Chuwi is one of the most productive laptop vendors in China outside the big brands. Global pandemic has now seen appetite for new releases a little weak because the lack of global components makes it difficult for smaller players to compete with greater rivals and non-technology (such as Walmart). Apart from all this, Chuwi released several new laptops, especially GeRibook Pro, which was an upgrade from Gemibook which we reviewed in 2020.
Price and availability
GeRibook Pro is being sold from the official Chuwi or Amazon store for $ 429 with free shipping. Note that the price does not include sales tax or fees that can be collected by local authorities or courier companies.
Design
Gemiboook Pro shares the same design as other brothers with some small differences. The colored aluminum alloy chassis means that, although relatively smaller, 310 x 230 x 21mm, weighs 1.42kg it is rather decent. Convincing solid and hot dissipators too.
As discussed in other Chuwi laptop reviews with aspect ratio 3: 2, this format provides more vertical space, allows “higher”, a faster design. Because it was not surprising that the touchpad on the Gemibook Pro was the biggest one we saw and that the keyboard was less narrow than most of the rivals.
There is only one full size USB 3.0 port and type-c connector. Elsewhere is a special barrel power connector, a microSD card reader and audio jack: no HDMI or Ethernet LAN I / O which is a disappointment.
Hardware
Chuwi is stuck with the same memory and storage configuration for Gemiboook Pro (12GB LPDDR4X in dual channel mode) and kit pieces M.2 2280, NETAC G535N SATA SSD 256GB. You can add a second SATA drive too; Too bad that it’s not a NVME model. Ditto for battery capacity (38Wh) and 24W power supply unit (12V, 2A)
What changes are the processor (J4125 vs J4115), Wi-Fi card (Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 vs.Tel Wireless AC7265 Wi-Fi 5) and screen size (14 vs 13.3 inches).
Used and performance
There was no real surprise here, J4125 was carried out as expected without obstacles. This is clearly a superior processor to J4115 as evidenced by the benchmark rate. Geekbench numbers for example show a difference of up to 17% in a single core test and 32% defeat on multi-core.