NIAKUN NiaBook 16" NY-08 2025, N150, 16GB, 1TB SSD, Blue

The Intel N150 processor bottoms out in the 7th percentile of our benchmarks, making this one of the slowest new laptops we've ever seen. Our overall score has slipped to 35 out of 100, and the laptop is now out of stock across all vendors. That 1TB SSD was a nice touch, but it's like putting premium tires on a go-kart. Avoid this if you ever want to do more than type a Word document without pulling your hair out.

Under the hood, the 4-core Intel N150, even with its 3.6GHz burst, lags behind almost every competitor we've tested. We're talking slower than a six-year-old used ThinkPad running an 8th gen i5. In our benchmarks, this processor chokes on anything beyond light web apps. The integrated UHD Graphics (45th percentile) are about what you'd get in any budget laptop, meaning video playback is fine, but don't expect to run Photoshop or even heavy Excel sheets without constant stuttering.

We do appreciate that NIAKUN included 16GB of LPDDR4 RAM, even if that capacity lands in the 26th percentile—most laptops at this price ship with 8GB. But here's the thing: that RAM is like a big, empty highway when the CPU is a horse-drawn cart. You'll never max it out because the processor will tap out first. The 1TB SSD (69th percentile) is a genuine highlight, offering plenty of room for documents and media, and boot times are reasonable thanks to the solid-state drive. Just don't confuse decent storage speed with overall system snappiness.

Putting this against the ASUS ProArt PX13 or the MacBook Air M4 felt absurd before, and now the gap is even wider. The current top 5 is stacked with heavy hitters: the Apple MacBook Pro M4 Max, ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10, MSI Raider, and Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition. These machines are in a different universe performance-wise and cost several times as much. But that's the point: the NiaBook's only real competition was other rock-bottom budget laptops. In that arena, an Acer Aspire with a proper i3 or a used ThinkPad L-series offered dramatically better CPU scores and build quality for the same $400. The NIAKUN won on screen size and storage capacity at that price, but it lost on everything else that makes a laptop usable day to day. Now that it's out of stock, even that narrow win is irrelevant.

Pricing for the NIAKUN NiaBook NY-08 has dried up entirely. It's now out of stock across every vendor we track, so you can't even buy it new at the moment. That's probably for the best. When it was available between $380 and $430, it looked like a steal because of the 1TB SSD and big screen. The harsh truth was always that you were paying for storage while the brain of the machine was a potato. We'd trade half that SSD space for a competent processor any day. For the same money, a refurbished business laptop from Lenovo or Dell with an 8th or 10th gen i5 will run circles around the NiaBook in actual productivity, even if it only comes with a 256GB drive. The value wasn't there unless you had a very niche need: a large, lightweight typewriter that boots Windows. Now that it's unavailable, the question is moot.

The NIAKUN NiaBook NY-08's Intel N150 processor is a real letdown, sitting in the 7th percentile of all laptops we've tracked. That's dead last territory. You're looking at one of the slowest chips on the market, which kneecaps everything this laptop tries to do. The 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD are bright spots on paper, but the CPU grinds any multitasking to a crawl the moment you open more than a couple of browser tabs.

The "gaming laptop" label is outright misleading. Our database gives it a 13.4 out of 100 for gaming, and that's being generous. You can forget about anything beyond Solitaire. For basic browsing or document editing, it'll technically function, but you'll be staring at loading spinners way more than you'd expect from a modern machine. At 1.59kg with a 16-inch 1920x1200 display, it's not a chore to carry, but the portability won't matter if you're constantly frustrated by the speed.

Anyone who needs to run more than a single app at a time should look elsewhere. The CPU is painfully slow, and the reliability score of 3rd percentile suggests a high risk of hardware failure. Gamers, students crunching data sets, and even heavy browser users will be miserable. If you're tempted by the low price because you just need a Netflix machine, consider that a tablet with a stand might provide a smoother experience with better battery life.

We can't recommend the NIAKUN NiaBook NY-08. The 7th percentile CPU and 3rd percentile reliability ranking were red flags that couldn't be ignored, no matter how tempting the 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM looked. Our overall score has dropped to 35 out of 100, which puts it firmly in the bottom tier of laptops we've tested. If your computing needs were limited to typing, reading, and maybe a Netflix stream, and you absolutely needed a big screen and Windows on a strict budget, you might have tolerated it. For anyone else, this laptop would have been a source of daily frustration. The fact that it's now out of stock everywhere makes the decision easy: spend your money on a refurbished machine from a trusted brand instead.