Jumper EZBook X3 Pro Review - $299 8GB Gemini Lake Laptop

### Article: In-Depth Review of the Jumper Extreme Pro Laptop

#### Introduction

Chrissy welcomes you back to another review, this time focusing on the **Jumper Extreme Pro laptop**. The video begins by highlighting that we're at the end of the year, and we’re finally seeing laptops with full-spec Type-C ports, such as the one being reviewed. The laptop comes with **8GB of dual-channel RAM**, which is an improvement over earlier models that only had 4GB due to Windows 10 licensing costs. Priced at **$299**, the Jumper Extreme Pro is one of the best laptops in its category, and Chrissy hopes it’s not too long before we see the B Max X14, another model in the same lineup.

Chrissy mentions that reviewing Gemini Lake laptops can be overwhelming, but this particular laptop stands out as a solid choice despite having **one key weakness** compared to others in the series.

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#### Build Quality and Design

The Jumper Extreme Pro has a high-quality build, reminiscent of the older **Jumper EasyBook 3 Pro** models. The laptop features a **metal palm rest**, which adds to its premium feel. It’s also very lightweight at **1.29 kg** and thin, measuring just **14 mm** in thickness.

The laptop includes a **status LED** for the battery, which turns red when charging and green once fully charged—a small but useful feature. The **Type-C port** on the left side is a standout feature, supporting USB 3.1 with 4K/30Hz video output, data transfer, and power delivery. This is something the Jumper EasyBook Pro lacks. On the right side, there’s a **USB 3.0 port**, a **3.5mm headphone jack** (which supports both audio and microphone input without static or interference), and a **microSD card slot** that flushes into the top bezel for easy access.

The laptop also includes an **HD webcam** with dual-array microphones, though the quality of the webcam is noted to be poor—struggling in bright light and delivering choppy video in low-light conditions.

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#### Screen and Display

One of the primary weaknesses of the Jumper Extreme Pro is its screen. The laptop features a **non-laminated display with a 1mm gap**, which can cause reflections, especially under bright lighting or outdoors. The brightness tops out at **200 nits**, which is insufficient for outdoor use but adequate indoors.

The color gamut coverage is decent, with **74% Adobe RGB**, an improvement over the older Jumper EasyBook 3 Pro, which had a much lower coverage and a noticeable blue tint. However, the glossy screen and lack of anti-glare coating make it less ideal for environments with direct sunlight or reflective surfaces.

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#### Internal Components and Upgradability

The laptop comes with a **180GB SSD** that can be easily upgraded by removing two screws and accessing the 22x80 slot under the keyboard. This allows users to add up to a **2TB NVMe SSD**, which is a significant upgrade for those needing more storage.

The **38Wh battery** provides around **7-8 hours of life**, depending on usage, with video playback extending it to **9 hours** in some cases. The laptop also includes a large heatsink, and Chrissy suggests that adding thermal paste could further improve heat dissipation.

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#### Performance

The Jumper Extreme Pro is powered by an **Intel Celeron N4100 quad-core processor**, which performs well for light computing tasks like browsing, office work, and streaming. The laptop runs Windows 10 Home (version 1903), with Chrissy noting that it’s fully activated and free from counterfeit software issues.

The **8GB of dual-channel RAM** ensures smooth multitasking, even when running multiple tabs in Chrome or editing spreadsheets. However, gaming performance is limited, as the laptop lacks a dedicated GPU. In testing, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ran at around **10-12 FPS** at 720p with maximum settings disabled, making it playable but far from optimal for more demanding games.

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#### Thermals and Power Management

The laptop’s thermals are impressive, staying under **60°C** during gaming and other demanding tasks. Chrissy highlights the potential to increase the power limit beyond the default 6W using an unlocked BIOS, which could improve performance further.

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#### Audio and Connectivity

The Jumper Extreme Pro has four small speakers that provide decent audio output for movies and music, though they lack bass and volume. The laptop also supports **Bluetooth 5** and includes a **Wi-Fi chip**, though Chrissy notes that it’s soldered onto the motherboard and performs similarly to other laptops in its class.

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#### Software and Linux Compatibility

The laptop ships with Windows 10 Home, which is fully activated and free from bloatware. Chrissy also mentions that the laptop works well with **Linux Mint**, with all features like brightness control, touchpad, wireless, and Bluetooth functioning properly.

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#### Conclusion

The Jumper Extreme Pro is a solid choice for light computing tasks at its price point of $299. It excels in areas like build quality, port selection, and thermals, but falls short in terms of screen quality and gaming performance. Chrissy concludes that this laptop brings Jumper back to the quality seen in older models like the **Jumper EasyBook 3 Pro**, which is a positive sign for the brand.

Chrissy looks forward to reviewing the **B Max X14**, another Gemini Lake laptop, which is expected to have similar specs but with a fully laminated display.

Thank you for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone Chrissy and welcome back to another Gemini Lake laptop yes we're finally of course the end of this year starting to see the best versions coming out with full spec type-c ports that this one has right here and we've also got 8 gigabytes of RAM in dual channel now originally they just came with 4 gigabytes of RAM due to Windows 10 licensing costs but they seem to have gotten around that and for a decent price this one is in fact one of the best ones price-wise it's 299 us and it's gonna be the second to last human ilayk laptop that I look at hopefully the next one is the B max X 14 but I don't want to go crazy like I did with the Apollo Lakes that I almost went insane reviewing so many of them so does a good laptop but as you see in this review it really only has one key weakness compared to the other ones that I've reviewed as you'll see in this review now the build of this laptop I'd rather do like it's back to the jumper easy book 3 pro days the fact that it's all metal because we've got a metal palm rest here and it is a quality build it's quite thin so this laptop weighs just one point two nine kilos and as fourteen millimeters thick on the life of this laptop you'll find DC in there for charging there is a status LED that is red when charging green once fully charged that's great so you know when it's fully charged and you can unplug it now the type C port here is like the recent Jim and I like laptops that it is a full spec twine so this is USB 3.1 supports a video that 4k 30 Hertz max output we've got data and then power delivery support as well which is great something the chui let book pro is definitely lacking and on the right we've got a USB 3 port so this will power external hard drives up to 2 terabytes tested 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so this is also supporting microphones and good quality there's no static or interference and the loudness is decent enough normally on the Gemini Lake laptops affect all of them I've tested we don't have the issues like the old atoms with static and that hiss over the line and that's not here and the microSD cards in the slot here as you can see and they sit in flush which is great up in the top bezel you find an HD webcam here with the dual array microphones it does have a status LED now the quality of this webcam is just like all the other German elite laptops that it is rather poor it will struggle even in bright light it looks a little bit dim and if you're in low light it's quite choppy that's about 15 20 frames per second not an amazing webcam but at least we've got one so if the 180 gigabyte SSD is not enough for you you can upgrade it it's very easy to do just two screws and just remove this hatch right here and it gives you access to a 22 by 80 slot so you remove one hundred eighty gear by Drive you can put up to 2 terabytes in here and then a look at the internals so we have a 38 watt hour battery this will last for up to about 8 hours depending on what you're doing if you're just watching video then it could even go for nine hours or so so seven or eight is this kind of standard figure there for these our Tim and I like laptops so we've got a cop heatsink that's quite a large one here now if you're into your mods out there you can put a thermal pad on the top of this that would definitely help reduce temperatures because it will transfer heat then onto the rear underside of this all middle laptop so the wireless card sadly is not upgradeable the layout looks good everything's screwed into place here and no problems now the screen and the x3 Pro is the area of weakness here so they did cut costs here with the glass that's over the top of it now I don't particularly like the bezel around I mean it's alright it's not a huge bizzle or anything like that but the fact that they've gone gray here will the silver grey plastic around the outside and then it's non laminated so there's a gap of approximately 1 millimeter which is not bad but you can see that my tripod is reflecting here so it's a very reflective screen and you can put those met anti clear screen protectors over the top that will probably help a lot with that now the brightness only tops out and a hundred in 99 it's now this isn't really ideal it should be about 250 at least so it's not the brightest screen however when you've got it right now this is actually on about 80% with my bright studio lights on so indoors you're gonna see it fine it's just outdoors reflections and that brightness will make it really impossible to use it so 70% into your si color gamut coverage they're an Adobe RGB of 74% is so much better than the easy book 3 Pro that one had an Adobe RGB I believe of about 46 or 48 percent so it was a rather poor screen and had a big huge blue tint to it however it was a matte anti-glare screen which would have been better here in the extreme Pro so when you first go through the setup there are a lot of European languages on this Windows 10 image which is version 1903 Windows 10 home it's fully activated there's no problems with that they're not using a counterfeit CD key no not here so when you take a look at the devices we've got on here so you've got the CPU that I've covered a lot of okay Intel Celeron n 4100 it's a quad-core maximum turbos 2.4 gigahertz and we do have that Intel wireless AC 94611 on here which is unusual to see because normally it is soldered on the motherboard and we have the Intel wireless AC 3165 this also supports Bluetooth 5 and our memory good news it is running in dual channel the 8 gigabytes of RAM that we have and our SSD I'm currently testing their intel SSD you'll see listed here and this was a bit of a surprise to me because normally they use be winned 4c and other brands like me tech but this is an entire SSD and as a result you can see we do actually have very decent speeds these are probably faster actually this is faster than most of the other laptops with the sound in 4000 that I have reviewed but free space if you have a look at C Drive right here we've only gotten approximately a hundred and forty two gigabytes free just above the keyboard you'll find three status LEDs so one is power on the others caps lock and the other one to let you know if you have disabled the touchpad so there are four speakers in here you can see them just tiny little speakers and I'll give you a sample of them now they're not particularly great sounding this is very common and they could be also a little bit louder but they do do the job it's loud enough that you can hear for example movies but here's that sample so let's have a look at the performance you can expect here from this hour on n 4100 so this is Geekbench 4 I'm not using Geekbench 5 because I can't relate to the schools and all it was just haven't tested enough tick with it but this is a little bit slower than some of the other cell and in 4,100 laptops and it could have been because Windows updates or something was going on the background but it is a non power kind of score there so not super powerful this laptop is designed for light computing so not 4k video editing in fact no video editing no real demanding work you can do like Photoshop Lite kind of whip like that is going to be ok and I will demonstrate later on to a little bit of gaming performance so I just want to do a quick search here in chrome just to show you what you can do with this and how many tabs you can run in just how fast a wallet load in now the wallets performance I wanted to talk a little bit about that that I've had no problems with the single the range and reception sorry from that wireless AC chip but it seems to be performing on par just like all the others are on in 4,100 laptop so I'm in ruins so I'm gonna open up here multiple tabs I don't know how many I've got now there but it's close to 10 that's really about as far as you want to go pushing it although with 8 gigabytes of RAM you can see we still haven't solved that up at all so I swapped between these tabs few things are still loading in there and the scrolling speed is noticeably a little bit slower there as expected well that's all loading in the CPU is being pushed there you can see to 100% so swap between all these tabs here and you can see that that's actually quick now a lot of people in the beginning when I first demonstrated this on this kind of chipset were quite surprised with this performance that it's like an older gin core i3 or even say a very old forth gin I 5 then it actually does pretty well here before performance so this is a sony 4k 60 frames per second clip here I'll just demonstrate how this performs with Windows Media Player if it'll let me play and I think it should and you see it's gonna take a little while to open and it's actually quite slow that's probably because of what's going on in the background with those websites and now that's just not gonna run it properly I don't think no okay so I bought that and I will use the windows player home classic that's much better there we go okay so let's skip ahead a little bit of stutters to begin with and then it smooths out just remember this is a very demanding file I think the bitrate is about a hundred and fifty meters per second as well I mean that's really demanding but other files are a little bit smaller 4k like my typical clip I show you'll see that this loads in quick and is smooth so it plays back video files a TVC ones vp9 really quite well and just go into quickly a spreadsheet so you can see swapping between that multitasking you'll sometimes see a little bit of like a caching loading delay there but I real you can do your edits change things around here without any noticeable lag and that's the main thing so let's jump into a game here this is Counter Strike global Offensive and we'll keep an eye on the thermals and see how it performs so I've got it set to 720p and in the settings for in towers graphics I've disabled all those power saving options as well and selected maximum performance so this frame rate does dip down to about whoa 12 10 frames per second as you can see then so it's not an amazing performance at all it's what I would call scraping play ball at 720p probably want to lower that resolution and I'm probably going to die so it's it's doing okay but one thing I have noticed it with the default power limit that the thermals are really really good it always stays under 60 degrees here with my ambient 25 degrees that I've got to stick to older titles League of Legends as well will be another one that's quite playable on this particular chipset and it really isn't that great at gaming that's harder of course you need a dedicated GPU to be able to game properly so our firm was here really good we're maxing out you can see it's 68 degrees but a lot of the time gaming I noticed it was actually under 60 degrees it really depends on what you're doing but with the default power limit which has six watts thermals great so you can increase that you've got quite a bit of headroom I would say to run something like 10 or 11 watts so if a better life in this test I was running 60% brightness and I was actually doing quite a bit of demanding works I had a lot of chrome tabs open video a little bit of Counter Strike global Offensive as well and I managed here you can see a runtime that's going to be approximately 5 hours or so so that's more demanding you so your typical kind of lighter web views you're going to get about seven hours to eight hours with us which is on par with other Celeron in 4000 laptops that have a 38 what our batteries so this machine does have a completely unlocked BIOS and that means that we can adjust the power limits and I discovered that the thermals are very very good on this machine so the default 6 watts which they have set under auto you can override that and set something like 10 or 11 or use the software method to completely remove power limits now that crazy flicker you are seeing right now and any flicker in this video is just on camera now if you're into Linux and you wanted to run it on this particular laptop the good news is that everything is working this as with the latest Linux Mint distro so the brightness controls the touchpad wireless Bluetooth all working no problems so let's just recap here I think the gaming performance that you saw there was actually a little bit better than some of the other in 4100 models I've reviewed and it's probably because it's configured in dual channel that 8 gigabytes of RAM that we've got here ddr4 of course that it's got now the keyboard is good to type on it's missing print screen shortcut unfortunately which should be there but of course there's ways around that I like the fact that they separated the power button away from the keyboard it's backlit it's evenly backlit the brightness has two settings which is good metal palm rest very large touchpad and look how thin it is it is a thin laptop that's only about 14 millimeters if we don't count the big rubber feet on the bottom so other areas that are actually very very good that did surprise me is the thermals thermals are well it's not even getting up to 70 degrees so you can push a much higher power limit you can unlock the power limit using that software method now that I've shown previously in fact that was for the Polar Lake but it works on the Jim a lake so you can get better GPU performance because it holds higher clocks improving gaming performance there so you'll be able to play older titles in 720p as as I showed you there so the hinge is quite stiff it goes back thus far are the speakers aren't amazing but I do believe they are better than previous jumper laptops that I have looked at battery life is about seven hours to eight depending on what you're doing and the brightness setting now the big con isn't the webcam the webcam is average it's not fully laminated but it's actually okay because it's just a one millimeter gap you don't really notice it and it doesn't distract me too much and we've got a good color gamut here Adobe RGB of 74% we don't normally get that so these manufacturers are finally used up they're really poor IPS panels and using much better one so it doesn't come with a crazy blue tint like the easy buck 3 Pro did that model did but it's not a matte screen so it's super reflective and it really does need to be brighter because it has a glossy screen it's glass covered so they should have at least had 250 nits I nearly 300 or more but we're getting just 200 so for some people if you're in very bright environments like I've got very bright studio lights on right now the screen is fine for me I'm running about 50% 70 and right now I think it's set to about 80 not quite on maximum and it's good but if you were to use this outdoors impossible with the reflections and that brightness not good so all up for the 299 price a full spec type-c port it's offering quite a bit for the best price so far of the 8 gigabyte to Mono Lake laptops that I have reviewed it's just the screen there but all up I really do like this machine and that's why I think that jumpers back to their original easy book 3 pro days which is about time because their previous models I reviewed the x4 and the other ones they were not good they were pretty poor really and I wasn't impressed with them and some have bad keyboards on or there but this keyboard great and I've decent machine so we'll have that one more Gemini Lake laptop that's the B max X 14 that a lot of you asked me to review it also has a full spec type C port and I believe it is very very similar to this laptop but it's just 14 inches with a fully laminated display it doesn't support touch a lot of people think it does but I'm pretty sure it doesn't so I hope to catch you back then and thank you so much for watching bye for now\n"