inside this box i have an engineering sample an early
unit of the successor to the wildly
successful crowdfunded gpd pocket it's
nice to have a crowdfunding campaign work out once in a while isn't it
so this right here is a full-fledged quad-core pc that
per the name fits in your pocket or at least in my pocket
i have pretty i have pretty big pockets it's not about the size of the pockets
it's about the man who wears the pocket kit it doesn't matter anyway the point
is they've made a bunch of changes both in terms of ergonomics and performance
and we are going to take a look at it
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now the big message from gpd's uh reviewers guide materials was really one
about performance because we're going from atom course
to actual full-fledged laptop cores in
the pocket too now we only get two of them but i'm still expecting performance
to be dramatically better because atom cores
are dog slow
but with even with that said my main problem with the original pocket wasn't
actually the performance it was really the the usability of the device starting
with io oh are both of these dead
gosh darn it i will say this performance wise i mean
based on how much further along we are in the setup process here you can see
that it definitely makes a difference
even if it wasn't something that had stood out to me at the time so here
let's run through the physical changes while i wait for some stuff to install
here so we've got usb type-c for charging on
the right that's the same as before we've got a usb type a for whatever it
is that you could want to plug into it that's the same as before but while last
time we had our headphone jack as well as a micro HDMI on the right side
now we turn it over to the other side and we've got no micro HDMI although
honestly given that we live in the dongle age now
thank you apple for that uh that doesn't bother me micro HDMI is a
super fragile connector and i would much rather have this
so we've got another full size type a and our headphone jack over on the other
side along with a micro sd slot so if you've
got one of those amazing little uh high capacity micro sd cards like i will
hopefully be able to find extremely quickly
here then you can add up to
512 gigs of storage to this thing on top
of the 128 gigs that it already comes
with because it should be sdxc uh is that
going to work scissors
there we go that's probably just a tooling issue on
the early units here so speaking of tooling actually this is a unibody
construction here so you can see this is a single piece of aluminum all along the
top here and then they're just putting a bottom cover on it
the other big change from a usability perspective is the keyboard and mouse
now okay my initial reaction was that i was
pretty upset that they had done away with the nipple nose because while the
nipple mouse isn't my favorite it's sort of making the best of a bad situation
where you've got very little space to work with and once you get good with it
you can get pretty good and what they replaced it with is this little
what it is is okay you know normally the way a mouse works is you've got an
optical sensor in it and then you move it around on a surface the way this
works is they've got a stationary optical sensor under this little square
right here and then you move a textured surface which i guess would be your
finger in this case over top of it so what you end up doing is you end up
needing quite a few motions in order to move all the way across the screen
now what i also couldn't figure out at first
was how to drag things because initially i thought as soon as i run out of finger
runway that's as far as i can drag things because when you go to the edge
it doesn't keep going like it would on a track pad or on a nipple
but fortunately they actually did think of this if you use your thumb a it
doesn't require quite as many swipes just because you've got a larger surface
here and b you've actually got left and right clicks here that are built into
the top left corner of the device so if you can you can click and you can drag
something to your heart's content just like that so you end up with this kind
of like game controller style ergonomics
to it that works really well
especially when you consider how much better of a keyboard experience you're
getting this drove me nuts the fact that here
like look at this look at this from an angle here the fact that this space bar
was so hard to press without interfering with the left click or bumping your
thumb on the bottom of the chassis here so it's pretty short which means it's not
natural to hit with your left thumb you've got to kind of reach for it
all right period and question mark are in very unusual
locations i do appreciate the full size arrow keys this time around you can kind
of see some of the gaming dna of gpd
that's actually short for gamepad digital with that some games do like a nice
full-sized arrow key so i'm glad to see that but the one
huge sin that i wish they had changed is i wish it had two shift keys with that
said compared to these key clusters like this
and you know putting stuff like this over here
this is something that i could at least eventually get used to they've done away
with useless stuff like caps lock stuff you really don't need on a highly mobile
experience like this one now i want to take a look at performance so now they
don't intend for this to be a gaming machine but of course we're going to try
it so while we wait for that to load up though let's talk about what we might expect
and what kind of specs there are in here because it wasn't that long ago
that it wasn't even realistic to build an entire computer in this kind
of a form factor at all and we've gone from there to now
this guy actually having very similar specs
to the new microsoft surface go
all right so this gives us a good look at things in here so right there
that's our core m3 7y 30 CPU so that's
dual cores at one to two gigahertz and
change but what's important about those cores
is that those are actually haswell cores
so this is the same type of course that gets used in a normal notebook or even a
desktop machine 7th gen course then
right next to it here we've got 4 gigs of RAM although it's available with up
to 8 gigs then we've got a 128 gigs of
storage i'm pretty sure that's that then we've got a cooling fan here that's just
got a single radiator and a single heat pipe right there and then we've got a
pretty decent sized 3 400 milliamp hour battery and that's pretty much it for
the internals i guess i never mentioned right this is an hips 1280 did i say
1280 sorry i mean 1900 by 1200 display
pretty darn good what are these frame rates like so we're
running at 1280 by 720
low in tomb raider but given that um
no one probably expected to be running triple a games even older ones on a
machine like this i would actually say the i'd call this
like probably 10 to 15 FPS that we're getting right now is pretty darn
impressive i mean you'll be able to easily play games like you know old
retro games like age of empires 2 hd or whatever the case may be on something
like this now this is cool so the fan
can actually make i'd say a fair bit of noise it's
definitely audible but what's neat is that if you want it to not turbo up
they've actually got a dedicated button to turn the fan off and go into a low
power silent mode although i wouldn't expect to be running any games with it
like that got it got it
where where's the enter
shut up all right so to have a look at the performance improvements we've got
the original pocket we've got the pocket two and then for the sake of
completeness we've got the pentium 4415
y equipped surface go higher base clock
but no boost so
problem is that especially with these low power machines it's hard to find a
chance to benchmark them because this one's got 60 of its CPU being sucked up
by dism host servicing process
desktop with anti-malware service executable just like random Windows crap
that's running in the background 80
87 microsoft this is your computer
why you do this 90 so for our cinebench run we've got the
original pocket the pocket 2 with the
m 7y 30 CPU and then we've got the pentium 4415y
in the surface go so let's go
ahead and start them all oh yeah i guess they all have touch screens so i could just
boop boop oh that one's started wait what what is
going on here oh wow that one took that long just to start so
you'll notice here that it's still got four boxes that's because this is a
hyper-threaded processor and it is just
creaming four true cores over here so turbo boost is
giving us a clear advantage even though its base clock is lower it's
turboing up higher than the surface go oh it also has a lot more level three
cash four megs versus two megs so the performance story is looking pretty good
here at 177 i mean that's still not
earth shattering performance this is still slower than like a a core ii quad
q6600 from literally 10 years ago but
that's 10 faster than the surface go at 160 and
whatever that works out to a lot a lot a lot faster than 120 for the old pocket
and the remarkable thing is that yeah even though it's slower than a desktop
CPU from 10 years ago that's a desktop
CPU this literally fits in your pocket oh it
should be noted they're changing some of the buttons though so this is going to
be tab and these they're all kind of moving around it's for the better though
it's for the better and now Linus will watch his favorite youtuber Linus purely
by how many views something gets on youtube because the usability of that thing the
speakers on this thing not amazing and i use the term speakers
loosely because there's only one and it
actually fires up through the the holes
around the the keys so it doesn't yeah it doesn't sound that
great but we can play back 1080p videos
and only suck back about 11 to 13 of the
CPU that is not too shabby
max screen brightness is not bad either like i wouldn't want to be watching in
direct sunlight or anything but it's very comfortable even under
direct overhead lighting here you know what all this talk of
that decent performance actually gets me thinking
while gpd according to their marketing anyway might envision their user as like
you know dainty ladies and coffee shops
i see it as more of like uh
like a power user on the go where you
might want to have the the flexibility to either have something super portable
albeit with limited functionality
or the ability to use the device as like a
mobile almost desktop experience
so let's try that we've got a type c dongle
with a power in on the one side here we've got now wired Ethernet and let's
get photoshop installed and see how usable this is the world-renowned
photoshop expert edsel was called to work on a rare one-of-a-kind Linus tech
tip's thumbnail hold on i think i still have silent mode on
oh okay well hold on was it slow yeah yeah
okay so like every time i select a thing it does the waiting
i don't think i've ever had that happen before okay
what like is the RAM might be the RAM
yeah we've only got four gigs there is an 8 gig model though
oh pixel art that's amazing
okay so summary then i think
it's not a great system to use
on its own like if you have other options yeah but this actually reminds
me of that time when you asked me to uh edit a thumbnail and all i had was my
phone and i remoted in and edited a thumbnail on my phone right
this would be better than that this would be way better than
dinking around on my phone okay
so it's not perfect and there are definitely still some
compromises that you're making when you have a machine that is small enough to
fit in your pocket but for the price that they're asking which is actually
really similar to the surface go
for more performance and a keyboard that
again isn't perfect but is included
it looks pretty darn good and i think they're going to have another successful
crowdfunding campaign on their hands here
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