Chuwi launches MiniBook X, a laptop with a hole-punch camera

Speaking of hole-punch screens, everyone might think of the screens of Android phones. Nowadays, in the mobile phone market, whether it is a low-end model or a high-end flagship, most mobile phones adopt a hole-punch screen design. Before it is fully mature, the hole-punch screen will continue to accompany us for a period of time. But have you ever seen a notebook with a hole-punch screen? Most laptop monitors are basically conventional designs, of course, there are exceptions. For example, Apple MacBook Pro this year uses a notch design. However, in the near future, new notebook products with a hole-punch screen design have also appeared on the market.


According to Techpowerup reports, this new product is the MiniBook X released by Chuwi, which is the industry’s first notebook with a hole-punch screen. As can be seen from the preheating posters, the hole-punch location is in the upper left corner of the screen. It is a 10.8-inch, 16:10 2K resolution screen, with a 90% screen-to-body ratio, narrow borders on the left and right sides, and a flip-screen design.

Although the body design has characteristics, the configuration of Chuwi MiniBook X is a bit low. It is equipped with a Celeron N5100 processor, using Intel 10nm process, base frequency 1.1 GHz, maximum turbo frequency 2.8 GHz, low power consumption, 4MB L3 cache. MiniBook X does not have a discrete graphics card. It is equipped with 12GB LPDDR4X memory and a 512GB SSD hard drive. There are many notebooks equipped with this processor on the market.

In other respects, Chuwi MiniBook X supports 45W charging, is equipped with a full-featured Type-C interface and a headphone jack. In terms of price, the media predicts that the notebook will be priced at $599, but it has not yet been officially launched.