My Honest Review of the Topo 7 Inch Mini Laptop After 6 Months

I've now spent 6 months with the 7 inch laptop I purchased from AliExpress It's been a fun adventure with this little device.. Join me in taking a look at the Pipo 7 inch mini Laptop and see if it is something you might be interested in.

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[unixoid]

The main drawback is the awful choice to use remapped keys to emulate mouse clicks. I wish there were a way to fix that. The fan is maybe controllable through Intels DPTF settings, I will look into that. The BIOS is very extensive with a lot of unused options. I appreciate the idea with a forum to share all around the device.

[nickwillard]

I'm still considering getting this. It's either this or a 6th gen x1 carbon. I know that the Thinkpad will be a lot more powerful and useful but the portability of this tiny laptop is really tempting me

[BlackOut]

Thanks for your video series on this device. I purchased one a month ago and discovered your videos as I was waiting for its arrival. I find it's quite nice to use as a media device when lying in bed at night. It's bottom heavy so it doesn't tip over like tablets with keyboards do. Not a huge fan of the keyboard though since it seems to ignore my keytaps at times if I don't press down close enough to the middle of the keys (also the backspace key spot sucks). Thanks for putting up that driver collection on your other video. I couldn't get the audio to work until I had it search through those. Great series!

[danielstellmon]

I could see myself considering something like this for an emulator machine for old video games. If i could build in a decent controller this would make a decent Nintendo Game Boy replacement.

[marcosramirez]

So a few things. I love this thing. Its just the right size to replace my gaming laptop for menial tasks.

I ditched the power supply it came with and bought a usb c to barrel connector cable with voltage selector to use with my usb c pd charger. I got a blutooth mouse since the touchscreen, while good, can misclick with my fat fingers.

I backed up the drivers and reinstalled Windows 11. It did not come activated so I used a windows 10 Pro key I had.

Is still need to replace the 128gb ssd for a bigger one, but have to figure out if it only works with sata or I can get an NVME with B + M key.

I don't plan to drill out the usb c port yet nor open the unit until I get new thermal paste and pads. The temps seem fine for now since I don't do much but pay bills and watch movies.

I did try to install arch linux and while things went smoothly for the most part, I couldn't get the sound, wifi or bluetooth to work. Maybe in the future this will be fixed.

So far I'm liking it and will search for replacement batteries just in case.

[michaelkaliski]

Quite a competent little device which is surprisingly capable at undertaking pretty much any task you might expect a low end laptop to do. Battery life is sufficient. Size is fantastic for portability. USB ports are good enough to connect external devices without any issues. Bluetooth, wifi, and Windows and MS Office set up and ready to go out of the box. Okay you are operating in Admin mode, which is fine unless you are paranoid, and you don’t have Windows and MS Office licence keys readily to hand, but for what it is, this is an absolute bargain with zero competition in the rest of the market. It just works and any compromises due to the size have been carefully thought out and solved. There is a mouse stub in the keyboard for fine positioning of the cursor and a touch screen where less accuracy is required. Sure you need to think a little and adapt your techniques a bit, but it really does do everything reasonable well. The screen is clear and camera useable although not up to the latest smartphone standards. I’m very happy with mine, as you might have guessed.

[xtraflo]

I'm glad I got the Nanote P8 instead. While the CPU is slightly better on Your mini Laptop, the Nanote has a Higher Resolution Display, USB-C Power port and the Physical Footprint is a little smaller to where it can fit in your Pocket!!

[jofifpv]

I've been using mine for about a month. I put linux mint on it and everything work fine except soundcard (I'm using bt headphones so it doesn't matter) :D. I used it mostly for develop little games (pico 8, tic 80) and for net (forums, blogs, fb, yt). I like it. :)

[cameralabs]

Thanks for your videos about this device, I recently made one and mentioned your channel several times!

[yvfnksu]

Thanks for forum and driver pack. Awesoe work!

[logothaironsides]

I have one almost identical to this. We took it with us for camping and were able to access everything we would normally have taken a larger laptop for. That makes this a super useful gadget for us. Ours only has the 128gb drive so I got an external SSD caddy and plug one of those in for extra space. Also bought a usb hub with an ethernet socket for when getting updates and downloading etc. Ours came with a wireless mouse and dongle so we dont use the silly little red button.

[Fizbun]

Shotcut is nice and all but Lossless-Cut just pretty basic FFMPEG to cut stuff up. Which is nice, and maybe could be used here.

[mugglepower]

just bought one today. just needed a quick little kali console and maybe for some video watching. saw this laptop listed under all different crazy names. I am inclined to believe that it is actually just the same machine made by one manufacturer and rebranded a dozen times. common practice for a lot of chinese products.

[laughingvampire]

the red dot is called trackpoint or pointing stick

[gameblabla]

This would be very cool if this thing supports CSM booting so you could use it with FreeDOS + SBEMU for a cheap and decent dos laptop... tho i have no idea if that's the case (i had an intel atom laptop that only supported UEFI but i would love to be wrong here)

[Goblin-wxmd]

can you make a video trying to run some games? like tibia, league of legends! i know that is a basic mini pc but if run league of legends in 30 fps is very playable! i want one of these to code and go to school!

[ycfqbvu]

what's the battery life? Do standby and hibernation work well? Does fan go silent when doing nothing? Does it heat in light workloads?

[TetraTitanio]

How I can reset bios to default? Because I changed some options and my screen isn't receiving power, it's just black screen

[gitaramaker]

I can use this to control my CNC/laser engraver, very portable and will sit perfectly in my shop.

[Szabbyhun]

I want one, but the screen looks so bad, not because the resolution, but because the bezels, and that camera... i think this screen is most likely an aftermarket screen for some old /+ cheap tablet, and thats why there is a camera; althought, i like that there is no touchpad, i just dont like touchpads under the keyboard.

So yeah, i think a website for these cheap mini laptops would be good.
But despite what i wrote, i may buy one, because it would be a good pc accesory for me and for other things that a desktop pc cant do, and my first thing would be to install linux on it. Also, hope i will get my order wrong in a good way, if i ever buy one of these.