Min forums you probably know them for their mini
PCS that I cover in my channel right well they've sent this out to me which is their first tablet
it's a Windows 11 Pro tablet and they call it a 3 in one because it has the tablet form laptop
form with the keyboard attached as I'm showing you now but if you power it off you can plug
into its additional typc Port that it has here on the left a video input and it will turn into
a portable monitor so that's why they call it a 3 in one now this model here is powered by ryzen 7
it's the 8000 series The 8840 U up to 28 wat it's got 32 GB of lpddr X Ram that's running at 6,400
Mega transfers 1 TB SSD 50w hour battery and the screen which is an anti-le matte screen it's got
a resolution of 2560 x600 it's 14 in so it's a nice large screen fully laminated supports this
an active stylus up to 4,096 pressure sensitive levels and I'll be running through this model
here in a first look at what you can expect out of mini forum's first tablet the V3 here's
what Min forums includes we've got a user manual here a little bit of paperwork there is our power
supply very small supports power delivery up to 65 wats and this is the type-c to type-c cable
looking at the weight now of our V3 just the tablet is 926 G but of course you're going to
need the keyboard and then the stand for that and that is going to push our weight up then to
1.6 kilos almost so it's getting a little heavy but it is 14 in bezels with our V3 they're not
too bad slightly thicker at the bottom here now we have a fully laminated screen up to 500 nits
it's an anti-g pan it is IPS so you'll notice at the edges there is a little bit of what I call
like a shadow coming in here into play and I do see a little bit of light leakage but it's very
minimal just at the top and only want to have a pure black image otherwise you're not going to
really notice that at all so the screen very good touch response has been excellent I have
no problems with it at all I've noticed that the accuracy is good and of course you can use the
stylus with it now with this screen here it does have a good resolution and the refresh rate even
better so 65 HZ is the refresh if you got it in the performance mode and well the resonan 2560
x600 so it's nice and sharp I can't see pixels and then turning it into like a little laptop now
with this type cover style keyboard it's a little different the kickstand on this model here on the
V3 normally you would pull the bottom up to act as the stand but because we have the two vents
there we don't want to be blocking those when we're using it so you have to pull it from the top
and it's a little stiff and that goes all the way down and this way it's about as far as it will go
this way those vents there are open and then with the PO pin connectors that is going to there we
go locked into place and you can now see that the backlit keyboard is on and we are set there so
the package itself is looking I think it looks a little dated compared to some of the other
2in one tablets that are out there especially the keyboard it's almost like a retro style to me
from what I used to review about well a good five four years ago but it's functional still a little
bulky and as I showed you with the weights there adds a bit of weight the whole package and then
when you get yourself set up to move to another desk or put it in your bag it's very easy just
to fold it down and of course slot that into a bag first impressions of the touchpad are good
that finer movements the cursor is not skipping around every it's one not one of those really
annoying touch pads the surface feels nice and smooth and even though it is a little shorter than
what we typically see now with a lot of Ultrabooks and laptops that have huge touchpads it's still
functional still works well I can still swap over between all the tabs do what I need to I don't
feel like I need to reach now to plug in or add a Bluetooth mouse or anything no it is good I do
like what I'm seeing with this touchpad left and right and you can just hear those clicks with the
left and right Mouse button so it's working well supports gestures too and then typing on this key
keyboard as well is good I have no problems with they got about 1.4 mm or so of travel there and
it is back lit as you can see now so it's bright enough that it's going to be great for some low
lit environments where you may be working saying aircraft cabin right hand side we have two USB
4 ports these are 40 GB per second fingerprint reader power button status LED so on it's just
a continue LED there when it's charging it is flashing we have our spe is to either side you can
see the other ones right here now this typc port is for our vlink and that stands for our video
link so this is the video end so it can turn it into a monitor mode and I've never seen this
before on a Windows tablet never seen a fullsize SD card reader which is really good to have this
here considering the power it has um all for this and you see the SD cards when you do insert those
that they are going to be sticking out just a little bit there all right that's how they're
going to be stick out a bit so you shouldn't be able to damage it like that but just so you're
aware it doesn't go right all the way in it would have been nice if it did click right in but hey
still for that our volume up and down and yes a 3.5 mm headphone out with mic support very quickly
the BIOS I wanted to show you a couple of things here so the ram speed cannot be changed you can't
set it from 6,400 to 7500 unfortunately if you go into the advanced menu where I am now go under AMD
CBS they do let us change a few things so it's not the full advanced settings we get inside the BIOS
but some bits and pieces here so under MBI oommon options this is probably the setting that most
people will be changing Graphics configuration so they've dedicated any two GB to the 780m but you
can increase that up to 16 now I don't recommend 16 in my experience that is relatively unstable
I would go 8 GB maximum if you wanted to help just boost up gaming performance and getting out
of this there is another setting in here that we can go to which is our SMU commment options and
this is the system configuration it's referring to our power limit so the TDP now I keep it on
auto so you can set that to 28 Watts Max and my experience with the unit now testing it out a
few days 28 watts is really your limit because you go up to 90° Celsius anything over that
you're going to start to Thermal throttle but you can set it all the way up to 54 Watts again
not recommended so that's the only real settings that we can change that are useful I wouldn't mess
about with anything else of course you do have uh your secure boot you can disable your boot order
to as well if you wanted to boot from a USB pen drive performance is good we've got that 32 GB
of RAM and it is running at 64 megga transfers 6,400 sorry Mega transfers so it is really quick
everything seems to pop in good there's no start menu lag and touch response is good as I pointed
out there with the screen green so 1 tbte drive and this drive is not particularly quick for pcie
4.0 speeds it's only just over 4,000 when it comes to the reads 4,600 and rights getting near 4,000
there are drives that can do 7,000 here if you're going to get something like a Samsung 980 Pro uh
upgradeability on this I think will be a little bit complicated I am not going there with this
tablet sadly there's no just easy access hatch on the rear of it random reads and wrs are good
however for the drive and everything it is good fast okay it feels like a very quick tablet here
now bringing up and playing anything that is demanding this is a jellyfish test file here 140
megabits per second 4K 10bit and you see that it loads in quick I am on the battery battery here
at the moment and skipping the head not a problem for it that playback is smooth it is not dropping
any frames at all and then file such as this one here from Sony this is just mute those speakers
this is very quick runs at 60 frames per seconds again there are no drop frames skipp ahead this is
what I've come to expect here from that Radeon 780 M2 which of course is the integrated Graphics
so good performance there from that now the synthetic benchmarks that I have run these were
run before the Windows update thing popped up okay and I did run them with it plugged in for maximum
performance using here that performance profile when it was plugged in at the full 28 wats so you
can see with C bench this is the 2024 version we get 100 points for the single core score and 759
for the multicore score now this is something you can freely download run this on your own tablet
or PC to compare that performance see how much of a upgrade and performance you're going to be
getting there and the other one was a geekbench this is the version six of it and I get 2400 with
a single core score and just over 10,000 for multi which is great so this shows that it is a it's a
very quick it's a powerful tablet here that Min Forum do have and being their first I think you've
done an excellent job with it so far so this here is the dashboard their own software that you got
a glimpse of just before so when you go into that you can get device monitoring system detection
it's telling me danger here uh that's because I need to run a scan with the virus according to
this account security I'm not when when you using a Windows account at the moment so that's another
reason why that has popped up but there is no uh spy wear on this that I've been able to detect
or anything like that I didn't see any dodgy software which some of the Mini PC manufacturers
did have uh luckily for us mini Forum have never had that issue it's been um Ace magic or one of
those similar kind of brands that did have some concerning things but not with this model you see
the RAM usage and everything there device manager you can take a look at different things in there
too of the V3 fre and a Windows upgrade and power premium I don't know why they call it that power
premium that's the refresh rate it's swapping over so you get up to the 165 in the performance mode
this is the power save mode just at 15 wats and this right here is the balanced mode which is 18
watt TDP there and those last two modes they all use the 60 HZ refresh rate just to help with
that battery life and it's telling me that it doesn't want to be in the performance mode here
cuz it needs to be powered on and the battery L needs to be at least 20% because I don't have
the power plugged in at the moment but all the benchmarks are did run as I mentioned were with
that power mode so it's a powerful potent here tablet we've got from Min Forum of course with
Windows we get an onscreen keyboard and it is fine to use but I always prefer having an
actual physical Hardware keyboard so much better but just to show you that it does work
well now the stylus it's got the 496 pressure sensitive levels it seems to be instantaneous
very quick there is really no lag whatsoever Palm rejection is there uh hover feature so from
about that's 2 3 cm now about approximately a cm and a half is where it does work and you can see
I've got that uh little cross on the screen there where the stus is now the accuracy of it is very
good it's right where the ni is exactly so that is good to see and The Stylist does does it work
right up to the edge of the screen it certainly does you can see it's right there right on the
edge every time it seem to use that it seems to work wherever I am on the screen although okay
there you know all good okay so that is working fine and a quick little handwriting test here
hello whoops World messy handwriting but good and of course we've got the sensor on board gyro
auto rotation all of that is working this is just a pre view of what you can expect out of the
stylus does seem to be very accurate very fast and a lot of people probably going to be after
that and that's how it sits again on the screen there on the top there magnetically the mini 4M
V3 has four built-in speakers either side good stereo separation little bit of Base not a lot
as you can expect from a thin well relatively thin Windows tablet the sample I'll give you
now is at 100% volume and you can hear that it's good it's loud enough and nothing amazing
but they're not disappointing either it's what I've really come to expect from this style of 2
in one tablet although they call this a 3 in one I think the speakers are fine adequate I would
rate them out of 10 is about like a six out of 10 but here's a sample now at that 100% volume
so you can get an idea of what they do sound [Laughter] [Music] like brief look at gaming
performance this is The Witcher 3 which keeps crashing on me and for some reason it's going
to do it again it's just not going to work it's going to cause the whole system here to
reboot so something's going on I looked at The Thermals they seem to be fine but it's hard
for me to actually get a log of that because it keeps resetting itself once I try to play uh
any games so not a good sign at all and this is from trying to play from external storage from
internal storage and and it is the performance mode I am testing it out in which is supposed to
be that 28 wats so this is now the third time it has done this trying to test games it would just
reboot on me unacceptable any game that does work is Assassin's Creed Valhalla now I have it set to
the low preset and the radon 78m is handling this just fine giving me 40 frames per second at 800p
so this is working all right at least this game does want to work and and so far testing it out I
have not seen any reboots at all playing this game it just seems to be the Witcher for some reason
that will not run and causes some random reboot error with the V three tablet here and the last
synthetic Benchmark I wanted to show you just with this brief handson is time spy so I expected this
to be a little better what I can get out of many PCs that have a similar kind of chipset which
which would be the 7840 HS can do around well 2800 here for the graphics score and 3,000 points
this is a little under that with the 8840 U now I did set it with the of course high performance
mode that is the 28 Watts for our TDP and this is the result this is the second time I did run
it and that's just what it is but for a tablet it is still very powerful good performance right
there so that's great as for The Thermals and fan noise well you are going to hear it a little bit
especially when it's plugged in okay you'll hear the fan and when it's underload it's not too bad
that fan noise it's not as loud as them many PCs I don't find it personally too offensive they've
got the four copper transfer Pips in there then the two fans right there that I showed you when
we looked at the the back of the device and 90° C is the hottest it did get up to running all the
stress test benchmarks and all of that so not bad thermals are okay that didn't trigger thermal
throttling I mean it's getting a little hot but it's still well reasonable there and it pulled
here 21 wats for some reason I don't seem to be able to get that 28 Watts that this is capable
of in again that high performance mode that I did have selected and it was plugged in when I ran all
those bench marks and using our mini Forum V3 here as a secondary display as a monitor as possible
you just got to power it off plug something in that supports it so right here I've just plugged
in a Samsung Galaxy s24 Ultra it's using their desktop mode and oh that's probably my cable seems
a little touchy there what I've noticed is that this is a little disappointing is there's no touch
support now I thought this would work cuz I have a portable monitor that I can plug in with this
phone and I get the touch support so this is a bit of a let down here that it doesn't seem to support
that what it is supporting though at least Samsung is is the keyboard that does seem to be working
okay so I can bring things up on there and as you can see I'm using our touchpad with the keyboard
okay so the touchpad does work I can launch things from here I can jump into uh Gallery right now
take a look at that load up some of my images and whatnot so that is all working and you can plug
in a Nintendo switch anything really anything that is going to support type-c video in you can also
get adapters and whatnot for that so it's a good option to have in a nice little extra with the V3
3 in one tablet now if you did want to run Linux I managed to get it running this is mangaro with
open- Source drivers and the touch is working now you saw that flickering just happening before I
don't know why it's doing that it's something to do with the graphics drivers I believe why it's
doing that flicker Bluetooth working Wireless is working and the keyboard and everything else
does seem to work and audio too so that's good looks like it'll be able to run Linux no problem
so my first impressions are as follows here for their first attempt at a tablet they've done an
excellent job I do like the screen I think that's the best part of it it's fantastic it's really
bright even brighter than their claim with 523 knits according to my spider X that I've used to
measure the screen and it's got great color gamut the coverage that this screen can deliver as well
the IPS panel it's fully laminated the anti-le coating is one of the best parts about it so you
don't get all that horrible terrible annoying glar touch is very good the response the accuracy
the stylus does seem very accurate we have those pressure sensitive levels and then the performance
as I pointed out is good for a tablet however I sometimes have problems getting into that higher
power mode it will sometimes run like some of the benchmarks that I showed you like times bu it
at 17 Watts instead of 28 watts and the game The Witcher was crashing just wouldn't run for me
now I don't know whether that's to do with Mini's Forum or I think it's probably the AMD drivers
maybe with this chipset being relatively new although the radon 78m Graphics isn't new so it
shouldn't really be happening there but it is and I wanted to report on that with you now battery
life so far in my testing I've only been using this for a day that you're looking around about
at least 8 hours and that's where the brightness set to 30% using the power saving mode that 15
wats and it still performs reasonably well for General kind of tasks at that kind of wattage but
if you want the best performance you want to put it into the high powered mode and you will hear
those fans now in battery mode like right now just Idle No oh tiny little bit of fan noise so they're
very low RPM when it ramps up what does it sound like well it's pretty much like an Ultra Book is
exactly what this really sounds like with the duel fans like a thin Ultra Book really similar kind
of sound from there is it annoying well you hear it I wish it was passive sorry yeah passively
cool would have been great but with that kind of power course it does need to be actively cooled
there speakers do sound good there's a couple of little niggly little things that I've noticed that
sometimes when you go to connect up the keyboard that it doesn't there we go then it connects in
properly and sometimes it doesn't work straight away you have to have a second attempt at it it's
only a very minor thing the kickstand is kind of unusual how you have to pull the top down and
at first I wanted to pull the bottom up which you can do but then the magnet doesn't really
hold it that well and I realized it it can't be the top that you use as the base for the kickstand
because it would block the intake there of course for those two fans so that is the most upright
angle is there okay and then you can put it all the way back any further than that when you start
to press on the screen it will drop down if you press really hard if you're going to be using
the stylus of course this is the thing that it can easily pop off the kickstand for it which is
a minor annoyance I really wish that Min Forum had put stronger magnets in that that's just me being
a little bit of nitpicking there the other is the look of the machine I know you can't judge a book
by its cover it's a powerful Windows 11 Pro laptop uh but the bezel you know they make it look like a
5-year-old machine the style of the keyboard looks a little similar to those tickl tablets that I was
reviewing like five or six years ago it has that bit of a almost like a retro kind of look to it I
wish it would looked a little bit more modern but touchpad good keyboard good back clip it really
is a good package here but I don't believe it's going to be cheap I don't know the exact pricing
because I look on their website it's not showing yet but I believe and don't quote me on this
figure that is going to be well over I think uh $300 us for this I don't know what they're
going to sell in terms of storage configurations or whether they will go up to 64 GB of RAM they
probably might just stay at 32 I think for most users that's ideal that's fine but if you want a
Windows 11 laptop with a matte display highrise display High refresh rate also can double as a
secondary monitor and you want AMD well this is it this is really all we have we're not getting
a lot of Windows 11 tablets anymore are we and it's good to see that Min forum is now jumping
into this area as well along with their mini PCS their motherboards and hopefully more products for
from them there so that for a first look here is all I'm going to cover in this video there may be
a followup video later on but very promising here from min's Forum they price it right they can
just work on some of those mind little things then I think it could be a very good Windows
11 tablet thanks a lot for watching this video
