WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.680 OneXPlayer first showed up on my radar when they had the gaming handheld that was much bigger than 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:12.160 anyone else's and it seems like they are taking one more step in their journey towards a TV 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:19.600 with giant controllers on the side of it with the OneXPlayer X1. That's right my friends, this 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:26.320 is a handheld gaming PC. How big are your hands people? 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:32.320 Look, I'm allowed to make small hands jokes. How dare you censor me editor? 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:41.200 That's heavy. It's funny for me because my wife just picked up Dave the Diver on our RG ally and 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.800 even at that size every time I look at her she's got it firmly planted against something to ensure 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:51.200 that her arms don't get fatigued. With this thing you'd have to be Dwayne the Rock Johnson to be 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:55.600 able to actually hold this in front of you and game on it for an extended period of time. Look, 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.680 look at this. I accidentally dropped it in a previous take and it freaking destroyed the 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:05.440 packaging. In here we find the charger which is a 100 watt charger. It supports USB power 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:11.760 delivered up to 20 volts and comes with a not really satisfactory long USB-C cable. I'd like 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:17.680 to see this a little bit on the longer side maybe more like five feet. Realistically we saw as much 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:24.320 as six hours of battery life on this thing in our endurance test but as little as just over an hour 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:28.400 in our torture test. So depending on your configuration you're probably going to be gaming 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:32.960 for about two hours and change and then you're going to want to be plugged into the wall while 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:39.760 you use it. I guess better buy yourself a fancy USB cable. One of the big controversies maybe not 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.400 controversy but certainly something for you to consider around this device is that it uses Intel's 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:52.720 Core Ultra 7 155H which has six high performance cores can be paired with up to 64 gigs of LPDDR5X 00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:59.280 memory up to four terabytes of storage and in every configuration Intel Arc graphics. We're 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.440 going to get into performance a little bit more later. First let's take a look at the accessories 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:10.160 because this is not just a handheld with one X player making this keyboard accessory available 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:15.600 which I guess makes the screen size make a lot more sense. Like if this thing's half gaming 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:23.120 handheld half whoa it's kind of like a like a little mini surface that's pretty cool. Of course 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.640 the keyboard is optional so we'll take a closer look at that later. First I want to see the definitely 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:42.640 non-infringing detachable game controllers. First impressions not bad they've got a bit of a soft 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:47.120 touch feel to them but the finish is just plastic so you won't have to worry about them turning 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:53.920 all gross and sticky over time. There were some notes from the lab about how the ABX Y buttons 00:02:53.920 --> 00:03:00.400 felt kind of weird like it's a micro switch at the bottom but there's an awful lot of travel. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:09.840 I see it. It feels kind of like a rubber dome that collapses and then it hits a micro switch. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:14.800 Yeah it's a bit of a weird mushy feeling. I wouldn't say that it bothers me but I'm not a fan of that 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:19.360 kind of configuration for something like a d-pad and it feels like they used the exact same switches. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:24.720 One thing that some folks will appreciate though is the use of these full-sized Alps gaming grade 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:30.560 which I guess means they have RGB joysticks and the inclusion of a rear button that you can 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:35.760 remap to whatever you need. Trickers feel good. Shoulders feel all right. Let's have a look at 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:42.160 the attachment mechanism. Hold on just a gosh darn second here. So you pull off this which 00:03:42.160 --> 00:03:50.560 is going to get lost immediately and then you put this on and it interferes with your micro sd slot. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:56.800 That's kind of a drag. Also here is a USB 3 type A which is definitely a welcome addition if you're 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.040 going to be using this thing as an actual laptop. Up top we've got a turbo button which I will 00:04:01.040 --> 00:04:06.320 definitely be trying out later. Ventilation hole. This is actually a really nice aluminum chassis. 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:14.960 The thing feels while heavy definitely well built. An oculink port. Super cool. So that's PCIe Gen 4 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:19.520 by 4 and if you have a compatible dock that means you can run an eGPU without some of the 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.040 hassle that can be associated with Thunderbolt although without some of the convenience of 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.960 Thunderbolt meaning it's not going to be hot pluggable. We've got a three and a half millimeter 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:34.880 headphone jack and oh that's curious. They reversed the typical position of volume up and 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:38.720 volume down. I would expect volume up to be on the right. Here's our power button. Does that 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:44.320 have a built-in fingerprint sensor? It does. Nice. On the left we've got two USB seats. No way. 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:51.840 Did they really put? Yeah they did. There's no way you're getting any real actual cable 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:56.560 plugged into that bottom one. Not the end of the world because at least it does have one that's 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.880 accessible but I can't say that I'm a huge fan. Then at the bottom we've got a dock interface 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:07.680 for the detachable keyboard. Man that's that's kind of weird. It feels like oh it does come off. 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:13.520 This intake is accounted for in the back cover. This appears to be an intake but is not accounted 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:17.600 for. The only other thing to see back here is the Harman branding. They've apparently worked 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:22.400 with Harman to tune the audio on this thing to. I'm sorry I'm having a hard time taking this 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:28.800 seriously at this point now. This is hilarious. As comical as it might look and as heavy as the 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:33.520 device might be though the controllers manage to feel pretty solid. There's definitely a little bit 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:38.640 more play in the left one compared to the one on the right but either one I would consider to be 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:43.600 acceptable is not the sort of thing that I would notice over an extended period of time. And what's 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:49.840 not comical at all is the sheer expansiveness of this thing. I kind of like it. It's freaking huge. 00:05:50.640 --> 00:05:59.040 Not only that but this display kind of sick. 2560x1600 so that's a 16x10 aspect ratio. Really 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:05.040 nice pixel density. It manages to achieve even better than the 540 nits of peak brightness that 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:11.280 they rate it for. And it manages 99% coverage of the P3 color gamut while being reasonably accurate 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:16.240 especially if you enable the compensation within Windows that doesn't work great on all devices 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:22.720 but does work well on this one and all of that and it runs at 120 hertz. Now the ArcGPU in here 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:27.520 might struggle to run games at that kind of refresh rate and resolution but hey don't let 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:35.840 me tell you let me show you. I kind of thought I was okay with the ABXYs. They're not good. 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:40.640 While the simple mushiness of them isn't the worst that I've seen by a long shot this joystick 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:47.440 being right here makes it kind of a chore to press it unless you're really adjusting the ergonomics. 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:50.880 And on something like a Nintendo Switch that's no problem because the thing's so light you can kind 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:55.840 of hold it however you want. Here you really gotta hold on to this thing. I'm not a big fan of that 00:06:55.840 --> 00:07:00.400 eight position. Like I'm not exaggerating. If I if I want to press this with this part of my thumb 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:03.920 I mean you might have bigger hands so your mileage may vary but not a fan. 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:11.120 When I have my hands covering the controller it doesn't look quite as ridiculous. If anything 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:17.440 it looks great. I mean it's almost an 11 inch display. This is basically the equivalent of 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:25.120 sitting like yeah this distance from a flippin 65 inch TV. But when you see the controller it's like 00:07:25.520 --> 00:07:26.720 look at him he's so cute. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.760 Something friends and family 00:07:34.640 --> 00:07:35.440 work freedom 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:44.240 life. That is so cool. I'm keeping her there forever. Okay we have a pretty close family friend 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:52.000 who's deaf and whenever I see my family and I'm talking to her she like does the equivalent 00:07:52.480 --> 00:08:05.440 of signing like this for me like thank you Danielle because I can't understand you otherwise 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:10.640 I'm pretty slow I'm rusty. It's just funny because an audible version of that would be like 00:08:11.520 --> 00:08:20.400 bonjour Linus. This is running a lot better than I expected after all the issues that I've heard 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:25.920 about with the Core Ultra 7 155H not to mention the ones that I experienced on the early drivers 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.880 when I was checking out the MSI cloth CES. I was expecting a lot more of that kind of 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:37.680 it almost feels like rubber banding because the frame rate will drop and then go up and then drop 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:44.080 and then go up oh okay that was more of just a stutter but kind of like that actually it looks 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:48.640 like they've improved a lot since then but one of Intel's big problems with their ARC Alchemist 00:08:48.640 --> 00:08:55.360 generation GPUs is inconsistency from one game to the next. One game will run great and another one 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:01.040 will be dogshite. In fact one of our games, Returnal, we weren't even able to include in our results 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:06.080 because the physics in the game went all wonky. Intel says they're working on this but we don't 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:10.400 have an ETA for the fix. Actually what I was playing around with right now was the joysticks 00:09:10.400 --> 00:09:16.080 basically very little in the way of dead zones they advertise nothing essentially and while I'm 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:21.040 sure there is something I'm not able to detect it usually I'm pretty sensitive to them too I'm 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:25.280 really good driver as long as I don't have dead zones you can see that right god this display 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:37.680 though man that's sick it's not even cranked whoo look at her go wow no HDR support mind you but 00:09:37.680 --> 00:09:43.280 sdr looks absolutely flippant awesome I bet you didn't be able to play outside with this thing 00:09:43.280 --> 00:09:47.280 I really like these joysticks one x player doesn't say specifically on the product page 00:09:47.280 --> 00:09:51.600 if they're hall effect but they feel really good let's take a short gaming break and have a look 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:56.800 at some of one x player's software which in the past for me has been a weak point of their systems 00:09:56.800 --> 00:10:02.480 against competitors like the ally which one is their software oh there it is nice do we have a 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:11.440 shortcut for it the you hit the turbo button god I pressed everything okay this is bad let's start 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:19.680 over shall we turbo button perfect there's the software we're in the 35 watt mode that could 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:24.560 explain part of why the performance doesn't suck because it was especially more moderate tdps that 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:30.960 the claw was suffering the last time that I looked at it that and 35 watts is a lot you're not going 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.720 to get a ton of battery life out of that typically I'm going to be using my devices in more like the 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:39.600 15 watt range unless I'm really trying to get maximum performance in which case yeah you might go up 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:47.680 to about 30 fan mode is automatic curiously we found that it tracks with the IGPU temperature 00:10:47.680 --> 00:10:53.360 rather than with the package temperature so that's good for gaming in that you can be running a game 00:10:53.360 --> 00:11:00.640 and pretty much immediately the fan will kick in like Jake's car but it can be kind of unfortunate 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:05.600 in that you can have a Windows update running in the background using 20 percent 25 percent of the 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:12.160 CPU and your tempsal spike and the fan will just stay idle almost this is nice being able to change 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:19.200 the reported resolution of the display there you go can't decide whether I'd go for 1920 by 1200 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:26.480 or 1280 by 800 that is that is not a lot of pixels at this size you'd probably have to go with 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:32.160 1920 by 1200 why don't we have a look at the keyboard case now it's worth noting that this is a prototype 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:37.040 unit and not fully representative of the final quality one x player went out of their way to say 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:43.280 hey don't judge the keyboard too harshly this is pretty early and we're gonna have a pinned comment 00:11:43.280 --> 00:11:48.560 if the final version that they sent us is markedly different but it at least gives us a chance to have 00:11:48.560 --> 00:11:53.440 a look at what the ergonomics of the setup will look like with the keyboard trackpad attachment 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:57.840 piece this feels like such a monstrosity look at this it's hilarious especially with the 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:02.720 controller still attached to it let's go ahead and get our rivetuner thing set up okay that's a 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:08.080 pretty stiff click I can see what the Labs was talking about on the trackpad wow that's really 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:20.400 stiff okay but it prototype let's try i mean there's some give but this is very usable 00:12:21.040 --> 00:12:22.640 I would say with some improvements 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:33.040 this is definitely a uh thick tablet computer handheld thing 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:40.480 oh guys that's why the volume rockers like that 00:12:40.800 --> 00:12:50.560 it's a tablet we'll turn the auto rotate on there's your problem right there yeah I think that's 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:55.840 going to be the minority of the time that people spend using this but I think I found the rationale 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:03.680 at least no no okay fine you guys man you guys are a terrible audience not not not you the people 00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:08.160 who are sitting in this room with me and like acting like they're dead coming back to the 00:13:08.160 --> 00:13:13.840 software for a moment one of the things that was really weird about this is we found a turbo button 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:20.960 in the software here and then we found a second Intel turbo boost toggle in the cog menu here 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.960 as far as we can tell the best way to run it is with this off which doesn't seem to do anything 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:35.120 and turbo on in the one x player slide in menu it has a oh mouse gyro it's smooth 00:13:35.760 --> 00:13:42.960 I love that 120 hertz display freaking love that uh we can turn it on if the left trigger gets 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:48.560 prepped oh that's pretty cool so this is useful obviously for navigating Windows like I'm doing 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:54.080 right now but also for playing FPS games because I don't know about you guys but for me playing 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:59.600 first person shooters with a controller joystick I really struggle with it whereas when we did that 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:05.680 video a couple years back using the PlayStation 4 as a gyro aimer and then just the buttons for 00:14:05.680 --> 00:14:11.760 movement and weapon switching and all that stuff made a huge difference for me out of the box it's 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:18.400 configured to allocate 16 gigabytes of the onboard memory to the GPU in this particular configuration 00:14:18.400 --> 00:14:22.960 your mileage may vary with that I've been instructed to try the webcam I mean I guess if this is going 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:27.680 to be your laptop then you're going to want a decent webcam that's cool it has the ir emitter so 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:31.840 that you can use it with Windows hello for biometric authentication and I think I see an 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:36.240 array mic there so the recording quality on this thing might actually be decent do they really 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:47.520 brand it as an AI camera have they said what makes it AI autofocus tracking I mean I look as good 00:14:47.520 --> 00:14:53.600 in any place as I ever do it's only a one megapixel camera and no amount of AI is going to fix that 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:58.800 much and the audio is as good as what it is right now let's try out crab brave speaking about you 00:14:58.800 --> 00:15:05.840 I search for crab brave youtube.com bing get good the first result is bing videos with that said 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:11.120 this will just play the youtube video and it won't have ads so it's kind of a hack did you know this 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:17.120 yeah there's no there's no ads that's piracy line no that's not piracy that's a workaround 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:23.520 all right let's turn on the sound it's wi-fi 6e so that's good but not the best 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.840 very decent not bad actually pretty impressed not an amazing soundstage but pretty reasonable 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:39.680 quality on the subject of things not amazing we've got return all fired up now which looks fine right 00:15:39.680 --> 00:15:48.640 now but we haven't tried to run the benchmark yet give me a second here I see there's supposed to be 00:15:48.640 --> 00:15:55.920 shrapnel there but instead they're just kind of isn't and as much as this isn't 1x players fault 00:15:55.920 --> 00:16:00.720 this is down to Intel's optimization of their arc drivers it's definitely something that 1x player 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:06.000 has to deal with and something that will affect the users of this device what will also affect users 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:11.040 of the device is the performance compared to AMD based devices like the ally and the Lenovo 00:16:11.040 --> 00:16:16.400 Legion go the reason I bring up the Legion go is not because I was particularly enthused about it 00:16:16.400 --> 00:16:21.520 when I used it but because it is a large screen device that would be at least closer to equivalent 00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:27.840 to this one hopefully Intel can continue to improve that because the bones overall are pretty cool it 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:33.120 doesn't get obnoxiously loud and the size of the screen makes it a truly unique experience compared 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:38.960 to other handhelds the only other obstacle then is the price you can buy over one and a half Legion 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:45.440 goes for the price of this thing and almost two allies both of which will perform better hey look 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:50.000 it's my wife hey von come try this so you've been playing some Dave the diver on the ally what do 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:56.720 you think of the weight and ergonomics of this boy um it's really heavy actually is it not do I 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:02.160 have that wrong no I I mean you can't be wrong about whether something is heavy to you I mean I 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.520 said that you were basically she hulk and that it wouldn't bother you earlier when I was talking 00:17:05.520 --> 00:17:10.960 about it but like sure go ahead and contradict me just like with the kids I find the triggers 00:17:11.840 --> 00:17:16.800 easier to hold this one's harder to press but this one's easier to press compared to the ally yeah 00:17:16.800 --> 00:17:22.560 okay wow I like your screen that's cool all right thanks hush okay and thank you for watching 00:17:22.560 --> 00:17:23.760 subscribe to ShortCircuit