8 Inch Mini Laptop HD Touchscreen Portable Small Computer, Windows 11 Pro Laptop for Business and Students,Intel N100 12GB LPDDR5 512GB M.2 SSD,Wi-Fi 6,BT5.2,2MP Camera,G-Sensor,HDMI,Type C

I upgraded to this from an aging GPD Pocket 1. These are generic Chinese OEM devices and mine was branded K(infinity symbol) Tigers or however you're supposed to pronounce it. It's definitely larger and heavier than my old GPD, but I can still stuff it in my back jeans pocket if I wanted to.InputThe keyboard is touch-typeable and backlit with an expected layout for this size. The 7 key stuck for a bit, but eventually unstuck. The optical touchpad is usable though I prefer pointing sticks. It has a 3.5mm headphone/mic combo jack (listed as a DC jack for some dumb reason). Even came with a pen that takes a AAAA battery, which works well.DisplayMy GPD was full HD, but I can barely notice the lower 1280x800 display on a screen this size. Viewing angles are great. It swivels like one of my old HP laptop from '09, which is a nice throwback. The webcam is 720p, but the framerate won't go past 8 fps, so it's more of a nice-to-have.PerformanceThe N100/12 GB RAM/512 GB SSD is a very strong combo at this price point in a device this size. The SSD uses a SATA3 interface, though, so no insane NVMe speeds. It's not a slouch as I'm still getting ~400 MB/s writes. YouTube loads smoothly unlike my GPD which was starting to choke pretty badly.UsabilityGetting about 5h battery at mid-brightness and medium usage, which is very acceptable. One big difference in powering this compared to my GPD is that it only accepts 15V/20V PD charging. I had a smaller battery that could support 12V PD charging, but does not work on this device. I do have a laptop battery that supports 15/20, but it is much larger.Overall, the amount of stuff and features you get with this little device for only ~$400 is pretty insane compared to the much more pricey ultra portable laptops currently on the market. I do wish I could charge it with 5/9/12V PD, but this is pretty nitpicky.Recommended software:Momentum Pointer - Makes touchpad act like a trackball so you can flick the cursor aroundDragToScroll - Lets you hold the right mouse button and scroll with the touchpadNeatMouse - Lets you remap the Menu key next to the right mouse button to be used as a middle mouse clickSharpKeys - Lets you remap other keys. I remapped the Del key to be a second Backspace key and the less-used right Ctrl key to be the Del key. Because NOBODY likes tiny Backspace keys.

Got this machine as part of my "work from anywhere" kit, and I'm positively impressed by it. As points of comparison, my main work laptop is a company-supplied 13.3" MacBook Air, and my personal machine is a 15.6" HP Pavilion Gaming.From a design perspective, it looks a bit like the Air, but the color is slightly darker than Apple's "Space Grey", and it's a lot thicker (which actually works to its advantage: full-size USB-A, 3.5mm audio, HDMI and Ethernet RJ-45 ports are all found here). It has a good-enough webcam, top-firing stereo speakers (tinny of course) and a pinhole microphone for hands-free conference calling. It's not a passively-cooled machine, even if it has an efficient Intel N100 CPU and aluminum casing, but the fan does not make objectionable noise (when it's turned on).The display is a 1280x800 IPS screen with great colours and good contrast, rivaling my MacBook Air's screen. It is rotatable into tablet mode (the hinge makes a convenient point for holding the machine in that state) and supports both multi-touch and pen input (with the supplied active stylus). The resolution is enough for running Microsoft Office and most Internet websites in desktop mode.Delivery scope includes an active stylus pen (with AAAA battery), a 30-watt PD/PPS-capable charger and USB-C to C cable (more on that later).Windows 11 Pro comes pre-installed and pre-activated (OEM license). Some people have complained the OOBE (initial configuration) is skipped and the machine comes with an user already created; my computer went through the OOBE process normally. The serial number for Windows is printed in a sticker on the bottom of the unit; make sure you have this written somewhere else in case the sticker fades or gets lost.The keyboard has all the keys found in standard US ANSI-layout keyboards, but -- due to the limited space -- most symbols and some function keys have been relocated, and the first row (Q, W, E...) is a bit shifted to the left. You'll get used to it -- it'll take a bit of time though.The pointing device is an optical trackpad reminiscent of the BlackBerry Curve 8500 series (remember those?). It can be tapped for clicking, it has two (left and right) buttons, but no middle button for scrolling (like in a ThinkPad). Precision is good, but sometimes it misses the taps.Now, to the technical nitty-gritty:The Intel N100 CPU a quad-core chip with four Efficiency cores (and no Performance cores) and a 6-watt TDP; not a speed demon nor a nuisance. It's fast for office tasks and Internet browsing. PL2 comes configured at 25 watts for good turbo performance. GPU power comes courtesy of the N100's HD Graphics unit (see Intel's ARK website for details). That's enough for Windows, casual games and retro emulators, but not much else. It'll happily do QHD via HDMI for your multitasking pleasure, and DisplayPort output is also available through the USB-C socket.Wireless networking is provided by a Realtek 8852BE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) card, a dual-stream (2x2:2) MIMO-capable chipset good for 1,200 Mbps in the 5 GHz band. The 6 GHz band is not supported, and neither are 160 MHz-wide channels (only 80 MHz). Wired networking (Gigabit Ethernet) and analogue stereo audio are also managed by Realtek chips (RTL8168 / ALC269); they perform their jobs without making a fuss. Headphone output is loud enough and noise-free.Standard storage is a 512 GB SATA III SSD from chinese manufacturer EAGET. No NVMe, but no slouch either. The motherboard carries 12 GB of LPDDR5 running at 4,800 MHz. As with any LPDDR-based machine, RAM is soldered and not upgradeable.Charging is done via USB-C with Power Delivery, but there's a catch: this machine is picky about the supply voltage. It'll only accept 15 (at 2A) or 20 volts (at 1.5A), with no PPS, even though the supplied charger has support for it. Most laptops support at least 12V or 19V in addition to that. Heck, my MacBook Air will even take 5V and charge slowly while it's turned off! That's something the manufacturers could improve.All said and done, this machine is not just a novelty or niche product: it can be useful on the go as an ultra-mobile computer or, using an USB-C docking station, as a desktop replacement too. Great product, recommended!

Well, this is my updated review, one day AFTER writing a glowing review, this little computer will not recharge.So disappointing, but after reading a bunch of other negative reviews it turns out I'm far from the only one to have this problem.So now I have a very pricey paperweight and it worked perfectly for exactly 39 days.Old review before the computer stopped recharging:My husband works from home, he has worked from home for about twelve years now. But we have a two story residence now and he was having to run back upstairs over and over for work stuff.He got this laptop thinking it would be nice for trips, it is small enough to fit on the tray backs on a plane or a train, but surprisingly, he has been using it at home. He is using it at my desk downstairs (it only takes up a small corner of the space and he has it plugged in there now).It is super portable, about the size of a Kindle and only slightly heavier. The keyboard works just as well as a regular sized keyboard, though it isn't as nice as his pricey mechanical keyboard (he likes the clacking noises, I don't).This little computer plus a small sized mouspad and mouse are all he needs to keep from running back upstairs everytime he comes down for coffee or a snack. It even has a built in camera and he has conducted more than a few video calls with it, the picture quality isn't great, but it's good enough for a zoom call.All in all, this isn't a toy, it's a real computer and probably one of his best tech buys in the last few years. I can't recommend it enough.