Several days ago, we have introduced that Chuwi has confirmed to release the new year flagship, Chuwi HI13, in fact, we have rumored this tablet pc before, Chuwi just leaked it will be 3000*2000 high-resolution screen tablet pc, but right now Chuwi has confirmed it called Chuwi HI13, earlier we thought it should be Chuwi HI14. Chuwi HI13 will have 13.5 inch 3000*2000 high-resolution screen which will show at CES 2017 from Jan 5 to Jan 8 according to Chuwi official. In terms of overall specs, which is more powerful, Chuwi Hi13 and Surface Book?
Related: Chuwei HI13 Design, Antutu, Geekbench, Features, Battery Review with Coupon
Design
Chuwi HI13 has some similarity to Surface book, they both have 13.5 inch 3000 x 2000 screen, 267 PPI, 3:2 aspect ratio, 1700:1 contrast ratio, 400 brightness, 10 point multi-touch, and 100% Color gamut (sRGB), as for their weight, we have no idea about Chuwi HI13, so we believe Chuwi HI13 will be as excellent as Surface Book.
Hardware
| Celeron N3450 | Atom x5-Z8300 | |
| Platform： | Apollo Lake | Cherry Trail |
| Launch Date: | Q3’16 | Q2’15 |
| Lithography: | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Microarchitecture: | Goldmont | Airmont |
| Cores: | 4 | 4 |
| Threads: | 4 | 4 |
| Turbo CPU Frequency: | 2.20 GHz | 1.84 GHz |
| Embedded GPU: | Intel HD Graphics 500 | Intel HD Graphics |
| Turbo GPU Frequency: | 700 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Execution Units: | 12 | 12 |
| Price: | $107 | $21 |
Chuwi Hi13 is powered by Intel Apollo Lake Celeron N3450 CPU and Gen9 Graphics 500 GPU, 4 GB DDR3L RAM + 64 GB eMMC ROM, but Surface book comes with 6th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 2GB GDDR5 memory, 8GB/16GB RAM, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB hard drive, therefore, in general, Surface Book is more powerful than Chuwi HI13, so the price of Surface book will also much higher than that of Chuwi HI13. But Celeron N3450 compared with Atom x5-Z8300 processor, Apollo Lake CPU performance is improved by 50% and GPU performance is improved by 70%, according to official Intel Data. Therefore, Chuwi HI13 is still better in its performance than those Cherry Trail Z8300 Tablet PCS.
Features
Chuwi HI13 runs the latest Windows 10 Home operating system, so does surface book, and Chuwi HI13 is 2in1 Tablet PC whose keyboard is detachable and supports stylus pen, so does Surface Book, Chuwi Hi13 supports 2.4Ghz/5Ghz Dual band Wi-Fi and USB Type-C Port, Of course, Surface Book can also support USB Type C 3.0. Therefore, Chuwi HI13 has the useful features as Surface Book do but Cheaper than Surface book.
Conclusion
Right now Chuwi has not leaked the price, battery and selling date about Chuwi HI13, but they will attend at CES 2017 to show this new year flagship, Chuwi HI13, what else features do you expect from Chuwi HI13? One of the best thing is to keep the price as lower as possible. Stay tuned.
Update: Chuwi Hi13 Coupon Code: GHi13 to enjoy it at $319.99.
