A few issues to begin with, but great value
I'd long needed to replace my 10-year-old Windows laptop, and long wanted a bigger Android tablet to read comics on. My Chuwi Hi10 Pro does both admirably, and for less than I'd expected to pay for just the laptop!
All the reviews I'd read told me not to expect to run games on this; I'm not much of a gamer, so wasn't bothered by this. I was pleasantly surprised to find it runs TellTale's Back to the Future 3D point-and-click adventure game fairly well. To get a decent frame rate, I run it at 720p (which is still sharp on a 10in screen) with most of the graphical quality settings turned down a fair way (which looks great to me as my most recent console is the original Wii).
I use a few different apps to read comics in Android; ComicRack, Marvel Unlimited, and ComicsPlus Library Edition. They all run fine on this and the sharp, bright, vivid screen makes them look great. This weekend, I read comics on here for the whole of a five-hour coach trip with WiFi turned off, and still had about 60% battery by the end.
I had a few issues to begin with, but I've been able to solve or work around most of them. The biggest is the weak WiFi signal. When I first got it, I could only get an intermittent WiFi connection, even in the same room as the router. I downloaded a WiFi spectrum analyser app for my phone, and saw there were two other WiFi networks on the same channel as mine. All my other devices must have better WiFi than my Chuwi, as they've always connected without issue. That said, I've moved my WiFi network to a channel with no interference, and now my Chuwi connects throughout the house on Windows and Android.
One which frustrated me for a while was the trackpad. It isn't what Microsoft considers a 'precision touchpad', so Windows 10 won't allow it to use touchpad gestures (like swiping down with 3 fingers to minimise a window). This is fine by me, as I've never liked those. However, the Chuwi keyboard tries to fake these gestures, and does a horrible job of it. For example whenever you move the mouse cursor downwards using even one finger on the trackpad, the keyboard fakes the keyboard shortcut to minimise a window. This means it minimises the window every time you move the cursor directly down, making the trackpad almost unusable in Windows. Thankfully, there's a free program called AutoHotKey which can be used to create custom keyboard shortcuts or disable existing ones. Someone on the TechTablets forum has created an AHK script to disable these keyboard shortcuts and therefore disable the Chuwi trackpad's horribly over-sensitive gestures. Search for 'Touchpad Setup as Mouse Can't Turn Gestures Off'.
This is purely a personal preference, but I hate glossy screens. I can't stand the glare/reflections, plus they pick up fingerprints too easily. For all my devices, I always get a matte/anti-glare screen protector. You can get some which are designed for Chuwi devices, but I found it much cheaper to buy one designed for a Yoga Tablet 2 10in, which is about the same size and shape as the Hi10 Pro, though it's camera and sensor are in different places. I had to trim the corners slightly with scissors, and I used a tool for punching holes in belts etc. to punch the necessary holes in the screen protector before I fitted it.
The only one I'm still suffering from is the menu where you choose to boot into Windows or Android. It has a white background and always comes on a full brightness; quite uncomfortable to look at. Also, the touch interface on this menu is not very responsive and takes a few pokes. Once you're in Windows or Android, you can set screen brightness as normal and the touch screen is fine.
Now I've fixed most of the issues I had, I'm very happy with my Hi10 Pro as an Android tablet and a Windows laptop. I would definitely recommend getting a big MicroSD card, or you're soon going to find yourself running out of space. It supports up to 128GB, so I got a 128GB Toshiba Exceria M302 card which has been working fine. I believe Android 5 doesn't support NTFS, so I formatted the card in Android. Both Windows and Android can read and write data on the card.
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