for years now companies both large and small have teased the idea of a pc
that's both small enough to be held in your hand and powerful enough to play
triple a games and we've actually gotten close
but never this close meet
the gpd win3 it's got a core i5
processor with xc graphics massive cooling potential console quality
buttons and joysticks and check this out
it's got a freaking slide up screen and
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included brick pretty basic power brick um
type c to type c cord it's nice has type c charging and
first impressions this thing is freaking
heavy like it's substantial it's got a magnesium alloy chassis but that still
doesn't prevent it from being hefty in the hands so there's just
got to be a ton of guts in there and i guess it kind of makes sense i mean this
is basically a laptop but like folded
over itself and with a really small screen as for ergonomics first
impressions are not great to be honest with you something that might have
helped a little bit for me would be if it was maybe angled out this way a
little bit more just because you know your arms come together to hold
something so it's a little unnatural to have your wrists back like this if
you're into racing games the ergonomics are like basically bang on you've got
dual joysticks and those are super easy to reach along with two shoulder buttons
and two trigger buttons but as soon as i start getting into the d-pad which is
wow that is a really nice d-pad the problem is that like holding it you end
up in kind of this weird like claw grip and reaching up to the top unless you
have larger hands might not be the most comfortable thing ever there's still a
lot of great features packed in here both of the joysticks have r3
functionality so you can click them in to press the abx y buttons feel really
good too and this is cool i remember playing final fantasy 7 as a kid on a pc
emulator and one of the problems i ran into was trying to blend in with the
soldiers as cloud you're supposed to like press buttons to like do certain
moves and i didn't have playstation symbols on my game controller but look
at that they put little playstation symbols on there maybe just small enough that sony won't
see them also on the top we've got pc like io so
we've got a microphone headphone jack volume up volume down power button and
this is freaking amazing these triggers are apparently analog triggers so you
can see the engine revving just a little bit or a lot i know this is an older
game but still come on
running at ultra it is a decent looking game still okay i don't know what this
behavior is did i mention it's pre-production
alt f4 ha
i'd like to see you do that on your ps vita and there's two buttons back here
that gpd says according to the fox they're going to provide a software tool
to remap buttons or even macros for if
they're initial sort of software that they included on my early unit as
anything to go by i don't know how amazing that software will be but
hey it'll be there like some of these things seem pretty cool just like quick
shortcuts to tools you might like like MSI afterburner we'll get that installed
in a minute but this resolution once
kind of freaked me out earlier because i set it to 480 by 640. not realizing
because i was just looking at it quickly that that's a vertical resolution and
then it just it's like stuck here and i was like wait
what i can't i'm stuck now it's okay it's okay
we can get out of it by pressing a and then going back to the widescreen resolution now you probably see here it
runs at 1280 by 720 so that is not a lot
of resolution but on a screen this small
that's something like 270 pixels per inch so
text is noticeably blurry but in games
i'm not expecting it to be a problem the bigger issues for me are the size it's
five and a half inches it would have been really nice if the bezels were just
a little smaller and pixel response time so as you even
just drag a window around on the screen you can tell that this hips display
while it has really vibrant colors is
not great when it comes to pixel responsiveness also it only runs at 60
hertz which isn't going to be an issue for aaa gaming but if you're running
indie or older games you could have potentially taken advantage of a higher
refresh rate display there's a couple other things i want to show you it has a
micro sd slot over here that i've got loaded up with a 512 gig card we'll see
how that works as well as gpd's typical
mouse slash game controller switch mode
button here so what this will do it's not actually working on my early unit
here but it'll allow you to use the joysticks and shoulder buttons as your
mouse from my previous experience with it it works really freaking well like
impressively well and you probably won't end up missing a touchpad at all uh on
the bottom oh yeah i didn't even mention this stereo speakers
Thunderbolt 4 freaking Thunderbolt
so you know we're going to be playing around with that later
of course the big thing everyone wants to know is what is this keyboard like
it's backlit you can tell it's illuminated from the top and there's
like a diffusion layer in there let's try like i don't know what do people ask
cortana weather there's a little bit of
vibration actually but i don't know if i would quite
describe it as haptic
oh man i mean it's haptic but it's more like the whole unit kind of vibrates
it's not like it feels specific to the
to the keyboard and the whole thing is feels just like a
piece of glass or something oh did i mention this is girl glass 5 up here
there's only a left shift so if you wanted to use punctuation for example
you wanted you know capital q
you know quest one bright spot is the hinge mechanism considering what a small
company gpd is this is surprisingly refined feeling like it slides up locks
in place slides down nice and smoothly locks in
place and i think i kind of have to forgive the
admittedly horribleness of this keyboard because the purpose of this device is
gaming first like if we were looking at something like their previous p2 which
was supposed to be a hyper portable laptop for like typing up your essay on
the train as you head into school at the last minute this would have been
unacceptable but if it's just like you know we need to save some space compared
to a membrane keyboard but we still want the ability to quickly
alt enter if a game opens in you know windowed mode or something like that
then it's got everything that you really need
so i'm okay with it i'd be negligent if i
didn't say how well the fingerprint scanner works the answer is really good
so that's a really good inclusion when you consider how hard it would be to type
passwords on the included keyboard okay can't tell if
that's taking the screw out or just stripping it i think it was stripping it
off maybe you're right andy might have to talk about the specs without being able
to look at them no i think i got it so we've got a core i5
g7 processor so that sits right under this cooler here we've got that is
surprising a full-sized m.2 so that's an
80 mil m.2 with how many little tiny
like 40 millimeter ones are out there i would have thought they would have gone
with a with a smaller one uh Intel Wi-Fi so that's wi-fi six and
bluetooth right there with the antennas running i don't know somewhere can't
really tell uh yeah dedicated speaker wait
whoa hold on a second is this one fake
oh
so far okay yes it does have stereo speakers
they're not amazing whichever monitor you decide to or
functional functions
loud and functional got a vibration motor over here oh cool
okay got these little spring loaded contacts for the rear like macro buttons
here and that's a 44 watt hour battery so gpd is rating this thing for two to
three hours under heavy load anywhere from kind of six to eight under medium
load and 14 hours under a light load sounds reasonable enough to me based on
what i know about this hardware but it's going to depend on how you configure it
so that tiger leg CPU in there with xe
graphics can go anywhere from 18 watts all the way up to 28 watts and
that's something you can change around in the BIOS oh i didn't even mention RAM so it's got
16 gigs of lp ddr4 x 4266 memory and
that's really important because it's using onboard graphics as you guys might
know gpus are extremely memory bandwidth hungry so the faster the system memory
the faster you can go with an integrated graphics card like the Intel xc graphics
in here popping the cooler off means i can't do any serious thermal tests but
there's a pre-production unit anyway so we can't really do that and oh actually
no this is just the fan itself this is not the heat sink so
what are we looking at here cooling for the vrms two heat pipes and a spreader
on Intel's tiger lake CPU GPU and the
RAM may be on the other side of the board i'm not gonna pop the whole board
out right now some of our system memory is actually down there so that means you
might have an issue when it comes to mounting double-sided m.2s in here
it's curious that they wouldn't have just gone with a higher profile mount
for it because it's not oh yeah no they don't have the
space yeah that's why all right oh since
we're at it this is a pretty unexceptional looking baiwin SSD but
what's cool is that this is actually pci express gen 4 tiger lake is so if you
wanted to you could put like a ball and gen 4m.2 in here as long as it's not
double-sided uh it's a one-terabyte drive i guess i never mentioned that before so we have
enough space for it if we have the the horsepower for it let's show you guys
we're running at about 3.5 3.6 gigahertz
right now CPU at 100 while we download cyberpunk now watch this
literally half the CPU frequency so you're going to see even on wi-fi my
download speed's probably going to suffer a little bit in a bit here i know this is still not gaming but it is worth
mentioning like just navigating around on this thing this is a fast freaking
CPU like this is not some atom freaking thing like it's
responsive i figured medium details no motion blur directx 12 would be a
reasonable target for shadow of the tomb raider i think it's fair to say this
game runs at 30 FPS medium details you know what i want to know though
okay if i happened to be next to a wall outlet well then what oh yeah i never
mentioned this button it's just got a little x on it presumably for trademark
infringement reasons but it's an xbox button surprisingly when it comes to a
GPU load we actually don't get any additional performance for being plugged
in so that's great news for mobile gamers anyway i love these joysticks
they're really good little bit longer it'll take some getting used to but i
really like them hello dang it there's so much stuff i want to run on this like
man playing bro force on this thing by the way if you haven't played bro force
sick game check it out bro there's definitely some driver issues do
maternal wouldn't launch said something about known compatibility problem Intel
graphics they clearly have some work to do and
squadrons uh wait what just happened
squadrons i don't know that the the models were flickering in the menu
oh i'm oh i'm gonna i'm gonna fly into an asteroid well the point is the game
runs memory card slot a is corrupt it needs to be for okay
it's not strictly speaking mario tennis but i have definitely played what is
this
it's running great though i'm at like nearly a locked 60 FPS i sincerely hope
that it goes without saying that this is not exactly a use case that i would
recommend i mean a 2080 ti or whatever the current
version of this is a Gigabyte sent over
this aorus external dock quite some time ago it's like obviously overkill for
gaming at 720p this is something that's really annoying about the 720p display
Windows 10 is really just not designed for a display that's that low res so
when you right click on the taskbar for example you have to do this little
scroll down thing to see the task manager like there's going to be elements of
Windows that are just kind of off screen sometimes experience i'd
rather have a 1080p panel and then just run it non-native 720p in games or run
at 720p upskilled ultra high vsync off
oh shoot frame view is not running because we're only using part of that
CPU GPU tiger lake combo here like not
even loud to be clear i am not recommending this use case but it was
important to show just to demonstrate how versatile this thing is everything
from emulating classic games to running modern games on this hardware at
playable frame rates to streaming off of a network-connected local machine or a
service like xcloud or stadia to hooking a fat GPU up to it this thing can
literally do all of it there's definitely some deficiencies
it's heavy i think the shape like the overall
ergonomic shape could have used a little bit more work and i expect this thing to
be well over 500 possibly even dangerously close to a
thousand but if you're the kind of user who's
dreamed of something like this your dream has finally come true
of course i should include some caution about kickstarters and indiegogos in
fact we did a video recently talking about how backing crowdfunded technology
can often end up being a disaster because even if they do deliver by the
time you get it it might be obsolete and there's already something better from a
more reputable company but on the subject of reputation gpd
actually has a great track record at this point and it seems like they mostly
just use it as like a an interest gauging or cash flow exercise for new
products to get their runs right so with that in mind
man this thing's sweet
that's all i have to say other than to thank our sponsor lg for sponsoring
today's video lg has launched their virtual showroom
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grams all are running the latest Intel 11th gen processors with iris xc
graphics oh that worked out well so they're going to have like this same
kind of graphics grunt they're evo certified and they have a new size 16
inches that weighs just 2.98 pounds with an 80 watt hour battery fun fact the new
16 inch model has the guinness world record for being the lightest laptop of
its size 14 and 17 inch size options are
still available and all the displays are 16 by 10 giving you 11 percent more
screen area they're lightweight with long lasting batteries and there's an lg gram survey
where you can win prizes if you fill it out so you can check out all of that at
the link in the video description if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out
uh our previous gpd videos because that
stuff's pretty sweet too oh actually here's one more thing i didn't mention this gives you a better look at the
slide mechanism i asked our designers for something other than black or gray
and this is what they came up with for a techlinked hoodie you'll have to let us
know in the comments what you think of it