Review on CHUWI UBook Quad Cores Touchscreen Full Featured by Sameer Hilton

I bought a U Book to replace an outdated Microsoft Surface Pro 3 that can no longer serve as a secondary work computer that I use on a treadmill. I need to be running Outlook, Teams, Chrome, Evernote, and usually one or more Office applications (like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) to work. My Surface Pro 3 only has 4MB of memory, which isn't enough to host all the apps. So I had a memory issue, not a CPU or disk space issue. I wanted an inexpensive solution, that's why I liked the U Book. It had the memory allocation I was looking for (8MB), sufficient CPU power, and storage space. So I went for it and bought a bundle that included a keyboard and pen. Now let's get to the love and hate part of the review. The tablet itself is very good - it falls into the love category. The footrest is durable and adjustable. The screen is good. It has a good selection of ports (2 USB-A, 1 USB-C with limited use, a micro-HDMI and a headphone jack). Ports are a little awkwardly placed, but again, it's hard to find good port placement in a tablet form factor. In terms of meeting the requirements to run my applications, this worked flawlessly. CPU consumption is higher than my Surface Pro 3, but then again, the Intel Celeron isn't quite the best Intel processor. I was fully aware of this when I bought it. The keyboard (with built-in touchpad) falls into the hate category. I don't mean random hate either - I mean full blown hate thrown out the window. I found the touchpad completely unusable. The keyboard lost connection while I was typing and as a result the characters on the right and left were cut off. DO NOT RECEIVE (OR USE) THE KEYBOARD. I ended up using a Bluetooth keyboard and an extra mouse lying around the office and I'm pretty happy with the result. I received the pen in the box but have no opinion on it (other than that it uses hard-to-reach places). look for Quadruple Type A (AAAA) batteries). I haven't tried using it for drawing. I used it as a stylus and it worked. So what's the point? I see this as incredible value. This solution costs less than $400, while everything else I've looked at costs over $800. Just don't expect to get more than what you pay for, and you need to know what you're going to be using this device for before you buy it. It's not a gaming system or a high-end media management platform. However, it's a great solution for medium business applications or casual web browsing.