Ninkear A16 Pro travel notebook test

The little thing was sprinkled into the box, which is nothing more than a fairly low budget mouse, some keyboard stickers, a mouse pad, a description and a… drum roll…GaN charger at 100 W. There is no power supply, how is this possible? This finally got me across the tech ocean into 2024, when features like the very cool sounding “full featured Type-C port". Let's combine the former with the concept of the GaN charger and see what it means and why it's all good.

This eventually became the Type-C technology, which can transfer up to 300 W if all conditions are met. Why not charge notebooks and phones at the same time?

This is how the Ninkear A16 Pro notebook box came with a 100 W "phone charger", which is also a laptop charger, and a thicker USB Type-C cable.

Let's learn the essential lesson together: with this method almost all of your modern devices will be charged. However, the creators of the Ninkear A16 Pro were not very brave, they did not dare to leave the DC input, but no power supply was added, so the thrifty decontenting class won over marketing. The abbreviation GaN stands for gallium nitrite, which is a more modern energy transfer and storage technology, so high power can fit in a small body, and such devices do not get too hot. I wrote about this before Baseus GaN 2 Pro regarding the charger that I have been using for a few years.

Fortunately, port selection does not end there, but there are:

• 2 full Type-C ports
• 2 USB 3.0
• 1 3,5 mm jack headphone output
• 1 DC IN (exactly what it is is a mystery)
• 1 pieces of HDMI

This doesn't seem like much, but both Type-Cs can transfer 100 W, the screenshot using DP-Alt mode, and they can charge other devices anyway.

That's in principle 3 pieces! a monitor can also be hung on it, if the Ninkear A16 Pro receives power from the DC IN, even if Type-C monitors were not as rare as the white raven. One thing is certain, this Type-C can feed normally Essager 8-in-1 docking station, which I had a problem with before, and it also drives the SSD in it well, because I measured normal speeds on it. I was also able to put an HDMI monitor on it, so it finally gets as much juice as it needs. For this reason, you can attach all the crap in the world to the end of 1 Type-C port: TF reader, SSD storage, mouse, keyboard, flash drive, etc., I love it.

Plus, they didn't commit the assassination that some Hewlett Packard devices did: that the functions of the FN key were "wired" in reverse. In this case, you don't need to enter a button combination for the secondary functions, but you do for the primary ones, which is rarely annoying. I think this can be adjusted from the BIOS, but hey, why spoil what's good?

As a technical person, I immediately started watching "disassembly" videos on YouTube, which is just as perverse as unboxing, only this has some benefit. Alternatively, I would have just gone for it, but our Russians haven't made them yet, even though there is no embargo from China, so I tried to illuminate the body of the Ninkear with a flashlight. To my great delight, I saw copper inside and two fans, which was a good sign. I tried to drive it with the benchmarks, but Aida's thermometer is 49 degrees Celsius! freaked out. What? Well, it doesn't heat up, even though it's the primary cause of laptop death. A big red mark for whoever planned this, but time will tell if it really turned out well.

The processor of the Ninkear A16 Pro is a crisp piece, the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU.

They finally got rid of Intel's stuff, and wherever there are no letters C, U or P, you should always be happy about that. Because HS stands for High Efficiency - H/HX stands for maximum performance - these are the more bullish pieces and do not provide such languishing performance as e.g. are marked U. Here, moreover, the chip received an NPU, which stands for neural processor unit, can be used to support mathematical operations performed by generative artificial intelligence, so this is really the future. The GPU is the nothing extra category, marked 780M, it is true that integrated solutions will never bring you stars, but the situation is not terribly bad.

And if I've already mentioned the tester programs, let's see what scores they returned:

• CineBench R23 (multi core/single core): 15 288 points; 1737 points;
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 (2,5K resolution no AA, 8xAA): 31,1 FPS/784 points; 13,8 FPS/348 points;
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 (1080p resolution no AA, 8xAA): 71,7 FPS/1804 points; 29,8 FPS/750 points;
• CrystalDiskMark 8, (sequential read and write): 2323/1857 MB/s;

One thing that stands out right away is that since the screen resolution of the Ninkear A16 Pro is not the usual 1080p that games run in, but 2560 × 1600 pixels, it is better to consider the second line of Uniqine Heaven. Quite decent numbers of FPS are visible here. Well, you won't bring them with Helldivers 2, but the 10 years ago - e.g. Far Cry 3-4 games will run smoothly on the 780M GPU. The The speed of NVME SSD is not so good either. nowadays they can do 3500-4000 MB/s, but it's still not bad. Anyway, it's there 6 WiFi and BT 5. whatever, the manufacturer does not tie the exact version to your noses.

As for the display, the Ninkear A16 Pro notebook has a 2560×1600 pixel resolution, refreshing at 120 Hz, and a fundamentally excellent one.

Basically, because this aspect ratio is 16:10, and although the software fills the picture, films and videos, for example, do not, instead two black bars remain. It's a bit like the Chinese tablets, that the 2560×1440 pixel, 16:9 panel would have been better, but this way you can write even more pixels on the poster. Except for my rambling in that direction, I really can't connect it, it has a brightness of 350 nits, which is quite enough for a room, It meets 100% of the sRGB color space, its colors are bright and cheerful. Without another display next to it, no one would say that there are better IPS panels, but even with my KTC monitors, I felt that its performance was more than decent. A thought: the monitor is 120 Hz, but the GPU cannot synchronize this to other displays, so there is no Free- and G-Sync. This is not a gaming laptop.

There are currently no processors with a smaller bandwidth on this market - TSMC is somewhere around 3nm, but these are not yet available - so the stuff practically hardly heats up.

Based on my 12 years of experience in IT, I say that 10 times out of 8 notebook hardware issues with heat – or with user error – were related so I will say in advance that I think this will be a timeless piece. However, if you drive it to maximum, the fans can get louder, but it is very rare that it has to spin at 100%, and there are no random acceleration anomalies, like for example my previous Xiaomi Mi Gaming laptop.

Since the Ninkear A16 Pro consumes little, it also has a good operating time. It has a 5200 mAh battery, which means 80,08 Wh, which roughly corresponds to a 20 mAh power bank, they are 000 Wh. And the thing is that with normal use, it doesn't waste electrons very much. By the way, you can use the FN+Q button to switch between office, balanced and Turbo mode, I stayed with the first one while writing the test, and then I measured with an online stopwatch how long it takes from the battery, so I used 74 monitors and a USB HUB. . THE 4,5 hours is pretty decent, so that I didn't immediately turn down the brightness, and don't forget, the Ninkear A16 Pro note also has power behind it. I Photoshopped it, Premier Prose it, even played a little, and it tolerated it without a fuss. Watch a movie approx. it can be twice as long with the brightness turned down, which is also tablet battery time. There is also a 100 W phone charger for charging. which makes it all very convenient and The A1 Pro reaches 100% in 16 hour. By the way, 65 W is enough to keep it alive, and the operating time can be doubled with a more modern 20 mAh power bank.

I can't say too much about Windows 16 Pro running on the Ninkear A11 Pro, it's a pre-activated operating system, it does its job, the explanation and updates went smoothly, I had no problems with it.

I was very happy to discover that they finally integrated a normal image cropper, which comes up by pressing PrtScr, it doesn't need special auxiliary software anymore, as in the case of Win10. A characteristic of Ninkearos is that their stereo speakers are not very good and this is also the case with the A16 Pro, it hums in a low, mellow voice, but this is still the best of the models tested so far. And it's pretty much the only one I can get into, which I think is extremely rare for a notebook.