 Okay, so it is my personal opinion, whenever actually watching our view of a smartwatch, a smartphone, a laptop, that the most interesting thing to look out for is not really the specs or you know the numbers, surely they tested it, but what really is interesting because those numbers you can check out for yourself on the various online website, the specs website, what's interesting is the story behind it. So what do we have here? This is the Cadiz Limbuk and it is a laptop not made by Cadiz, but made by Limbuk in partnership with Cadiz, which means that it actually has Cadiz neon out of the box, which is you know from Cadiz meant to be the experience of the vanilla default Cadiz software, although I'll get to that in a sec. And it has really proven to be a valuable partnership because it has lasted years and has received many upgrades throughout the years. So how is actually the machine? And of course I speak about Cadiz Plasma a lot, so what we're looking for here is more on the hardware side of things. So let's start off with that. Now of course this video is currently being recorded as I speak on this computer, you know, nice thing. Let's actually start with the exterior shell, which is a nice aluminum build, which means that this thing is actually extremely light. And this does actually matter because usually when I try out computers, you know, I take them, I do some test tasks like doing video editing, or I developed a bit for Cadiz stuff, I do a merge request, I do some backfixing, this kind of things. I actually get a feeling of how the machine is. And just as a bit of context, this is my personal computer. It's a Daleks PS, it's one of those thin end lights. So, you know, for my personal computing, well, that one isn't how easy one to beat, right? That said, when I actually started using the Cadiz lamp slingbook, I never stopped. In the last 17 days, everything I've done, video editing, Cadiz development, playing chess, anything, everything has been done on the Cadiz slingbook, not because I forced myself to do it, but because it felt the most natural for a variety of reasons I'll get into it. And why it's so important for this machine to be light, why it made, what was so important for me is that the first week of October, I flew to Barcelona to do a whole week of Cadiz related things, because there was the Cadiz Academy, the in-place conference where all Cadiz developers were meet. And not only that, but you know, actually the slingbook CEO was also there. They had a stand and they partially financed this kind of things, so it was nice to meet them there. And to travel, this was the best machine, like hands down, if you want to have something on your backpack with a lot of computing power and everything, it's got to be this. So I've actually spent an entire week in Barcelona just with this computer and it has worked perfectly. So it is light, which is important. It is also very sturdy. If I actually try to flex some of the parts, like the keyboard, the touchpad, it does not flex. The only part that seem more fragile is the top of the screen, which is usually a bit more fragile in all laptops. In here, particularly, I do see it flexing significantly, but it does not seem to be any kind of issue if you treat it with respect, as you should. It also does not take any kind of fingerprints around. This other Dalek Spears does actually get some fingerprints around it, and it does not get many scratches. It did get a couple on the bag whilst I was traveling to Barcelona. I threw it in my bag, not literally. So it does have a couple of scratches on the back, but that is it, and it's overall very solid. So the build quality here is really nice. If we take it on the back, we can see that there are a lot of screws that you can take off to actually open this thing. And on one of them, you actually get this little penguin with security seal written on it. And you might wonder whether actually opening the laptop will destroy your warranty. So I actually asked this, this link book guys was at Barcelona, since I had this opportunity to talk to them. Why not? And they told me that if I understood this correctly, it doesn't, you can indeed open this. However, it is currently a safety measure that they take. And they said that they would like, again, if I understood this correctly in the future to actually change this and allow the user maybe when they have more documentation regarding this, I don't know, to actually open it without having any security seal on the screws. Now I owe again, this I want to stress how important it is to get it right. So Dalek's BS again, I'm going to bring this up often. You've got a USB-C here and a USB-C here. And that's it. And initially I did nothing that was going to be an issue, but it is. You've got to live with these dongles to keep around that I actually keep on losing. And if you don't buy them carefully, which I didn't, they are not going to support 4k 60 Hertz display output. This one doesn't. Meaning that my monitor over there is useless with my Daleks BS. Instead over here, we've got three USB three, three dot one, sorry, two, three dot ones, and two dot zero. But we also have a USB-C on the other side, which supports up to two monitors of output and power input if necessary. And then of course, you also get Ethernet and HDMI output up to 4k 60 Hertz. And of course, you also get a micro SD. So that's a lot. And that literally means that I can put it there and plug it into my monitor without any kind of dongle. And without having to worry about losing any frequency in display refresh rate or quality. This microphone as well, it's still USB three, which means I keep have to bringing around a dongle every time I want to use this with my Daleks BS. But with this one, I don't have to, which is a great plus because I keep on losing dongles. It's incredible that they disappear into nothing. Let's talk about the keyboard. And again, I'm going to cover slightly the fact that I went with to Barcelona with this computer. And the first day we were going to eat pizzas with some KD developers. And I mentioned that I had this link book with me, actually, I bought it in the pizzeria with me, obviously, obviously. And like two, three of them were just like, okay, can we try out the keyboard? Apparently, apparently, the new keyboard is significantly improved compared to the last one, which I haven't tried. So I can compare, but I can say that it is a very good keyboard. I have nothing to complain about. I am able to reach my full typing speed with this one, which is around 115 words per minute. So you are able to reach that kind of speed without issues, the keys feel good. And if you actually press on the sides or the very border of a key, you still manage to get the input correctly. It has a new improved black look compared to the previous machine, which was white. And in theory, that's prettier. Personally, I don't like it, but they've heard that a lot of people prefer this one. So fine. But what a black keyboard actually means is that it's much easier to see the backlighting. This has a backlighting, obviously, it has three modes. And even the one of the modes is off, obviously. And the middle one, which is the lighter one, is still perfectly viable, even if there's light around you. Of course, being this, the KD is limb book, it has a KD logo instead of the windows logo and the midi key, which is fantastic. Now it is aligned to the control function and alt buttons, which are on the bottom part of the key, which means that the plasma key feels off center compared to the midi key as a whole, which is something that I'm not super happy about. But that's a level of nitpicking that I'm obviously not going to reach. The touchpad has a very nice feature on the top left. You have a LED LED that shows you whether the touchpad is enabled or disabled. And you can actually disable the touchpad just by double tapping on the LED. I need to talk about this slightly. So it has happened to me rather frequently that whilst typing, I accidentally pressed the LED and the touchpad turns off. And I do not realize what has happened. This is because out of the box, this does not come with a notification that tells you that the touchpad has been deactivated. However, it is very easy to install it. You just have to add this limb book repository and install the limb book. This is something that I discussed with the limb book people at the KDE Academy. If I understood this correctly, it seems like this was meant to be enabled by default. But for this particular machine, it wasn't. So be careful that if the touchpad seemed to not be working anymore out of the box, you just have to double tap on the LED top left. And in general, it does seem a bit easy to accidentally enable whilst typing. The touchpad is pretty big. It takes any space that it could take. So it's as big as it could be. And it's also very easy to click on the bottom. If you're trying to click on the top, it is actually very hard. And on the very top part of the touchpad, it is completely impossible. So you do feel that this is not the same touchpad quality that you get on something like a Daleks PS. I can still click here, but there's also, you know, 600 years of difference. So the display, one of the most important things in my opinion, it has a lot of good things and some bad things. So firstly, it is a full HD resolution, which in my opinion is the perfect resolution. If you go any higher than full resolution, full HD, sorry, that means that A, you're losing battery over nothing because at a 14 inch, in a 14 inches laptop, you are not going to notice the difference in resolution, realistically from any distance. And also it means that you'll have to opt into some scaling. And usually that leads some potentially bugs, sadly. So personally, I think that one to one full HD on 14 inches is just the perfect resolution. Less would be not enough and more would be too much. However, it is 16 by nine, which is the wrong aspect ratio, because I've decided. So I think personally, I think that 16.10, which we're starting to see on more and more laptops is a significant step forward. And you do not realize it until you use it. But actually having those hundred pixels on the bottom allows you to better see what you're reading. If you're browsing the internet as an example, it gives you more space to breathe. So personally, I would like to see in the future a 16 by 10 aspect ratio display. It is a glassy display, treated against sun reflectiveness. And I've actually used it under the sun. If you go back a couple of videos and watch other videos that I've recorded was that KD Academy talking about the KD Academy, you can notice that I'm outside under the sun, still recording and still using this laptop. Obviously, I was still able to do that without any issue. I also edited videos under the sun. No issue whatsoever. It is not as bright as could be. I've done some comparison compared to the other devices that I have, even once it is less bright than them. However, it does have a full sRGB 100% coverage, which is nice. And it's still perfectly be completely usable under sunlight. But I mean, now I'm in Sweden, I haven't seen sunlight in months. Last thing about the screen is that again, Dell XPS, one thing that you immediately notice are the bezels. And using a Dell XPS kind of makes you used to having very small bezels. And from this side of you, actually, the slim book does not disappoint in any way. The side bezels are very small. The top one is a bit larger, but it does have the camera. So you can't really go thinner on that without losing some quality. The bottom one is a bit bigger. It has the slim book logo. I think it's fine. It totally does not look ugly compared to the Dell XPS. So fine. What about the webcam quality and the microphone quality? Well, the webcam is just at 720p, which is not much. It's, I guess, okay for video compressing. Also, this is lagging so much on my... The microphone I've actually never used. I just used the external one because again, maybe it's fine for some calls, but even in like Zoom calls or Google meetings, I do want my voice to be heard correctly. So it is not something that I would attempt with this built-in microphone. So you do you. Surely the camera that's under other more high-end computer, which is actually 1080p, if I recall correctly, should be much better than this. But if you plan to do anything that involves a nice camera, this is like ideal lighting conditions. I have my lights around me and everything. Not, not good, sadly. Hard door wise, I think I covered everything. Let's talk about a couple of things in the software. I mean, let's talk about performance and battery. Performance wise, I've actually used this computer to do everything like I've compiled a lot. I've used video editing and I've exported videos. Never had any issue from that point of view. My reference test being a kitty developer is obviously how much time does this computer take to actually compile kitty plasma desktop from scratch and how much battery does it take? So I just told the computer compile everything to get plasma desktop and I unplugged battery, power, and it actually took one hour and 15 minutes and it has used 55% of the battery. How good bad is that? For reference, performance wise, again, it goes along with the Dell XPS, roughly took the same time and this is the version with a nice 7 and both of these have eight cores, 16 threads. So that is actually really good and I would expect you not to have significant issues from the performance point of view unless you want to do some heavy gaming, I guess, or export live editing on the 4k videos, which is something I don't do. For these use cases, you are more expert than me on how to value whether a computer is able to handle these kind of tasks. So again, I'm not here to give numbers that I don't have the competence to really judge. However, what I can say is that there is an improved processor comparison to last year's model. We do get the 5700U processor, which has not maybe not like a significant step up in performance, but yeah, a significant step up in battery life. And if you actually go to the kiddies link book page, you do see that it's photographs showing you the increase on battery. And those numbers match mine. And actually mine are slightly more optimistic in some areas. As an example, when talking about compiling time, Slibook says that these last one hour and 45 minutes, 50 minutes, mine actually lasted longer for that whilst compiling Plasma Desktop, which is resource intensive. So good. For tasks like YouTube streaming, these last roughly seven, seven hours. Again, my numbers are slightly more optimistic than the Slibook ones just by 10 minutes. And for like more general use cases, this can actually last two, nine hours, nine hours and a half, if you see it correctly. All of these tests, by the way, done with something along 50% brightness on my side. Now let's talk about a couple of things about software. So firstly, Slibook usually sells these things with some built-in software that actually helps you use these computers. As an example, usually they have a battery tool that allows you to squeeze out more from the battery, but also usually you have something else that I forgot about. And I did because none of this is available out of the box on the Slibooks. That is because you have KD Neon and you have the most vanilla KD experience out of the box. That is the idea of this machine. You can agree or disagree with this take. Now it is very easy to add this Slibook repository and actually test this kind of tools for results. I didn't do that. What I did do is to reinstall that tool that actually allowed me to see whenever I was disabling the touchpad as an example, but it also makes sure that you can use changing the performance mode. You do have two performance modes, that is silent whenever you don't want to hear the fan or performance. Obviously, you do actually have a button to switch between them. Now again, out of the box, this thing didn't work for me. I did install them. However, they have proved to be kind of unreliable in actually providing the information whilst I was using the machine on the long run. It has happened to me very frequently that I tried to change the performance mode to see whether it actually had any difference in tests and I couldn't see any notification regarding what was going on. So I actually couldn't know which performance mode I was on. Now I tried it again and it works now. So that's good. Their notifications are a high priority, which means that if you do receive the notification, you see it even if you do not disturb enabled, but often I just didn't see them. So this little tool was a bit unreliable for me. Finally, Kedinion. So now we are in a funny timing. This is no longer about Slimbook. Let's talk about what you get out of the box in terms of the operating system, which is Kedinion. I have to make a slight but important complaint. If you buy this machine right now and you try it out, you will discover that it's broken, not in a way that you cannot use it, but in a way that I would personally find it extremely annoying to use. Why? Because I've used like this for like two weeks. There is this bag which has been fixed since a good week, not more than a week, but in frameworks 5.99 that was released a week ago for which the K-Win, which is the window manager and Plasma don't talk too much well to each other. And as an example, if you try to open kickoff, it actually opens at the center. And if you try to like change the volume, it is actually considered a window and that causes a lot of problems. And that happened. Now, as I said, it was fixed since one week ago. However, Kedinion is not updating to the latest KD frameworks. And this sadly is not the first time I've seen something like that happen. So purely on a, you know, reviewer point of view and not KD developer, but as a reviewer getting this machine, the operating system out of the box has kind of let me down. That's how it is. However, if you do not want Kedinion, they also offer the same computer without the KD logo as its own machine, not called the KD Slimbook. And if I understood this correctly, they also allow you to do custom engraving, which is super cool. So you're not like stuck with Kedinion. If you buy this personally, I've always used Kedinion actually as my operating system. I might switch now. Okay, so we are at the end of the video. Final thoughts. This computer is going back to Slimbook because it is a review unit. And of course, I do not get to keep review units. And I'm actually very sad about that, which is a good thing for the machine, right? I've actually used this as my main computer for almost a month. I will still use it for some days. And it has not let me down in any aspect. And I was not coming from some random computer. I was coming from the very high-end Dell XPS. And this has managed to provide me an excellent experience and an excellent transition. I'm super happy with the machines. There are some neat picks that are like not that significant, such as the screen should be a 19 to 10 aspect ratio. But if you're looking for a Linux laptop that works out of the box nicely, its performance has a very good battery life compared to the others. Do your math and check out this one by this one. I don't know. Yeah, it will be sad to see this go.