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GeekBook X14 Pro Review: Geekom's First Laptop Is Impressively Thin and Light, but Battery Life Disappoints

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CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise.

7.1 / 10 Score Cnet Score CNET provides expert, unbiased reviews of products and services. When we assign a score, we use a scale of 1-10. Each product we score is evaluated by criteria specific to its category with most assessing pricing, quality, features and performance. Read more on: How we test Geekom GeekBook X14 Pro $1,249 at Geekom Pros Very thin and exceptionally light for its size

Sharp, vibrant 2.8K OLED display

Strong multicore performance

Spacious 2TB SSD

Speakers are surprisingly capable Cons Meteor Lake CPU is two generations old

Much shorter battery life than competing models with more modern CPUs

Single-core performance lags behind competition

Terrible touch pad

Geekom is known for its mini PCs that you can hide behind a monitor, mount under a desk or nestle in your home theater, so it's not surprising that its first laptop doesn't take up a lot of space either.

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