Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?
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 They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips.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.
Verge Score
The Good
- It’s $450
- Tons of ports for a small laptop (though none are very fast)
- Good battery life
The Bad
- A bad screen and absolutely awful trackpad, speakers, and webcam
- Metal chassis feels cheap, with lots of flex
- Lackluster performance from the Intel chip and limited RAM
- Concerns over long-term customer support
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