux. I had trouble with the screen turning sideways, but I figured that out. I even recompiled a custom Linux kernel to detect the accelerometer. I was proud of myself. Then, the screen wouln't turn on again. I was so disappointed. I'm about to give up on it. It sucks, because this is build so nicely and it's the exact form factor I wanted. Any smaller, and the keyboard is unusable. I want to use this so bad. The screen is beautiful and the backlit keyboard looks so nice. And it can fit just about anywhere. Oh, well...

First off, this is not a 17 inch gaming laptop. It isn't even a 13 inch Fortnite-capable laptop. I know that might seem obvious, but some buyers have purchased this device expecting far more than it is realistically capable of. On the other hand, if you want a tiny machine that can handle web browsing, video and audio playback, and some light gaming (think older versions of Civilization, Stardew Valley, or at most some recent indies like Dredge), you have come to the right place. The billboard feature of this portable is size, the usability of a convertible laptop in a profile usually reserved for tablet/keyboard combos. In my case I wanted something even more portable (and inexpensive) than my Macbook to take into network maintenance/troubleshooting situations giving me all of the familiar windows/linux network tools in half of the physical space. Now if I have to travel to a site to fix a switch I can have a full featured laptop and all necessary interface cables and accessories in a tiny bag designed to hold an iPad mini and a charging brick (and bonus, if I have to stay overnight at a remote location I can use the same device for games/movies later in the day. Performance is good for the N100 chipset, mostly aided by the not-so-stingy 12GB of RAM included (where most manufacturers would have settled for 4-8GB). Build quality is surprisingly good for the price, I don't feel like I have to baby the machine to keep it from breaking, and there are none of the usual creaks and rough edges common in budget hardware. I am aware of the 50hz limitation on the screen as it ships, as well as some of the software tweaks that can work around this issue in some cases. Honestly, it hasn't been a problem for me yet, but maybe my old eyes are just more tolerant, I will update my review if it becomes noticeable in any applications. Overall, a good machine at a good price for specific use cases. As someone who was burned by the false promises of the netbook craze, it is nice to finally have a useful machine in a sub-sub-notebook profile.