remember when we showed off the gpd win
a super tiny but full-fledged Windows
computer well guess what there's a sequel and it's in a black and
gold box and it comes out like this look people like unboxings right
look at this thing it's bigger faster and better in every
possible way let's check it out
all right so now that our Windows update is done let's take a closer look at this
guy we've got some kind of rubberized grips on the side here and here so that
you don't lose your grip we've got a cooling fan um got kind of a black and gray
aesthetic and then we can just i guess open it up and get started
so right out of the box like spec wise this thing is really impressive the
display is a six inch gorilla glass topped hips 10 point multi-touch display
so it's 1280 by 720 which is not amazing
today but is good enough for a device this size
the processor is a core m3 7y30
so what's cool about that is that that is not atom based that's a 15 watt kb
lake that runs one gigahertz base 2.6
gigahertz boost it's got two cores and it's hyper threaded it's running Intel
hd graphics 615 so not the most capable
we'll look at it a little closer later eight gigs of lpddr3 RAM it's got you
can actually see it here on the bottom support for up to a 42 millimeter m.2
though it should be noted it runs hci not NVMe it's got dual band ac wi-fi so
i'd like to see how it handles something like steam and home streaming and packed
into this you can see it's quite thick it's got two
4 900 milliamp hour batteries for up to
six to eight hours of battery life
i'm really impressed with the io2 just like i was last time around so here come
come have a look at this so you've got your usb type-c that handles charging
duties and from our testing also handles
outputting to like a usbc dongle so you could adapt it to HDMI or an sd slot or
whatever else you want it's got a headphone jack
it's got a usb 3 type a port it's got a microsd slot and it's also got a micro
HDMI output so if you wanted to hook it up to a monitor or something then you
could totally do that right now being totally honest the
speakers aren't great but apparently this is
mostly a driver issue that they're already aware of this is a pre-production sample and i'm more
concerned in the longer term with the inputs the keyboard
right off the bat way improved over the
last generation it doesn't have a ton of flex to it and the tactile click of the
keys like actually feels pretty good like it's not
like i type on it all day or anything but
way better than i expected and just like last time this little switch right here
super handy so you change the joysticks from gamepad mode over to mouse mode and
all of a sudden boom there you go you're moving your mouse cursor around it's not
you know a nipple and it's not a track pad but with a little bit of practice
you could definitely get really good with this thing
joystick quality now that was really impressive apparently these are sourced
from the japanese company alps which i totally believe because they
feel really good like like like almost ds grade good and as for the shoulder
buttons hear that these are nice clicky buttons
on our two r1 and r3 now it should be
noted that these were a little hard to distinguish
especially at first from each other while gaming but i do think it's
something that you might get used to uh something that would take a little longer to get used to is the weight this
thing is a touch heavy it's about 460 grams and making matters worse the
screen tilt is like just a little bit too far this way
then all the way this way so i can't quite find myself in that perfect
comfortable in between it'll kind of snap out like that but uh
okay enough talk about hypotheticals let's uh let's fire up some games
one thing that's really nice right out of the gate on a device like
this with steam in-home streaming is if you have to make any configuration
changes or if you run into any issues with it in general which
let's face it they're a thing it's a lot easier to fix them and make
any adjustments on a full-fledged computer than with
you know something like a shield portable which as you guys probably know
i'm a big fan of this is basically what it looks like running a game elsewhere
on the network over wi-fi so check this
out see those tips right there controller disconnected spacebar okay
boom we're in pc mode hold it to drain urics for health
switch to gamepad mode and
boom it's working again already and all the prompts will change again so that we
won't make any mistakes in terms of our control scheme check that out b to drop
so the idea here is that over your home network using steam or even over the
internet assuming your connection is good enough using a service like parsec
if you have a powerful enough machine somewhere you can play full quality
games even though the GPU on this thing
really is not nearly powerful enough to run games like
shadow of war so how bad you might ask running things
natively well integrated graphics are still what
they are so here i've got a steam library running
off of this external one terabyte drive so i've got a bunch of different games
installed and you're gonna see here that even in a fairly uh indie game not super
demanding like gang beasts we're seeing occasional stutters and this is running
at 720p actually not even apparently we're
running with pillar boxes for some reason like to be clear it's not fair to expect
deus ex mankind divided to run well uh you know even
even at 720p hold on i got this guy i got this guy uh
on all low settings but as long as you're just looking at
kind of older games and you don't expect to be getting a smooth 60 or a 120
frames per second not that would matter it's a 60hz display
it's not the worst thing ever though i'd personally definitely prefer to stream
off something else if i'm running something demanding
emulation on the other hand is the win 2's wheelhouse so check this out this is
star fox assault running on a gamecube emulator without any problems 60 FPS at
the original resolution so that's at 480. less demanding titles can actually
run enhanced at gpd's native 720p
resolution and it goes pretty much without saying that it works really well
for snes n64 psx via retroarch but we were
actually pretty surprised to see that it works reasonably well with playstation 2
games even at original resolution again though now
we did see more than the occasional slowdown in grand theft auto for example
but again in less demanding games this shouldn't be as much of a problem and
input lag overall was basically negligible
okay so what you're probably wondering at this point sorry can i actually take that from you enough grand theft auto at
work what you're probably wondering at this point is how much does one of these
cost well like its predecessor the win 2 is pretty pricey so it's 600 while it's
running on its uh i don't remember which crowdfunding campaign site it is but
while it's running its crowdfunding campaign and then 700 after that
but it's got a lot of versatility and the fact that there is a second one means
that there's clearly a market for these devices out there because the first one
wasn't exactly cheap either
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