I got an early one tear the wind max
promises to be both the latest and greatest from GPD makers of incredible
mini laptops why do I have my air pods in now I have gone out of my way to
expose myself to as little information about this thing even product shots so
that my unboxing can be as raw as it can
be I'm really excited about this one it's gonna be a lot of fun they have
really stepped up their packaging game here's what I know so far it's got a
Core i5 1035 g7 processor oh it's a
thick boy oh my goodness look at these vents on the back okay no no fish I'll
finish the unboxing I promise to finish their boxing so that's a 10 nanometer processor with 4 cores and 8 threads
it's got 16 gigs of lpddr4 memory and
NVMe SSD a 1280 by 800 display
integrated controllers and they claim
it's got enough put spot for triple-a
gaming that is an impressively small
dongle so this is the wall wart for
charging it and then we've got a USB type-c cable in here type C to type C
that is a 65 watt charger wow that is
really small boy it really is kind of
thick one comment before I talk too much about the build quality is that this is
apparently not a final unit so there will still be some tweaks feels pretty
good I will say I think they went a little bit thin on the plastic for this
grill down here you can see there's a fair bit of give but I also don't really
have an alternative because apparently the cooling of this thing was a real
challenge so you can see these fans are basically completely exposed to open air
and then we've got oh yeah look at that gigantic cooler all the way across the
back what else we got here in terms of i/o along the right-hand side we've got
Gigabit Ethernet and a microSD slot on
the front you've got a headphone and then just a little microphone port
over on this side we've got good the classic GPD toggle switch between
gamepad mode for the controller that's built into it and then mouse mode so you
can actually use it as a mouse pointer they really have made a big deal out of
the quality of the switches that they're using in these buttons they feel good
interesting they've got kind of a really neat shape to them so you can seize like
a game controller the r2 is actually significantly lower than r1 and it kind
of flares out a little bit iö on the back is really impressive for
a device in 2020 so we've got HDMI out
that is apparently HDMI 2.0 dual USB
Taipei's and then that my friends is a
Thunderbolt 3 and a regular type C oh
wow the screen actually like it feels
bigger than 8 inches sound actually when
you think about how close you know a lot of phones are getting to 7 inches it's
pretty substantial so they've got like a recessed joystick kind of like the first
place I really saw this that was notable was on the NVIDIA shield portable really
good uniformity to these buttons and then that's like a PlayStation style
d-pad Xbox button select and start or up
here touchpad is up on the top we've seen this design compromise before with
some of the first NVIDIA max-q laptops if I recall correctly and the keyboard
is a big question mark for me as well I kind of mood it up not sure where the
power button is oh yeah here we go one of the struggles that I had with the it
was the wind too was that as much as the keyboard wisly getting close to usable
it wasn't quite there and on this one they claim they've got like desktop
spacing for better usability so bit of
mute right there thanks for that shut up
while it's firing up I want to talk about the heft a little bit
it's definitely obviously heavier than a
controller but oh actually oh I do I haven't elite controller right nearby one second okay
yeah compared to even an elite controller which is a heavy that's a
beefy controller it's obviously significantly heavier but
it's usable really good range of motion
to the display you can actually go all the way up to 180 degrees so you can
kind of sit like that with it in your lap but it's not it's not bad
you can talk button functions here so it looks like a is down like it acts like
an arrow key when we're in mouse mode the d-pad acts as a scroll left seemed
like it was kind of like a page up but I'm actually not sure anymore and then
four click it looks like yeah l1 4 left click and then presumably would be r1 4
right click I still remember the first time I tried this controller scheme I
thought it was gonna be awful but I was very pleasantly surprised by how good it
is not particularly bright but I also
haven't tried to crank it yet with how big the display is I will say it takes a
minute to get across it and I think I would find myself reaching for my
touchpad more than I did on their first
laptop that I tried this with a little bit hard to reach some special
characters and the backspace is in a bit of an unconventional spot so it's here
instead of up here or the delete is I get it I get it you're working with a
limited amount of space I will say it would be a lot easier to get used to
this one than it would be to get used to some of their previous ones where
they've had to hide special characters in super weird spots it's interesting to
me they decided to put caps down here and tab up here I actually would have
left tab in its more traditional position and hidden caps lock away
somewhere because quite frankly people people shouldn't use that all those fans
are going eh all right I feel that airflow not super loud or anything that
they're they're really moving pre-loaded bloatware looks pretty acceptable we've
got oh it's not even pre-installed this is just a steam setup thing up
that's that's pretty good I guess oh yeah I said I wanted to be super meat
boy cracked 50 megabytes a second on Wi-Fi this isn't even on a Wi-Fi six
access point although it does support Wi-Fi six whoo
I can really hear that CPU working for it though hey remember when you download
a game from steam you're doing more than just stressing your network interface you're also hitting your CP ah a hundred
percent CPU load right now des yep even
if we were on wired I don't think we'd be downloading games any faster than
round 50-ish megabytes a second oh I had wanted to check out maximum display oh
shoot it on the controller oh wait now I do flip that switch 60 Hertz is a downer
high refresh rate display that's that's a must for Rev to of this guy goes nice
and dim too which is something that I think a lot of people overlook as an
important displace back all right let's play some super meatboy here ladies and
gentlemen it's big like I almost feel like I have
to sit back a little bit you know
Oh comedy there's need more speed
controller feels alright
not like alright but like all right it's
all right I'm not gonna blame my performance on it but it's just not it's not you know
weight control or whatever but I don't think anyone's gonna be expecting that buttons are pretty good too it's it's
not bad
okay sorry I'm getting distracted playing games let's open this thing up
Wow look at that battery that is quite the
situation they got up in there so it's
like a 3-cell 57 watt hours dang I'm
actually expecting the battery life on this thing to be pretty darn good now
this is this is this is a little flimsy feeling so that explains why it felt
like it had a lot of flex no heat pipes or anything they're just blowing
straight out of the chassis I've got one end got to slot right here
oh I lied there's a heat pipe right there oh boy there's a lot of different
kinds of screws in here already wrought row let's see what else have we got in
here there's actually two heat pipes so one of them goes over to this heat
exchanger and the other one goes over to this one it's just a CPU there's no
dedicated graphics in here but it is using Intel's iris pro graphics so that
should put it on par with an entry-level laptop graphics card curiously they've
gone with a soldered on solution for the Wi-Fi card I guess that's just a
space-saving matter kind of makes sense okay and sincerely hope I'm not breaking
whatever this is what on earth is this
thing what is on the other side oh gods
the joystick why did I take this apart okay just put that back together and
hope we didn't ruin it really gives you an appreciation for how small it is to
see how much space in here has taken up by things like the joysticks the
mechanisms for the shoulder buttons think of it 512 gigs of storage plus
microSD is a lot of expansion in here you're not gonna be putting a double
stacked and vme drive on there though only enough room for the ones with chips
on one side I mean still not too shabby
make sure it still works okay okay good
yeah cool so uh reason I was freaking
out these are not cheap they are anywhere from around 780 US dollars to I
think after the IndieGoGo campaign they're gonna be like mid eight hundred
US dollars for one of these puppies so yeah not cheap but there's just nothing
else quite like this so I'm gonna get some firmware updates rolling on it
spend some time with it and I will see you guys on the LTTE video for the full
rundown thanks for watching ShortCircuit