mini laptop Archives

Chuwi MiniBook 8 inch laptop now available for $430 (retail price)

10/14/2019 at 3:20 PM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

The Chuwi MiniBook is a tiny laptop with an 8 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge, and Windows 10 software. It’s also one of the most affordable mini-laptops around — it went up for pre-order for about $430 and up during an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, and now it’s available from Banggood for […]

One Mix 3 Pro mini laptop with Intel Comet Lake hits China for $979

10/07/2019 at 11:25 AM by Brad Linder 13 Comments

The One Mix 3 Pro is the first laptop with a screen smaller than 9 inches to feature a 10th-gen Intel Core processor. One Netbook announced the specs for this tiny laptop last week. And now it’s available for purchase in China from JD.com. A model sporting an Intel Core i5-10210Y Comet Lake processor, 16GB […]

One Mix 3 Pro is the first mini-laptop with a 10th-gen Intel “Comet Lake” processor

09/30/2019 at 8:54 AM by Brad Linder 25 Comments

The upcoming One Mix 3 Pro is a convertible laptop with an 8.4 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge, a backlit keyboard, and support for a pressure-sensitive pen. It’s also the first computer of its size to sport a 10th-gen Intel Core “Comet Lake” processor. The One Mix 3 Pro features an Intel Core i5-10210Y […]

MAG1 mini-laptop with 8.9 inch display up for pre-order for $630

09/29/2019 at 7:06 PM by Brad Linder 10 Comments

The MAG1 is a tiny laptop computer with an 8.9 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel touchscreen display, a backlit keyboard, and an Intel Core m3-8100Y processor. First launched in China a few weeks ago, the laptop is now up for pre-order worldwide from GeekBuying, which is selling the MAG1 for $630 and up. There are […]

MAG1 8.9 inch mini-laptop launches in China for $590 and up

09/12/2019 at 11:00 AM by Brad Linder 19 Comments

It looks like there’s another player in the mini-laptop space. A new model called the MAG1 is up for pre-order from Chinese retail site JD for about $590 and up. It features an 8.9 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel IPS touchscreen display, a backlit keyboard, and a small touchpad below the space bar. Overall, the […]

Peakago promises to deliver a 7 inch convertible laptop for $300

09/11/2019 at 12:30 PM by Brad Linder 18 Comments

First there was the GPD Pocket. Then came the One Mix Yoga. And then the floodgates seemed to open, with companies including Topjoy and Chuwi entering the emerging mini laptop space. Now a new model called the Peakago promises to be one of the most affordable models to date. It’s said to be a tiny […]

One Mix 1S Yoga mini-laptop giveaway

08/23/2019 at 5:00 PM by Brad Linder

The One Mix 1S Yoga is a tiny laptop with a 7 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge that lets you fold the screen back for use in tablet mode, and support for an optional pressure-sensitive pen so you can write or draw on the screen. It’s the new entry-level model from One Netbook, which […]

One Netbook is developing a mini laptop with a 10th-gen Intel Core chip

08/09/2019 at 9:30 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

The next device from Chinese mini-laptop maker One Netbook may be a tiny computer powered by a 10th-gen Intel Core processor. While there aren’t many other details yet, it’s likely to be convertible tablet-style computer with a touchscreen display and a 360-degree hinge, much like the company’s earlier products. And it’ll may be called the […]

GPD P2 Max mini-laptop set to start shipping next week

08/06/2019 at 11:30 AM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

GPD’s crowdfunding campaign for a tiny laptop with an 8.9 inch display hasn’t even ended yet, but the company says it plans to begin shipping the GPD P2 Max to backers starting sometime around August 12th. The company has already begun a trial production with a batch of about 200 units. If all goes well, […]

Chuwi MiniBook 8 inch mini-laptop preview

07/30/2019 at 12:30 PM by Brad Linder 13 Comments

The Chuwi MiniBook is a convertible mini-laptop with an 8 inch touchscreen display and a 360 degree hinge, a backlit keyboard, and a fingerprint sensor. It’s the first mini-laptop from Chuwi, a Chinese company that’s been selling cheap tablets, notebooks, and compact desktop computers for a few years. The folks at Chuwi sent me a […]

ThinkTiny mini laptop sports a 1 inch display + pointing nub (DIY project)

07/29/2019 at 10:16 AM by Brad Linder 6 Comments

These days you can find tiny laptop computers with screens as small as 7 inches. But Paul Klinger wanted something smaller… a lot smaller. So he built his own. The ThinkTiny is a miniature laptop computer with a 0.96 inch display and a design that’s heavily inspired by Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad style. There’s even a TrackPoint-like pointing […]

One Mix 3 Yoga mini laptop almost had LTE support (and future versions might)

07/25/2019 at 12:28 PM by Brad Linder 14 Comments

When One Netbook first announced plans for an 8.4 inch mini laptop in April, the company promised that the One Mix 3 Yoga would have optional support for a 4G LTE module. But by the time the mini laptop started shipping, that feature was gone… mostly. The One Mix 3 Yoga I reviewed in June doesn’t […]

One Mix 1S Yoga mini laptop Linux test

07/22/2019 at 6:52 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

The One Mix 1S Yoga mini laptop ships with Windows 10… but like most modern PCs you can also a different operating system on it. And like most mini laptops I’ve tried in recent years, the out-of-the-box experience is likely to be imperfect. I took a loaded up a few different GNU/Linux distributions onto USB […]

One Mix 1S mini laptop review (7 inch convertible with Celeron 3965Y)

07/16/2019 at 4:45 PM by Brad Linder 14 Comments

It’s been just over a year since One Netbook released their first compact computer, a 7 inch mini-laptop called the One Mix Yoga. Since then the company has released several other models including some with beefier specs and/or bigger screens and keyboards. Now One Netbook is going back to basics with the One Mix Yoga 1S. It’s […]