CODA 1.1 Intel Celeron N3350 4GB 64GB eMMC 11.6 Inch FHD Windows 10 S Laptop Includes 1 Year Office 365

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There was one small hiccup when starting the system. Naturally I wanted to update the unit to Windows 1909, the latest at the time, from the Windows 1809 (17763.168) it shipped with. Unfortunately the onboard eMMC was not enough, saying I needed another 10 GB. Maximise your potential with the included 12-month subscription of Microsoft 365 Personal, providing access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more, along with 1TB of cloud storage via OneDrive. Vibrant and portable, CODA 1.1 is a stylish Windows 10 laptop with Full HD display & stunning IPS technology. Practicality never looked so good with the CODA 1.1’s beautiful slim design.

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. CODA 1.1 comes armed with a USB Type-C port, 2 x USB 3.0 port, micro-HDMI port and a MicroSD slot allowing the built-in storage to be expanded by up to 128GB. Coupled with Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi, CODA 1.1 is ready for additional screens, headphones or speakers (directly or wirelessly) and much more. With the NCEMASLD-32G, we should expect to see 200 MB/s read and 110 MB/s write on here. We have some data later in the review.In single-threaded workloads, our 2016 chip is easily trounced by a 2009 Core CPU. Note however that the E6500 is a 65 W part and the N3350 is a 6 W CPU, so technically performance per Watt is on the side of the N3350. On the cheaper devices, the display is usually one of the first things to go. To that end, I’ve seen 15-inch Ice Lake systems with 1366x768 displays! However one of the best upgrades for this Coda Spirit system is the 1920x1080 IPS display. Viewing angles and crispness is great. One of the areas I was concerned about though was brightness and color accuracy. 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: The 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.

For the price, as mentioned, the specifications seem really impressive. At the end of the day, the heart is a dual-core Apollo Lake processor, specifically the N3350, which isn't breaking any performance records any time soon with its 1.1 GHz base frequency and 2.4 GHz turbo. This is paired with 4 GB of LPDDR4-1866 C15, which again isn't bad considering at this price people usually get 2 GB, which to be honest is not enough for Windows 10. Storage is perhaps a weak point, with only 32 GB of eMMC, which means after a full install of Windows 10Home there is only 18 GB left. But this is one of the party pieces of this design: expandable storage. Here is the LPDDR4 chip, showing the Spectek logo and the Micron logo. The datasheet for PS019-075BT gives the information.

Conclusion

Most of these systems are built down to a price for sure. And truth be told, the Coda Spirit I'm testing today wasn't the absolute cheapest device offered. There was a staggered offering with all the systems offering the same design, same ports, same expandability, except for stuff that can't be changed: Stream 11 vs Coda Lineup A: If there has been no damage to the device, the reason is likely associated to the touchpad drivers or user error. Please try the below suggestions: 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. With CODA 1.1 you can relax & take your time thanks a battery life of up to 12 hours*. Powered by an Intel Celeron Dual-Core processor and 4GB RAM the world’s your oyster.

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. The system is also reasonably light for the price. Standard cheap plastic materials here, however they had been finished with an element of finesse on the lid and the keyboard area. The keys have plenty of travel, rather than the chiclet types of keys that I have come to detest as a writer on long trips. The mouse pad has very good detection, and is suitably large for this sort of system, compared to some of the micro-pads used on 15-inch devices. 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. Note: Once these files are deleted, you will not be able to restore to the previous Windows 10 version The power button in the top right corner is actually in the best place for a laptop – I’m forever accidentally putting any laptop with a power button on the side to sleep when I move it (I’m looking at you HP). Unfortunately it doesn’t double as a fingerprint sensor, which would have been gravy, presumably because a fingerprint sensor isn’t suitable at this price point.A few things have changed since Brett's review. Higher-resolution panels are much cheaper, the whole design concept of clamshell devices has evolved, and the companies in the laptop ecosystem that provide components are now able to offer 4th and 5th generation versions of their controllers for peanuts, while the latest devices play a few generations on. As a result, we have a large number of '3rd tier' companies pushing out cheap systems. The first look inside shows a massive lithium-ion battery. It shows here the 5000 mAh we saw on the box, and the conversion to 38 Wh for laptop land. All the important stuff seems to be on the left-hand side (as seen). Designed to change your expectations. Windows 10 leads the way in innovation, productivity, and performance. With a familiar feel and an experience that’s now even safer and more secure. Windows 10 PCs do more. Just like you.