let me get this straight this is a computer
and this is its monitor this raises a
lot more questions than it answers like what's a J series Intel CPU and how on
Earth did this raise over a million Canadian dollars on Indiegogo people
really really small and a mouse this small look
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incredibly a fully fully cheered Windows 10 compatible PC complete with USBC
power in three USB 3 ports a Micro SD
reader HDMI out and even a headphone jack I know you can't take that kind of
thing for granted these days but it's not even the computer that impressed me
the most it's the accessory package it comes to us from a company called xdo.ai
who completed their Indiegogo campaign way back in 2021 but only now appears to
be actually shipping units out to their backers this thing in my hand is an
accompanying Pico projector that seems to have well everything you'd expect
HDMI input power button 5 volt power in
ah little cover for the lens and even a
built-in speaker if the audio controls anything to go by and it's not just that
it's one of those adorable retractable cord mobile Mouse's Mouse
it's not going to be a contender for world's smallest gaming PC shout out
basically homeless HDMI to Mini HDMI cable we'll be using that for our setup
little tiny tripod wow it comes with a
remote okay what else am I looking at here oh
stuff they seem to be engineering themselves other stuff they seem to be
pretty much putting a sticker on and if you're wondering what leads me to
the conclusion this is simply a re-badged product well for one thing it's USBC which isn't even compatible
with the Pico PC so it comes with a c to a adapter and for another why would you
add a Micro SD card reader to a product that has a trans flash card reader I
mean hey look I'm not saying no to more expansion
this is a really nice little carrying case though if the whole point is to
have a little tiny computer why am I carrying it around on this there's a
smaller version of the case whoa
okay this is more like it I can have my
whole computer my mouse my projector
holy crap they're gonna have a lot of fun with this thing oh it's a battery
Bank oh no way I didn't even notice
that is awesome oh I'm loving this
can I get my keyboard in here I don't know if I would describe this as the
most cohesive ecosystem this cable apparently allows you to power both the
projector and the computer off of the battery pack we'll take a closer look at
that later first I want to crack this baby open whoa what a disappointment I
brought my lethal tiny prototype LTT storage screwdriver
and it's still not really a Precision driver it's more intended for hard to
reach spaces bummer instead of directing
you can't buy though I should direct you to the ShortCircuit hoodie oh actually
that would be way better oh oh oh
amazing you guys ready for this
what this is bizarre they recommend configuring your Pantera PC
not that one different Pantera with a larger SSD than you think you need which
seems to suggest that it's going to be really hard to change after the fact if
you end up needing more capacity but in fact that couldn't be farther from the
truth this is just about the easiest Mini PC SSD swap that I've ever seen
three plastic screws one fairly easily removable rubber gasket and then a
single screw it's right there this is awesome yup that is about as generic as
it gets it's called solid state drive lowercase state capital solid Capital
Drive you might say it's a solid Drive no company that I recognize on either
the controller or on the nand flash and it does not have a dram cache though
that doesn't really surprise me at the price point for this system aside from
being extremely small in size it's extremely small in price it should be
noted though that that's early bird pricing if you gave them your money a
year and a half ago the actual MSRP for these things is going to be 219 for the
base model and go up to 399 for the 8
gig RAM one terabyte storage model oh
there's little plastic pins no this isn't so bad I won't break it don't worry I'm not gonna break it Jake
oh hey there we go oh my God
this thing is so cool
there's our CMOS battery it's got a mid frame to separate the two boards from
each other this appears to be the i o board if the label is anything to go by
this appears to be a Micro SD card reader controller right here we're
looking at a real Tech chip of some sort if I had to guess I'd say that's to do
with the onboard audio USB 3 no idea though I suspect at least
one of these ribbon cables is carrying a PCIe by four signal for this m.2 slot
it's SATA oh
what the heck is an Intel J series CPU
what we're looking at in here is a quad core CPU that runs it up to 2.7
gigahertz Burst 2 gigahertz base meaning that this thing could actually be
reasonably capable if only I could get
at it ah I see the screws the specific
model is the Celeron j4125 and it is
obviously designed for extremely low power applications it only supports a
maximum of six PCIe Lanes at Gen 2
speeds in spite of being actually relatively current product and it sips
power at a 10 watt TDP in spite of its 14 nanometer manufacturing process there
are a couple of smart things I see in here first of all the wireless and
Bluetooth chipset here has the antennas glued onto it not in a like malicious
anti-rite to repair way but in a hey we really don't want these to come loose in
shipping because this is going to be a real nightmare this is super cool and then the air intake is basically handled
through a grill right here that has a little stopper to make sure that it
never gets compressed and blocks the fan from spinning and then there's a tiny
Gap just enough I guess to get air to that 10 watt CPU that can then be
exhausted out the side of the unit through uh yes this vent hole I can't
believe how much computer is in here my
gaming desktop when I met Yvonne was in a Silverstone tj07 and had a quad core
CPU and 8 gigs of RAM what is this for lighting it has
lighting nice this is awesome it's
shockingly serviceable you know what Jake this m.2 slot is not keyed for SATA
only there's no way that they would they would just use a SATA key to m.2 slot
wow it's so little oh no this is too small you know what if I just put it in
here I put a little one terabyte Sovereign Gen 4 Drive it'll probably
work
oh I can't use the keyboard in the BIOS
because it's Bluetooth holy
no way running into my Windows installer which is good whether or not it's going
to detect the NVMe drive is a whole other story
come on
ah drive not detected
portable look at that it's got the blue lights
that little cooling fan in there and watch this boom taller tripod oh
yeah oh yeah it's got Auto Keystone uh
it's not the brightest thing ever oh no way the projector is also running what
Android I guess oh there's no batteries in the remote for the projector
thankfully I have these handy dandy buttons on the top shut up is this a
mouse it's a mouse it's a mouse Andy
it's a track pad on the top are you kidding me yes I have a focus wheel oh
that's sharp oh no way I could rear
project and then I could put this in front of me and point it and sit behind
the curtain oh there it goes given that it took a full minute to get to the sign
in screen I think I'm done with the Android aspect of the projector let's
switch to our HDMI input and try our Pico PC okay I'm triggered by the fact
that their USB ports are upside down of what is normal we're having a very hard
time getting clear text out of this projector the issue is that the native
resolution is 854 by 480. wide VGA I'm
imagining a d sub connector walking through the Halls just getting wider and
wider uh this mouse wheel does not have a oh it does have a middle click that is
the heaviest middle click it's usable that's usable I mean the enter key is
not really where it's supposed to be but it's usable would I take this to a
coffee shop not unless I was trying to start a conversation with all the dudes
with facial hair there and the projector is way louder than the computer their
Indiegogo is amazing a new era of
personal computer New Era Jake why would
you build a computer when you can have this perfect for work from home use
their expandable storage 4K UHD video output works as a game center note they
don't say gaming PC yeah I don't think we have enough CPU to even like download
us oh wow okay okay we're looking at
about 60 CPU usage downloading at
150 megabit and more impressively our
poor SSD is at 50 usage just downloading
Counter-Strike to be clear if you wanted to use this as a thin client for
streaming say for example with steam link I don't see any reason why that
wouldn't work with reasonably current HD graphics HD graphics though it's only
downloading at 10 megabytes a second
look it's not about being privileged or whatever it's about the capabilities of
the product it is only 10 megabytes a second not 16. when the cable is plugged
into can carry 115. okay 122 then if you
want to be super pedantic about it this SSD may be slower than a hard drive
okay here we go CS source
what kind of FPS let's go
how did he know I was using this computer
oh come on Hacks
oh my God I just got headshots
I can't even see anything
and the latency is actually not bad very
usable oh my God you can't be moving the display around while I'm trying to game
here I could get one kill okay I'm gonna get
one kill no now come on they're
everywhere I can't even tell what team people are
on though everything is just a moving black blob
KTV like like that BBK like one plus BBK
this is pretty slow for a wired connection can we watch a 4K video
though the answer is yes while I can't say that
I would necessarily recommend the projector as anything more than a toy
for the kids or I mean I guess their pitch for it is it's for in an emergency
doing a presentation or something like that the computer itself actually kind
of an interesting value proposition obviously it's underpowered compared to
other small computers but it's also underpriced compared to other small
computers there are performance deficiencies the SSD isn't great the CPU
leaves a lot to be desired and frankly
the fan on it isn't exactly silent but at the cost and size its competition is
probably closer to an Intel compute stick than it would be to a full-size
desktop PC or even a laptop and if all you're gonna do is watch YouTube videos
and do basic word processing there is no reason that especially the Windows 11
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you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out our review of the Spud the
spontaneous pop-up display which would be a great companion for your pico PC