you guys remember this impressive little number right full-fledged Windows gaming
pc got a slide-up screen and keyboard
pocketable form factor hold on gotta lose my phone here bam
pretty freaking sweet except i don't know screen's a little
small isn't it that is where this comes in meet
the one x player a powerful portable
gaming machine with a screen that absolutely dwarfs the gpd win3
look at the size of this thing and it's coming in to crush the growing
competition in this handheld pc market
okay handheld yeah it's handheld pocketable
hold on
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this is actually a keyboard dock connector so we don't have it
unfortunately it's an optional accessory but you can see how it works there's a couple magnets right there so you pop
that puppy on you kick out the nintendo switch style kickstand and you know
you're on a plane you put on the seat tray or whatever and it's kind of like a
combination between a surface pro and a netbook because while the display is big
for a handheld gaming console it's not exactly big for a computer the good news
though is that moving right around to the front let's waste no time getting to
this screen it is a 2560 by 1600 8.4
inch ips display it's not HDR or anything like that but it looks freaking
awesome while gaming and has a silly
amount of pixel density for regular usage the colors are what i would
describe as good enough brightness is also good enough and while 60 hertz
isn't the best thing ever if a device like this you're going to be lucky to be
getting more than 60 FPS in any modern games anyway so
i think it's pretty much a win moving around to the back we've got two intakes
for what looks like a pretty beefy cooling system what the devil do they
have in here as well as volume up and down mute as well as a fingerprint
sensor over here of course a lot of the business is up on the top because it is
a full-fledged pc it has full-fledged pcio so you've got the cooling vents
that i talked about before microphone headphone combo jack two usb type cs
this one right here is labeled for charging micro sd which is super nice i
wouldn't load up a pc game on a micro sd card but if i was playing older emulated
games for example it's more than fast enough for that as well as usb 3. that
puts it in pretty close contention with the a and neo for its i o the only thing
really missing here is that i would really prefer to have a bottom mounted
charging port so that when i'm gaming it's hanging off the bottom and
not off the top oh right gaming let's
talk about the controller so it's an xbox style controller there's your start
there's your select i don't know whatever i'm a snes kid um got your
analog clicks okay
a little mushy i would say resistance on the joysticks though is
pretty darn good abx wise
also a touch mushy d-pad not bad considering how bad modern
d-pads are i would consider this to be very acceptable and this is really cool
so you've got your right and left shoulder buttons but you've also got
right and left triggers and unlike the a and neo where these are just one zero
binary states these are analog
v interesting especially if you're into racing games or something like that
we've got a keyboard button here which brings up the on-screen keyboard not the
good on-screen keyboard unfortunately i wish that it just did that that would be
better and if you hold it it'll actually illuminate see watch this boop and now
you can use your joystick as a mouse this needs some work fortunately this is
still an early access product so they've got some time to tune this but it takes
an awful long time to move the mouse across the screen right now that's not
great i also got a turbo button let's talk about what that means so inside
here you can get anywhere from a core i5 1135 g7 all the way up to a core i7 1185
g7 which the 1x player indiegogo video calls the
world's most powerful CPU because i guess they haven't heard of
desktop cpus for example anyway it's equipped with up to 16 gigs of 4266 lp
ddr4 memory Intel's iris xc graphics as
well as 512 gigs of m.2 storage and a 60
watt hour battery which they say can last for five to six hours with light
usage or two to three hours while gaming so that's pretty competitive with other
handhelds that we've seen like this which is good considering the size of
the freaking screen but your battery life is going to go down a little bit if
you go into turbo mode the cooling system for this thing apparently takes
up an inordinate amount of space inside it because it's designed to handle up to
the full 28 watt TDP
of this CPU why don't we go ahead and open it up and have a look at that you
want to turn it off before you open it up no not really
i want to see it working i want to know what makes it tick david
yeah we only have one there's a prototype af well it's basically all
cooling system and battery as advertised here's a controller
here's another controller these are actually surprisingly big speakers i've
got high hopes for the integrated audio here's the magnets that we found for the
keyboard dock one two that one looks pretty cheaply mounted but uh whatever
when i lost count doesn't matter unfortunately i don't really have a good
look at the inner guts i'm assuming that this thermal pad right here is probably
for the SSD i don't want to break it before we make
a video yep everything still seems to be
working which is good do we have cinebench on here or anything like that i gotta say
the difference in screen resolution between this and the gpd win three and
the a neo makes a huge difference even being close to it like this like i would
with a handheld it is just it's crisp 2560 by 1600 is a lot of
pixels for this screen size are we turboed right now oh yeah we turboed
let's see what kind of performance we can get we're going to plug in i want to see what this thing can freaking do on a
drag strip holy shnikeys your pc huh she
a goer know what i mean know what i mean well base is 2.8 this is three point
almost one not too flippin shabby considering this
is a quad core processor i mean do you remember when quad cores at you know
three gigahertz and change was the desktop experience actually not that
long ago it's a little loud
not crazy loud and actually unsurprisingly not that hot all
things considered of course we don't have the onboard GPU running yet we're
going to fire up a game real quick here i just want to see what the score is
5106 points that's about 75 as fast as a
core i7 7700k so like i said not that
far off desktop performance just a few short years ago let's see how it handles
something kind of esports we're going to start with rocket league hmm
remember how i said i had high hopes for the speakers david
well i did hello
all right the controller's got a bit of a weird behavior where if you have it in
mouse mode when you launch the game and then try to switch it back to gamepad
mode the game won't always pick it up so let's go ahead and close the game and
give that another try here controller's working now and we are gonna go full
moon shot here running at 2560 by 1600
basically maxed out details uncapped
frames per second and then disabling motion blur and let's see what we get
here all right that is a lot of resolution for a device
this size not a lot of light though yeah i take back what i said before
about the display being pretty decent we are sitting at anywhere from around 35
to 45 FPS this is like super playable
how how close can you get wait what what do you mean battery's
running low i am plugged in right now one of the outlets is unplugged we might
get some more performance oh man the brightness went way up
oh it was just i thought we were in the i thought we were in the plugged in
profile oh my goodness we are getting like 40
FPS now actually that looks pretty similar in terms of performance but the
display looks way better it's running
like max details one complaint though something i'm noticing is that the like
the plastics and the molding they lack refinement compared to the a neo
which conveniently i happen to have right here they've done a better job of
rounding off the bottom so that it rests in your palms a little bit better and
especially when you consider how flipping heavy this thing is i'm
noticing even after sitting here and using it for the last like 15 minutes in
a row it kind of is digging in a little bit it's not too comfortable but
there's something that i also realized while i was talking to you guys about it
the screen on this thing it's not just a little bigger it's a lot
bigger to the point where i don't even think i would use it like this if i'm
sitting like this right how close would this have to be to be equivalent this is
very scientific about there so that buys you like an
extra at least three or four inches and you know what they say three or four
inches is a lot you know what i want to do though we've got kind of a unique
opportunity with both Intel xc graphics and a ryzen 4500u both in like mobile
game console form factors let's see how they stack up i'm gonna run this
at exactly the same resolution and settings as that one
also we should probably turn turbo off nobody's gonna use that it's like gonna
kill your battery life the performance of these is impressively close so what
it really comes down to is who makes the game console design that you prefer
and also some other things it's a bit tangential to my point but hey the usb
port works transferring to this drive at 636 megabytes a second real casually
right now that's the limit of this drive not the limit of this port pretty sweet
everything seems to be going well in rpcs three running persona 5 which is
a pretty demanding playstation 3 game
and there you go oh and it's done bud so
there you have it while Intel's onboard xe graphics definitely have a lot of
potential right now the drivers have some catching up to do compared to AMD
NVIDIA and for that matter even Intel's older on-board graphics for comparison
okay that's not a lot of FPS but
it is running i bet we could get it running better if we spend some more
time on it though there we go look at that
dang we getting like almost 30 FPS basically 30 FPS locked emulating that
on onboard graphics pretty freaking cool and i do have hope for xe it's just that
the drivers are clearly not there yet couldn't even
launch and AMD's running at 30 FPS
of course that's not the device the video is about let's go back to the 1x
player no switch yuzu doesn't work either what
we can do though is we can run games in dolphin so let's start with super mario
64. look at that ladies and gentlemen
it's smooth n64 isn't the only thing you can do in dolphin of course let's go
ahead and try something a little more demanding i'll play some wii games
ladies and gentlemen oh that man that
oh that joystick really gets in the way of what's shaking here
man this is a okay i'm actually sorry david can i just
hold it where it's comfortable okay because this is
awesome the size of this screen is a complete game changer compared to the
aneo if Intel can get their drivers figured out this is freaking awesome and
to be clear guys it's not just Intel the entire development community around
these emulators has to figure out how to get the most out of xe
graphics this button was a really good idea being able to be full screen in an
emulator that doesn't have kind of any meaningful way to oh wow okay i guess
you could do that wait a second is that a Windows 10 feature
oh that's freaking awesome never mind well whatever it's still nice to have a
button that just takes you back to the desktop can you even believe this is like a
desktop background people use at work grow up
for those of you who aren't familiar what we're doing now is not running apex
legends natively on this but rather streaming it from a gaming desktop
upstairs that's one of the ways that you can have a gaming experience on these mobile
devices if you already have a gaming pc oh wow is this like actually your
account jesse
well not settings like your record oh i'm not very good at this game we're
going to double our kill count today you just watch deploy a heel drone how
do i do that oh no you're dead oh i'm dead i'm bleeding out yeah oh wow i just
got did i just get my face stomped on yeah wow that was really fast
now we're running on the hardware directly and the point of firing up something like batman arkham asylum is
to show that with the enormous back catalog of pc games that are out there
just because it's a triple a doesn't mean you won't be able to run it on a
handheld sure something newer like apex legends probably not gonna run that
great but an older title like this i have it absolutely cranked you're seeing
a couple stutters and hiccups here but that is not bad native res it's like
actually pretty dang smooth
and this is not a terrible looking game obviously the textures aren't very
modern generation and stuff like that like it's kind of flat looking compared
to something newer but it's not bad of
course that's before we talk about price after the indiegogo is complete the base
model is going to start at over a thousand dollars with the top-end core
i7 2 terabyte one running 1600 us
dollars and that's to say nothing of the fact that we know absolutely
nothing about this company other than that apparently they have a silk screen
on here that says powered by 10 cent games so
there's a good chance that they will actually deliver hardware but unlike
someone like gpd where we know that they have a long track record of delivering
exactly what they say they are and then actually following up with support for
the devices we just have no idea what that's going
to look like it's an utterly unique experience though with the size of this
screen and while i do have some concerns about Intel's xc driver support in the
years to come it's Intel so that's an area where i have confidence that
they're going to mostly get that stuff figured out so feel free to check it out
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if you guys enjoyed this video well hey we've actually checked out quite a few
devices like that we've alluded to these other ones but you can check out our
full videos on the gpd win3 as well as
the a and neo at the links down below