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in this video i'm going to show you guys the gaming handheld that 10 year old me

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would have literally given six inches of height for if you hadn't already traded

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it for this sweet footwear it's got high quality joysticks analog triggers an

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enormous not to mention bright 7-inch display enough i o to rival modern

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full-sized laptops and it managed to run

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every game i could imagine throwing at it and i can imagine an awful lot it's

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the ineo 2021 pro and its new retro

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power colorway and upgraded specs put it in contention with the steam deck as the

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best handheld gaming pc on the market i have been having a ton of fun with

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Linus

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my love of mobile pc gaming started with installing zsnes on an old cast off

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pentium one laptop that my sister's dad was discarding and to say that we've

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come a long way since then would be a gross understatement compared to my ineo

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founders the upgraded pro 2021 model

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adds two additional CPU cores and smt

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for a total of 16 CPU processing threads

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and much more importantly it adds a vega 8 GPU

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now on paper vega 8 is about 30 percent

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wider and clocked about 15 percent higher than vegas 6 which not only puts

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the neo 2021 pro ahead of the original neo but puts it within striking distance

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of the upcoming steam deck featuring rdna 2 graphics

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at least according to how the steam deck was performing back when i did my early

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preview let's take a look at what that performance difference means in the real

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world starting with one of the most common use cases for these handheld pcs

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indie and casual pc games now 10 years ago there wasn't much in

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the way of single-player controller optimized titles for pc but these days

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steam is practically overrun with everything from niche cult favorites

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like cross code to smash hits like among us and fall guys all of which run great

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on the ineo pro the 16 by 10 7 inch

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display is sharp enough at normal viewing distances that i don't consider

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its 1280x800 resolution to be a problem and the speakers are markedly better

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than first gen

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to the point where i would consider them to be actually usable for gaming the

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problem is that because these types of games typically target the lowest common

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denominator for hardware they also run great on the original neo or on just

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about anything making the cost of the 2021 pro really hard to justify that's

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where we get into big use case number two emulation

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now in theory any modern pc is so much more powerful than a console from a

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couple of generations ago that running those games should be easy right but in

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reality emulating functions that are not built into a machine's hardware can be

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extremely demanding and this is where the additional horsepower of the neo

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2021 pro is most felt older consoles like the super nintendo

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playstation 1 and even playstation 2 run with ease check this out i've got final

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fantasy 10 running at six times the original resolution with a widescreen

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hack that's right that's not a pc port that's the playstation 2 version and

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since i'm able to run this with the soc limited to just 11 watts i'd expect

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anywhere from three and a half to four hours out of the 57 watt hour battery or

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maybe more depending on the screen brightness side note i actually found

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the indoor sweet spot for the screen was about 20

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and even at minimum i found it too bright at night i also wasn't impressed

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with the amount of corner backlight bleeds so i think there is some room for

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improvement here the thing is as soon as you get into emulating anything more

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modern though it gets a bit dicey for a couple of reasons first up is the fact

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that the original hardware that you're trying to mimic is much more powerful

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and second is that even for a four-year-old console like the nintendo

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switch the enormous reverse engineering efforts of a project like yuzu just

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plain take a lot of time which is why the ineo pro's performance is so

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impressive i did have to crank it up to its 20 watt

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TDP profile and wild fan mode which

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admittedly isn't the greatest experience if you're not wearing headphones due to

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the neopro's poorly implemented fan speed control

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but it flipped and ran for best performance i turned mario tennis aces

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down to about three quarters resolution and enabled AMD's fsr to smooth out the

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jaggies now please note the flickering lines are a known issue on AMD gpus and

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the yuzu team is aware of them but that shouldn't undermine the impressiveness

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of the performance that we're seeing here of course mario tennis aces isn't

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the most demanding nintendo game out there let's go back a generation to the

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wii u version of the legend of zelda breath of the wild running in cemu

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breath of the wild is a 30 FPS game so that's our target to ensure that the

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physics is running in real time and at 20 watts in the wild fan profile

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it actually runs really well just about

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locked at 30 FPS in fact if we're willing to accept a couple of stutters

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here and there like you'd get on the original nintendo switch we can turn it

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down to even 15 watts and still have an acceptable experience this is actually a

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good time to talk about the tool that i just used to do that it's called ispace

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and it's a utility that i have built to make controlling the system a little bit

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more convenient just hit the keyboard shortcut key on the right to bring it up

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over top of any borderless windowed game or application it has an included

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joystick to mouse utility that automatically switches modes

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reasonably well bar some Windows navigation issues and within the slide

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out here you've got volume brightness power profiles and a resolution changer

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up top i actually really like this overlay and then the bottom buttons here

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are configurable in the main application which is accessed by long pressing you

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can also use isbase to browse your installed games right now they support

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steam and microsoft games though supposedly support for other launchers

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is coming and you can also add exes for unsupported applications like emulators

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though i didn't see an obvious way to change the icon which i would like to do

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you can also fine-tune the system to a surprising degree in here the neopro

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2021 got upgraded linear actuators for its rumble that i actually found to be

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too strong out of the box thankfully you can turn them down and they feel great

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on the middle setting since we're in here by the way the ability to

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recalibrate the joysticks is a huge deal we haven't talked about it much on this

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channel but joystick drift is a problem that affects basically every modern

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console or controller to some degree even a perfectly designed stick will

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eventually drift as the internal components wear out so being able to

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re-center them in software is an exciting idea that i kind of hope will

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become more widely adopted in the future to keep otherwise good controllers out

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lttstore.com as for how good the controller is i give it a b minus

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obviously some of my issues stem from the cramped nintendo switch style layout

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but as someone who spent many hours on the switch that wasn't my main problem

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compared to the original ineo the new leadership over there has a preference

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for longer travel buttons that i just don't share i found the new abxy and

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d-pad switches mushy and unresponsive

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and i would like to see them changed or at the very least implemented in a way

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that makes them swappable thankfully the joysticks felt comfortable and accurate

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throughout my time with them and the new analog triggers are an absolute godsend

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if you enjoy racing games that alone was enough for me to retire my founders

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edition for good and it gets better the only real way to play aaa games on

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previous handheld pcs was streaming from a cloud gaming service or a nearby

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desktop and that changes with the neopro 2021 you name it it runs not at the

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highest details mind you but turning down eye candy like shadows and texture

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quality is a lot less noticeable on a seven inch screen than it is on a 24

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inch screen and everything from doom eternal to forza horizon 5 to halo

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infinite ran without complaint at anywhere between 30 to 60 FPS that's a

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freaking game changer and the craziest part is this is just the beginning aya

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has the new neonext coming out very soon that upgrades the CPU cores to zen3

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which is a huge boon for emulation and boosts the clock speed of the onboard

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vega 8 graphics now i'm hesitant to recommend that one just yet since i

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actually find myself using the dedicated keys for escape control alt delete and

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Windows quite often and it issues most of those but i'm going to reserve

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judgment for once i have hands-on with it which should be pretty soon it's not

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all sunshine and rainbows though i already talked about the loud fan in the

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wild 20 watt profile but what i haven't discussed yet is the weight or battery

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life perhaps the biggest ergonomic challenge is that compared to a device

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like the switch OLED the neopro 2021 is

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heavy to the point where i would almost never recommend using it without a

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surface to rest your hands on also while the battery life was more than

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acceptable in the more economical profiles we looped f1 2021 at the

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highest performance profile and got just around two hours of battery life there's

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no performance drop on battery which is good but that's less per charge than the

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notorious sega game gear and obviously

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it's a lot less than the switch if you don't mind being stuck with nintendo

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games so i can understand then why some folks might look at this and say over a

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thousand dollars why wouldn't i just buy a switch for a

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few hundred that's fair but i can also see the other side of the argument where

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one might hook up a bunch of mismatched controllers to game with their friends

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or upgrade this baby could be a little more

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accessible i ended up snapping a couple of the clips but i put an 8 terabyte

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freaking SSD in here that crazy or you

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could even put the retropower in its included dock to use it as a

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full-fledged pc the wild card here is the steam deck of course which comes at

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a much lower price and hopefully i'll be able to preview it for you soon enough

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deck it is shaping up to be a really interesting year for handheld gaming