Review of the laptop Thunderobot ST Pro.
Foreword
I have long wanted a laptop with enough power for modern games, with a margin of several years. Only one thing stopped - the price. I consider the solutions with i7-7700 and gtx 1060 on board to be the golden mean. The price of laptops in Russia did not suit me. I came across articles about the Chinese brand Thunderobot, thought for a long time, read reviews about devices, compared them with laptops in Russia. As a result, I came to the conclusion that for the filling it is asked very cheaply and should be taken. Just got a "share" to take it for 69 tr on Aliexpress at TMOLL.
Price:at the time of purchase 69 tr. on the "action" on the birthday of Aliexpress. In other stocks, the price of this laptop was also reduced to acceptable. In 2017 it could have been taken for 63 tr, but time is running, the dollar rate is growing. Outside of the shares, they are asked for a completely unscrupulous price and it’s better to wait for discounts.
Appearance and quality: at the initial examination, the laptop is not full of bright inserts, acid colors, red buttons as in other gaming brands. Weathered design, strict lines, calm colors! Do not be ashamed to take for work. Under the mask of the "gray cardinal" hid all the power of the laptop. Material - plastic and aluminum alloy. Nothing creaks, not backlash. The lid opens with one finger. The key travel is informative, sufficient, soft, without clangs, crunches and other nasty sounds. One minus is a short Shift on the left and a duplicate "slash" button adjacent to it, which is quite unusual (this feature is only in the Russian version of the laptop, in the Chinese usual shift). The second minus is that when you press the lid bends, sometimes it becomes scary to crush the screen. I specially pressed the truth to make sure of reliability - the screen does not react in any way.
Filling:on board a balanced system of i7-7700hq, gtx 1060 6gb, 16 gb RAM, 512 gb SSD. For games in FHD resolution, this bundle justifies the price / quality task, FPS is always on the level! All this disgrace is blown by a very competent system of three fans - 1 fan with 2 heat pipes to the processor in the air blowing through the port side. 2 fans with 3 heat pipes stand on the video card with air blowing behind the laptop. In addition to all this, it is possible to forcibly turn on the turbo-blowing mode, in demanding tasks it’s the most (Fn + 1 is turned on (a digit, not F1)).
Screen:the budget screen is the same as everywhere else for this price category, but there are no problems with it, the viewing angles are average, the colors are saturated, there is enough brightness.
Sound:that's where the Chinese saved it so much on sound. If you do not use the built-in utility Sound Blaster, then it would be better not to listen to the speakers from the laptop at all. Squeaky, without low frequencies, the sound is like a bad toy. But! Using the aforementioned utility you can achieve a very decent sound. It's over minus I would put.
Autonomy:I honestly admit, I did not test for autonomy, the car is powerful, the socket is always needed here. But - there is a great thing in a laptop - it's switching from a discrete card to a hybrid (like Nvidia Optimus), it’s clogged at the BIOS level. In the description of the laptop, I did not find this function on sites anywhere. Therefore, all the same, energy savings can be significant if you need autonomy and not power. When switching to a hybrid, the system itself determines which card to use - built-in to the HD630 processor or discrete. In practice, when the hybrid control is turned on, the laptop fans are barely audible or not audible at all, with only a discrete one - they almost always work at moderate speeds in the absence of a significant load on the card. By the way, the laptop has an impressive power supply - you need to feed!
OSThe default is Windows 10. The system is not very cluttered with third-party software and advertising, basically everything is just necessary. I had a few days surfing on it, brought the look on Win7, customized it for myself. But I’m a conservative in terms of OSes, so I’ve found a way to put Windows 7 x64 ultimate on the laptop, although support isn’t announced. There will be a separate post with all the details, tambourines, shamanism and process.
Identified problems:When working in Windows 10, there are sometimes friezes when opening / closing application windows, for a moment everything freezes, then sags by itself. Subtracted where that dares updating of drivers of the laptop. I set Wibdows 7 x64, there are no brakes.
The second problem is that while WiFi is running, the laptop mutes neighboring devices. This issue is described in reviews and on another forum (ixbt). I personally did not observe this - N mode is enabled on the router, the laptop itself is powered via WiFi, a desktop computer (yes, I had nothing to do), Philips Android TV (online video), two smartphones (surfing), a tablet and Ip- camera. And all this at the same time! And I did not find any brakes anywhere. The tariff is 100 Mbit / s (in fact, about 70-80 Mbit / s).
Warranty:There is support for the device for 1 year in the Russian Federation, there is a warehouse representative in our country.
My findings:I was not disappointed that I took this unit, the price / quality / performance here is better than other brands! Of course, there are also disadvantages, but they are in all budget notebooks with the same characteristics. I recommend to buy!