MicroXperts U400-06. Aluminum Ultrabook Review
There is a widespread belief that an aluminum laptop is an expensive and status thing. By no means. This is a practical and convenient workhorse. MicroXperts U400-06 is made of aluminum, similar to the MacBook, but it costs much less on Windows. The seed is quite decent. Untwist, see, evaluate? Under the cut, the prepared ultrabook of the Russian assembly of Chinese components. 
Let's start with the clothes, as usual. The similarity with the device from Apple can be traced, but still it is not a complete clone. The platform is somewhat thicker, the location of the ports is different, and the logo on the lid does not glow. The producer of barebone is the Chinese company Topstar. The model is called TU131. All four surfaces are made of aluminum. On the top cover, a renewed MicroXperts logo is engraved with a laser. The screen is glossy with a resolution of 1366 * 768. The matrix is ​​made on technology TN. No miracles are expected from her. The usual budget matrix for a laptop production Chimei
On the front side there is nothing but a ledge for easy opening of the lid. On the right are: SD / MMC, HDMI, USB 3.0 card reader, LAN.
Left: power connector, USB 2.0, audio jack and a hole for pressing the Reset button.
The bottom panel is fastened with 12 screws and has a perforation in the area of ​​the RAM slots. For the upgrade, you can torment one time, and still not crawling inside the laptop every day.
The power supply is small, of course, Chinese, while working is not heated. The plug is not angular, this is clearly not the most convenient solution, it’s time to take it as standard (insist on MagSafe 2 for all laptops, I will not).
Keyboard of 83 keys - island type. Cursor keys are small, the buttons are up and down half-sized, but there is no inconvenience when working.
The power button is located where everyone is used to pressing Delete.
The package is small, but sufficient - power supply, manual, driver disk.
The logo on the cover is visible well. Engraving is unobtrusive, but at the same time recognizable.
')
From the keyboard moments that are inconvenient for me personally: low Enter, often a message with a slash at the end flies to Skype =)
The touchpad is large, with support for gestures, but with a nuance. The upper corners of the touchpad go a little more than we would like, and when pressed, a distinct audible click is heard.
An interesting detail is the Reset button. Infrequently occurs, but it is simply necessary for devices with a non-removable battery.
The cover of the Ethernet connector is made in such a way that in the closed state it does not violate the aesthetic feelings of the owner, and with the inserted LAN cable, does it really matter what the nest looks like?
Interior-dismemberment. Half takes a battery, the other half - electronics.
The upper right corner is reserved for storage systems. A SATA drive with a thickness of no more than 7 mm and an mSATA drive are installed here. In our case - SSD drive Corsair Neutron 256 Gb.
The upper left corner is an Intel Core i5-3317U processor, one RAM slot, which is occupied by an 8 GB bar.
45 W * h battery with an operating voltage of 7.4V. On the duration of work from one charge talk in the "Testing"
Here you can install an mSATA SSD drive and make a storage system of two drives - a quick mSATA for the system and a SATA HDD for data storage.
The previously announced section "Testing".
Processor characteristics: more than once encountered in the Intel Core i5-3317U ultrabook with a frequency of 1.7 GHz, two cores and 3 MB of cache.
The motherboard is pretending to be the original Intel.
The memory operates in single-channel mode at a frequency of 1333 MHz with timings 9-9-9-24-1
Graphics subsystem: Intel GT2, also known as Intel HD Graphics 4000, the fastest controller for Intel Ivy Bridge processors.
Corsair Neutron SSD supports SATA 6 Gbps
The “blue” test - the speed of working with memory is not fantastic, in which I can say that one channel does not steer, but there is only one memory slot.
Windows 7 rightly considers the weakest point of the system graphics.
Trying to test the freshest 3D Mark Ultrabook MicroXperts it became clear that this is true. Well, what to do, until now, integrated graphics have not learned to conquer the hearts of gamers, although it is quite comfortable to play Starcraft or Diablo.
PC Mark 7 comprehensive test says that the performance of the ultrabook is at a decent level of their classmates.
A battery test shows a result of 2 hours 51 minutes. This is approximately 6 hours in office mode and low screen brightness. Not a bad option, of course, a recharge will be needed on a trip, but in Sapsan you can work in peace and, on arrival at your destination, don’t worry about the latest percentages.
Another positive point: high-quality cooling system. The maximum temperature was only 68 degrees. Here the "fault" and the aluminum case, and a good, but noisy fan.
The final manifesto. No, this is not a MacBook or Zenbook. But, according to my feelings, this is not Lenovo. Aluminum ultrabook is one of the key qualities, and for such a price no one offers this quality. Price in Yulmart of this model: 31,990 rubles . There is a simpler version with 4 gigs and a 128 GB SSD drive. It will cost 5,000 rubles cheaper. Three years warranty again on the road is not lying. In general, the option is quite decent. I will not lie that I would have bought myself with a 100% probability, but when choosing my eyes I would definitely have caught on this device.
Let's start with the clothes, as usual. The similarity with the device from Apple can be traced, but still it is not a complete clone. The platform is somewhat thicker, the location of the ports is different, and the logo on the lid does not glow. The producer of barebone is the Chinese company Topstar. The model is called TU131. All four surfaces are made of aluminum. On the top cover, a renewed MicroXperts logo is engraved with a laser. The screen is glossy with a resolution of 1366 * 768. The matrix is ​​made on technology TN. No miracles are expected from her. The usual budget matrix for a laptop production ChimeiOn the front side there is nothing but a ledge for easy opening of the lid. On the right are: SD / MMC, HDMI, USB 3.0 card reader, LAN.
Left: power connector, USB 2.0, audio jack and a hole for pressing the Reset button.
The bottom panel is fastened with 12 screws and has a perforation in the area of ​​the RAM slots. For the upgrade, you can torment one time, and still not crawling inside the laptop every day.
The power supply is small, of course, Chinese, while working is not heated. The plug is not angular, this is clearly not the most convenient solution, it’s time to take it as standard (insist on MagSafe 2 for all laptops, I will not).
Keyboard of 83 keys - island type. Cursor keys are small, the buttons are up and down half-sized, but there is no inconvenience when working.
The power button is located where everyone is used to pressing Delete.
The package is small, but sufficient - power supply, manual, driver disk.
The logo on the cover is visible well. Engraving is unobtrusive, but at the same time recognizable.
')
From the keyboard moments that are inconvenient for me personally: low Enter, often a message with a slash at the end flies to Skype =)
The touchpad is large, with support for gestures, but with a nuance. The upper corners of the touchpad go a little more than we would like, and when pressed, a distinct audible click is heard.
An interesting detail is the Reset button. Infrequently occurs, but it is simply necessary for devices with a non-removable battery.
The cover of the Ethernet connector is made in such a way that in the closed state it does not violate the aesthetic feelings of the owner, and with the inserted LAN cable, does it really matter what the nest looks like?
Interior-dismemberment. Half takes a battery, the other half - electronics.
The upper right corner is reserved for storage systems. A SATA drive with a thickness of no more than 7 mm and an mSATA drive are installed here. In our case - SSD drive Corsair Neutron 256 Gb.
The upper left corner is an Intel Core i5-3317U processor, one RAM slot, which is occupied by an 8 GB bar.
45 W * h battery with an operating voltage of 7.4V. On the duration of work from one charge talk in the "Testing"
Here you can install an mSATA SSD drive and make a storage system of two drives - a quick mSATA for the system and a SATA HDD for data storage.
The previously announced section "Testing".
Processor characteristics: more than once encountered in the Intel Core i5-3317U ultrabook with a frequency of 1.7 GHz, two cores and 3 MB of cache.
The motherboard is pretending to be the original Intel.
The memory operates in single-channel mode at a frequency of 1333 MHz with timings 9-9-9-24-1
Graphics subsystem: Intel GT2, also known as Intel HD Graphics 4000, the fastest controller for Intel Ivy Bridge processors.
Corsair Neutron SSD supports SATA 6 Gbps
The “blue” test - the speed of working with memory is not fantastic, in which I can say that one channel does not steer, but there is only one memory slot.
Windows 7 rightly considers the weakest point of the system graphics.
Trying to test the freshest 3D Mark Ultrabook MicroXperts it became clear that this is true. Well, what to do, until now, integrated graphics have not learned to conquer the hearts of gamers, although it is quite comfortable to play Starcraft or Diablo.
PC Mark 7 comprehensive test says that the performance of the ultrabook is at a decent level of their classmates.
A battery test shows a result of 2 hours 51 minutes. This is approximately 6 hours in office mode and low screen brightness. Not a bad option, of course, a recharge will be needed on a trip, but in Sapsan you can work in peace and, on arrival at your destination, don’t worry about the latest percentages.
Another positive point: high-quality cooling system. The maximum temperature was only 68 degrees. Here the "fault" and the aluminum case, and a good, but noisy fan.
The final manifesto. No, this is not a MacBook or Zenbook. But, according to my feelings, this is not Lenovo. Aluminum ultrabook is one of the key qualities, and for such a price no one offers this quality. Price in Yulmart of this model: 31,990 rubles . There is a simpler version with 4 gigs and a 128 GB SSD drive. It will cost 5,000 rubles cheaper. Three years warranty again on the road is not lying. In general, the option is quite decent. I will not lie that I would have bought myself with a 100% probability, but when choosing my eyes I would definitely have caught on this device.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/199220/
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