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I got an early one tear the wind max

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promises to be both the latest and greatest from GPD makers of incredible

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mini laptops why do I have my air pods in now I have gone out of my way to

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expose myself to as little information about this thing even product shots so

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that my unboxing can be as raw as it can

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be I'm really excited about this one it's gonna be a lot of fun they have

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really stepped up their packaging game here's what I know so far it's got a

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Core i5 1035 g7 processor oh it's a

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thick boy oh my goodness look at these vents on the back okay no no fish I'll

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finish the unboxing I promise to finish their boxing so that's a 10 nanometer processor with 4 cores and 8 threads

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it's got 16 gigs of lpddr4 memory and

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NVMe SSD a 1280 by 800 display

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integrated controllers and they claim

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it's got enough put spot for triple-a

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gaming that is an impressively small

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dongle so this is the wall wart for

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charging it and then we've got a USB type-c cable in here type C to type C

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that is a 65 watt charger wow that is

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really small boy it really is kind of

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thick one comment before I talk too much about the build quality is that this is

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apparently not a final unit so there will still be some tweaks feels pretty

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good I will say I think they went a little bit thin on the plastic for this

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grill down here you can see there's a fair bit of give but I also don't really

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have an alternative because apparently the cooling of this thing was a real

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challenge so you can see these fans are basically completely exposed to open air

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and then we've got oh yeah look at that gigantic cooler all the way across the

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back what else we got here in terms of i/o along the right-hand side we've got

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Gigabit Ethernet and a microSD slot on

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the front you've got a headphone and then just a little microphone port

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over on this side we've got good the classic GPD toggle switch between

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gamepad mode for the controller that's built into it and then mouse mode so you

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can actually use it as a mouse pointer they really have made a big deal out of

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the quality of the switches that they're using in these buttons they feel good

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interesting they've got kind of a really neat shape to them so you can seize like

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a game controller the r2 is actually significantly lower than r1 and it kind

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of flares out a little bit iö on the back is really impressive for

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a device in 2020 so we've got HDMI out

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that is apparently HDMI 2.0 dual USB

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Taipei's and then that my friends is a

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Thunderbolt 3 and a regular type C oh

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wow the screen actually like it feels

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bigger than 8 inches sound actually when

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you think about how close you know a lot of phones are getting to 7 inches it's

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pretty substantial so they've got like a recessed joystick kind of like the first

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place I really saw this that was notable was on the NVIDIA shield portable really

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good uniformity to these buttons and then that's like a PlayStation style

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d-pad Xbox button select and start or up

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here touchpad is up on the top we've seen this design compromise before with

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some of the first NVIDIA max-q laptops if I recall correctly and the keyboard

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is a big question mark for me as well I kind of mood it up not sure where the

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power button is oh yeah here we go one of the struggles that I had with the it

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was the wind too was that as much as the keyboard wisly getting close to usable

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it wasn't quite there and on this one they claim they've got like desktop

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spacing for better usability so bit of

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mute right there thanks for that shut up

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while it's firing up I want to talk about the heft a little bit

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it's definitely obviously heavier than a

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controller but oh actually oh I do I haven't elite controller right nearby one second okay

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yeah compared to even an elite controller which is a heavy that's a

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beefy controller it's obviously significantly heavier but

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it's usable really good range of motion

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to the display you can actually go all the way up to 180 degrees so you can

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kind of sit like that with it in your lap but it's not it's not bad

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you can talk button functions here so it looks like a is down like it acts like

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an arrow key when we're in mouse mode the d-pad acts as a scroll left seemed

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like it was kind of like a page up but I'm actually not sure anymore and then

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four click it looks like yeah l1 4 left click and then presumably would be r1 4

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right click I still remember the first time I tried this controller scheme I

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thought it was gonna be awful but I was very pleasantly surprised by how good it

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is not particularly bright but I also

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haven't tried to crank it yet with how big the display is I will say it takes a

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minute to get across it and I think I would find myself reaching for my

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touchpad more than I did on their first

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laptop that I tried this with a little bit hard to reach some special

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characters and the backspace is in a bit of an unconventional spot so it's here

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instead of up here or the delete is I get it I get it you're working with a

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limited amount of space I will say it would be a lot easier to get used to

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this one than it would be to get used to some of their previous ones where

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they've had to hide special characters in super weird spots it's interesting to

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me they decided to put caps down here and tab up here I actually would have

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left tab in its more traditional position and hidden caps lock away

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somewhere because quite frankly people people shouldn't use that all those fans

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are going eh all right I feel that airflow not super loud or anything that

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they're they're really moving pre-loaded bloatware looks pretty acceptable we've

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got oh it's not even pre-installed this is just a steam setup thing up

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that's that's pretty good I guess oh yeah I said I wanted to be super meat

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boy cracked 50 megabytes a second on Wi-Fi this isn't even on a Wi-Fi six

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access point although it does support Wi-Fi six whoo

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I can really hear that CPU working for it though hey remember when you download

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a game from steam you're doing more than just stressing your network interface you're also hitting your CP ah a hundred

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percent CPU load right now des yep even

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if we were on wired I don't think we'd be downloading games any faster than

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round 50-ish megabytes a second oh I had wanted to check out maximum display oh

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shoot it on the controller oh wait now I do flip that switch 60 Hertz is a downer

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high refresh rate display that's that's a must for Rev to of this guy goes nice

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and dim too which is something that I think a lot of people overlook as an

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important displace back all right let's play some super meatboy here ladies and

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gentlemen it's big like I almost feel like I have

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to sit back a little bit you know

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Oh comedy there's need more speed

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controller feels alright

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not like alright but like all right it's

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all right I'm not gonna blame my performance on it but it's just not it's not you know

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weight control or whatever but I don't think anyone's gonna be expecting that buttons are pretty good too it's it's

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not bad

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okay sorry I'm getting distracted playing games let's open this thing up

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Wow look at that battery that is quite the

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situation they got up in there so it's

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like a 3-cell 57 watt hours dang I'm

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actually expecting the battery life on this thing to be pretty darn good now

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this is this is this is a little flimsy feeling so that explains why it felt

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like it had a lot of flex no heat pipes or anything they're just blowing

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straight out of the chassis I've got one end got to slot right here

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oh I lied there's a heat pipe right there oh boy there's a lot of different

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kinds of screws in here already wrought row let's see what else have we got in

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here there's actually two heat pipes so one of them goes over to this heat

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exchanger and the other one goes over to this one it's just a CPU there's no

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dedicated graphics in here but it is using Intel's iris pro graphics so that

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should put it on par with an entry-level laptop graphics card curiously they've

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gone with a soldered on solution for the Wi-Fi card I guess that's just a

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space-saving matter kind of makes sense okay and sincerely hope I'm not breaking

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whatever this is what on earth is this

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thing what is on the other side oh gods

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the joystick why did I take this apart okay just put that back together and

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hope we didn't ruin it really gives you an appreciation for how small it is to

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see how much space in here has taken up by things like the joysticks the

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mechanisms for the shoulder buttons think of it 512 gigs of storage plus

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microSD is a lot of expansion in here you're not gonna be putting a double

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stacked and vme drive on there though only enough room for the ones with chips

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on one side I mean still not too shabby

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make sure it still works okay okay good

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yeah cool so uh reason I was freaking

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out these are not cheap they are anywhere from around 780 US dollars to I

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think after the IndieGoGo campaign they're gonna be like mid eight hundred

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US dollars for one of these puppies so yeah not cheap but there's just nothing

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else quite like this so I'm gonna get some firmware updates rolling on it

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spend some time with it and I will see you guys on the LTTE video for the full

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rundown thanks for watching ShortCircuit