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The One Netbook T1 floor/pill is an fascinating proposition on a number of ranges: it’s a really shut design to the Microsoft Floor Professional 8 but is considerably cheaper, it is among the few Intel twelfth gen tablets available on the market, and, like earlier fashions from One Netbook, it’s being launched by an Indiegogo crowdfunding marketing campaign.
In case you join as an early adopter through the One-Netbook T1 Indiegogo web page, you get a reduced early chook value on whichever one of many completely different spec variations you need (although time on that is restricted, so transfer quick!). Learn on for all of the specs, pricing particulars, and our in-depth hands-on overview of this surface-like pill with a removable keyboard.
One-Netbook T1
CPU
Intel Pentium Golg 8505 / Intel Core i5-1240P / Intel Core i7-1260P
RAM
8GB/16GB 5200MHz LPDDR5
Storage
256GB/512GB/1TB/2TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe3.0x4
One Netbook T1 value & specs
Intel Pentium Golg 8505 / Intel Core i5-1240P / Intel Core i7-1260P
256GB/512GB/1TB/2TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe3.0x4
1x USB-A 3.2, 1x USB-C, mini-HDMI, 3.5mm audio combo jack, TF card reader
Professionals
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highly effective twelfth gen CPU choices -
first rate worth for cash -
nice whites, blacks, distinction ratio & gamma -
nice sRGB colour replication -
good construct high quality on the chassis
Cons
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poor keyboard and trackpad -
disappointing battery life -
doesn’t draw as easily because the Microsoft Floor Professional -
poor audio system -
no Thunderbolt
The cheapet CPU choice for the T1 is the Intel Pentium Golg 8505 (1P + 4E cores, 15W TDP), however we’d say that is the least fascinating selection in comparison with the Intel twelfth gen CPU spec variations, which value a bit more cash however have considerably higher efficiency. The choice we’ve right here to check is the Intel Core i5-1240P (28W) however there’s additionally the costlier Intel Core i7-1260P.
In contrast to the opposite Intel twelfth Gen CPU pill available on the market, the ASUS ROG Movement Z13, which is designed particularly for gaming, the T1 solely comes with an built-in Intel Xe GPU, not a devoted graphics card. Couple this with the 60Hz refresh fee cap on the show, and this isn’t a pill designed for gaming, nonetheless, the extra highly effective CPU choices are definitely able to taking part in older, less-demanding titles, as we’ll see later.
Of the completely different RAM choices, we’d undoubtedly go for the 16GB model, which comes as a really speedy 5200MHz LPDDR5. The storage choices are nice, going all the way in which as much as a formidable 2TB choice. Keep in mind that its not doable to improve both RAM or storage Of the completely different RAM choices, we’d undoubtedly go for the 16GB model, which comes as a really speedy 5200MHz LPDDR5. The storage choices are nice, going all the way in which as much as a formidable 2TB choice. Keep in mind that its not doable to improve the soldered-on RAM (as you’d count on from a pill), so ensure you don’t skimp on this space and remorse it down the road. You’ll be able to, nonetheless (with some issue) unscrew the six small Phillips head screws and take away the again, to improve the storage or battery post-purchase
The MSRP of the entry-level Intel Pentium Golg 8505 CPU mannequin of the gadget at present stands at $719, which is a 25% low cost in comparison with the $899 for the lowest-powered Microsoft Floor Professional 8. The opposite SKUs have comparable reductions in comparison with the Microsoft pill.
As might be seen within the graphic under it can save you 6% – 11% off the total asking value for every of the completely different SKUs of the pill in case you pre-purchase through the Indiegogo marketing campaign earlier than the deadline.
Design aesthetics
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The primary chassis of the pill seems similar to a Floor Professional 8 in proportions and design. The reverse of the pill was silver in colour, with good copper detailing on the fascinating look segmented hinges for the stand.
The removable keyboard then again, isn’t probably the most visually interesting. The lettering on the keys, notably the bigger ones on the edges (Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Enter) is notably low decision, they usually nearly like they’ve been caught on as a result of black define round them. One-Netbook has caveated closely that, with respect to the pre-release take a look at mannequin we needed to overview “The product look and particulars shall be enormously improved and polished” earlier than the total launch. Hopefully then the keyboard styling is among the areas that One-Netbook resolves when the gadget is launched.
Measurement, construct high quality & ergonomics
The scale of the One-Netbook T1 are as follows:
Top: 0.98cm / 0.39″, Width: 30.6cm / 12.05″, Depth: 21.7cm / 8.54″
Wanting on the weight now:
Pill: 1.0kg / 2.2lb, removable keyboard: 0.3kg / 0.66lb, energy adapter & cable: 0.14kg / 0.30lb, mixed weight 1.44kg / 3.17lb
In comparison with the Microsoft Floor Professional 8 (which weighs round 891g), the One Netbook T1 is simply over 100g heavier, although in observe remains to be very gentle and moveable.
When it comes to the construct high quality, the steel chassis of the T1 is stable, and never far-off from that of the Microsoft Floor Professional 8. The quantity buttons on the highest proper facet are satisfyingly clicky, and the fold-out steel stand is good and durable and the 180-degree folding hinges really feel stable and sturdy.
The removable keyboard nonetheless, isn’t the very best. It feels considerably cheaper than that on a Floor Professional 8, and within the angled fold-up place, wobbles a good bit beneath the contact, definitely extra so than the research magnetic click-together keyboard on the ASUS ROG Movement Z13 (extra on this under).
Keyboard, trackpad & stylus
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The removable membrane keyboard with trackpad is similar to that of a Microsoft Floor Professional 8, however frankly, not nearly as good. The keys are adequately responsive with first rate journey (inferior to the Floor Professional 8, however nonetheless first rate), and have a barely tough matte really feel which, one may like or dislike relying in your desire.
The actual challenge although is that when the keyboard is connected and angled upwards into the usual typing place it bows and flexes significantly if you kind on it. That is in distinction to the Floor Professional 8 which magnetically locks in place, offering a way more agency and durable base to kind on. Having the whole keyboard depress after which bounce again up with each keystroke on the One Netbook T1 is sort of irritating. Dearer units just like the ASUS ROG Movement Z13 and the Apple magic keyboard, which you will get for the iPad Professional, are far superior, although clearly value much more cash.
The trackpad was additionally lower than spectacular on the T1. The small measurement of it results in your fingers feeling pretty cramped at occasions, and click-dragging typically didn’t work accurately because the pad appeared to have bother detecting the enter of each fingers are the identical time. The quantity of pressure wanted to depress the pad additionally appears to be completely different at completely different factors on the pad, which is lower than supreme.
The pen (which might be purchased individually for round $39) makes use of Microsoft Pen Protocol 2.5 with 4096 stress ranges (so is suitable with a Microsoft Floor) and comes with two buttons. It doesn’t draw as easily on the display as you’d get on a Microsoft Floor Professional 8 (which feels extra like drawing on a pad of paper), so artists will need to bear this in thoughts, although it nonetheless works pretty properly.
Webcam & inbuilt microphone
There is just one webcam on the T1 (not like the Floor Professional 8 which has a rear-facing one too) but it surely’s a good high quality 2 MegaPixel 1080p digicam that we’ve no complaints about, although it’s not up there with the 5 MegaPixel Floor Professional model. Microphone high quality is stable.
Ports, sockets, and different options
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It’s a disappointment that we don’t get a Thunderbolt 4 port with this pill, however moreover this it has superior port protection selection in comparison with the Floor Professional 8, coming with a USB-A 3.2 port in addition to a USB-C. You additionally get a TF card reader, which is nice information for creatives.
Display
The One-Netbook T1 display decision is 2160 x 1400, which isn’t fairly up there with the Floor Professional 8, however undoubtedly a pleasingly excessive decision on a 13-inch measurement display. The show has a 3:2 facet ratio typical on many tablets that offers a bit of additional headroom when paperwork, looking the online, or doing any form of inventive workflow, and it’s an excellent design selection for a smaller-sized gadget like this the place display house is at a premium.
The refresh fee maxes out at 60Hz, as you’d count on from a non-gaming display. Clearly, being a pill gadget, it has contact display performance, and we discovered this to be pretty responsive all through our testing – when utilizing fingertips there’s not likely something damaging we will say about it, although as talked about when utilizing a stylus/pen it didn’t really feel as easy as higher-priced opponents, although this could possibly be extra to do with the pen than the show.
One-Netbook T1 colour gamut
One-Netbook claims that the colour gamut of this show covers 100% of sRGB house, and in our checks we measured 99.5% – which is definitely shut sufficient. Adobe RGB protection was 71.5% and DCI-P3 was 74.0%.
Primarily based on these outcomes, the display is certainly appropriate for color-accurate work within the sRGB house.
One-Netbook T1 colour accuracy out of the field
Previous to calibrating the show, the colour accuracy of the T1 out of the field confirmed a mean delta of 1.17, which is sort of spectacular certainly, and effectively under the two.5 threshold that marks a decent degree of variance. White level was stable at 6733K, not far off the best 6500K end result, and gamma was superb at 2.28 (very near the two.2 supreme). Black depth was additionally good and low at 0.097 cd/m², and the distinction ratio of 1237:1 was spectacular – much better than the five hundred:1 that One-Netbook claimed. In brief: nice outcomes throughout the board, notably by way of the common delta, gamma, and black level.
One-Netbook T1 colour accuracy following calibration
Though the above outcomes indicated to us that some manufacturing unit calibration had already doubtless occurred on this gadget, we determined to do a fast calibration ourselves to see if it could make a lot of a distinction.
Submit-calibration, gamma improved from its already good end result to 2.19. The common delta truly received barely worse, rising to 1.25. The distinction ratio additionally received barely worse, lowering to 1228:1 and equally the white level, which elevated a contact to 6764K. The black level didn’t change by any means. To summarise, the calibration wasn’t value bothering with and made issues barely worse total.
One-Netbook T1 panel uniformity
Typically, any common colour variation beneath 1.00 is nice and reveals up as inexperienced within the picture under, although the common shopper received’t have the ability to inform a lot distinction under 3.00. Visible editors who work with colour nonetheless might have a keener eye.
The outcomes we received on the One-Netbook T1 have been first rate, with nearly all of the display averaging under a delta of 1.00. The underside of the display particularly confirmed larger variance than this, however the most delta by no means went above 2.33, which remains to be first rate and would suffice for these trying to do color-work on a funds.
Brightness
We completed off our colour accuracy testing by operating a luminance take a look at. On the unit we examined, we received a peak brightness of 325 cd/m² and a minimal of seven.8 cd/m² which is effectively under the five hundred nits of most brightness claimed by One-Netbook and never notably spectacular, particularly if you wish to use the gadget in environments with shiny, direct daylight. To attain the standard standardized indoor brightness of 120 cd/m² equates to a brightness setting of 35% beneath the brightness controls for this laptop computer.
Audio
Each quantity and audio high quality on the One-Netbook T1 audio system was very poor (notably worse than the Floor Professional 8). Even on full quantity the audio system (that are situated on the edges of the pill, close to the underside when the pill is stood up) aren’t notably audible. Bass replication is mainly non-existent. We’d due to this fact undoubtedly advocate utilizing headphones as a substitute in case you purchase this pill.
Battery Life
Simply over 5 hours of battery life is what the T1 managed in our take a look at (fixed YouTube play on 50% brightness). You’ll get round 8-9 hours utilizing the Floor Professional 8, so this isn’t supreme actually, although it’s across the 6 hours claimed by One-Netbook no less than.
Efficiency, noise & temperature
Noise
The T1 remained pretty quiet all through our testing. Even when taking part in CS:GO, an uptick in fan noise was noticeable, but it surely was nonetheless pretty quiet, definitely far quieter than your common gaming laptop computer.
Exterior temperature
We by no means discovered the T1 to get sizzling to the contact at any level in the course of the testing. Once more, after a session on CS:GO the chassis received heat, however not uncomfortably so.
Inside temperature
The most CPU core temperature we recorded throughout all our artificial benchmarks, plus throughout taking part in CS:GO, was 68°C, which is a wonderfully cheap temp and factors to a sufficiently cooled processor that ought to get pleasure from a good quantity of longevity.
One-Netbook T1 artificial benchmarks
We ran just a few artificial benchmarks to check how the One-Netbook T1’s Intel Core i5-1240P (28W) CPU would fare.
Cinebench produced a multi-core rating of 4986, and a single-core rating of 1445. That is roughly equal to an Intel Core i7-1165G7 rating, and superior to the Intel Core i5-1135G7 choice discovered within the cheaper Floor Professional 8 fashions. The costlier Floor Professional 8 fashions come outfitted with an Intel Core i7-1185G7, which might likely do higher than the Intel Core i5-1240P, however would doubtless really feel the stress from the T1 in case you have been to go for the higher-end Intel Core i7-1260P mannequin (although we didn’t get this selection to check).
Geekbench gave a multi-core rating of 4662, plus a single-core rating of 1259, which just about backs up the Cinebench outcomes above by way of the place it locations within the CPU efficiency hierarchy.
3D Mark Time Spy got here with a CPU rating of 3425 and a GPU rating of 1145, unsurprising given the onboard Intel Xe graphics.
PCMark 10 gave an excellent indication of how the machine would carry out in productiveness duties, coming again with the next scores that are pretty spectacular for a pill gadget.
Necessities: 9533
Productiveness: 6824
Digital Content material Creation: 5059
One-Netbook T1 gaming efficiency
The One-Netbook T1 isn’t designed for gaming, however given the ability of the CPU we thought we’d give it a fast take a look at on CS:GO, which is an older, much less demanding, and extra CPU-driven sport than most. We recorded an common FPS of 67 on the bottom settings at 1200p decision however with frequent body drops as evidenced by the 0.1% FPS of 1.
In brief, you’ll have a job taking part in even older shooters on the bottom graphical settings, however much less demanding technique titles (Crusader Kings II and the like), ought to run effective.
Closing Phrase
To sum up, the One-Netbook T1 floor/pill affords a extra budget-friendly various to the Microsoft Floor Professional 8 that’s undoubtedly value contemplating, and is the very best of the Floor Professional clones on the market, however with the cheaper value comes notably inferior efficiency in lots of areas. The place it scores very effectively is within the energy of the processor (assuming you go for both of the Intel twelfth gen CPU choices, which we’d advocate), the general construct high quality of the pill element, the array of ports and sockets (which truly provide superior legacy protection than the Floor Professional 8), and the suitability of the show for color-accurate work within the sRGB house. The place it scores poorly is the considerably brief battery life, the horrible high quality of the audio system, and most crucially of all, the bouncy removable keyboard part with an terrible trackpad that always simply doesn’t operate when making an attempt to click on and drag.
In case you’re much less involved with the 2-in-1 performance and are on the lookout for extra of a pure pill, then you possibly can all the time purchase the One-Netbook T1 with out the keyboard part, through which case we’d rating it a bit extra extremely. As a competitor to the Floor Professional although this characteristic does matter. Nonetheless, in case you’re on the lookout for an inexpensive various to the expensive Microsoft units for any form of color-based workflows, and aren’t too fussed concerning the barely much less easy drawing expertise, the One Netbook T1 could possibly be the one (sorry) for you.
