1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,410 - As a longtime fan of ultra compact PCs, obviously the one that I'm most jacked about right now 2 00:00:05,410 --> 00:00:09,890 is the Valve Steam Deck, but there's a company that's been innovating in this space 3 00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:16,040 since before the Steam Deck was even a twinkle in Valve's eye, and that's of course is GPD. 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:21,300 Meet the Pocket 3. Now, if the Steam Deck is for gamers, 5 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:28,400 the Pocket 3 is for everyone else. It's kind of like a modern take on the netbook. 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,490 Remember those things? Those slow and loud, 7 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:35,510 and kind of crappy, cheapo PCs 8 00:00:35,510 --> 00:00:40,250 that were, well, about this size. This is that, but way better, 9 00:00:40,250 --> 00:00:44,560 better cooling, better IO, better quality of materials, 10 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,820 and most importantly, better performance. 11 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:52,070 Okay, accessories first though. Man, they have made a lot of improvements to this thing. 12 00:00:52,070 --> 00:00:55,720 Okay, we got, hey, a wrist strap. 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:00,050 Remember wrist straps, Brandon? - [Brandon] Yeah, I do. - What do you think, is it gonna hold? 14 00:01:00,050 --> 00:01:04,550 - [Brandon] O God. - All right. Look at that, they made it Linus proof. 15 00:01:04,550 --> 00:01:11,040 We've got a Type C to Type C cable, looks like about a 60 watt Type C wall wart. 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,130 And that's it. That's it. That's all for accessories. Let's start on the outside 17 00:01:15,130 --> 00:01:18,520 because there's some pretty trippy stuff going on here. Over on the left, 18 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,403 we've got HDMI out and USB-C, 19 00:01:22,310 --> 00:01:25,410 which is for charging as well as connecting peripherals. 20 00:01:25,410 --> 00:01:30,410 Then, these are actually an HDMI and a USB-C input. 21 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:35,150 One of the most obvious applications for this, would be a server or something like that. 22 00:01:35,150 --> 00:01:40,240 You just roll up to a machine, plug, using maybe a VGA to HDMI connection, 23 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,690 or just native HDMI, and then anything to USB Type C and boom. 24 00:01:45,690 --> 00:01:49,290 You can use the built-in screen, and keyboard, and mouse 25 00:01:49,290 --> 00:01:54,324 to control that external device. Actually, I guess we can probably demo this. 26 00:01:54,324 --> 00:02:00,160 Okay. So my Framework will take on the host role. This will be the target role. 27 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,930 Boop. Just gonna casually do some stuff 28 00:02:04,930 --> 00:02:09,930 like go to lttstore.com. 29 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:15,900 Crazy. Okay. For the people who don't care, 30 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:19,630 I get it, you don't care. But for the people that this is useful for, 31 00:02:19,630 --> 00:02:22,670 this is blowing your mind right now. And I know it. 32 00:02:22,670 --> 00:02:26,650 I love it. And get this, on the subject of Framework, 33 00:02:26,650 --> 00:02:30,800 who by the way, I am invested in, disclosure, they are now no longer 34 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,300 the only ones building modular IO plates for their laptops. 35 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,960 Let's say, you're not that into the single port KVM functionality, 36 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,183 as they call this. Oh, interesting. 37 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:49,500 Oh, cool. It uses all spring loaded pins for the interface back here. 38 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:55,070 Check this out. These puppies just spring load. 39 00:02:55,070 --> 00:02:58,390 So there's no fingers to kind of slide in 40 00:02:58,390 --> 00:03:01,430 and slide out and wear out. Check this out, Anthony, 41 00:03:01,430 --> 00:03:06,537 it's gonna blow your mind. Look at this, modules for the new GPD Pocket. 42 00:03:06,537 --> 00:03:10,810 - [Anthony] Oh, is Framework making it? - So, no, no GPD's making it. 43 00:03:10,810 --> 00:03:14,002 Ah, they sent over a couple of the other modules. They've got a serial module. 44 00:03:14,002 --> 00:03:19,020 - [Anthony] Serial? - I know, right? Or if you just want another USB 3, they've got that too. 45 00:03:19,020 --> 00:03:22,800 I actually have no idea what other modules they're gonna be coming out with in the future. 46 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:28,240 But oh, there it is. That's what all those other pins are. So those appear to be dedicated serial pins. 47 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,660 So serial is one of those ports that again, 48 00:03:31,660 --> 00:03:35,880 if you're not into it, you don't care. But man, if you've got scientific equipment 49 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,160 or some kind of industrial equipment that still uses serial, 50 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,400 having a properly compatible serial port in 2021, 51 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,470 absolutely a valuable thing to have. 52 00:03:46,470 --> 00:03:51,410 This module alone, pretty much guarantees that this thing is not going back to the inventory pile, 53 00:03:51,410 --> 00:03:55,700 because tap would come in handy all the freaking time. 54 00:03:55,700 --> 00:04:00,010 And I haven't even talked about specs yet. This is a Core i7-1195G7. 55 00:04:00,010 --> 00:04:04,930 So you can expect this thing to actually pack a pretty reasonable punch, 56 00:04:04,930 --> 00:04:08,560 especially considering its size. It's got four cores, eight threads, 57 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,590 and turbos up to five gigahertz. It's got 16 gigs of LPDDR 4X memory. 58 00:04:13,590 --> 00:04:18,130 It's got a one terabyte NVMe SSD, actually supports PCI Express Gen 4. 59 00:04:18,130 --> 00:04:22,420 Oh and also Thunderbolt 4, which is pretty freaking awesome. 60 00:04:22,420 --> 00:04:25,810 And it's got Intel Xe graphics with 96 execution units, 61 00:04:25,810 --> 00:04:30,440 which basically means in layman's terms that you should be able to play modern casual games 62 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:36,030 or even older AAA games on this thing on the go, even though it's not a gaming first device, 63 00:04:36,030 --> 00:04:40,260 like say for example, their Win series. 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And you can save over 35% on Govee products 71 00:05:08,250 --> 00:05:11,480 during their Black Friday Sale, which we're gonna have linked down below. 72 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,150 They're really utilizing the thickness of this thing. 73 00:05:15,150 --> 00:05:18,840 That is a very substantial fan, which I guess makes sense, 74 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:22,060 given the kind of performance they're packing in here. 75 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:26,210 Using a Biwin SSD that does have a DRAM cache. 76 00:05:26,210 --> 00:05:29,550 So that's always good to see. Here's our soldered memory, 77 00:05:29,550 --> 00:05:34,100 CPU is gonna be right under here. Here's where the module plugs in. 78 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:38,223 Antenna seems to go up into the display. So it's got Wi-Fi 6. 79 00:05:38,223 --> 00:05:42,250 Now that's funny because I thought their spec sheet said, 80 00:05:42,250 --> 00:05:45,850 10,000 mAh batteries. So are there two of these? 81 00:05:45,850 --> 00:05:49,800 - [Brandon] Yeah, two 5,000. - There's two 5,000 mAh batteries. 82 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:55,440 Okay. So they must be stacked. That is a lot of battery. 83 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,440 And if you're using it just in display and peripheral mode, 84 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,467 I guess that would actually last even longer. Now, okay. 85 00:06:01,467 --> 00:06:06,650 Now I'm really curious. Can I use it in that mode when it's not even, 86 00:06:06,650 --> 00:06:09,710 when the computer itself is not even powered up? 87 00:06:09,710 --> 00:06:13,970 No, no. I think it does, in fact, have to be powered on 88 00:06:13,970 --> 00:06:18,160 at least a little. What is that? A total of like 90 watt hours of battery 89 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,810 in a tiny little device like this. This thing should last a long time. 90 00:06:21,810 --> 00:06:27,700 They actually rate it for about nine and a half hours of video playback, meaning you can get through all but the longest flights 91 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:31,330 watching movies on something like this. As usual for GPD, 92 00:06:31,330 --> 00:06:34,810 they've got configurable TDP settings in the BIOS. So you can play around with it. 93 00:06:34,810 --> 00:06:38,100 If you wanna optimize for battery life, you can turn down the power consumption. 94 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,570 If you wanna optimize for performance, you can do the opposite of that. 95 00:06:41,570 --> 00:06:44,960 The memory runs at 3,733 megahertz. So that's actually, well, 96 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,420 wow, that's really fast for DDR4, but you need that when you're using onboard graphics. 97 00:06:49,420 --> 00:06:52,590 Now, if all this sounds expensive, it's because it is. 98 00:06:52,590 --> 00:06:56,410 But thankfully this is not the only spec of this machine. You can also get it 99 00:06:56,410 --> 00:07:00,240 with an Intel Pentium Silver N6000 processor, 100 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,940 whatever that thing is. Eight gigs of RAM, normal Intel UHD graphics, 101 00:07:04,940 --> 00:07:09,760 no Thunderbolt 4, but that will limit your external display devices a little bit. 102 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,840 So this config it's got HDMI 2.0 B. So that'll do, what is that? 103 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,740 4K 60 or whatever. And then over the Thunderbolt 4 port, 104 00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:22,690 it'll also do 8K 60, but that other version will only do dual 4K 60 displays. 105 00:07:22,690 --> 00:07:28,340 That one only supports a PCI Express Gen 3, and it only has 512 gigs of NVMe 2 storage. 106 00:07:28,340 --> 00:07:32,700 Okay. Now, how does this work? I've seen better fit and finish, 107 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:36,000 but usually these guys send me an early sample. 108 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:43,530 So it's probably the case this time around as well. Right, the base IO, USB 3, combo microphone headphone jack, 109 00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:46,800 two and a half gig Ethernet, freaking awesome. 110 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:52,010 And of course those display outputs I mentioned before, but the best part is in here, 111 00:07:52,010 --> 00:07:56,420 and we need a point of reference for this. This is the Pocket 2. 112 00:07:56,420 --> 00:08:00,810 And Pocket 2, neat machine. Definitely more compact. 113 00:08:00,810 --> 00:08:04,170 See that, so it's substantially smaller, really pocketable. 114 00:08:04,170 --> 00:08:08,790 Whereas this one is like, ah, yeah, if you had a giant pocket, you might get away with it. 115 00:08:08,790 --> 00:08:11,040 I mean, I could probably fit it in my pocket. 116 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:15,990 I wouldn't say that that's a pocket computer 117 00:08:15,990 --> 00:08:19,250 in the same way that this one is, right? 118 00:08:19,250 --> 00:08:24,710 Different, different levels. But in terms of usability, it's a lot better. 119 00:08:24,710 --> 00:08:28,790 So the Pocket 2 relied on the little nipple for mouse navigation 120 00:08:28,790 --> 00:08:33,370 and had a keyboard that frankly was not usable. 121 00:08:33,370 --> 00:08:36,640 Pocket 3, on the other hand, I love this. 122 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,640 So this seems to be kind of inspired by some of their other devices 123 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,070 that have joysticks or controllers up here. And this is great. 124 00:08:43,070 --> 00:08:46,950 You've got this thumb touch pad, fingerprint sensing power button, 125 00:08:46,950 --> 00:08:50,570 and then your left, middle, and right click buttons that are over here. 126 00:08:50,570 --> 00:08:56,170 So this is how you use it. And it's not light. Like I wouldn't hold it up like this and use it. 127 00:08:56,170 --> 00:08:59,560 This is not the most comfortable thing in the world, but it's not heavy either. 128 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:04,340 And if I'm sitting at a desk, man, I could very easily, very comfortably, 129 00:09:04,340 --> 00:09:08,810 and for a long time, use it like this. And you don't have to, right? 130 00:09:08,810 --> 00:09:12,630 So you can also have a hand on the keyboard still 131 00:09:12,630 --> 00:09:16,180 and you can use just taps in order to navigate. 132 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:19,560 Or if you're more into it, you can go left click like this. 133 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:23,160 You can navigate like this. It's like, it's surprisingly flexible. 134 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:29,340 I immediately, I really like it. And the keyboard is actually freaking usable on this one, 135 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:33,190 which is sort of a big deal because if this is a device that you're expecting 136 00:09:33,190 --> 00:09:37,460 to serve the role of being your keyboard and mouse for another device, 137 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:41,800 you need it to actually be functional. Okay. Let's, oh, okay. 138 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,853 The apostrophe is not where I expected it to be, at it. 139 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:52,330 Okay. It's gonna be a bit of a learning curve. How much of a learning curve it is going to be? 140 00:09:52,330 --> 00:09:57,080 Period's in the right place. It's really usable. 141 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:03,560 Definitely gonna take some training, but there are Shifts on both sides, which is a huge plus and all of the major keys, 142 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:08,300 Tab, Caps, Control, Alt, are pretty much where you'd expect them to be. 143 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:11,830 You don't get a full Function row, but you do get some additional functions. 144 00:10:11,830 --> 00:10:16,000 So this one you can adjust, I believe this adjusts the fan profile, 145 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,700 something like that. You've got your volume adjustment up here. 146 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:23,730 Brightness of the screen is right here. And then I don't actually see, oh yeah, here it is. 147 00:10:23,730 --> 00:10:26,810 And here's your keyboard backlight. There's just on and off for this. 148 00:10:26,810 --> 00:10:31,010 Now the screen. One of the reasons I had to turn it down is 'cause it'll do 500 in its peak brightness. 149 00:10:31,010 --> 00:10:34,910 It's 1920 by 1200, which I think is the perfect resolution 150 00:10:34,910 --> 00:10:40,940 for a device like this. This is an eight inch screen, so you're not gonna see the freaking pixels, 151 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:44,020 but you're not gonna waste any power driving more pixels than you absolutely need. 152 00:10:44,020 --> 00:10:48,610 And it's an IPS type display, which means looks pretty freaking good. 153 00:10:48,610 --> 00:10:53,170 Oh, yeah. We haven't even talked about the fact that it's a convertible now, right. 154 00:10:53,170 --> 00:10:57,750 If you just wanna use it as a display, you can set it up like this. If you wanna use it more like a tablet, 155 00:10:57,750 --> 00:11:01,060 it's got support for their own active stylus, it's got support for the surface pen. 156 00:11:01,060 --> 00:11:06,060 Apparently it'll do 4,096 different levels of pressure. 157 00:11:06,630 --> 00:11:09,810 Now, one thing that's a little off about this unit 158 00:11:09,810 --> 00:11:13,740 is that the gap on the left side and the gap on the right side are not the same. 159 00:11:13,740 --> 00:11:19,350 So you can see it's kind of sitting off kilter. Maybe that's something kind of just, (grunts) 160 00:11:19,350 --> 00:11:23,070 it also, isn't the most confidence-inspiring hinge, 161 00:11:23,070 --> 00:11:26,140 but it also hasn't broken from me wrenching on it. 162 00:11:26,140 --> 00:11:30,270 So you can make of all of that, what you will. (chuckles) 163 00:11:30,270 --> 00:11:33,870 Oh, it has a webcam. We can actually test that. It's over here on the left, 164 00:11:33,870 --> 00:11:37,920 which I think is that's a better compromise than having it under the display, that's for sure. 165 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,440 Not a great, especially considering that we are under lighting conditions 166 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,513 that are pretty favorable. 167 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:48,940 Yeah, not the world's greatest webcam. So it's really, oh my god, 168 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:53,470 man, almost greyscale, can barely even tell that my, is it the hoodie, 169 00:11:53,470 --> 00:11:59,310 can barely even tell that my tooth is green. It's worth noting that neither version is cheap. 170 00:11:59,310 --> 00:12:04,335 The high end one is around 1300 U.S. dollars. And that's after the early bird discounts, right? 171 00:12:04,335 --> 00:12:08,300 - [Jono] Yeah, that's uh. - That's regular price. - Yeah. - Yeah, and then the base one 172 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:14,980 is still around a thousand U.S. dollars. So to me, these are more of a tool than a toy. 173 00:12:14,980 --> 00:12:18,590 But if you're the kind of person who needs one of these for work, 174 00:12:18,590 --> 00:12:23,900 man, you gotta be looking at this going, "Holy crap, how did this not exist before? 175 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:30,870 My mind is blown, I need one." I love it. I like, I will be definitely keeping this thing. 176 00:12:30,870 --> 00:12:35,850 Oh, it's playable. (crew talking) 177 00:12:35,850 --> 00:12:41,840 I mean, other than Intel's driver issues, but let's see if CS:GO fares a little better. 178 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,575 At least this is a game that's officially supported. I guess we could listen to the speakers. 179 00:12:46,575 --> 00:12:50,210 (CS:GO theme music) They're pretty rough. 180 00:12:51,380 --> 00:12:55,970 I'd plug in your headphones. Definitely seeing some FPS dips. 181 00:12:55,970 --> 00:13:01,180 But if the question was, can you play some video games on it? I think the answer is yes. 182 00:13:01,180 --> 00:13:04,460 Well for $1,300, I think that it's possible 183 00:13:04,460 --> 00:13:07,828 that you could do a little bit better. But the utility, Brandon. - [Brandon] Yes. 184 00:13:07,828 --> 00:13:12,150 - Like think back all the years we've been doing this. - [Brandon] Yes. - Having to like run upstairs, 185 00:13:12,150 --> 00:13:15,430 and grab a monitor and a keyboard and mouse, when I could've just had this thing 186 00:13:15,430 --> 00:13:18,921 back at the Langley House or whatever, like it's super cool. (gun firing) 187 00:13:18,921 --> 00:13:21,773 Ah, no! Well, I got dead. 188 00:13:22,710 --> 00:13:26,203 I didn't hit him at all? Alrighty then, well, fine. 189 00:13:26,203 --> 00:13:30,660 I blame the GPD Pocket 3. It's not a good gaming computer. 190 00:13:30,660 --> 00:13:33,980 Sorry, sorry, GPD. In all seriousness though. 191 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:37,160 Super cool machine. Great utility. 192 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,297 Freaking love it. A little pricey. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.