Love or hate them, video calls are a thing, andthislaptop iswell prepared– A built-in 2.0MP front-facing camera, along with integrated dual mics and speakers, mean you’ve got everything you need to face them head-on. Making this the perfect companion for Teams and Zoom Calls. CODA 1.2 is equipped with 802.11ac Wi-Fi, offering a more reliable wireless connection, with less chance of interference from other devices, so you stay connected when it counts. Itincludes 64GB of fast eMMC storage and has a MicroSD card slot so you can add and swap extra storage as required (supports cards up to 64GB). In our previous cheap system analysis, we used Counter Strike: Source with a timedemo benchmark. With such low-end graphics, even now with the 6W CPU that technically supports DirectX 12.1, gaming is going to be limited. Popular titles like Counter Strike, despite the longer loading times, are the sort of titles that are going to be the focus on gaming.

Itgoes the extra step with its efficient, slim design by including a full-width keyboard that runs from edge to edge, making the most of its 12.5-inch profile for a comfortable typing experience, without wasting space on your desk. This review has been updated relating to its audio since it was first published due to an error. The Coda Spirit: A Cheap Chinese Atom I must say that for a small unknown Chinese-like Atom device, I didn’t expect such answers to my questions, let alone this level of detail. Having confirmation of some of the onboard controllers on the other systems was good, as well as knowing that the system I have uses single-channel memory whereas two of the others use dual channel. The Wi-Fi chip is Intel’s 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) 1x1 solution, the AC3165. The module is not upgradeable, but the antennas are well integrated into the system. CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64 offers two types of benchmarks, one for ‘peak’ that gives an idealized scenario, and one for ‘real’ world scenarios. Here is the data for pure sequential transfers; other data is in the images below. Coda Spirit Storage Sequential PerformanceThe E6500 we tested before used GMA4500 graphics, which are super old. This Celeron N3550 has HD 500 graphics, and is part of Intel’s Gen 9.5 family, so what we see here is a swing from a CPU limited test to a GPU limited test. Sort of. The N3350 is running in single-channel mode, which will hurt the performance quite a bit. So one thing we can test here is the storage, especially given that we have official numbers on the Foresee eMMC onboard, as well as numbers from Coda on the M.2 SATA port. There are four different storage elements to this system: Here is the LPDDR4 chip, showing the Spectek logo and the Micron logo. The datasheet for PS019-075BT gives the information.

Love or hate them, video calls are a thing, and CODA 1.2 is a laptop well prepared– A built-in 2.0MP front-facing camera, along with integrated dual mics and speakers, mean you’ve got everything you need to face them head-on. Making this the perfect companion for Teams and Zoom Calls. Here’s the main area of the laptop, with everything in a small PCB. The single metal heatsink is for practically every chip in the system, with zero fan for this design.Underneath we have the CPU front and center, with everything onboard. To the left is the Spectek LPDDR4 DRAM, which is rebadged Micron memory, and on the far left is an EtronTech EJ889 which is a USB 3.0 controller. Between the Spectek and the EtronTek is a Realtek ALC269 audio codec. On the right is some Foresee eMMC, with the WiFi chip underneath.