I'm ready oh where's the Jerry rig
everything knife has that arrived yet Zach where's my knife inside this
horrible box is the Aya Neo next the
successor to the Aya Neil Pro 2021 that
I so positively reviewed very recently online as Tech tips
the biggest difference between the Inu next and the ineo 2021 Pro
is well actually pretty much everything
the processor is different we're moving to a ryzen 5000 series mobile CPU
although we're still equipped with lpddr4x unlike the steam deck and
top spec goes from one terabyte of solid state storage to two terabytes but it
gets even more interesting than that they have completely redesigned the
ergonomics of the device to be more in line with their new vision for their
product which is whoop to be less dependent on here we go like Windows you
know Windows Escape task manager buttons things like that and more dependent on
their own is space I guess I would call it kind of like a launcher slash game
organizer slash system Configuration utility please put on gloves to open the
next spot oh wow okay hopefully they sent a small actually this does look
like very these look like very small gloves they sent me Unit Seven
apparently they don't know me very well 69 would have been the correct answer
Aya oh well this is a significant departure
from their previous devices much bigger joysticks
much tighter abxy this makes the 2021
Pro feel downright Loose by comparison
ergonomics are definitely better but they still manage to maintain that I uh
slimness so you can see it's quite a bit
thinner than this is the 1X player mini
and actually we've actually got the steam deck here as well so it's quite a
bit thinner and narrower than the steam deck
of course compared to the Neo 2021 Pro you do give up some of the pocket
ability that's one of the things I actually really like about it oh that's
really nice it has USB PD for the actual ineo and then it's also got an
additional five volt Outlet 65 Watts total USBC to type a adapters I guess
now's as good a time as I need to go over the i o so unlike the original Neo
which had three USBC ports we get only two but that's still twice as many as
the steam deck so we've got one on the bottom and one on the top and don't
underestimate the importance of this feature you know what David I actually
find myself depending whether I'm sitting in a chair or whether I'm lying
in bed using it actually preferring the top or the bottom depending on the
situation so as a as a top and bottom kind of
person I really like having the option it's called a switch three and a half
millimeter Jack on the top how did I not bring a switch to set for this uh volume
up and down power button with fingerprint reader
what are these analog triggers feel not bad a little bit of resistance
I think the top shoulders could be a little tighter you can see they've moved
away from the mobile style joysticks to full-size joysticks just like you'd have
on a regular like console controller just like on the steam deck and this is
an either love it or hate it move they both have their pros and cons the
advantage is obviously finer control and the disadvantage is that it increases
the profile of the device a fair bit also on the front we've got our whatever
these buttons are called for the Xbox I call them start and select because I'm
old your your abxy and then ah these okay so
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they've gotten powerful enough now that you can play like legit high-end games
on them and this one promises to be really exciting so it can be equipped
with either the 5800 or the 5825u ryzen 5000 series processor which
still has Vega based Graphics though as
we saw in the 2021 Pro clocked high enough it can be pretty
good with the rdna2 graphics in the steam deck and unlike the steam deck
it's got Zen 3 course that's right CPU
performance on this thing is going to be bananas Zen three come on
unlike the steam deck there's no special anti-glare coating on the screen but it
is also an IPS type panel and 1280 by
800 in resolution okay I'm not going to be swiping my finger I think I will just
touch the touch sensor Now swipe with the sides of your finger
all right all right all right got it oh
that's really cool they have the same quick desktop switching Button as I
really liked on the 1X player I gotta tell you now that I'm more used
to it uh navigating Windows with the controllers like actually kind of sick
like obviously there's some things that don't work particularly well but
it's not bad it's not bad fans definitely going it's the weight
compared to that 21 Pro pretty similar that's one of the
things that's kind of dragging me down about these is they're really heavy
compared to something like a Nintendo switch and it's like noticeable you know
like if I'm lying on my side I'd be like this you know I gotta have a hand down I
gotta turn the auto rotate off you're playing like an emulator game or
something like that's a really bad time apparently there are some known issues
with these first units and the production ones will not have the same ones uh extra backlight bleed the
joysticks might be a little off because they're like hand soldered or something
yeah one of the big issues with the old one is that these Corners right here it
doesn't seem like a problem but when you've had that in your hand for like 20
minutes half an hour an hour two hours
starts to kind of wear it out this feels a lot better I have no idea
what I'm agreeing to right now shoot it change the language to Chinese
again Andy
stuff help me wait no it's English it's English I'm good
okay bye all right so it collects your games it supports Microsoft games and
Steam games right now they're working on adding other launchers and then the
assistant is pretty cool so you can
correct your joysticks you can what is
swick oh okay that's kind of cute so
that's the replacement for the keyboard task manager buttons and stuff here just
like the 2021 Pro they have really nice haptic Motors custom Key current uh task
yeah task manager and we can adjust TDP but we don't want to adjust the TDP in
here we want to whoops there we go we want to do that
from in here so you can adjust your power profile or fan profile whatever
this is as well as the TDP of your processor now I don't know which version
they sent to me so I'm gonna have to check that real quick but the first
thing I want to do is change my display scaling
100 please okay this is one really
annoying navigation issue when Windows isn't sure whether you're using a mouse
or a keyboard that's something I would like to see I address here I right click
this all of a sudden see the joystick is controlling both The
Mouse and the selector here so it gets a little confused
right I remember what I was doing I wanted to know what spec they sent
there's three different specs of this machine one with up to 32 gigs of
lpddr4x memory they did not send me that one
nope I get the 16 gigs of 4266 uh and I
get so this is the base model but the ryzen 7 5800u the main difference
between the 5800 and the 5825 is that the CPU is clocked a touch higher do
maternal a classic by the time this video comes
out I won't have been able to give any Impressions on the steam deck but I will
say that I hope the speakers on the Neo next are really very excellent I can say
that the backlight bleed is better than the previous generation Neo already so
that's really nice to see this thing's insane David
I did I mean I don't know what exactly I was expecting but confirmed Zen three
a lot faster than Zen 2. I'm getting
anywhere like I'm not dropping below 60 FPS and I'm on medium
whoops I mean that doesn't make me uh any good at aiming unfortunately just
computers have got where you
have a few shortages aside but here every 10 every 20 performance uplift we
get well 20 on the desktop could be the
difference between 200 and 240 FPS like both of them are pretty darn smooth here
twenty percent is the difference between 50 FPS and 60 FPS it's a really really
different Gap so that's what I think I'm experiencing right now
is that sort of that generational Improvement in smoothness I'm just gonna
have to switch to this thing the fan noise
even in I think we're in Wild mode
you are yeah game Wild
that is wild the fan noise is totally reasonable
oh that's way way better than the 2021
Pro okay so now in these more intense scenes
we're seeing dips down to like 45 FPS
still that is markedly better than on
the previous one and what's cool about this is that I haven't even turned it
down to low yet I'm gaming in medium
freaking do the turtle sure yeah potato can run it but like a handheld potato
definitely feeling the stutters a little bit more now seriously still very
playable though even with my total lack of skill what what
oh please stop man they told me I was gonna really like this one compared to
the Retro power and I was like something that looks this good you
expect me to stop using it
I do like the Plastics of the Retro power better they've got a bit of a nicer kind of
soft touch finish on the back but honestly this silver part on the front
feels kind of cheap to me compared to just using the same material like they
did on their older ones but the ergonomics in there
they're a lot better holy crap we're
running on medium don't expect to go for longer than maybe a couple hours if
you're lucky running like this but that is 30 FPS solid Witcher 3
running at medium details after those couple of early hitches
it's like running well too unlike the steam deck it's got a full
2280 size m.2 slot so there's new higher
density chips coming as those roll out we could see 16
terabyte like gum stick ssds like it's crazy
what a time to be alive like when I was a kid we had the Game Boy
you know look at this my kids are like
can I play on the Neo do you know how many double a batteries I bought uh
ladies and gentlemen F1 2021
medium details okay
I mean yeah it's only 1280 by 800 but at
this size it looks great you know what the bigger joysticks are
worth it they're worth the extra bold these are really smooth too I'm liking
them I like the triggers too the angle on the triggers could be a little bit
better in my opinion I wish they were kind of instead of being so flat like
this I wish they were kind of like this to start this thing is freaking awesome
the only disadvantage is the price that
is where valve is changing the game the steam deck costs somewhere in the
neighborhood of a third to half depending on how it's configured
but wow is this ever cool
I don't know both good options
maybe check out the unboxing of the steam deck uh we just did that the other
day we can't show performance yet but that's coming very soon as well