What on earth are you on about?...'With your kids around????? To save few quids?' what the hell does that mean?

And if you had read my reply properly you would see that my 'That's the risk you run' statement was about buying from a Chinese Website...good price but less customer service and ease of return...and NOT about Chuwi (or any other manufacturer) being good or bad

You are clearly an idiot!

Not a bad price.

Anyone know what the custom charges are like once imported in?

Looks good bit of kit, only reservation would be to order from china, anyone know of something similar from the uk, could also do with slightly bigger screen size?

Voted hot as comes with 4gb ram plus keyboard. Full HD screen. Add customs as well to the price. Android version is old.

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1. If you were stung by customs what would you roughly pay?
2. What sort of guarantee will you get if paid by PayPal / Credit card?
Thanks

I've just ordered one! So will see when it arrives, but sounds good for the money. Thanks for posting.

Reviews say the wifi is terrible

I ordered the Chuwi Hi12 a while back for my daughter and she loves it. I was only able to try it for a few days before she went to uni but was impressed. The customs declaration on the invoice outside of the package was for something very low and do no additional duty pay - maybe I was lucky.

Anyway she has just asked me to order the keyboard, so must be happy with it.

Hope this helps someone who is undecided. My daughter actually wanted the surface tablet but it was a little expensive. Not as good obviously, with just an atom processor, but still a very capable tablet and dual boot is a bonus.

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Handling fee (say £10 - £15) plus VAT (say £27) plus undefined customs fee.
https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty

Maybe it makes more sense to buy a second hand laptop from a well known manufacturer than to spend money on such rubbish - "Chuwi" lol

@big_sausage

Understand where you're coming from, however if you actually try one as I have, it is a well built mini-laptop and is better than 1080p resolution screen. On a 15inch screen laptop, try finding that for less than £400 ! A 2nd hand badged equivalent would be more expensive and less specced

At the moment, it's between this, the Ezbook 2 and a Cube i7 or i9. Pretty hard to find anything with these combinations of specs. HD screen/4gb ram/14" or less/decent cpu and a decent battery. If the price came down a bit the Xiaomi Air laptops would be really tempting, too.

Plus the carrier's handling fee of £10 - £15.

The terms and conditions of Gearbest orders don't exactly inspire confidence,

£182 now

Think this deal is hot and seems a good spec. Gets mainly good reviews on Amazon.

What's the option for delivery to try to not pay any extra to HMRC?
1. Unregistered Air Mail
2. Registered Air Mail
3. Priority Line

All are free postage

ALL ARE FREE

Tempted, been looking at a 2nd hand surface 3, would this compare to the surface in terms of performance?

CHUWI???? Thanks but no thanks...... I would rather stick with a native known name just for peace of mind if nothing else....The CE mark for most of these tatty imports are a farce and nothing more than a photoshop job.

That's dirt cheap for the specs... Really tempted

Was gonna get myself the pavilion x12 but that's about £450

How long is the code active for?

@nomemes

I remember the reaction I got 15 years ago when I recommended buying Samsung shares to a Sony laptop fanboy.

chuwi stuff is well made. however I'd still be wary of buying stuff direct from China. I used to but alot of stuff from dealextreme and gearbest and most of it has either packed up or in one case exploded

Yes thats the risk you run ...I have never actually used Gearbest but have used Aliexpress and Bangood many times...bought my Hikvision (another 'unknown' make to most people but VERY well regarded by those in the know) CCTV POI system from Aliexpress a couple of years ago for a fraction of the UK price and its been excellent.

but I agree if you value warranty support and ease of returns etc above all else best to to buy local.

Hi all, anybody advise what the Windows performance will be like on this? Need to do Office type docs on it - Word, Excel etc. and google docs also a bit of browsing. Thanks a lot

LMAO at Overwatch screen shot...

:stuck_out_tongue:

I have the none pro model, just beware that the Android partition is only around 10gig.

Fills up very quickly, as the ROM won't allow apps to be moved to a memory card.

All the prices for the above options are Free and item added to cart.

Anyway - decided on Unregistered Air Mail

Coupon has expired - says its reached its limit!

A pretty good price, I was very tempted to get this. But reading many of the comments are worrying, ordering from China and having hidden costs on top of the £136 are very off-putting.

Personally I would get this one from your local Argos as Quidco are doing 10% cashback for fast track orders and any issues pop it back to Argos.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5496774

I got one for a mate and the build quality is good and the surface like kick stand works well. If I hadn't just got a refurbished i5 4300y powered Venue 11 pro from MCS I would have been tempted myself.

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That's some seriously thick tablet....



Keyboard unit isn't exactly thin or light either.

Not exactly iPad Air.....

Look at how slow and laggy it is though just in basic use eg. 3m54s:

https://youtu.be/R-ToLHV8nYU?t=3m54s

That would drive me nuts using something that slow and unresponsive.

That's not the same tablet I linked to :wink: The one at Argos is the new Atom X5 and also has 4GB ram like the one mentioned in this deal BUT unlike a lot around the £200 UK retailer price point of Windows 10 tablets that only have 2GB ram and like I say any issues pop it back to Argos :man:

Fwiw I used a previous generation Atom Venue 11 pro hooked up to a full HD monitor, keyboard etc and it managed all basic computing tasks, light web development etc fine and these new X5s are meant to be a decent improvement again and the one I got and set up for my mate felt like it was.

What on earth are you on about?...'With your kids around????? To save few quids?' what the hell does that mean?

And if you had read my reply properly you would see that my 'That's the risk you run' statement was about buying from a Chinese Website...good price but less customer service and ease of return...and NOT about Chuwi (or any other manufacturer) being good or bad

You are clearly an idiot!

I travelled a year in Brazil with a similar laptop, All i can say was that it was a life saver, the best gadget I had, beats the ipad hands down

Mine arrived today, really impressed with the quality of it. From what Ive used it for so far it will do the job :-)
No duties to pay either :-)