realme Book Slim Unboxing And Quick Review ⚡️ 2K Display, i3 11th Gen, 65W Charging & More

Finally! Finally! Finally, the realme Book Slim is here, you must’ve seen its unboxing already. But we got the package a little late, so I thought we’d make a quick unboxing. We’ve used it for 2-3 days & this video is based on my impressions in the form of a quick review. Let’s quickly look into the box. This box is a media kit! When you’ll be buying it, you’ll get the normal box but the contents will be nearly similar. It’s a thick wooden box, let’s open it.

It’s a little damaged as it was on the way here. Alright, it says, “Grab your tools & make your way to the revolutionary realme laptops.” “Designed To Empower” Ok, alright, it’s a plastic sheet. This is the laptop. It’s interesting! Oh, you get a 65W charger in the box. And it looks more like a smartphone charger, look at it. It’s a little heavy. There’s a USB to USB Type C cable. It feels as if I’m unboxing a huge smartphone! Looking at the accessories. There’s a power bank in here as well. And it’s only going to be in the media kit as you’ll be able to charge the laptop. Oh, you also get stickers & skins! OMG, look at these, they’re so unique! But you’ll only find these in the media kit. This one looks nice, it has a little less design. It says “Created The Hype, Mission Accomplished. Ok.

Let’s keep this all aside, including this box. Now, it’s time to look at the realme Book Slim! I must tell you that it feels slim when you pick it up by hand. Design – Oooh! Look at that color! It’s blue in color. You also get a grey color variant. But I saw an apricot color variant in the ad. I wish that was available. But only 2 colors are available for now. One is blue. To talk about slim, yes it is absolutely slim! It’s so thin that they had to put the USB port on the thickest side of the laptop. Or else there wouldn’t have been space for the USB port as well. So that’s nice. It’s light! It must be about 1.35-1.4 kgs, let’s test! You must be thinking about a drop test, but no I can’t do that like smartphones. Yeah, it’s 1.340 kgs, which is a little less than 1.35 kg. I won’t call it completely light as I’ve seen laptops of 1-1.1 kg as well as 1.7-1.8 kg in size. So it’s right in the middle & a little towards the lighter side. Yes, it’s thin & light.

Build Quality – Wow, The quality is excellent as it’s a full aluminum chassis body. So that’s very nice. And when you hold it in your hand, you know that it’s well built. And another good thing is that there’s no big “Dare To Leap” type branding, there’s a small understated “realme” that I liked. So that’s good. You can also put on skin if you want. We’ll show you how to put on skin on our Trakin Shorts channel! It’ll look very interesting with the skin for sure! Below you get a long grill, which is for air intake, so that’s nice. And you get speaker grills on both sides which are usually small, but these have 6 slit grills. And the rubber pads/legs are of good quality. It’s more raised at the back for it to sit at a slanting position. Ports & Buttons – On the left, there are 2 USB Type C ports, both have data transfer & charging options. There’s 1 USB port & a 3.5mm jack. It’s so slim that they couldn’t accommodate any more ports.

Friends this is an i3 variant, there’s also an i5 variant where you also get 2 USB Type C ports, but 1 is a thunderbolt port. It’s time to open the lid! Let’s see if we can open the lid with 1 hand. No! As it’s light, it doesn’t sit down. You have to hold it down & pull the lid up. Wow! Those bezels are definitely slim. We’ll show it after turning it on. But let’s talk about its keyboard. It’s a backlit keyboard. And the travel distance is ok & the keys are good & very clicky! The distance between the 2 keys isn’t that much. And it’s a 3 level backlit keyboard, so you can adjust the light accordingly. Many laptops can open up to a certain level. But this one can go all the way down. I wouldn’t call it an exact 180 degrees but it’s near the 170-degree tilt, So that’s good. There’s a power button that doubles up as a fingerprint sensor, so you can unlock it with it. Friends the tracking pad is huge! Because it’s a compact laptop & they’ve provided a big trackpad accordingly. The upper bezel is thin & there’s an HD webcam along with 2 microphones. And there’s also an LED indicator.

Oh! Look at that!

Display – The screen-to-body ratio is more than 90% & it looks like a good smartphone. The side bezels are generally 7-8mm. This one has 5.3mm bezels! So it’s very thin. To talk about the display, it’s a 14” display compact laptop. And looks more compact with the thin bezels. It’s a 14” QHD 2K screen, if you compare it with FHD+(1080p), you get 1.5 times more pixels. You get a 400 Nits brightness which is sufficient for outdoors & you won’t have any problems. We’ve tested it. There might be some problems with direct sunlight. But it’s great under general lighting conditions. The 400 Nits brightness on a laptop is good! I’ve been using it for 2-3 days & the color accuracy is good! It supports 100% sRGB. Specifications – You get 2 realme Book Slim variants: There’s i3(11th Gen) & an i5(11th Gen). You get 8GB of RAM in both variants but you get 256GB of SSD storage with the i3 variant. And 512GB of SSD storage with the i5 variant. It has a 54Whr battery in it. And realme claims that it has a playback time of 11 hours. We’ve been using it for 1-2 days & you’ll get 8-9 definite hours of battery under normal usage. Meaning the battery will be still alive even after you get back home from college! So that’s good. Friends it also has fast charging support. And it charges from 0-50% in 30 minutes! To talk about the graphics card, you’ll get an integrated GPU(eGPU).

Remember, it’s for day to day work like college kids or working professionals where you watch videos/create documents. And do some small other things. This is perfect for that! You don’t need a dedicated graphics card. If you want to edit videos, this isn’t the one for you.

Multimedia – It’s a beautiful & bright screen with accurate colors. And it also has good audio that’s tuned by Harman. And it’s sufficiently loud as well. We played songs & YouTube videos on it & I loved the experience. Multimedia experience is good! OS UI – You get Windows 10 Home Edition which is upgradable to Windows 11 which is launching on 5th October. So you can just upgrade it free of cost. You get pre-installed Microsoft Office which is quite good! And you also get the PC Connect feature for seamless connectivity between your smartphone and the realme Book Slim. It gets connected to the recently launched realme GT series but it’ll roll out for other realme phones as well.

Connectivity – You get Bluetooth 5.1 & dual-band WiFi in the i3 variant. And with the upper(i5) variant, you get WiFi 6 & Bluetooth 5.2, that’s another difference. So what was my experience in the past 2-3 days? We have used it for a long time like I said the battery is really good. Its charger can charge the laptop as well as phones so that’s a good thing. You don’t have to carry both chargers. The laptop charger is generally big & has a thick cable. But it’s not with this one. Just carry 1 adapter to charge your smartphone as well as your laptop. It’s a huge convenience especially when you’re traveling! The good part is that the color doesn’t attract too many fingerprints. You wouldn’t have to clean the laptop. Many laptops show fingerprints after holding it 2-3 times.

But the color, materials & finish they’ve used doesn’t attract fingerprints. Like I said, even if you carry it in your hand the whole day. You wouldn’t feel it much, it’s not that heavy! So that’s good. But most importantly, what’s the price? All things are good but at what price does it come? It’s priced at Rs 46,999(Rs 47K). If you look at the competition, the base specifications(i3 + 8GB) come at Rs 42-43K. So definitely giving Rs 4-5K as premium. But, that premium is for a reason, you get a 2K display which I really liked! The build quality & colors are good! The convenient charging factor is good! 1-2 things, like an extra USB port, could’ve made it better. But it’s not there, because it’s slim & light. So yes there’s a trade-off. But at this price, with the features & display it offers, I think it’s definitely a good one! The realme Book Slim is a nice laptop!

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