Review on 💻 iProda 2 in 1 Laptop: Windows 10 Pro Touchscreen Convertible, Ultra Thin & Light with Metal Shell - 11.6" 1080P Laptop for Students & Businesses by Marc Alvarez

Ok here is some information for you about this laptop. I've checked a few things about this. First there were other operating systems. Windows 11 is not installed, so this laptop is not compatible with the new standards from Microsoft. I don't know if iProda will update the BIOS to add the required support, but it's currently not possible to update to Windows 11. I then tried Xubuntu which installed fine except the wifi didn't work. had to change some settings in the configuration to make it work, the touchscreen worked fine. So I erased the eMMC drive and reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows 10 21H1 on 2242 SATA M.2. Only 2 drivers were not recognized by Windows. Intel control interface and Goodix Touch driver. I managed to download and install the Intel driver manually, but it was quite difficult to find drivers for the touchscreen. Tried various (GoodixTouchDriver.inf) files from HP, Lenovo, Acer. etc. and none of them worked properly, I was able to install them but the touch was far away. Finally, I emailed iProda tech support and asked them to provide me with drivers. I emailed EVERYONE on the iProda contact page because I wasn't sure who could help. It took me about a day to get an answer (time zone difference I guess) but eventually I got an answer from Rita and Monica. They sent me a link to the OS image with Baidu's URL first, but I couldn't sign up for an account to get it AND it was in CHINESE! They then emailed me an attachment along with the driver and installation tutorial video. No video is needed to be honest, but I had to do a manual install for reference. After that everything worked fine. The total time it took me to get the drivers I needed was about 3 days. Not a big deal, but they should be available as a download for those looking to upgrade to a faster, higher-capacity M.2 SSD. Obviously iProda has some bugs to fix when it comes to technical issues like this, but on a laptop. After everything became kosher, I continued testing. The next test was CPU Thermals. To do this, I loaded the CPU into Cinebench and recorded the ups and downs with HWMonitor. To my surprise, the highest temperature I measured during the stress was 87 degrees. It's actually quite acceptable considering I've tested other systems with the same processor and seen readings over 100c+ keeping this laptop pretty cool, and then had CrystalDiskMark to record the read/write speeds. On a standard eMMC drive, it scored a 283 read and 149 write. With the updated Dogfish SATA M.2 I have better 512 reads/491 writes. The next test was video playback. This is where my mind was blown. When using a 4k YouTube video, "nerd stats" showed ZERO frame drops, playback was perfect, my jaw dropped. I haven't tested any games on it as it's an N4100 processor so it's not designed for gaming at all except maybe some cheaper stuff and some emulation. The laptop doesn't offer much expansion on the sides and I've tried several adapters that have worked well. The only thing to note is that if you're using a USB-C adapter, you won't be able to add more to charge the device. since it uses a USB-C port for charging. Instead, I used an adapter for a microUSB port. I have used SMAYS Powered HUB, OTG Micro USB Ethernet Network Adapter for Raspberry Pi Zero, Google Nexus Player, Windows Android Tablet which has expanded me to 3 USB 3.0 ports and even a network adapter that worked very well. I connected my mouse and keyboard (KVM) to 2 ports and to the 3rd I connected an external Zilynhom DVD drive which also had a hub so from a microUSB port and a couple of adapters I now had one Keyboard, mouse, DVD burner device, 2 extra USB-A ports and a card reader while still being able to charge and output to my capture/HDMI card. So that was pretty decent expandability for this tiny machine. This could be a great travel laptop/tablet as it is so small yet functional. I liked that the case itself is all metal and difficult to bend, although it picks up fingerprints fairly easily, so I'll add an all-purpose vinyl sleeve later so I don't have to deal with a case that gets dirty easily. . Overall I think it's a good little block after an SSD upgrade and a fresh OS install. It takes a bit of research to find some I/O expansion adapters, but it works pretty well. I'm going 5 stars on this one.