WEBVTT 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 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 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. 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:21.300 Meet the Pocket 3. Now, if the Steam Deck is for gamers, 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. 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:32.490 Remember those things? Those slow and loud, 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:35.510 and kind of crappy, cheapo PCs 00:00:35.510 --> 00:00:40.250 that were, well, about this size. This is that, but way better, 00:00:40.250 --> 00:00:44.560 better cooling, better IO, better quality of materials, 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.820 and most importantly, better performance. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:52.070 Okay, accessories first though. Man, they have made a lot of improvements to this thing. 00:00:52.070 --> 00:00:55.720 Okay, we got, hey, a wrist strap. 00:00:55.720 --> 00:01:00.050 Remember wrist straps, Brandon? - [Brandon] Yeah, I do. - What do you think, is it gonna hold? 00:01:00.050 --> 00:01:04.550 - [Brandon] O God. - All right. Look at that, they made it Linus proof. 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. 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 00:01:15.130 --> 00:01:18.520 because there's some pretty trippy stuff going on here. Over on the left, 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:21.403 we've got HDMI out and USB-C, 00:01:22.310 --> 00:01:25.410 which is for charging as well as connecting peripherals. 00:01:25.410 --> 00:01:30.410 Then, these are actually an HDMI and a USB-C input. 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:35.150 One of the most obvious applications for this, would be a server or something like that. 00:01:35.150 --> 00:01:40.240 You just roll up to a machine, plug, using maybe a VGA to HDMI connection, 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:45.690 or just native HDMI, and then anything to USB Type C and boom. 00:01:45.690 --> 00:01:49.290 You can use the built-in screen, and keyboard, and mouse 00:01:49.290 --> 00:01:54.324 to control that external device. Actually, I guess we can probably demo this. 00:01:54.324 --> 00:02:00.160 Okay. So my Framework will take on the host role. This will be the target role. 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:04.930 Boop. Just gonna casually do some stuff 00:02:04.930 --> 00:02:09.930 like go to lttstore.com. 00:02:11.430 --> 00:02:15.900 Crazy. Okay. For the people who don't care, 00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:19.630 I get it, you don't care. But for the people that this is useful for, 00:02:19.630 --> 00:02:22.670 this is blowing your mind right now. And I know it. 00:02:22.670 --> 00:02:26.650 I love it. And get this, on the subject of Framework, 00:02:26.650 --> 00:02:30.800 who by the way, I am invested in, disclosure, they are now no longer 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.300 the only ones building modular IO plates for their laptops. 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:38.960 Let's say, you're not that into the single port KVM functionality, 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.183 as they call this. Oh, interesting. 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:49.500 Oh, cool. It uses all spring loaded pins for the interface back here. 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:55.070 Check this out. These puppies just spring load. 00:02:55.070 --> 00:02:58.390 So there's no fingers to kind of slide in 00:02:58.390 --> 00:03:01.430 and slide out and wear out. Check this out, Anthony, 00:03:01.430 --> 00:03:06.537 it's gonna blow your mind. Look at this, modules for the new GPD Pocket. 00:03:06.537 --> 00:03:10.810 - [Anthony] Oh, is Framework making it? - So, no, no GPD's making it. 00:03:10.810 --> 00:03:14.002 Ah, they sent over a couple of the other modules. They've got a serial module. 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. 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. 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. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.660 So serial is one of those ports that again, 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 00:03:35.880 --> 00:03:40.160 or some kind of industrial equipment that still uses serial, 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:43.400 having a properly compatible serial port in 2021, 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.470 absolutely a valuable thing to have. 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, 00:03:51.410 --> 00:03:55.700 because tap would come in handy all the freaking time. 00:03:55.700 --> 00:04:00.010 And I haven't even talked about specs yet. This is a Core i7-1195G7. 00:04:00.010 --> 00:04:04.930 So you can expect this thing to actually pack a pretty reasonable punch, 00:04:04.930 --> 00:04:08.560 especially considering its size. It's got four cores, eight threads, 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:13.590 and turbos up to five gigahertz. It's got 16 gigs of LPDDR 4X memory. 00:04:13.590 --> 00:04:18.130 It's got a one terabyte NVMe SSD, actually supports PCI Express Gen 4. 00:04:18.130 --> 00:04:22.420 Oh and also Thunderbolt 4, which is pretty freaking awesome. 00:04:22.420 --> 00:04:25.810 And it's got Intel Xe graphics with 96 execution units, 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 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, 00:04:36.030 --> 00:04:40.260 like say for example, their Win series. 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So are there two of these? 00:05:45.850 --> 00:05:49.800 - [Brandon] Yeah, two 5,000. - There's two 5,000 mAh batteries. 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:55.440 Okay. So they must be stacked. That is a lot of battery. 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:58.440 And if you're using it just in display and peripheral mode, 00:05:58.440 --> 00:06:01.467 I guess that would actually last even longer. Now, okay. 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, 00:06:06.650 --> 00:06:09.710 when the computer itself is not even powered up? 00:06:09.710 --> 00:06:13.970 No, no. I think it does, in fact, have to be powered on 00:06:13.970 --> 00:06:18.160 at least a little. What is that? A total of like 90 watt hours of battery 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.810 in a tiny little device like this. This thing should last a long time. 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 00:06:27.700 --> 00:06:31.330 watching movies on something like this. As usual for GPD, 00:06:31.330 --> 00:06:34.810 they've got configurable TDP settings in the BIOS. So you can play around with it. 00:06:34.810 --> 00:06:38.100 If you wanna optimize for battery life, you can turn down the power consumption. 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:41.570 If you wanna optimize for performance, you can do the opposite of that. 00:06:41.570 --> 00:06:44.960 The memory runs at 3,733 megahertz. So that's actually, well, 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. 00:06:49.420 --> 00:06:52.590 Now, if all this sounds expensive, it's because it is. 00:06:52.590 --> 00:06:56.410 But thankfully this is not the only spec of this machine. You can also get it 00:06:56.410 --> 00:07:00.240 with an Intel Pentium Silver N6000 processor, 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.940 whatever that thing is. Eight gigs of RAM, normal Intel UHD graphics, 00:07:04.940 --> 00:07:09.760 no Thunderbolt 4, but that will limit your external display devices a little bit. 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? 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:17.740 4K 60 or whatever. And then over the Thunderbolt 4 port, 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. 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. 00:07:28.340 --> 00:07:32.700 Okay. Now, how does this work? I've seen better fit and finish, 00:07:32.700 --> 00:07:36.000 but usually these guys send me an early sample. 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, 00:07:43.550 --> 00:07:46.800 two and a half gig Ethernet, freaking awesome. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:52.010 And of course those display outputs I mentioned before, but the best part is in here, 00:07:52.010 --> 00:07:56.420 and we need a point of reference for this. This is the Pocket 2. 00:07:56.420 --> 00:08:00.810 And Pocket 2, neat machine. Definitely more compact. 00:08:00.810 --> 00:08:04.170 See that, so it's substantially smaller, really pocketable. 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. 00:08:08.790 --> 00:08:11.040 I mean, I could probably fit it in my pocket. 00:08:12.910 --> 00:08:15.990 I wouldn't say that that's a pocket computer 00:08:15.990 --> 00:08:19.250 in the same way that this one is, right? 00:08:19.250 --> 00:08:24.710 Different, different levels. But in terms of usability, it's a lot better. 00:08:24.710 --> 00:08:28.790 So the Pocket 2 relied on the little nipple for mouse navigation 00:08:28.790 --> 00:08:33.370 and had a keyboard that frankly was not usable. 00:08:33.370 --> 00:08:36.640 Pocket 3, on the other hand, I love this. 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:39.640 So this seems to be kind of inspired by some of their other devices 00:08:39.640 --> 00:08:43.070 that have joysticks or controllers up here. And this is great. 00:08:43.070 --> 00:08:46.950 You've got this thumb touch pad, fingerprint sensing power button, 00:08:46.950 --> 00:08:50.570 and then your left, middle, and right click buttons that are over here. 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. 00:08:56.170 --> 00:08:59.560 This is not the most comfortable thing in the world, but it's not heavy either. 00:08:59.560 --> 00:09:04.340 And if I'm sitting at a desk, man, I could very easily, very comfortably, 00:09:04.340 --> 00:09:08.810 and for a long time, use it like this. And you don't have to, right? 00:09:08.810 --> 00:09:12.630 So you can also have a hand on the keyboard still 00:09:12.630 --> 00:09:16.180 and you can use just taps in order to navigate. 00:09:16.180 --> 00:09:19.560 Or if you're more into it, you can go left click like this. 00:09:19.560 --> 00:09:23.160 You can navigate like this. It's like, it's surprisingly flexible. 00:09:23.160 --> 00:09:29.340 I immediately, I really like it. And the keyboard is actually freaking usable on this one, 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 00:09:33.190 --> 00:09:37.460 to serve the role of being your keyboard and mouse for another device, 00:09:37.460 --> 00:09:41.800 you need it to actually be functional. Okay. Let's, oh, okay. 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:44.853 The apostrophe is not where I expected it to be, at it. 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? 00:09:52.330 --> 00:09:57.080 Period's in the right place. It's really usable. 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, 00:10:03.560 --> 00:10:08.300 Tab, Caps, Control, Alt, are pretty much where you'd expect them to be. 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:11.830 You don't get a full Function row, but you do get some additional functions. 00:10:11.830 --> 00:10:16.000 So this one you can adjust, I believe this adjusts the fan profile, 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.700 something like that. You've got your volume adjustment up here. 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. 00:10:23.730 --> 00:10:26.810 And here's your keyboard backlight. There's just on and off for this. 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. 00:10:31.010 --> 00:10:34.910 It's 1920 by 1200, which I think is the perfect resolution 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, 00:10:40.940 --> 00:10:44.020 but you're not gonna waste any power driving more pixels than you absolutely need. 00:10:44.020 --> 00:10:48.610 And it's an IPS type display, which means looks pretty freaking good. 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. 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, 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. 00:11:01.060 --> 00:11:06.060 Apparently it'll do 4,096 different levels of pressure. 00:11:06.630 --> 00:11:09.810 Now, one thing that's a little off about this unit 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. 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) 00:11:19.350 --> 00:11:23.070 it also, isn't the most confidence-inspiring hinge, 00:11:23.070 --> 00:11:26.140 but it also hasn't broken from me wrenching on it. 00:11:26.140 --> 00:11:30.270 So you can make of all of that, what you will. (chuckles) 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, 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. 00:11:37.920 --> 00:11:41.440 Not a great, especially considering that we are under lighting conditions 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.513 that are pretty favorable. 00:11:44.870 --> 00:11:48.940 Yeah, not the world's greatest webcam. So it's really, oh my god, 00:11:48.940 --> 00:11:53.470 man, almost greyscale, can barely even tell that my, is it the hoodie, 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. 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? 00:12:04.335 --> 00:12:08.300 - [Jono] Yeah, that's uh. - That's regular price. - Yeah. - Yeah, and then the base one 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. 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:18.590 But if you're the kind of person who needs one of these for work, 00:12:18.590 --> 00:12:23.900 man, you gotta be looking at this going, "Holy crap, how did this not exist before? 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. 00:12:30.870 --> 00:12:35.850 Oh, it's playable. (crew talking) 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. 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. 00:12:46.575 --> 00:12:50.210 (CS:GO theme music) They're pretty rough. 00:12:51.380 --> 00:12:55.970 I'd plug in your headphones. Definitely seeing some FPS dips. 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. 00:13:01.180 --> 00:13:04.460 Well for $1,300, I think that it's possible 00:13:04.460 --> 00:13:07.828 that you could do a little bit better. But the utility, Brandon. - [Brandon] Yes. 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, 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 00:13:15.430 --> 00:13:18.921 back at the Langley House or whatever, like it's super cool. (gun firing) 00:13:18.921 --> 00:13:21.773 Ah, no! Well, I got dead. 00:13:22.710 --> 00:13:26.203 I didn't hit him at all? Alrighty then, well, fine. 00:13:26.203 --> 00:13:30.660 I blame the GPD Pocket 3. It's not a good gaming computer. 00:13:30.660 --> 00:13:33.980 Sorry, sorry, GPD. In all seriousness though. 00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:37.160 Super cool machine. Great utility. 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:41.297 Freaking love it. A little pricey. 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