Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?
A review of the $450 Chuwi UniBook laptop concludes that the device is underpowered and fails to compete with more established budget options like the MacBook Neo. The author highlights poor performance in benchmarks and hardware quality.
Why it matters
This review serves as a warning to consumers about the trade-offs involved in purchasing ultra-low-cost hardware from lesser-known brands.
Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That’s what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn’t touch it. Even though it’s gone up to $699, it’s still the laptop to beat.
So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi announced a $450 Windows laptop with an aluminum build and a brand-new Intel Wildcat Lake processor, it sounded too good to be true.
It is.
[Product: Chuwi UniBook | https://us.chuwi.com/products/unibook-laptop-intel-core-3-304-series-3-wildcat-lake]
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