Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. In this series I’ll examine every aspect of this laptop from a Linux perspective.

The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus has a price of $629 (that’s not an affiliate link). There’s a $50 early bird discount available which brings the price down to $579. And Chuwi is offering LinuxLinks readers a 13% discount on the purchase price. Use the discount code LinuxAirPlus at the checkout. With both discounts applied, the price is $547.23. For UK readers, this means the laptop costs around £400. There’s also a 14-inch model available (the Chuwi Corebook Air) at a lower price.

I’ll use the inxi utility to delve into the technical specifications of the CoreBook Air Plus.

Processor

The Air Plus has the AMD Ryzen 5 6600H, a mobile processor with 6 cores, launched in January 2022. It is part of the Ryzen 5 lineup, using the Zen 3+ (Rembrandt) architecture with Socket FP7. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 12 threads. Ryzen 5 6600H has 16 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.3 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4.5 GHz, depending on the workload.

When this image was taken the laptop was running in Performance mode on mains power. If I put the machine into power save or balanced mode, the clock frequency drops to the minimum 400Mhz.

Graphics

By default 1G of system RAM is allocated to the GPU. This can be changed in the BIOS.

The 2MP Full HD infrared (IR) webcam is from Luxvisions.

Disk

There’s a 512GB NVMe SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 disk made by Netac.

Memory

The laptop has 16GB of RAM. Its made up of 4GB BIWIN LPDDR5 chips soldered on the board for a total of 16GB of RAM

Audio

Bluetooth

Network

Temperature

This reading was taken with the laptop idling on a cold Winter’s day (room temperature was a chilly 14.5C).

Here’s the output from the sensors command.

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