There are few manufacturers that can boast a catalog of PCs as good in features/price as Chuwi, and the update of its best-selling notebook, the CoreBook X 2023, proves it again.

The Chinese integrator maintains the basic design of the previous version with an aluminum chassis, thin and light, with a thickness of 10 mm at the minimum point and a weight of 1.36 kg. your screen 14.1 inches diagonal, with fairly cut bezels, is the ideal size when looking for a balance between mobility and comfort of use for everyday battle. Its panel is IPS with native resolution 2160 x 1440 pixels3:2 aspect ratio and supports 100% of the sRGB color gamut.

The biggest innovation is its internal hardware. If Chuwi generally uses processors from previous generations to keep costs down, this time it has almost the best of Intel, if we leave aside the brand new Raptor Lake. The bet is on a Core i3-1215U It doesn’t break performance records, but it seems adequate for this type of basic laptop.

It is a low-power Alder Lake with a TDP of 15 watts, with 6 cores and 8 threads that can reach speeds of up to 4.4 GHz and Intel UHD graphics with 64 execution units and a working frequency of 1.1 GHz. CoreBook X 2023 too RAM upgrade to LPDDR5 in 8 and 16 Gbyte configurations. Internal storage is covered by a 512 GB PCIe SSD expandable to 1 TB.

Its keyboard is a complete and backlit chiclet, accompanied by a generously sized TouchPad. It includes an Intel AX201 wireless card that supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. It has a USB Type-C port, another USB 3.0, a combined audio jack, a microSD memory card reader and a PD2.0 charging port.

Its battery has a capacity of 46.2 Wh, which should last a lot of hours of autonomy, up to 8 according to the manufacturer. It comes pre-installed with Windows 11 Home and is already available from retailers such as Aliexpress. The version with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD is affordable 539 euros. (487 euros with introductory discount). House brands these cheap prices for a manufacturer that has redefined what “cheap” PCs are. This laptop is sure to be their most popular device and will surely sell at a good price than the previous models.