it's not very often I feel personally attacked by a product and it's
especially not often that I really really like it in front of me I have the
eye neo2 in its retro power colorway and
perhaps more interestingly the Aya Neo
geek a slightly downgraded
cost optimized version that has pretty
much the same performance just at a lower price and without some of the
bells and whistles both of these have the new ryzen 6800u CPU from AMD meaning
that they are Zen 3 with our DNA graphics and both of them have hall
effect joysticks and triggers meaning excellent precision and theoretically
longevity
we start with the tour do we start with the geek help me out two two I'm gonna
do the other one oh that's what you get Bella Lance those of you who are
familiar with this channel will probably be familiar with these handheld gaming
consoles but for the uninitiated the idea is simple it's a whole PC but the
size of a game console the steam deck is probably the most famous in this
category thanks to no small part to its aggressive pricing but it is far from
the First with companies like GPD and I
and Neo having hit the market first let's take a look at what we've got in
terms of accessory package this appears to be a cable
yes oh wow quite compact power brick 65
Watts not bad the devil is this after you replace the
SSD by yourself or disassemble the handheld the patch that comes with the
handheld will be damaged you can use this new one oh that's super cool one of
the things I noticed on their talking points for the eye neo2 is that it has a
no screws visible design and I was
thinking to myself gee that's cool but
also kind of sucks from a repairability standpoint
but they apparently include a little patch so you can seal this bad boy back
up if you want to replace the SSD that's awesome speaking of ssds they're both
available with the 6800u 16 to 32 gigs
of RAM and anywhere from 512 gigs to 2
terabytes of solid-state storage oh that's great look at that they include
four of them where they go I don't know but they go somewhere presumably on the
hand oh on the sides cool so they include enough for you to take it apart
and put it back together twice I am liking this black colorway a lot more
than I thought I would I figured it would be boring but it's instead it's
just kind of stealthy it's clean oh no way
no way RGB lit joysticks this is the
geek and it's still got the RGB joysticks love it I've talked a fair bit
about the similarities between these devices but I haven't yet talked about
the differences and the screen is a big
one first of all its fingerprint sensor is a little bit more advanced in that
you can just press it once it'll cast your fingerprint and use it for Windows
hello login not the case on the ionio geek the Ionia 2 will also store
multiple fingerprints so you can use it for multi-user Authentication
the other big one is the screen while both of them have a peak brightness of
400 nits the ineo 2 runs at a resolution
of 1920x1200 while the ioneo geek runs
at a mirror I believe it's 1280x800 let
me just double uh okay I'm confused now there's two
versions of the geek okay well we evidently got the 1920x1200 version
this is also definitely not as bright
because it says on the spec sheet that they are definitely as bright
it doesn't look that far off oh
I was off axis yeah that's probably about the same I
will say that white point is quite different between them you can even tell
on camera this one's quite a bit warmer and this is quite a bit cooler that
could just be a setting though let me see they both use ion EOS is space
utility so you can use this to configure the TDP of your processor as well as
calibrate your joysticks monitor CPU and GPU usage you can even use it as a game
library because you don't have Steam
regardless of the screen resolution the size is different between the two the
eye and neo2 has what they call a bezel-less display and it's got this
single surface sheet of glass across the
entire front with no seam at all
oh that actually looks really good
the geek has a more conventional bezeled
and and ridged top surface oh
okay that's kind of attractive no the screen size is the same it's just
the bezel-less look man that looks incredible doesn't it no real
differences in the back of the body but the weight is slightly different the
ineo 2 is about 20 grams heavier and the
ino2 contains two gyroscopes one in the
body one in the handle while the regular geek only has a gyroscope in the body so
if you like to fine tune your aim with the gyroscope so you do your course
adjustments with the joystick and then fine-tuning with the gyroscope you might
find that the Inu 2 will be slightly more accurate the other thing is the
vibration motor apparently the ineo 2 uses the same linear vibration motor as
the Nintendo switch I am surprised they
were able to actually Market it this way I'm sure Nintendo don't take kindly to
that especially given how many people have taken to pirating Nintendo switch
games on these handheld consoles but what are they gonna do about it I
guess oh now seems like a good time to take a bit of a tour of the outside
we've got our volume control here which is too loud right now dual USB type C's
at the top and another at the bottom I love this one of the top ones and the
bottom one those are both full-fledged USB 4 with apparently support for egpu
in spite of the fact that AMD I don't think has sought or at least not
achieved any sort of Thunderbolt certification so your mileage may vary on that one and
then the third one is data only you've also got your standard left and right
triggers they're quite deep those should give you a great degree of control shoulder
buttons and this is interesting a total of three programmable buttons that can
be configured with a total of five functions so you've got your LC and your
RC nothing on the back no paddles or
anything like that like we've seen with the Xbox Elite controller scuff
controllers and the like but there is a third configurable controller uh yes
there it is right here next to the Aya
button we've also got your start and select or whatever those are called on an Xbox controller oh
MicroSD slot love to see it that's a
great way to add another terabyte of storage dual microphones on both stereo
speakers on both I want to feel these sticks
what it's not weird overall quality we're going medium
definitely some audible fan noise though
that's to be expected running the CPU at 22 Watts oh now seems like as good a
time as I need to say these things have 50 watt hour batteries in them both of
them they don't specify any kind of expected battery life but I would expect
them to be pretty close to the GPD Win 4 which has a 46 watt hour battery if I
recall correctly so that's about two hours I've had to use three to six hours
of moderate use and up to 10 hours of light use see no reason why they'd be
too dissimilar to that those are nice vibration Motors not bad
go away go away monster
I would configure them smaller personally but I believe that is
something that I can do let's check that
uh uh Master controller what does that mean
oh here we go joystick Zone
what does on and off mean I'm not sure
quite how it happened but I swear to you I and Neo's English
translations have gotten worse over time
what is even happening right now
hello okay yeah Master Control
oh my God okay I'm opening it on this one
oh my God oh that's cool you can switch to like a
PlayStation slash um Nintendo style
sorry I just have no idea what's going on right now I just want to reconfigure
my dead zones is that this we'll just reset what just happened game running
enjoy your get whoa okay I am finding
these a little bit sensitive right now man until you've used a hall effect
joystick you have no idea what you're missing with the crap tier non-hall
effects joysticks I am finding these a touch sensitive though
okay I'm setting joystick Zone to off and I'm gonna see if that helps
um I don't know what that did
I seem to be happier can we take a moment to talk about the fact that this
is do maternal running at greater than 1080p resolution solid 60fps medium
settings
like AMD could you be slightly less cool
6800u is an absolutely incredible SOC
yeah it's a lot more expensive than a steam deck this thing but it also
outperforms it wait joystick zone is on
again there's no granularity
it's a hundred percent or 50 percent
I'm walking but barely
50 joystick not so good can you even
tell I'm moving fine I'm turning the Zone off oh
oh I think the dead zones are gone
I think that was dead zone settings audio is not bad eh
it's not the steam deck but it's not bad
multiple Chargers okay our geek apparently geeked out
and is not working right now
again reminder these are pre-production
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all right I guess we're focused on the ineo 2 Forza Horizon 5. let's go let's
ooh how fast the Wi-Fi oh it's Wi-Fi six hey I can mention some other stuff right
now there's a headphone jack yeah we didn't mention that cool the ineo 2
comes with sound tap Magic which uses
speaker output to translate to vibration output and games that don't support
vibration I can't say I would ever use that but hey there you go apparently
also includes AI subtitle translation if you watch a lot of anime on your on your
handheld small strategy window and FPS
Thunder are also included it includes
the type C to USB a adapter though
that's useful you know what I'm sure the audience in China is going to be like
whoa that's like great software I use all the time or something it's it's all
stuff I've never even heard of though we definitely need to talk about the design
though okay the ergonomics were inspired
by the baby sleeping position so it's a
baby sleeping position grip design like we would call that fetal position you
know where you kind of you're kind of spooning around it the state of the baby
in the mother's body is natural and comfortable says ieneo they draw
original and pure inspiration from it you know what
forts is ready why don't we just play video games to stop talking about all
this OS here says Windows 11 or ieneo Os are
they working on a Linux something something a la Steam OS I find it hard
to believe that if they're having this much trouble with configuring the
joysticks that they're going to be building a whole OS but
okay apparently they have a Linux OS coming 22 Watts
it's a lot of airflow you know like she really pushes it's a little bit warm in
the very sort of recessed part of the baby sleeping position here
overall not bad though
the warmest part is like right along the back right here where you wouldn't
really need to be touching also right at the exhaust oh probably shouldn't do
that
those are loudspeakers actually pretty impressed
now as someone who only really uses my triggers in racing games to uh push down
all the way I can't say I'd be the best judge of the fine control that a hall
effect sensor trigger is going to give you but it definitely feels
really good actually
the steering too now that I've got those dead zones turned off I think
that is extremely fine
okay I am liking this
can we just take a minute again to appreciate that this thing is running
Forza Horizon 5 okay 1920 by 1200
targeting 60 FPS okay it's that load man this is a good
looking game even a low good gravy I mean on a screen this size though you
don't need to crank the details like it
not quiet though can you see it blowing on my hair this fan freaking moves
I'd recommend low definitely seeing a little bit of
stuttering there by the way the vibration is configurable you can
probably hear the vibration
it's on medium right now you can turn it up to higher you can turn it down to low
depending on what your preference is again it's worth noting that the geek
assuming yours works will also perform identically to the two it's just those
bells and whistles and some of the included software that's different
the included joystick to Mouse controls uh work this is a problem I've had a lot
when you're interacting with certain elements in Windows it has partial
controller support so you would click the Windows menu and you'd go up here
and then it would start using the joystick to move between these icons
while also moving the cursor around it looks like they've solved that
that is very good to see love to see
that then we jump in game oh oh okay oh
there's a oh oh cool there's a shortcut to the proper on-screen keyboard now too
really nice to see
wow that was that was some loud vibration there
I think I would turn the vibration down a little you know
yeah it's that's very obnoxious actually pricing wise for the 150 difference
given the same performance it's tough to
say that the two is worth it over the geek but then again by the time you're
spending almost a thousand dollars on a handheld if you go for the one with the
bezel-less screen and the overall nicer
package oh that's tough geek 1200p would
probably be the way that I would go whatever TowerFall is a good game check
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