WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:08.639 inside this box i have an engineering sample an early 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:12.719 unit of the successor to the wildly 00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:14.400 successful crowdfunded gpd pocket it's 00:00:12.719 --> 00:00:19.119 nice to have a crowdfunding campaign work out once in a while isn't it 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:23.039 so this right here is a full-fledged quad-core pc that 00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:29.439 per the name fits in your pocket or at least in my pocket 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:33.120 i have pretty i have pretty big pockets it's not about the size of the pockets 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:36.880 it's about the man who wears the pocket kit it doesn't matter anyway the point 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:42.960 is they've made a bunch of changes both in terms of ergonomics and performance 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:44.960 and we are going to take a look at it 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:52.480 after i tell you about our sponsor origin pc origin pc's evo 15s is only 00:00:48.879 --> 00:00:55.520 4.3 pounds features a 144 hertz 1080p 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:57.680 display in a GeForce gtx 1070 max-q 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:06.069 learn more about it and origin's other pcs at the link in the video description 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:16.560 now the big message from gpd's uh reviewers guide materials was really one 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:22.400 about performance because we're going from atom course 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:24.960 to actual full-fledged laptop cores in 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:30.080 the pocket too now we only get two of them but i'm still expecting performance 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.960 to be dramatically better because atom cores 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:36.640 are dog slow 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:41.520 but with even with that said my main problem with the original pocket wasn't 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:48.560 actually the performance it was really the the usability of the device starting 00:01:45.119 --> 00:01:51.040 with io oh are both of these dead 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:56.479 gosh darn it i will say this performance wise i mean 00:01:54.320 --> 00:02:01.200 based on how much further along we are in the setup process here you can see 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:02.640 that it definitely makes a difference 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.399 even if it wasn't something that had stood out to me at the time so here 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:09.360 let's run through the physical changes while i wait for some stuff to install 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.760 here so we've got usb type-c for charging on 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:18.640 the right that's the same as before we've got a usb type a for whatever it 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:23.840 is that you could want to plug into it that's the same as before but while last 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:30.080 time we had our headphone jack as well as a micro HDMI on the right side 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:35.120 now we turn it over to the other side and we've got no micro HDMI although 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:39.360 honestly given that we live in the dongle age now 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:43.360 thank you apple for that uh that doesn't bother me micro HDMI is a 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:48.000 super fragile connector and i would much rather have this 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.480 so we've got another full size type a and our headphone jack over on the other 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:56.480 side along with a micro sd slot so if you've 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:01.120 got one of those amazing little uh high capacity micro sd cards like i will 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:04.959 hopefully be able to find extremely quickly 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:10.640 here then you can add up to 00:03:07.239 --> 00:03:13.840 512 gigs of storage to this thing on top 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:14.800 of the 128 gigs that it already comes 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:19.840 with because it should be sdxc uh is that 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:22.319 going to work scissors 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:31.599 there we go that's probably just a tooling issue on 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:34.959 the early units here so speaking of tooling actually this is a unibody 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.560 construction here so you can see this is a single piece of aluminum all along the 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:41.440 top here and then they're just putting a bottom cover on it 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:48.319 the other big change from a usability perspective is the keyboard and mouse 00:03:47.519 --> 00:03:52.959 now okay my initial reaction was that i was 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:57.360 pretty upset that they had done away with the nipple nose because while the 00:03:54.959 --> 00:04:01.120 nipple mouse isn't my favorite it's sort of making the best of a bad situation 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:06.480 where you've got very little space to work with and once you get good with it 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:11.519 you can get pretty good and what they replaced it with is this little 00:04:09.200 --> 00:04:15.360 what it is is okay you know normally the way a mouse works is you've got an 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:19.600 optical sensor in it and then you move it around on a surface the way this 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:24.400 works is they've got a stationary optical sensor under this little square 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:28.880 right here and then you move a textured surface which i guess would be your 00:04:25.919 --> 00:04:32.800 finger in this case over top of it so what you end up doing is you end up 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:36.400 needing quite a few motions in order to move all the way across the screen 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:40.960 now what i also couldn't figure out at first 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:45.199 was how to drag things because initially i thought as soon as i run out of finger 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:48.479 runway that's as far as i can drag things because when you go to the edge 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:52.560 it doesn't keep going like it would on a track pad or on a nipple 00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:56.800 but fortunately they actually did think of this if you use your thumb a it 00:04:54.880 --> 00:05:00.560 doesn't require quite as many swipes just because you've got a larger surface 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:03.919 here and b you've actually got left and right clicks here that are built into 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:07.680 the top left corner of the device so if you can you can click and you can drag 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:12.960 something to your heart's content just like that so you end up with this kind 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:14.320 of like game controller style ergonomics 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:18.960 to it that works really well 00:05:17.039 --> 00:05:21.360 especially when you consider how much better of a keyboard experience you're 00:05:20.479 --> 00:05:25.360 getting this drove me nuts the fact that here 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:29.759 like look at this look at this from an angle here the fact that this space bar 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:33.600 was so hard to press without interfering with the left click or bumping your 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:38.880 thumb on the bottom of the chassis here so it's pretty short which means it's not 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:42.639 natural to hit with your left thumb you've got to kind of reach for it 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:47.840 all right period and question mark are in very unusual 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:52.479 locations i do appreciate the full size arrow keys this time around you can kind 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:54.080 of see some of the gaming dna of gpd 00:05:52.479 --> 00:05:59.280 that's actually short for gamepad digital with that some games do like a nice 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:03.759 full-sized arrow key so i'm glad to see that but the one 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:08.639 huge sin that i wish they had changed is i wish it had two shift keys with that 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:10.639 said compared to these key clusters like this 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:14.639 and you know putting stuff like this over here 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:18.720 this is something that i could at least eventually get used to they've done away 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:23.919 with useless stuff like caps lock stuff you really don't need on a highly mobile 00:06:21.919 --> 00:06:27.680 experience like this one now i want to take a look at performance so now they 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.560 don't intend for this to be a gaming machine but of course we're going to try 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:35.680 it so while we wait for that to load up though let's talk about what we might expect 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:40.880 and what kind of specs there are in here because it wasn't that long ago 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:45.280 that it wasn't even realistic to build an entire computer in this kind 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:51.120 of a form factor at all and we've gone from there to now 00:06:48.479 --> 00:06:56.240 this guy actually having very similar specs 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:58.560 to the new microsoft surface go 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:04.960 all right so this gives us a good look at things in here so right there 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:08.479 that's our core m3 7y 30 CPU so that's 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:09.520 dual cores at one to two gigahertz and 00:07:08.479 --> 00:07:16.400 change but what's important about those cores 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:18.479 is that those are actually haswell cores 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:23.440 so this is the same type of course that gets used in a normal notebook or even a 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:26.800 desktop machine 7th gen course then 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:32.000 right next to it here we've got 4 gigs of RAM although it's available with up 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:34.639 to 8 gigs then we've got a 128 gigs of 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:39.440 storage i'm pretty sure that's that then we've got a cooling fan here that's just 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:45.120 got a single radiator and a single heat pipe right there and then we've got a 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:48.479 pretty decent sized 3 400 milliamp hour battery and that's pretty much it for 00:07:46.479 --> 00:07:57.039 the internals i guess i never mentioned right this is an hips 1280 did i say 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:58.639 1280 sorry i mean 1900 by 1200 display 00:07:57.039 --> 00:08:04.000 pretty darn good what are these frame rates like so we're 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.879 running at 1280 by 720 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:10.960 low in tomb raider but given that um 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:15.120 no one probably expected to be running triple a games even older ones on a 00:08:13.440 --> 00:08:20.319 machine like this i would actually say the i'd call this 00:08:17.599 --> 00:08:23.840 like probably 10 to 15 FPS that we're getting right now is pretty darn 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:28.960 impressive i mean you'll be able to easily play games like you know old 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:33.519 retro games like age of empires 2 hd or whatever the case may be on something 00:08:30.479 --> 00:08:35.279 like this now this is cool so the fan 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.519 can actually make i'd say a fair bit of noise it's 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:43.360 definitely audible but what's neat is that if you want it to not turbo up 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:47.680 they've actually got a dedicated button to turn the fan off and go into a low 00:08:45.839 --> 00:08:50.320 power silent mode although i wouldn't expect to be running any games with it 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:55.360 like that got it got it 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:57.760 where where's the enter 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:06.560 shut up all right so to have a look at the performance improvements we've got 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:12.560 the original pocket we've got the pocket two and then for the sake of 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:16.000 completeness we've got the pentium 4415 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:18.160 y equipped surface go higher base clock 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:21.200 but no boost so 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:25.360 problem is that especially with these low power machines it's hard to find a 00:09:23.839 --> 00:09:31.680 chance to benchmark them because this one's got 60 of its CPU being sucked up 00:09:27.839 --> 00:09:33.440 by dism host servicing process 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:37.680 desktop with anti-malware service executable just like random Windows crap 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:43.360 that's running in the background 80 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:45.040 87 microsoft this is your computer 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:49.920 why you do this 90 so for our cinebench run we've got the 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:53.440 original pocket the pocket 2 with the 00:09:50.959 --> 00:09:57.120 m 7y 30 CPU and then we've got the pentium 4415y 00:09:55.519 --> 00:10:00.959 in the surface go so let's go 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:05.600 ahead and start them all oh yeah i guess they all have touch screens so i could just 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:09.680 boop boop oh that one's started wait what what is 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:15.600 going on here oh wow that one took that long just to start so 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:20.480 you'll notice here that it's still got four boxes that's because this is a 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:22.800 hyper-threaded processor and it is just 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:27.920 creaming four true cores over here so turbo boost is 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:33.519 giving us a clear advantage even though its base clock is lower it's 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:38.320 turboing up higher than the surface go oh it also has a lot more level three 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:43.760 cash four megs versus two megs so the performance story is looking pretty good 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:45.440 here at 177 i mean that's still not 00:10:43.760 --> 00:10:52.480 earth shattering performance this is still slower than like a a core ii quad 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:55.040 q6600 from literally 10 years ago but 00:10:52.480 --> 00:11:01.200 that's 10 faster than the surface go at 160 and 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:06.000 whatever that works out to a lot a lot a lot faster than 120 for the old pocket 00:11:06.640 --> 00:11:13.760 and the remarkable thing is that yeah even though it's slower than a desktop 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:15.519 CPU from 10 years ago that's a desktop 00:11:13.760 --> 00:11:19.839 CPU this literally fits in your pocket oh it 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:23.440 should be noted they're changing some of the buttons though so this is going to 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:26.720 be tab and these they're all kind of moving around it's for the better though 00:11:24.959 --> 00:11:30.880 it's for the better and now Linus will watch his favorite youtuber Linus purely 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:36.320 by how many views something gets on youtube because the usability of that thing the 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:43.120 speakers on this thing not amazing and i use the term speakers 00:11:39.680 --> 00:11:46.240 loosely because there's only one and it 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:48.560 actually fires up through the the holes 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:54.240 around the the keys so it doesn't yeah it doesn't sound that 00:11:50.640 --> 00:11:58.160 great but we can play back 1080p videos 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:59.279 and only suck back about 11 to 13 of the 00:11:58.160 --> 00:12:05.600 CPU that is not too shabby 00:12:02.880 --> 00:12:08.720 max screen brightness is not bad either like i wouldn't want to be watching in 00:12:06.880 --> 00:12:13.040 direct sunlight or anything but it's very comfortable even under 00:12:10.959 --> 00:12:17.120 direct overhead lighting here you know what all this talk of 00:12:14.800 --> 00:12:20.800 that decent performance actually gets me thinking 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:27.600 while gpd according to their marketing anyway might envision their user as like 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:31.040 you know dainty ladies and coffee shops 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:34.320 i see it as more of like uh 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:36.399 like a power user on the go where you 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:40.240 might want to have the the flexibility to either have something super portable 00:12:38.880 --> 00:12:44.079 albeit with limited functionality 00:12:42.079 --> 00:12:47.920 or the ability to use the device as like a 00:12:46.800 --> 00:12:52.720 mobile almost desktop experience 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:56.560 so let's try that we've got a type c dongle 00:12:53.920 --> 00:13:00.800 with a power in on the one side here we've got now wired Ethernet and let's 00:12:59.040 --> 00:13:04.560 get photoshop installed and see how usable this is the world-renowned 00:13:02.800 --> 00:13:08.320 photoshop expert edsel was called to work on a rare one-of-a-kind Linus tech 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:12.560 tip's thumbnail hold on i think i still have silent mode on 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:14.800 oh okay well hold on was it slow yeah yeah 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:21.200 okay so like every time i select a thing it does the waiting 00:13:19.760 --> 00:13:26.720 i don't think i've ever had that happen before okay 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:28.480 what like is the RAM might be the RAM 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:35.240 yeah we've only got four gigs there is an 8 gig model though 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:35.240 oh pixel art that's amazing 00:13:35.839 --> 00:13:43.279 okay so summary then i think 00:13:39.920 --> 00:13:45.519 it's not a great system to use 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:50.240 on its own like if you have other options yeah but this actually reminds 00:13:47.839 --> 00:13:53.440 me of that time when you asked me to uh edit a thumbnail and all i had was my 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:59.040 phone and i remoted in and edited a thumbnail on my phone right 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:04.880 this would be better than that this would be way better than 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:06.720 dinking around on my phone okay 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:10.399 so it's not perfect and there are definitely still some 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:14.639 compromises that you're making when you have a machine that is small enough to 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:19.279 fit in your pocket but for the price that they're asking which is actually 00:14:16.079 --> 00:14:23.279 really similar to the surface go 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:26.480 for more performance and a keyboard that 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:28.160 again isn't perfect but is included 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:32.000 it looks pretty darn good and i think they're going to have another successful 00:14:29.760 --> 00:14:36.320 crowdfunding campaign on their hands here 00:14:33.760 --> 00:14:40.959 speaking of successful private internet access is the way to be 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:44.880 successfully protected on the internet pia has clients available for Windows 00:14:43.839 --> 00:14:51.519 mac Linux chrome they've got like more coming in the 00:14:48.800 --> 00:14:56.320 future and it's the vpn that hides your true identity behind a protected fake ip 00:14:54.800 --> 00:15:01.360 address allowing you to get behind censorship and enjoy content that is 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:05.279 otherwise going to be geo-blocked like if you want to watch the bbc from 00:15:02.800 --> 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